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Science Fiction and Speculative Whiteness

D.Z. Shaw

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.

Anti-fascism, Antifascist, Book Review, far right, science fiction

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

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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.”

Antifascist, Democrats, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, US presidential elections

Trump stands on small stage with his back to camera, surrounded by larger audience.

Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024

Matthew N Lyons

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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

Thick smoke rises from apartment buildings.

“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East

Matthew N Lyons

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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.

Campism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine

Protesters gathered in the street with banners, including one at front that reads "Montréal Antifasciste"

Anti-Fascism and the Three Way Fight in Québec

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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.

Antifascist, Canada, far right, Québec

Three Way Fight virtual book event August 5th

Matthew N Lyons

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Book co-editors Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons will discuss Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism in an online event sponsored by Firestorm Books. “Three way fight” refers to a political approach, a political project, and a book, and the presentation will give an overview of all three.

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“Anti-hate” think tank scapegoats China for Palestine solidarity protests

Matthew N Lyons

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There’s a real money trail linking China’s propaganda apparatus with some pro-Palestinian organizations in the U.S. But the Network Contagion Research Institute distorts this bid for influence into a conspiracist vision of the Chinese Communist Party secretly directing mass protests to destabilize America.

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Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024

Matthew N Lyons

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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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Liberal counterinsurgency versus the paramilitary right

In this article I’m going to discuss U.S. security forces’ changing response to the paramilitary right. I will argue the following: Although U.S. security forces have an important history of collaborating with or even sponsoring

Report on Successful Minneapolis Antifa Action: Disruption of David Irving Speaking Event

The following report comes from some comrades in Minneapolis: On November 16, 2012, David Irving, renowned Holocaust denier and Hitlerite disciple (though he prefers the phrase ‘controversial historian’) attempted to hold an event on his speaking tour,

Golden Dawn’s fascist ideology

Continuing Three Way Fight’s series on the Greek neonazi party Golden Dawn, in this post I offer a profile of Golden Dawn’s fascist ideology, based on online writings from the party and its affiliated organizations

Black Orchid Collective on strategizing against repression and fascism

The Seattle-based Black Orchid Collective has a great post on developing strategies for combating both privatized repression and insurgent fascism. The piece is intended to prompt discussion and touches on a lot of issues and

Golden Dawn violence and police collaboration

Following up on my previous post about white nationalist responses to the Greek neonazi group Golden Dawn, I want to pull together some information and analysis about Golden Dawn itself. This post focuses on GD’s

White nationalists praise Golden Dawn

The anti-racist website Imagine 2050 recently posted a useful article about the Greek neonazi party Golden Dawn. Author Aaron Patrick Flanigan warns that GD’s newly formed New York City chapter may try to build connections
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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).

On the roots of America First foreign policy

MAGA’s “America First” approach to foreign policy draws on antiwar sentiment but has promoted unilateralist military aggression. This essay explores the roots of the America First outlook in the “isolationist” nationalism of the early 1940s America First Committee, as analyzed by Franz Schurmann in his 1974 book The Logic of World Power.