Author Mark Bray travels to Cambridge, MA to discuss his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.

On December 1st, 2017, Mark Bray added Harvard University to his list of stops for his tour to speak with students, faculty, and walk-ins to promote his book and to spread information of fascism and anti-fascism.

The book, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, had been brewing in Bray's brain for many years. It sprouted from the emergence of Donald Trump's presidency, the alt-right, and it is considered a view of history and politics in real time. Bray wanted to make this history available to people who do not know or understand what is going on in the United States and around the world today.

Bray acknowledges two formal phases of anti-fascism. The first phase aims to shut down the far right in all aspects of their being. This includes preventing them from having demonstrations, disseminating their messages of hate, and not allowing their views to become a common, respectable beliefs in the eyes of society. The second phase aims to inspire society to be against fascism. A wide range of tactics are necessary to organize against these kind of political polices.

Bray explains, "Think of Fascism not only as the hateful words of a handful of people but is a kind of tendency that worms its way into all sorts of political formations."

The question of free speech always arises because anti-fascists believe it is their duty to censor their fascist counter parts. Bray had spoke with various people from around the world, and their replies had a lot to do with where they were from. Due to history, anti-fascists in Greece believe fascists should not have free speech. Britain has laws against hate speech. America, on the other hand, has freedom to exercise that right under the First Amendment.

"There is an assumption in our society that we have is absolute free speech and if it wasn't for those meddling Antifa kids, we would all be able to say what ever we wanted. There are several infringements of free speech whether we like it or not, copyright, obscenity, libel, bans on cigarette ads, experience of the incarcerated who have their speech limited, experience of the undocumented who often feel unsafe in expressing themselves, and then theres capitalism."