Between the Abysmal and the Catastrophic: Interview About the Presidential Election
Antifascist, Democrats, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections
State repression from Bush to Obama
Only a few years ago, many people looked at the Bush administration’s authoritarian policies (mass round-ups, endorsing torture and assassination, shredding due process, etc.) as a major reason for supporting the Democrats. But in a …
ALEC: Tool of business interests, but which business interests?
by Matthew N. Lyons If you follow leftish exposés of money and politics, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is the powerful right-wing group that brings together …
American Legislative Exchange Council, business and politics
Anti-Racist Action Conference Coming to Chicago
From South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action: Chicago is hosting the 17th annual Anti-Racist Action Network conference on September 17, 2011. This event is open to the public and includes workshops, caucuses and discussions. Come meet …
Jon Gaynor’s “The New Integralist Conservatism” – A good discussion of counter-jihadism and fascism
As a follow-up to my previous post about Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, I want to discuss a particularly good essay about the counter-jihadist movement in which Breivik’s politics are rooted. “The New Integralist …
Noel Ignatiev on the fall of Gaddafi: “Their Disorder is Our Hope”
In a recent blog post at PM Press, Noel Ignatiev has some good comments on the collapse of Gaddafi’s government in Libya. Ignatiev criticizes those leftists who supported the NATO-backed rebels, and also those who, …
Kathryn Joyce: A Feminist Who Reports on the Christian Right
If you want to understand the U.S. Christian right’s gender politics, Kathryn Joyce’s writings are an excellent place to start. Joyce exposes the patriarchal, misogynistic nature of Christian right principles and practices, but she also …
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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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