“Naming the Moment”: new pamphlet addresses revolutionary analysis and strategy

Matthew N Lyons

Faced with the Trump regime’s drive toward authoritarianism, the authors of a new pamphlet ask, “How do we pull the emergency brake so that we can create a fundamentally different society together?”

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Dylann Roof’s white nationalism

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The racist manifesto and photos on Dylann Storm Roof’s website spell out many of the beliefs that drove him to murder nine people at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17. …

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July 25 International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners!!

From NYC Antifa: “The July 25 International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners originated in 2014 as a Day of Solidarity with Jock Palfreeman, an Australian who is imprisoned in Bulgaria for defending two Romani …

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A few websites that monitor the Right

You probably know about the Southern Poverty Law Center, but do you know about South Asia Citizens Web or the Association for Women’s Rights in Development? There are lots of groups out there that monitor …

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New look for ThreeWayFight

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I’m working on ThreeWayFight again after a hiatus of a few months, and have updated the design template for the first time in many years. Time for a change.

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The National Prayer Breakfast: validating theocracy

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Barack Obama speaks at National Prayer Breakfast 2-5-09 This morning, as he has done every February since 2009, Barack Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. The National Prayer Breakfast is sponsored by …

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Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, U.S. leftists

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For decades, some far right opponents of the U.S. empire have been trying to make common cause with leftists. They got another opportunity in December 2014 at an international conference in Moscow on the “Right …

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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.

Antifascist, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections

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

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.

Alexander Reid Ross, Anti-capitalism, counter insurgency, health care, health insurance industry, liberal antifascism, Luigi Mangione

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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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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“Naming the Moment”: new pamphlet addresses revolutionary analysis and strategy

Faced with the Trump regime’s drive toward authoritarianism, the authors of a new pamphlet ask, “How do we pull the emergency brake so that we can create a fundamentally different society together?”

Science Fiction and Speculative Whiteness

Jordan S. Carroll examines the alt right’s fascination with the genre of science fiction. While antifascists regularly criticize the far right’s fixation on an imagined past, in the era of the second Trump administration, this study of the ways that the alt right draws on science fiction to consider the future takes on renewed relevance.

The Day I Threw Away a Book (by Ilya Kharkow)

A reflection on language oppression in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Southern Poverty Law Center tries to avoid angering MAGA but still gets targeted

The SPLC has long had a mixed record, and in recent years it has largely abandoned its anti-far right watchdog role. But this hasn’t protected it from being targeted by the Trump administration.

Two takes on radical strategy in the time of Trump

As the Trump regime becomes both more aggressive and more vulnerable, many radicals are asking, how do we combat the regime in ways that promote systemic radical change? This essay discusses two useful contributions on revolutionary analysis and strategy in this time: “At the Turning of the Tide: How to Fight Our Way out of the Trunp Era” (CrimethInc.) and “Ten Theses on Revolutionary Possibility” (Ill Will).