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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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Vast Bailout by U.S. Proposed in Bid to Stem Financial Crisis

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Vast Bailout by U.S. Proposed in Bid to Stem Financial CrisisBy EDMUND L. ANDREWSPublished: September 18, 2008reposted from the NYTIMES.com WASHINGTON — The head of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve began discussions on Thursday …

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Denial in Tehran

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the following is an older piece that received limited publication. originally drafted for threewayfight, we are now republishing it because of its continued relevance. the article was initially submitted by threewayfight’s sometime contributor, Saddam Khomeini …

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A short reply to the Anti-Imperialist and Three-Way-Fight Approaches to Antisemitism, in the Upping-the-Anti Journal Debate

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from, Contested Terrain In the latest issue of Upping the Anti journal, two articles were published on the question, “How should Left groups relate to non-Left anti-Imperialist movements?” The first article, “Challenges to Capitalism, Challenges …

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U.S. Left-Wing Militant Anti-Fascist History Vol. 1 (The late 1980’s)

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U.S. Left-Wing Militant Anti-Fascist History Vol. 1 (The late 1980’s) The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee: A brief biographyBy Dan Sabater The John Brown Anti- Klan Committee was the most prominent U.S. Left militant anti-fascist organization …

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PSA: Jesse Helms dead. Now lets dance in the streets.

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Obama: Raw Racism Fanned in Election

This article originally appeared in the Washington Post. Reposted from Kasama Hate Groups’ Newest Target White Supremacists Report an Increase in Visits to Their Web Sites By Eli SaslowWashington Post Staff Writer Sen. Barack Obama’s …

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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


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Between the Zeal of the Young and the Patience of the Old: Reflections on Seattle’s Recent Upheavals Against Police Brutality

The following comes form friends at the Black Orchid Collective. While the article is particular to recent concersn and questions of orgaizing and strategy in Seattle, teher are broader dimenersions relevant to a range of
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Russian neo-Nazi gets life sentence for murdering lawyer and journalist

We have followed the growing Russian fascist movement and its terror attacks for the last few years. Previously we commented on and posted a video featuring murdered Russian human rights lawyer and antifascist Stanislav Markelov
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Does contemporary capitalism tend toward fascism?

A recent discussion of William Robinson’s article, Global Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism. We have taken this from the website, Khukuri. A contributor, John Steele, introduced the article saying, “We’ve had posts and discussions here
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South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action statement on three way fight politics

The following statement was posted on South Side Chicago ARA’s blog on May 9, 2011: Anti-fascists vs fascism vs the state: a three way fight, not democracy in crisis The state: The compulsory political institution

Rising Above the Herd: Keith Preston’s Authoritarian Anti-Statism

by Matthew N. Lyons [The following article was published on the New Politics website on April 29, 2011.] “Perhaps what I champion is not so much the anarchist as much as the ‘anarch,’ the superior

AlternativeRight.com: Paleoconservatism for the 21st Century

Paleoconservatives don’t have a mass following or much in the way of institutional power these days, but they do have a fairly lively intellectual scene. The defenders of Western civilization offer a number of competently

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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.