Antifascist Histories, Current Scenes of Struggle

Join journalist James Stout and essayist Edith Mirante in a discussion of their experiences in conflict zones and their most recent books.

In his new book, Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, James Stout portrays revolutionaries in Myanmar and Rojava who face incredible danger to pursue their expression of freedom. He contrasts these contemporary movements with the Spanish Civil War and Revolution where workers in 1936 fought capitalism and fascism. Edith Mirante's latest book, Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts, reveals the embattled mountains of World War II Burma and anti-coup revolutionary Myanmar, as well as pandemic-era Portland and Yellowstone, Manzanar, Cahokia, and Heizer’s City.

James Stout is a journalist, historian, and anarchist with experience working in conflict zones and mutual aid projects around the world. His PhD research was on international antifascism in the Spanish Second Republic and Civil War. He is the author of The Popular Front and The Barcelona 1936 Popular Olympics: Playing as if the World Was Watching and Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava. His firsthand report on the Darien Gap, Migrating to America: A Dream Worth Dying For won a Webby Award, as has his cohosted It Can Happen Here podcast.

Edith Mirante is the founder of Project Maje, which distributes information on Burma (Myanmar) human rights and environmental issues. She is an artist and the author of two Burma books, Burmese Looking Glass and Down the Rat Hole, as well as The Wind in the Bamboo, about Black Indigenous Asians. Her latest book is Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts. Mirante's Project Maje archive is in the Southeast Asia collection of the Yale University Library. She has presented lectures at United Nations events as well as Princeton, Yale, Harvard Law School, Oxford and numerous other colleges and universities.

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