Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook details the emergence of anti-fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, and offers an analysis of contemporary anti-fascist movements, particularly antifa in the United States. Bray argues in his book that militant anti-fascism is a reasonable and legitimate political tradition, and describes his book as "an unabashedly partisan call to arms that aims to equip a new generation of anti-fascists with the history and theory necessary to defeat the resurgent far-right". Interviews that Bray conducted with antifa activists are also included in the book.[1][2]

The San Francisco Chronicle praised the book's writing, calling Bray's analysis "methodical and informative" and his arguments "incisive and cohesive".[3] Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post commented that "the book's most enlightening contribution is on the history of anti-fascist efforts over the past century, but its most relevant for today is its justification for stifling speech and clobbering white supremacists".[4]

Historian Paul Gottfried writes in Chronicles that "In Bray’s Handbook, one finds the present left joining up with the interwar Communists and anarchists in what looks like an alternate universe".[5]

Green Left called it "a useful guide to the vital work that groups such as Antifa do in opposing the far right".[6]

Michael Novick praises it from drawing lessons from the failures early anti-fascist activists to prevent the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, but criticises the book for "not fully grasp[ing] the deep roots of fascism in US settler colonialism".[7]

Zachary Yost in The American Conservative criticized the book, for its call to violence, silencing of free speech, and Bray's use of the term fascism.[8]