At left: votive candle with image of Luigi Mangione as a saint, with caption "When your health insurance claim gets denied." At right: the words "Uncanny resemblance to this 1306 painting by Giotto di Bondone 'The Arrest of Christ (Kiss of Judas)' as part of his famous Scrotegni chapel fresco in Italy" above photo of Luigi Mangione perp walk next to detail from Giotto painting.

Who’s Afraid of Luigi Mangione? A Response to Alexander Reid Ross

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Luigi Mangione’s recent alleged killing of an insurance CEO touched a wedge issue that cuts across class and across the political spectrum—the massive corruption of the health insurance industry—and created an opening for the left. A recent article by ex-leftist Alexander Reid Ross, which dismisses Mangione as expressing an American proclivity for violence, represents a counterinsurgency action in defense of the state.

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Two Ways of Looking at Fascism

This essay is a work in progress. It is an attempt to synthesize two different theoretical approaches that have significantly influenced my thinking about fascism.  Excerpt from Introduction:  …Unlike most leftist discussions, this essay offers …

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Ecofeminism, Global Justice, and “Culturally-Perceived Poverty”

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Regina Cochrane University of Calgary, Canada excerpt from section four, Neoliberalism and the Political Trajectory of Post-Development Populism The post-development populist notion of “culturally-perceived poverty” is problematic for a whole host of general reasons as …

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The Nation does a short examination of the “new” SDS movement.

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Challenges to Capital, Challenges for the Left

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The text of a talk given at the National Conference on Organized Resistance, entitled “Challenges to Capital, Challenges for the Left: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Three Way Fight.” “The nineteenth century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin …

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National Conference on Organized Resistance

Co-curated by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the Free Society Collective — For the first time, the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR, http://www.organizedresistance.org) held in Washington, DC, is offering a Radical Theory Track …

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Is the Bush Administration Fascist?

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The following article appears in the Winter 2007 issue of New Politics: THE IDEA THAT the Bush administration is imposing fascism on the United States has become increasingly commonplace in leftist and liberal circles. It’s …

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Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024

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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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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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A New Fascism? A Dead Imperialism?

Below are reposts from an older exchange between Stan Goff and Don Hamerquist. The original discussion was posted on a version of the Bring The Ruckus!(BtR) website that is no longer in use. For reasons
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Michael Novick responds to Thinking and Acting in Real Time and a Real World

Comments to Thinking and Acting in Real Time and A Real World Thanks, Don and TWF for this, and for the link to Kali Akuno’s piece. I do know Kali and value his work and
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Barack, Badiou, and Bilal al Hasan

Barack, Badiou, and Bilal al Hasan

I wrote a draft of this in early December that had some limited circulation. This version moves the focus away from criticisms of the left responses to the Obama Afghanistan policy towards the policy itself.
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Call for Solidarity and Funds for the Working People of Haiti!

01/14/09- A natural disaster has descended upon Haiti whose scope we only are seeing the surface of at this time. The Haitian people will be struggling to rebuild their lives and their home possibly for
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Minutemen and Klansmen

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

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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Who’s Afraid of Luigi Mangione? A Response to Alexander Reid Ross

Luigi Mangione’s recent alleged killing of an insurance CEO touched a wedge issue that cuts across class and across the political spectrum—the massive corruption of the health insurance industry—and created an opening for the left. A recent article by ex-leftist Alexander Reid Ross, which dismisses Mangione as expressing an American proclivity for violence, represents a counterinsurgency action in defense of the state.

Three Way fight book on sale from PM Press

Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism and all books, e-Books, DVDs, and CDs are 50% off from PM Press through January 3, 2025, with

Resisting Trump and the MAGA movement: No Borders Media interview with Matthew Lyons

From the No Borders Media description: “On U.S. Election Day, No Borders Media features an interview with researcher Matthew Lyons on resisting the Trump/MAGA movement.

Between the Abysmal and the Catastrophic: Interview About the Presidential Election

The podcast Last Born in the Wilderness interviewed me on the 2024 US presidential election. The interview covers some of the same ground as my

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.