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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.

Antifascist, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections


“‘Bring on the bulldozers and let’s plant trees’: The Problems of Labour Zionism

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by Nava EtShalom and Matthew N. Lyons excerpt: “Labour Zionists, perhaps more than anyone, have shaped the idea that Israel stands for democracy and social justice, an idea that has become common sense across much …

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Loren Goldner on international capitalism: three articles

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Left-communist writer and activist Loren Goldner has posted several new articles to his website, Break Their Haughty Power, over the past couple of months. I’d like to highlight three of them: 1. “The Biggest ‘October …

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comment on, “Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists”

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Nick Paretsky has left a new comment on your post “Rebranding Fascism:National-Anarchists” [Three Way Fight December 15, 2008]: There’s a good but a little dated New Left Review article on therightward, fascistic drift of the …

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Comment on, “Capitalism in Crisis?”

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Juan de la O has left a new comment on your post “Capitalism inCrisis?” (by D. Hamerquist, posted September 25, 2008): As the late Paul Mattick put it: The tendency towards collapse which is expressed …

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Comments on, Notes on Loren Goldner’s “Fictitious Capital for B…”

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Juan de la O has left a new comment on your post “Notes on LorenGoldner’s “Fictitious Capital for B…” (posted October 23, 2008): Nick, You might find David Harvey’s writings re “accumulation throughdispossession” nicely dovetail …

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Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists

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by Spencer Sunshine Public Eye MagazineWinter 2008 (Vol. 23, No. 4) “…While these may seem like isolated incidents of quirky subterfuge, these quasi anarchists are an international export of a new version of fascism that …

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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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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

Is the Bush Administration Fascist?

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

comments on “¡Que se Vayan Todos”: Venezuela’s Anarchists and the Three-Way Fight

“As the right internally and externally move to counter what the state is doing the question will be posed to the chavistas, capitulate to the right or cede state power to direct popular councils.” see

3wf digest 1

we’re posting up a reminder of current (and semi-c) articles. we will start this general practice from here on out, with digests going out once a month or so. we’re not sure if this site

Chomsky et al

by reddboy I would argue that we’ve reached a point in history where global capitalism is the immediate as well as the underlying issue and revolutionary strategy must confront all capitalist policy options, not just

Pedagogy of Confrontation

by reddboy The Growing Pains editorial and the Sketchy Thoughts response to it are welcome treatments of important issues. I want to make a few comments on one aspect; the editorial’s treatment of the pedagogy

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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.