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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AlternativeRight.com: Paleoconservatism for the 21st Century

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Paleoconservatives don’t have a mass following or much in the way of institutional power these days, but they do have a fairly lively intellectual scene. The defenders of Western civilization offer a number of competently …

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Bringing the Elite to Jesus

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Review of Jeff Sharlet, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (New York: HarperCollins, 2008) By Matthew N. Lyons This book review was published in New Politics 13, no. 1, Whole …

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Call to Action Against Racism and Fascism July 31, 2010

“During the early morning hours of March 27th, a Portland, Oregon anti-racist activist was shot in what appears to be a well orchestrated attack. It is suspected that the attackers were members of the neo- …

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ARA Presents: The White Power Movement on the West Coast…

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In Portland, a long-time anti-racist is targeted for assassination in the downtown area. In Vancouver, BC, an anti-fascist activist’s house is bombed. In Los Angeles, the National Socialist Movement rallies and is opposed by hundreds. …

Anti Racist Action, Anti-fascists, Portland

Local Anti-Racist Shot in Downtown Portland

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Shortly after midnight on Saturday, March 27, a man was brutally attacked in the heart of downtown Portland. His attacker shot him and left him lying in the street. He is currently in the Intensive …

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Portland Anti Racist Action Media Release

MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release: April 1, 2010 Contact: Portland Anti-Racist Action fight_them_back@riseup.net 971.533.7832 (voicemail) *Portland Anti-Racists: Downtown Shooting was Likely a Neo-Nazi Ambush* *Anti-Racist Targeted in Saturday Morning Attempted Murder* Portland, Oregon – In …

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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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The wrong ideaBy L.G.B.A vibrant democracy is supposed to uphold the freedom of speech, regardless of its content, in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas and better inform the citizenry so that they can

Further thoughts on Hezbollah

“Defending my enemy’s enemy,” my attempt at a nuanced discussion of the recent Israel-Lebanon war, has been aired on several blogs and listservs and has gotten a wide range of comments, pro and con. These

Interview with anarchist militants in Lebanon

IndyMedia broadcasts an interview with anarchist militants who undertook organizing and delivering aid to villages in southern Lebanon. Their action took place before the ceasefire and in the interview they speak of being made targets

On Islamic radicalism and the left

Don Hamerquist sends the following comments on “Defending my enemy’s enemy”: Matthew, I’m in general agreement with this piece and I also largely agreed with your earlier criticism of the common left perception that the

Defending my enemy’s enemy

Question to the U.S. left and anti-war movement about the current war in Lebanon: If we want Israel to fail in its stated objective to destroy Hezbollah, does that mean we want Hezbollah to win?

A short, but detailed history and analysis of Hizbullah and it’s current efforts in Lebanon and against Israel.

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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.