Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024
Antifascist, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections
Two interviews about the U.S. far right
I recently recorded two radio interviews about my book Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire. Between them, the interviews touch on many of the book’s major themes. Christina Aanestad interviewed …
Fascistic theocrats: James Scaminaci comments on Insurgent Supremacists
James Scaminaci III is an independent researcher who has done important work tracing the beliefs and activities of U.S. far rightists for several decades. In Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and …
“Racial dissidents have lost the ability to organize openly”: Alt-rightists on Trump, ICE, and what is to be done
This report was written on July 29, 2018 and updated on August 5, 2018. Originally published in Insurgent Notes. The alt-right, or alternative right, represents the most recent major upsurge of far right politics in …
Donald Trump Uses Right-Wing Populism to Unite Divergent Groups (interview)
In this interview with Truthout, I discuss several topics related to the U.S. far right, such as fascism, populism, relations with federal security forces, and Donald Trump’s politics. The interview follows Truthout’s publication of an …
The Far Right Regards Human Inequality as “Natural” (book excerpt)
This book is about far right politics in the United States. It is an effort to understand movements such as the alt-right: what they want, what they do, who they appeal to, and how they …
“The alt-right wants to replace the USA with an ethno-state”: interview with Matthew N. Lyons
The German leftist newspaper Junge Welt recently published an interview with me by Gabriel Kuhn, under the title “Die ‘Alt-Right’ will USA zu Ethnostaat umwandeln” [The “alt-right” wants to replace the USA with an ethno-state]. …
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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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Review of “We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti Racist Action”
Gaming’s Three Way Fight: Why Antifascists Should Organize in and Around Video Games
Conference Report: “Anti-Fascism in the 21st Century”
On Fascism and the Three Way Fight (Guest Post)
Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours (guest post)
