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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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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National Socialist Front members ambushed by antifa in Chicago

The National Socialist Front (NSF) is an offshoot of the dying American National Socialist Workers Party (ANSWP). The ANSWP was started by Bill White after he was expelled from the National Socialist Movement (NSM). The

David Irving Website’s HACKED!

November 13, 2009 http://nyc.indymedia.org By New Yorkers Against David Irving Well, the crack forces used to guard David Irving’s websites FAIL at doing the only thing asked of them. On the afternoon of November 13th,
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Neo Nazi David Irving’s New Jersey speaking event is cancelled

Friday, November 13 2009 http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20091113153002775 New Jersey Residents Against David Irving (NJ-RADI) is pleased toannounce that American Legion post 174 (not 175 as a previous releasesaid) has agreed to cancel David Irving’s planned speaking engagementtonight.
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David Irving talk disrupted on Chicago northwest side

11.24.2009 David Irving talk disrupted on NW sideUpdated: A speech by Holocaust denier David Irving at the Edelweiss restaurant, 7650 W Irving Park, was disrupted and shut down by antifascists Monday night. 5-7 persons entered
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new antifa blog: On The Prowl

On The Prowl was a publication formerly distributed by the Anti-Racist Action chapter in Toronto. In tribute, we have used the name for this blog (and for an accompanying yet to be published print version).
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Teabag America: When the Right Rises, What’s the Left to Do?

An Interview with Quentin Williams by Matthew Lyons “Quentin Williams” is a community organizer who has been tracking the anti-tax, anti-Obama Tea Party protests for the past several months. ML: Please give us a little

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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.