Title page for Last Born in the Wilderness podcast reads "Nov 4 Between The Abysmal + Catastrophic: A Three Way Fight Analysis Of The 2024 Presidential Election / Matthew N. Lyons

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

Matthew N Lyons

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 previous Three Way Fight essay, “Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024.”

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Thinking and Acting in Real Time and A Real World

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by Don Hamerquist(This piece was sent to threewayfight with a request to publish it. We oblige Hamerquist and hope the article contributes to further discussion and debate on analysis and activity for revolutionary anti-capitalists. – …

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“‘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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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.

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Why Does the F-Word Matter So Much?

Guest post by Rebecca Hill [Rebecca Hill explores recent scholarly debates around whether Trumpism is a form of fascism.]  When I first wrote this, the United States was braced for political violence surrounding the transition

“Insurgent Supremacists” study guide available

Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire, by Matthew N. Lyons, now has a study guide. The section-by-section series of discussion questions is designed for use by study groups or solo

“Insurgent Supremacists” and the evolution of Trumpism

Introduction—An analysis for this moment I finished the manuscript of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire in September 2017, a few weeks following the murderous Unite the Right rally in

Le fascisme de la fenêtre brisée

This is a translation of our January 6 post, “Broken windows fascism,” courtesy of the French antifascist website La Horde. 1. Lorsque Donald Trump s’est présenté pour la première fois à la présidence en 2015-2016,

Insurgent Movement, Government Complicity, or Both?

By Xloi and B.Sandor This article by two Three Way Fight comrades highlights the interplay between insurgent far rightists and forces within the state itself in the Capitol takeover. We wrote this after discussing last

Preliminary thoughts on the MAGA riot at the Capitol

by Kdog Short, sharp points by friend and comrade of 3WF, Kdog, on how to understand the events of Jan 6th in DC and how the radical antifascist movements need to orient.   My preliminary thoughts on

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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.

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.