Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024
Antifascist, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections
Far rightists divided on coronavirus and Trump
Julia DeCook has a good article outlining how right-wing media activists have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to spread xenophobia, conspiracy theories, and other forms of misinformation: The conspiracy theories about the virus range from …
Comment on Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
The Philosopher and the Ayatollah: “A Perplexing Affinity” A comment on Foucault and the Iranian Revolution by Kristian Williams If we want to defeat fascism, we need to understand its attraction. Sometimes an exceptional case …
Trump, Iran, and the right-wing anti-interventionists
[This commentary grew out of discussions among Three Way Fight supporters.] When Donald Trump ordered the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, many people feared it would lead to full-scale war between the U.S. and …
An antifascist guide to Patriot movement websites
By Sebastian Porreca As a window into the Patriot movement’s inner workings, here are brief profiles of many lesser-known Patriot websites and organizations. Editor’s note: The Patriot movement first exploded in the mid 1990s, …
Review of “Anti-Fascism Beyond Machismo” by Petronella Lee
An important new zine analyzes fascist gender politics and argues that antifascism needs to include feminism at its core. In recent years, the appalling misogyny found in and around the U.S. far right has started …
Multiracial Far Right: a conversation with Daryle Lamont Jenkins and Cloee Cooper
How do we make sense of militant right-wing groups, such as Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, that include people of color in significant numbers? Antifascist researchers Daryle Lamont Jenkins and Cloee Cooper discuss the “multiracial …
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Reading Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza
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 …
Burn the foundation and all that it upholds: an antifascist review of “Tell Me I’m Worthless” by Alison Rumfitt
“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. …
Trump’s Gospel: A Review of Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow
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.
Contending with the Present and Building a Future for Antifascism in the Pacific Northwest
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. …
SHUT IT DOWN! Mass mobilization for Palestine cancels the first day of the 2024 California State Legislature
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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