Resisting Trump and the MAGA movement: No Borders Media interview with Matthew Lyons
Antifascist, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections
Understanding A22 PDX: Three Responses
Antifascists face Proud Boys. A22 PDX. Photo Jonathan Levinson / OPB The following are three responses we received to the events of August 22, 2001 (A22) in Portland, Oregon. Three sets of voices, each with …
Understanding A22 PDX : discussion and analysis for the antifascist movements
Proud Boy attacks man in Portland, Aug 22, 2001. Photo Getty Images On August 22nd (A22), Portland, Oregon, played host to another of the demonstration/counter-demonstrations/streetfights that have defined much of the political terrain over the …
Guest post: A Response to “Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight”
The concern is that the “everyday antifascism” the author is talking about, is a watered down version of antifascism which focuses too much on uniting with liberals and bourgeois democracy. We’ve seen some of this …
Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight
By Devin Zane Shaw The seven theses I propose here were first published as part of a preface to T. Derbent’s German Communist Resistance 1933–1945, published by Foreign Languages Press (2020). I have reworked parts …
Review of Robyn Marasco’s “Reconsidering the Sexual Politics of Fascism”
Memorial to Ashli Babbitt, killed duringJanuary 6 attack on U.S. Capitol Most critiques of the far right take women for granted. Either they ignore women entirely, or they assume that far right gender politics are …
The far right has entered a period of regrouping
This is the text of my presentation as part of the June 22nd panel, “Mapping Online Extremism and the Far Right” (Reactionary Digital Politics series). I have added some links and a short postscript. I …
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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.
Antifascist, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections
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. …
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Between the Abysmal and the Catastrophic: Interview About the Presidential Election
Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024
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“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East
Anti-Fascism and the Three Way Fight in Québec
