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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Fascism Today Conversation Part 2: author Shane Burley interviews Matthew N. Lyons

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This is the second half of a dialog between Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, and myself, author of the book’s foreword. In the first half, I …

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Major report on red-brown alliances from new anarchist website

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Demonstration of the National Bolshevik Party in Russia, 9 May 2006 The term “red-brown alliance” refers to political collaboration or synthesis between fascists and radical leftists. Such alliances strengthen the far right, spread ideological poison …

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On Lesser and Greater Evils (guest post by Rebecca Hill)

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“Rather than seeking among our opponents for strategic allies, it would be much better to seek a principled alliance across the left to create a strong center of gravity from which to fight both the …

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Review: Making Sense of the Alt-Right by George Hawley

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H-Net has published my review of political scientist George Hawley’s book Making Sense of the Alt-Right. On the plus side, the book is carefully researched and offers a good account of the alt-right’s development, hostility …

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Fascism Today Conversation Part 1: Interview with author Shane Burley

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In this post I interview Shane Burley about his new book, Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, to which I was honored to write the foreword. Publisher AK Press describes the …

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The Alt-Right: History, Ideology, and the Future of a Fascist Movement (podcast)

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Eric Draitser interviewed me for an episode of his Stop Imperialism podcast series on Patreon. The full podcast (almost two hours) is available to Patreon subscribers, while the first half is available for free. Here’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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No longer a gendarme for the West: Simon Pirani on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

No longer a gendarme for the West: Simon Pirani on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

How should western leftists respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? How do we best oppose imperialist aggression and systemic violence in a situation that defies simple narratives? How do we navigate between Kremlin-inspired propaganda and anti-Russian hysteria, or between the “anti-imperialist” and “anti-Nazi” pretensions of a right-wing authoritarian capitalist aggressor and the “pro-democracy” claims of critics who routinely support brutal repression and mass murder? From a three way fight perspective, the Russia-Ukraine war presents special challenges because it’s a situation where fascists—and claims of antifascism—have played significant—but also significantly different—roles on both sides.

Abortion, the Christian right, and antifascism

It’s time for antifascists to stop treating the Christian right as a secondary threat.  When the U.S. Supreme Court scraps legal protection for abortion rights—using arguments that also directly threaten legal protections for homosexuality, contraception,

The Gilad Atzmon and David Rovics Antisemitism Controversy, Explained

by Shane Burley Editors’ note: Ideological hatred of Jews is centered in the far right, yet too many leftists continue to tolerate and even promote antisemitic themes when they’re packaged to look and sound radical.

Anti-Racist Action vs. Madeleine Albright in ’98

by Kdog Members of Anti-Racist Action unfurl banner during Albrights  speech. photo for educational use only. courtesy of GettyImages and CNN “1-2-3-4 We Don’t Want Your Racist War!” In February 1998 Anti-Racist Action and others

Antifascist Resources on Ukraine

Moscow protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2022The sign at left reads “No war! Putin go away!” In this post we offer an annotated list of resources on Russia’s February 2022 invasion of

Convoys, Rallies, and a Three-Way Fight Approach within a Union Context

Freedom Convoy advertisement. Graphic and photo by unknown. Used here for educational purposes. The author, DZ, has opted to use his initials because he is discussing active union business at his local.  (This article details

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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.