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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Anti-Racist Action vs. Madeleine Albright in ’98

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by Kdog Members of Anti-Racist Action unfurl banner during Albrights  speech. photo for educational use only. courtesy of GettyImages and CNN “1-2-3-4 We Don’t Want Your Racist War!” In February 1998 Anti-Racist Action and others …

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Antifascist Resources on Ukraine

Moscow protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2022The sign at left reads “No war! Putin go away!” In this post we offer an annotated list of resources on Russia’s February 2022 invasion of …

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Convoys, Rallies, and a Three-Way Fight Approach within a Union Context

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Freedom Convoy advertisement. Graphic and photo by unknown. Used here for educational purposes. The author, DZ, has opted to use his initials because he is discussing active union business at his local.  (This article details …

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Caution doesn’t make us safe: A review of PRA’s report on the MAGA movement

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Million MAGA March Rally at Freedom Plaza, Washington DC, 14 November 2020 The January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol represented a watershed for the U.S. far right. For the first time in U.S. …

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North Shore’s “Trip Report” on the Freedom Convoy

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The anarchist website North Shore Counter-Info recently posted an insightful eyewitness commentary on the Freedom Convoy truckers’ revolt in Canada. “Trip Report: Ottawa on Saturday, February 5” offers no illusions about the protest’s right-wing character but tries to present …

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On the Freedom Convoy, the Right and crisis of State legitimacy

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Protests against laws: vaccine mandates; border restrictions; the general implementation of broader, potentially more and lasting forms of state governance and control of the populace (at times appearing as a “soft” repression if accepted, more …

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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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Books

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Toxic to Democracy: Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, & Scapegoating

By Chip Berlet Political Research Associates Charged with the fatal shooting of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in a church in Wichita, Kansas, last Sunday morning, Scott Philip Roeder is a regular consumer of conservative

Of Tea-Parties and Patriots: Liberty for who?

Originally from the anarchist black cat forum The following article was written and directed towards members of the “Liberty Movement,” participants in the Tea Parties and Town Hall meeting protests. It was originally intended to
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New Haven, CT: Immigrant Advocates, White Supremacists Clash

Violence flared in East Haven, as New Haven activists marching to protest alleged police racism tangled with out-of-state “white nationalists.” The clash happened during an event organized Saturday by New Haven immigrant advocacy organization Unidad
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Anti-Racists call for opposition to NSM conference Aug. 29 Greensboro, NC

from infoshop.org 30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREENSBORO MASSACRE: NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT CONFERENCE Close to the 30 year anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre, on August29th, the National Socialist Movement w ill attempt to hold a

Lawyer: FBI Trained Hal Turner As An “Agent Provocateur”

Internet blogger Harold “Hal” Turner’s attorney said today that Turner’s background as an FBI informant will be a key part of his defense to charges that he incited violence against two state legislators and a

National Socialist Movement internal emails posted on web

Someone, probably a disgruntled Nazi, put up a hella lot of NSMemails from their Fargo ND chapter to Wikileaks. I have not read themall, but they seem like they’re real. 2 highlights from the littlei’ve

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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.