Who’s Afraid of Luigi Mangione? A Response to Alexander Reid Ross
Alexander Reid Ross, Anti-capitalism, counter insurgency, health care, health insurance industry, liberal antifascism, Luigi Mangione
Reading “The Solstice” — Kasama on right-wing mass movements
Rightist mass movements around the globe have made several dramatic advances recently. In India, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a massive victory in the April-May 2014 national election. (The country’s new prime …
Frazier Glenn Miller, Nazi violence, and the state
In the 1980s, Frazier Glenn Miller was one of the most prominent white supremacist leaders in the United States. Lately he’s been in the news again — sometimes identified as Miller, sometimes as Frazier Glenn …
Spencer Sunshine on rightists in the Occupy movement
Spencer Sunshine has a good article in the Political Research Associates newsletter (Winter 2014 issue): “The Right Hand of Occupy Wall Street: From Libertarians to Nazis, the Fact and Fiction of Right-Wing Involvement.” As Sunshine …
U.S. fascists debate the conflict in Ukraine
The Ukrainian fascists who helped seize power in Kiev three weeks ago have gotten a strikingly mixed response from U.S. far rightists. Like others across the political spectrum, U.S. fascists are struggling to understand and …
Who are Ukraine’s fascists?
My previous post attempted to make sense of the struggle that recently overthrew Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych. As Tash Shifrin points out, not only did fascist groups play a leading role in this struggle, but …
Ukraine’s upheaval: between fascists, neoliberals, and Kremlin tools
“It is right to be horrified and appalled by the brutality of Yanukovych’s — failed — crackdown, and the huge death toll. No one should support the violence of the state. “But nor should we …
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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.
Antifascist, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections
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. …
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A New Fascism? A Dead Imperialism?
Michael Novick responds to Thinking and Acting in Real Time and a Real World
