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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Pedagogy of Confrontation

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by reddboy The Growing Pains editorial and the Sketchy Thoughts response to it are welcome treatments of important issues. I want to make a few comments on one aspect; the editorial’s treatment of the pedagogy …

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Sketchy Thoughts on UTA’s, Growing Pains

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…It is worth remembering that the pedagogy of confrontation does not need to take the specific forms it did during the anti-globalization moment in order to remain true to the idea that people will be …

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Twilight of the Heart

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from, Growing Pains, Editorial from Upping the Anti issue 3 Writing our most recent histories seems to bring to mind the reliable touchstones of literature. Let us say, then, that it was the best of …

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Aryan Jihad? New Directions for the Aryan Nations

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The following was forwarded to threewayfight from a former contributor to the ARA Research Bulletin and author of the article The Southern Poverty Law Center “Bad Jackets” Anarchists. It’s been awhile since I paid attention …

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Bash the Fash – Anti-fascist recollections, 1984-1993

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This is literally a no-punches pulled account of militant group Anti Fascist Action’s fight against fascism in Britain by a grassroots anarchist member of AFA. Highly recommended. It is important, not because he makes any …

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democratic centralism, State ideology and the suppression of the revolutionary potentials: a response to Burningman

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the following was forwarded on to threewayfight from contributor, reddboy. RX, before you get that gleam in your eye because Goff invokes the hot button anarchist topics of hierarchy and authoritarianism, look at his political …

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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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Muslim student Attacked at Chicago University

From the Chicago Sun Times: A student who says she was attacked by a masked gunman at Elmhurst College Thursday night was the target of anti-Muslim graffiti a week ago, authorities say… The student —
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RIP Fyodor “Fediay” Filatov. Another Russian Antifascist murdered.

In the morning of October 10th 2008 Fyodor Filatov died in hospital from numerous knife wounds. At 7:30 AM he was attacked by four unknown persons armed with knifes, while leaving his home on his
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Anarchists arrested after clash with BNP activists in East End

From the East London Advertiser: SIX anarchists were arrested in a street fight after they discovered BNP activists had duped a vicar into letting them use his church hall for a rally by saying it
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BBC: Austria’s Haider dies in accident

Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider has been killed in a road accident, police say. read more
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NYTimes: Italy’s Attacks on Migrants Fuel Debate on Racism

MILAN — The metal shutters are closed at Shining Bar, a coffee shop near the central train station here. On the facade, someone has written “proud to be black” and spray-painted “Abba Lives” in red.
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The bailout and capitalist worries about the parliamentary democratic form of rule

reposted from previous post Bailout Rejected After the problems getting Congress to agree to the bailout the ruling class surely must be having some doubts about the viability of parliamentary democracy, at least in handling
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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.