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Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024

Matthew N Lyons

Even more than in the past, Trump and the MAGA movement have brought key elements of fascist politics into the Republican Party, and a second Trump presidency is likely to be significantly more authoritarian than the first one.

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Minutemen and Klansmen

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from blog Imagine 2050By Joel Olson I recently reviewed The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan by Rory McVeigh (University of Minnesota Press 2009) for the academic journal American Studies. The book is a little …

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new antifa blog: Nomattimen

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Nomattimen is a new blog. Lots of news and has an international perspective. However, while its cool to give a nod to the Indigenous/First Nations, it’s puzzling to see the antifas at nomattimen calling out …

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RIP Ivan “Kostolom” Hutorskoy!

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November 17, 2009…05:20 RIP Ivan “Kostolom” Hutorskoy! Moscow Antifascist murdered by Nazis Yesterday, on November 16 we lost our friend. Ivan Hutorskoy, also known as “Kostolom”, was an Antifascist and he died for his beliefs. …

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November 17th, 2009: 26-year-old antifascist skinhead Ivan Khutorskoy murdered

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Anti-Fascist Youth Activist Killed In Moscow A member of an anti-fascist youth group in Russia has been shot dead in Moscow, according to investigators. Violent clashes between activists have become more common in Russia’s capitalThe …

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Antiracists and far-right youths battle in Moscow

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November 18, 2009 By MANSUR MIROVALEV and STEVE GUTTERMAN (AP) MOSCOW — A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and ant-racist activists has erupted into Moscow‘s streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known …

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National Socialist Front members ambushed by antifa in Chicago

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The National Socialist Front (NSF) is an offshoot of the dying American National Socialist Workers Party (ANSWP). The ANSWP was started by Bill White after he was expelled from the National Socialist Movement (NSM). The …

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Reading Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza

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by Matthew N. Lyons How do we forcefully make the case to defend the Palestinian people in Gaza against Israel’s increasingly genocidal assault, and also honor the conflict’s heartbreaking contradictions? This is a question I’ve …

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Burn the foundation and all that it upholds: an antifascist review of “Tell Me I’m Worthless” by Alison Rumfitt

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“The House spreads. Its arteries run throughout the country. Its lifeblood flows into Westminster, into Scotland Yard, into every village and every city. It flows into you, and into your mother. It keeps you alive. …

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Trump’s Gospel: A Review of Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow

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So much has been already said about Donald J. Trump, Trumpism, and the amorphous mass known as his “base” that it hardly seems worth revisiting the topic almost eight years after his fateful descent down Trump Tower’s golden excavator. Just as the 2016 election seemed to confirm everything that virtually everyone had already been saying about US politics for years, so too does Donald Trump today seem self-explanatory.

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Contending with the Present and Building a Future for Antifascism in the Pacific Northwest

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By Shane Burley This essay is adapted from a talk delivered at the Territories of White Supremacy: Opposing the Far Right in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond conference in Eugene, Oregon on October 13th, 2023. …

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SHUT IT DOWN! Mass mobilization for Palestine cancels the first day of the 2024 California State Legislature

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For Palestine, hundreds of people took over the California State Capitol on January 3, 2024. The first day of the state’s legislature for the new year, or should we say, the attempted first day. The takeover forced the cancellation of the legislature’s session.

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Books

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“Insurgent Supremacists” study guide available

Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire, by Matthew N. Lyons, now has a study guide. The section-by-section series of discussion questions is designed for use by study groups or solo

“Insurgent Supremacists” and the evolution of Trumpism

Introduction—An analysis for this moment I finished the manuscript of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire in September 2017, a few weeks following the murderous Unite the Right rally in

Le fascisme de la fenêtre brisée

This is a translation of our January 6 post, “Broken windows fascism,” courtesy of the French antifascist website La Horde. 1. Lorsque Donald Trump s’est présenté pour la première fois à la présidence en 2015-2016,

Insurgent Movement, Government Complicity, or Both?

By Xloi and B.Sandor This article by two Three Way Fight comrades highlights the interplay between insurgent far rightists and forces within the state itself in the Capitol takeover. We wrote this after discussing last

Preliminary thoughts on the MAGA riot at the Capitol

by Kdog Short, sharp points by friend and comrade of 3WF, Kdog, on how to understand the events of Jan 6th in DC and how the radical antifascist movements need to orient.   My preliminary thoughts on

On “The Big Takeover” by Jarrod Shanahan

For an excellent analysis of Wednesday’s Trumpist insurrection/putsch/attempted coup and what it signifies for the U.S. far right, check out Jarrod Shanahan’s “The Big Takeover.” This is just the latest of many insightful offerings from

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Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024

Even more than in the past, Trump and the MAGA movement have brought key elements of fascist politics into the Republican Party, and a second Trump presidency is likely to be significantly more authoritarian than the first one.

Retraction

We the editors of Three Way Fight have retracted the essay “Camus and Algeria: A Short Retrospective,” by Kristian Williams, which we published on October

“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East

To help us understand the dynamics of power and conflict in the Middle East from a radical standpoint, Three Way Fight looks at a website that starkly assesses the Israeli government’s genocidal goals while debunking anti-imperialist illusions about Iran and the so-called Axis of Resistance.

Anti-Fascism and the Three Way Fight in Québec

The ideas advanced in the book Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism offer a useful set of tools to examine developments in Québec’s far right and antifascist movement over the past seven years.

Three Way Fight virtual book event August 5th

Book co-editors Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons will discuss Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism in an online event sponsored by Firestorm Books. “Three way fight” refers to a political approach, a political project, and a book, and the presentation will give an overview of all three.