Living in Authoritarian Times: Everyday Struggles and Antifascist Tactics
An online conversation on October 26, 2025, co-organized by the April Institute, Critical Theory Under Pressure, and Emergencies of Authoritarianism. Click here to watch.
Confronting the American Eugenics Movement
A New April Institute Short — Click to watch now
Black Antifascism and the “Hands off Ethiopia” Movement
Living in Authoritarian Times: Everyday Struggles and Antifascist Tactics
A conversation about the intimate aspects of authoritarianism: how it affects our relations to others; how it generates indignation, fear, paranoia, resignation, or trauma; and how it changes what we choose to hold dear and what we come to find unbearable. Political theorist Zeynep Gambetti moderated the discussion of our four panelists: Rahul Bhatia, author of The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy; Volkan Çidam, political philosopher and member of Academics for Peace, Istanbul; Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, performance artist and cultural researcher supporting queer struggles in East Germany; and Joseph Howley, Professor of Classics at Columbia University and organizer with the Palestine Solidarity movement. Recorded on October 26, 2025. Event details available on our YouTube channel.
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The April Institute is a nonprofit organization for interdisciplinary research and public education about fascism and antifascism in the United States. We celebrate the history of creative and courageous efforts to counter fascist threats in the United States and to build more resilient, safe, and democratic communities. Our exhibitions, teaching resources, publications, and public memorialization projects are opportunities to learn from this history and enhance our ability to identify and confront fascist threats in our own time.