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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Chickens with their heads cut-off: Pt. Deux

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reposted from NYTimes.comDay of Chaos Grips Washington; Talks Over Bailout Plan Implode By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, CARL HULSE and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: September 25, 2008 WASHINGTON — The day began with an agreement that …

bailout, financial crisis, ruling class

a System in flux: trying to get our brains wrapped around the crisis in capitalism

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central ideas growing from this “threewayfight” discussion board is that the System – capitalism and the administrative States – represent dynamic sets of entities in a constant flux of shaping and reshaping themselves. beyond the …

Anarkismo.net, bailout, Bukharin, capitalism, financial crisis, Hamerquist, Maoist, Workers Solidarity Movement

Capitalism in Crisis?

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the following is from a larger discussion between different individuals and organizations on the nature of fascism and the potentials and limitations of anti-fascist organizing. that discussion will be published in the near future, however, …

capitalism, counter insurgency, Empire, financial crisis, Gramsci, Hamerquist, Mao, Marx, Negri, radical left, Sojourner Truth Organization, white skin privledge, Working Class

Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction

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by Paul Bowman – Workers Solidarity Movement Everything comes tumbling down With financial giants toppling at rates that shock even seasoned financial commenter, many of us are left wondering, how did this state of affairs …

Anarkismo.net, financial crisis, Workers Solidarity Movement

Kevin Phillips interviewed on the Bill Moyers Journal

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Phillips gives a sobering yet refreshing interview. A long-time capitalist analyst, Phillips says that this is only the mid point of a process the end of which is unknown and not particularly inspiring. The interview …

financial crisis, ruling class

The Paulson-Bernacke Bank Bailout Plan: Will the Cure be Worse than the Crisis?

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Reposted from Counterpunch by Michael Hudson Saturday’s $700 billion junk mortgage bailout is the largest and worst giveaway since a corrupt Congress gave land grants to the railroad barons a century and a half ago. …

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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


Books

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G8-Summit Protests in Germany: Against Globalization and its Non-Emancipatory Responses

by Rob Augman ZNet 26 June 2007 Excerpt from the introduction: …Contemporary social conflicts, a widespread sense of alienation, deep feelings of powerlessness, and the increasing intensity of violent conflict sets off a whole host

Israeli Independence Day and the Palestinian Nakba

I’m part of an informal group of anti-Zionist Jews in Philadelphia, which issued the following statement last month. In addition to challenging standard pro-Israeli propaganda, the statement rejects the myth that we have to choose

Do Zionists Run America?

An interesting review of the latest book by James Petras, The Power of Israel in the United States, this piece represents a cross-section of two themes that have surfaced recently on Three Way Fight: a

Two Ways of Looking at Fascism

This essay is a work in progress. It is an attempt to synthesize two different theoretical approaches that have significantly influenced my thinking about fascism.  Excerpt from Introduction:  …Unlike most leftist discussions, this essay offers

Ecofeminism, Global Justice, and “Culturally-Perceived Poverty”

Regina Cochrane University of Calgary, Canada excerpt from section four, Neoliberalism and the Political Trajectory of Post-Development Populism The post-development populist notion of “culturally-perceived poverty” is problematic for a whole host of general reasons as

The Nation does a short examination of the “new” SDS movement.

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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.