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Trumpism’s multiple factions

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As the Trump administration attacks oppressed communities and dismantles social and environmental programs with breathtaking speed, it’s important that we understand our enemy’s strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions. The Trump movement encompasses at least five major components and multiple fault lines. A major point of potential conflict within the administration is between established capital’s socially conservative wing (represented by Project 2025 contributors such as Russell Vought, Peter Navarro, and Tom Homan) and big tech capital (represented by figures such as Elon Musk and JD Vance), a conflict that big tech is likely to win.

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Abortion, the Christian right, and antifascism

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It’s time for antifascists to stop treating the Christian right as a secondary threat.  When the U.S. Supreme Court scraps legal protection for abortion rights—using arguments that also directly threaten legal protections for homosexuality, contraception, …

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The Gilad Atzmon and David Rovics Antisemitism Controversy, Explained

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by Shane Burley Editors’ note: Ideological hatred of Jews is centered in the far right, yet too many leftists continue to tolerate and even promote antisemitic themes when they’re packaged to look and sound radical. …

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Anti-Racist Action vs. Madeleine Albright in ’98

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by Kdog Members of Anti-Racist Action unfurl banner during Albrights  speech. photo for educational use only. courtesy of GettyImages and CNN “1-2-3-4 We Don’t Want Your Racist War!” In February 1998 Anti-Racist Action and others …

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Antifascist Resources on Ukraine

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Moscow protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2022The sign at left reads “No war! Putin go away!” In this post we offer an annotated list of resources on Russia’s February 2022 invasion of …

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Convoys, Rallies, and a Three-Way Fight Approach within a Union Context

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Freedom Convoy advertisement. Graphic and photo by unknown. Used here for educational purposes. The author, DZ, has opted to use his initials because he is discussing active union business at his local.  (This article details …

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Caution doesn’t make us safe: A review of PRA’s report on the MAGA movement

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Million MAGA March Rally at Freedom Plaza, Washington DC, 14 November 2020 The January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol represented a watershed for the U.S. far right. For the first time in U.S. …

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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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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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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.

Antifascist, Donald Trump, far right, radical left

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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Responding to Thinking and Acting in Real Time and a Real world

posted at BTR Hi Don, First of all, thanks for doing this. We certainly need some clarityabout the crisis and what may be coming down the road. I had a fewcomments – not really any

Why the U.S. Stimulus Package is Bound to Fail

from ZNet By David Harvey Source: The Bullet David Harvey’s ZSpace Page Join ZSpace Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in

Germany: antifas march against Nazi’s

from indymedia UKIn Dresden, Germany, some 4,000 anti-fascists demonstrated today against an annual march of 6,500 neo-Nazis, the biggest procession of its kind Europe-wide. Already at the beginning of the demonstration by the Antifa-coalition ‘No

Future Shock, Pt. 2: British Wildcat Strikes – Class? Nation? Or Both?

Recent Wildcat strikes spread throughout Britain, Scotland and even in to the North of Ireland. Starting January 30th Wildcat’s hit at oil refineries, power stations and later into other trades – including construction. The strikes

Rise in Jobless Poses Threat to Stability Worldwide

from the NYTimes.com By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ Published: February 14, 2009 “Worldwide job losses from the recession that started in the United States in December 2007 could hit a staggering 50 million by the end

Economy threatens security, intel chief warns

from The Seattle Times, Originally published Friday, February 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM The nation’s new intelligence chief warned Thursday that the global economic crisis is the most serious security peril facing the United States,
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Trumpism’s multiple factions

As the Trump administration attacks oppressed communities and dismantles social and environmental programs with breathtaking speed, it’s important that we understand our enemy’s strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions. The Trump movement encompasses at least five major components and multiple fault lines. A major point of potential conflict within the administration is between established capital’s socially conservative wing (represented by Project 2025 contributors such as Russell Vought, Peter Navarro, and Tom Homan) and big tech capital (represented by figures such as Elon Musk and JD Vance), a conflict that big tech is likely to win.

The DOGE and the neoreactionaries

While MAGA movement ideology centers on right-wing populism, DOGE’s attack on the administrative state is guided by neoreactionaries, whose ideology glorifies elites and rejects populist appeals in principle. And while the first Trump administration was backed by an unstable coalition of competing capitalist interests, now high technology capitalists closely aligned with neoreactionary politics are at the head of the pro-Trump business bloc. These changes have helped make the second Trump presidency more dangerous than the first, but they also point to potential divisions and conflicts within the Trump coalition.

Chaos or Revolution? It Depends on Us

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.

Review of Alberto Toscano’s “Late Fascism”

Alberto Toscano’s book offers a helpful overview of antifascist writings with an emphasis on authors loosely associated with Critical Theory. Of particular value is Toscano’s discussion of the role of myth in fascist ideology, which focuses on contributions by Italian scholar Furio Jesi and has relevance for understanding Donald Trump’s speeches and far right online meme culture. Yet Toscano’s discussion of “racial fascism” exaggerates capitalists’ ability to control events, strips both fascists and antifascists of political agency, and reflects an obliviousness to antifascists’ strategic and tactical concerns.

Review of “Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism”

Shane Burley and Ben Lorber offer a thoughtful radical analysis of how antisemitism works, how it fuels supremacist politics more broadly, and how the charge of antisemitism is misused to attack Palestine solidarity and the left. To combat antisemitism they argue for a strategy based on mass mobilization, dialog, and an intersectional critique of oppressions.