We’re excited to announce one of many new initiative that we’ll be rolling out in the coming weeks. Assembled guests, please welcome The Antifa Book Club!
The way it works: Periodically we’ll select a book that we believe presents some kind of meaningful information related to anti-fascism. Since everything decent including decency is anti-fascism, that gives us quite a pool to draw from. Ideally, those of you who can will then lay your hands on those books and read them and learn from them. If you’re in a position, maybe you will buy a dozen copies and put them in little free libraries in your neighborhood or something along those lines.
While we’re currently in the chaos of October 2025, as we build this out we’ll work more on setting up the monthly book to also present a loose sub-theme for our meme and essay content for the rest of the month.
NB: We’re not going to do the “opposite of us so you learn what the bad guys think” game. You won’t see “Mein Kampf” by the Austrian painter or Eustace Mullins’ execrable antisemitic screed “The World Order” by Eustace Mullins. This isn’t about some “fair and balanced” notion or making sure you’re exposed to the ideology of fascists; if you hadn’t been already you wouldn’t be an antifascist.
Let us not dither: the first featured book is:
The Little Red Schoolbook, published in 1969, is one of the most fascinating little tomes of quiet subversion you’re likely to ever find. Written by two Danish schoolteachers and another author (Søren Hansen, Bo Dan Andersen and writer Jesper Jensen), this book presents itself as a plain-language, just-the-facts-ma’am approach to every conceivable topic including many that are even today still quite controversial. The book was banned in multiple countries including France, Australia, the UK, and Italy, among other places.
LRSB is written in a tone and style intended for consumption by older children, adolescents, and teens whose interests and intellectual and ethical growth may not be properly served by available traditional education sources like public schools. With that said, it is also a valuable resource for adults both as a guide for their own teaching and mentorship, and as a sometimes surprising survey of the things we weren’t taught properly ourselves.
Ironically, many of the very same reasons the book was banned are now understood to be objectively legitimate; sound reasoning, clearly valid scientific evidence and logic, and so forth. Radical ideas like (paraphrasing) it’s okay for girls to masturbate too and marijuana and heroin are both drugs but they’re very much not the same and don’t have the same risks or effects in the short or long terms and it’s pretty irresponsible of adults to run around saying things like that because if you try weed for the first time and it doesn’t really hurt you and you like it and you don’t immediately turn into a raving pot junkie shooting gas station clerks for weed money, you’ll tend to translate the resulting distrust and rejection of the official advice from adults to heroin, also, once rejected as “radical,” “satanic,” “socialist,” “communist,” and “evil” are now understood to be basic human truths that no reasonable person would even attempt to dispute.
The book isn’t just about controversial subjects though – according to the wiki there are a total of thirty pages dealing with sex and twenty with drugs in a book of about 220 pages. Everything from civics to ethics to engineering to self-care is covered here, and every bit of it presented in the same straightforward, fact-based, didactic rhythm that the “controversial” stuff is rendered in.
I first read the book when I was maybe 11, and it really was validating and taught me much that I carry to this day, including helping create the first real core of sanity and reason outside of family psychological dysfunction that I’d ever really experienced first-hand.
As we continue ramping up our presence, we’ll build out more interactive tools for conversation, discussion, comparing notes, and so forth. But for right now, GO READ THIS BOOK.
Followup notes: As of November 2025, there was a Kindle edition available via Amazon; there are also various resources online where you can download a free .mobi formatted edition. We didn’t find a non-Amazon source that allowed for proper purchase of an electronic edition; as all available “new” print editions are only available through smaller resellers even on large globally-sourced retail sites, as of the present time the physical edition is most likely out of print. Also note that the physical edition is literally a “little” red schoolbook, measuring only 3.5 x 5 inches. We won’t link to Amazon paid versions for ethical reasons; we can’t link to “bootleg” free versions because it could risk exposing our readers to unintended traffic and our site to unintended sanctions by our hosts. It took less than thirty seconds to find a safe, “white-hat,” reliable, free source for this book via mainstream search engines from the US, but also if you can find a “legitimate” way to properly reward the publisher and author with a proper purchase it would be very kind of you, as they surely spent significant time, money, and energy to produce it both the original and the 2014 edition. As of right now, unfortunately, the Kindle edition via Amazon appears to be the only way to do that.
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