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.”

Antifascist, Democrats, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections


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When I saw this picture of Condi and Abu Mazan, taken during Condi’s most recent Mid East venture, a speech by El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) came to mind. Malcolm contrasts the “House Negro” with …

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Right-wing anti-imperialists are not promoting feudalism: A reply to Michael Karadjis

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I promised three weeks ago that I’d reply to Michael Karadjis’s “Hizbullah, Iran and ‘Right-Wing Anti-Imperialism’: A Reply to Critics,” which was posted on Green Left Bloggers on September 20th. Here are my thoughts. Karadjis …

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By Who Name You Be Coming In!?

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Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert apparently is joining forces with a Kahanist (read: fascist)politician and his party. He embroiled Israel in a superfluous and failed war, and this week threatened to join up with the …

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Sugar Plumb Fairy! Sugar Plumb Fairy!

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Ok article about the Iranian nuclear issue and Washington’s refusal to debate or negotiate, although this “leftist” seems not at all bothered by the mindless sloganeering, like Marg Bar Amrika (Death To America) which to …

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Coups For Sale

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Thailand’s interim, army-appointed prime minister unveiled his new cabinet on Monday, with a respected central bank governor as finance minister in an apparent bid to reassure investors after last month’s coup …Confirmation of Pridiyathorn Devakula …

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Inner workings: Blocking Iran unites Israel, Arab kings

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In order for the Arab regimes to work with Israel and to counter Iran’s appeal to the Arab street, they would have to solve the one problem that’s defined the Arab experience for over half …

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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


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Call for Solidarity and Funds for the Working People of Haiti!

01/14/09- A natural disaster has descended upon Haiti whose scope we only are seeing the surface of at this time. The Haitian people will be struggling to rebuild their lives and their home possibly for
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Minutemen and Klansmen

from blog Imagine 2050By Joel Olson I recently reviewed The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan by Rory McVeigh (University of Minnesota Press 2009) for the academic journal American Studies. The book is a little
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new antifa blog: Nomattimen

Nomattimen is a new blog. Lots of news and has an international perspective. However, while its cool to give a nod to the Indigenous/First Nations, it’s puzzling to see the antifas at nomattimen calling out
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RIP Ivan “Kostolom” Hutorskoy!

November 17, 2009…05:20 RIP Ivan “Kostolom” Hutorskoy! Moscow Antifascist murdered by Nazis Yesterday, on November 16 we lost our friend. Ivan Hutorskoy, also known as “Kostolom”, was an Antifascist and he died for his beliefs.
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November 17th, 2009: 26-year-old antifascist skinhead Ivan Khutorskoy murdered

Anti-Fascist Youth Activist Killed In Moscow A member of an anti-fascist youth group in Russia has been shot dead in Moscow, according to investigators. Violent clashes between activists have become more common in Russia’s capitalThe
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Antiracists and far-right youths battle in Moscow

November 18, 2009 By MANSUR MIROVALEV and STEVE GUTTERMAN (AP) MOSCOW — A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and ant-racist activists has erupted into Moscow‘s streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known

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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.