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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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Intra-Ruling Class Conflict? – Pt 2

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An article by James Petras was emailed to me this past Monday. Although the article is pre-midterm elections by just a few days , I think Tuesday’s outcomes give strength to aspects of Petras’ postions, …

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Dr. Strangelove Out, CIA Big Boss In

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As mentioned in a previous blog post, James Baker’s Iraq Study Group, has been brought in to review the Occupation and provide some direction. Donald “Strangelove” Rumsfeld’s quick resignation yesterday was perhaps less to do …

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The 2006 Elections and the Coming Train Wreck

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On Election Day 2006, the U.S. public didn”t switch trains but simply ratified a different group of conductors. It’s the same old train, on the same tracks, heading in the same direction.

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A Massacre

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As the Dems and their supporters whoop it up and party, their Israeli friends are bombing Palestinians. Even beauracrat al Fatah boss/ Palestinian Authority president Abu Mazen declared a massacre and three days of national …

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Thoughts on the vote and why some do or don’t do it

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Alright, every politico has heard the line, “If voting changed anything it would be illegal”. I won’t bore with more stale rhetoric trying to justify the quote. Instead I’ll put this forward: there are a …

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Class and Race are Driving the Crisis in Mexico, Not Political Parties:Upheaval from the Bottom, By JOHN ROSS

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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.

Anti-racist, Anti-Zionist, California, Direct Action, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine


Books

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Speak out against FBI raids & Grand Jury repression in Oregon and Washington

We are reposting the follow solidarity appeal from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. For a discussion that puts these raids in the context of recent state repression against leftists, see Grand Juries & the

Book notes: Michael Staudenmaier on the Sojourner Truth Organization

I am in the middle of reading Michael Staudenmaier’s Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986. This is a detailed, thoughtful account of one of the most interesting radical groups to

South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action Annual Zine #3 available

From the South Side ARA blog: Annual South Side ARA Zine #3 (Mid 2011- April 2012) Download readable version hereDownload printable PDF here “This is South Side ARA’s 3rd annual zine. This zine, just like

Palestinian activists’ statement denounces Gilad Atzmon’s racism and antisemitism

Twenty-three Palestinian activists and organizers have signed a public statement titled“Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon.” The signers “call for the disavowal of Atzmon by

Not Quite “Ordinary Human Beings”—Anti-Imperialism and the anti-humanist rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon

[This statement has been moved to a separate page on the Three Way Fight website at http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/p/atzmon-critique_09.html.]

Between Pro-Fascism and Left-Populism: Reading Loren Goldner on the Bolivian MNR

I recently read Loren Goldner’s 2011 article on Bolivia’s Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) and I think it has a lot to offer for ThreeWayFight readers. The title is a mouthful: “Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism? Interwar Authoritarian

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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.