Sign held at rally features drawing of Reza Pahlavi and the words, “Prepare to recognize our legitimate transitional government to lead iran toward democracy / MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN”

A Wretched Hive: How the United States Incubates Diasporic Fascism

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From Iranian monarchists to reactionary Cuban exiles, from Hindu nationalists to members of the racist, homophobic Falun Gong cult, the United States fosters far-right political currents based in a range of diasporic communities. Rooted largely in reactionary ideologies brought by immigrants from economically and socially privileged backgrounds, diasporic fascism embodies loyalty to the decaying U.S. empire, collaboration with white American far rightists, and often precarious relationships with the U.S. racial hierarchy.

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Insurgent Supremacists – a new book about the U.S. far right

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My book Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire is due out this May and is being published jointly by Kersplebedeb Publishing and PM Press. It draws on work that I’ve …

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Fascism Today Conversation Part 2: author Shane Burley interviews Matthew N. Lyons

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This is the second half of a dialog between Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, and myself, author of the book’s foreword. In the first half, I …

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Major report on red-brown alliances from new anarchist website

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Demonstration of the National Bolshevik Party in Russia, 9 May 2006 The term “red-brown alliance” refers to political collaboration or synthesis between fascists and radical leftists. Such alliances strengthen the far right, spread ideological poison …

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On Lesser and Greater Evils (guest post by Rebecca Hill)

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“Rather than seeking among our opponents for strategic allies, it would be much better to seek a principled alliance across the left to create a strong center of gravity from which to fight both the …

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Review: Making Sense of the Alt-Right by George Hawley

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H-Net has published my review of political scientist George Hawley’s book Making Sense of the Alt-Right. On the plus side, the book is carefully researched and offers a good account of the alt-right’s development, hostility …

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Fascism Today Conversation Part 1: Interview with author Shane Burley

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In this post I interview Shane Burley about his new book, Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, to which I was honored to write the foreword. Publisher AK Press describes the …

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Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024

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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.

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Chaos or Revolution? It Depends on Us

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The institutional far right is strong, while the far left is weak and disorganized. To develop the capacity to meaningfully intervene in the current crisis, far leftists need to engage with oppressed communities and work together with liberals in a united front.

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Who’s Afraid of Luigi Mangione? A Response to Alexander Reid Ross

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Luigi Mangione’s recent alleged killing of an insurance CEO touched a wedge issue that cuts across class and across the political spectrum—the massive corruption of the health insurance industry—and created an opening for the left. A recent article by ex-leftist Alexander Reid Ross, which dismisses Mangione as expressing an American proclivity for violence, represents a counterinsurgency action in defense of the state.

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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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Books

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Denial in Tehran

the following is an older piece that received limited publication. originally drafted for threewayfight, we are now republishing it because of its continued relevance. the article was initially submitted by threewayfight’s sometime contributor, Saddam Khomeini

A short reply to the Anti-Imperialist and Three-Way-Fight Approaches to Antisemitism, in the Upping-the-Anti Journal Debate

from, Contested Terrain In the latest issue of Upping the Anti journal, two articles were published on the question, “How should Left groups relate to non-Left anti-Imperialist movements?” The first article, “Challenges to Capitalism, Challenges

U.S. Left-Wing Militant Anti-Fascist History Vol. 1 (The late 1980’s)

U.S. Left-Wing Militant Anti-Fascist History Vol. 1 (The late 1980’s) The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee: A brief biographyBy Dan Sabater The John Brown Anti- Klan Committee was the most prominent U.S. Left militant anti-fascist organization

PSA: Jesse Helms dead. Now lets dance in the streets.

Obama: Raw Racism Fanned in Election

This article originally appeared in the Washington Post. Reposted from Kasama Hate Groups’ Newest Target White Supremacists Report an Increase in Visits to Their Web Sites By Eli SaslowWashington Post Staff Writer Sen. Barack Obama’s

Anarchists fed up with Lega Nord racists in Italy, get feisty

from @infos mediaAnarchists and anti-racists in Trento, North-East Italy got fed up with theracist crap representives of the local Lega Nord (Northern League) spout in thelocal town centre. The video shows how.http://trentinocorrierealpi.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/2256795 Enjoy especially if

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A Wretched Hive: How the United States Incubates Diasporic Fascism

From Iranian monarchists to reactionary Cuban exiles, from Hindu nationalists to members of the racist, homophobic Falun Gong cult, the United States fosters far-right political currents based in a range of diasporic communities. Rooted largely in reactionary ideologies brought by immigrants from economically and socially privileged backgrounds, diasporic fascism embodies loyalty to the decaying U.S. empire, collaboration with white American far rightists, and often precarious relationships with the U.S. racial hierarchy.

Confronting Multiple Forms of Power: Siyavash Shahabi Against U.S. Aggression and Iranian State Repression

In his writings about Iran and international solidarity, Iranian leftist refugee Shahabi argues that radicals in the U.S. need to oppose the U.S./Israeli war on Iran AND speak out against Iranian state repression. He also suggests that campism reflects a colonialist worldview, in which non-western societies are understood mainly through their relationship with the West, rather than as full-fledged societies with their own contradictions.

Not Just an Incel Attack

The manifesto of the June 22nd Montréal incel shooter has been widely dismissed as “salad-bar extremism,” a confused hodgepodge that is “neither left nor right.” It’s actually a carefully constructed fascist manifesto that addresses all the key far-right tropes, but replaces the ethnonationalism usually at the center of fascist ideology with a vicious misogyny.

A Review of Joan Braune’s Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements

Within the small but growing field of antifascist studies, and the even smaller subfield of philosophies of antifascism, Joan Braune’s Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements is a welcome and insightful intervention.

Meet the Editorial Board

A brief introduction to the new Three Way Fight editorial team.