Three Way Fight - Against Fascism. Against the State. For a Free Humanity!

March 15, 2016

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[See new post-script at the end of this article.] Some leftists have declared recently that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is fundamentally “anti-political” rather than right wing. But the evidence they offer actually highlights the similarities …

Fascist revolution doesn’t turn back the clock: a reply to Alexander Reid Ross on Trump

January 7, 2016

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Part 4 of Alexander Reid Ross’s series on “Trumpism” on the website It’s Going Down is largely a reply to my piece “Trump’s impact: a fascist upsurge is just one of the dangers.” Reid Ross …

Trump’s impact: a fascist upsurge is just one of the dangers

December 22, 2015

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In some ways it doesn’t matter whether we call Donald Trump a fascist or “just” a right-wing populist. However we categorize him, his presidential campaign represents a serious danger. Whatever direction he takes in the …

Jack Donovan on men: a masculine tribalism for the far right

November 24, 2015

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Donovan: “Ur-fascism is the source of honor culture and authentic patriarchal tradition.” All far rightists promote male dominance, but the kinds of male dominance they promote differ enormously. The Christian right’s revolutionary wing — the …

On Trump, Fascism, and Stale Social Science

October 25, 2015

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Donald Trump’s rise as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination set off a flurry of articles labeling him a fascist. These pieces — which have appeared on sites as varied as Newsweek, Common Dreams, …

Oath Keepers, Ferguson, and the Patriot movement’s conflicted race politics

August 29, 2015

When a group built around right-wing conspiracy theories sends heavily armed white men onto streets filled with Black Lives Matter protesters, it makes sense to be worried. But if these are white supremacist vigilantes, why …

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Contending with the Present and Building a Future for Antifascism in the Pacific Northwest

November 30, 2023

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. …

Trump’s Gospel: A Review of Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow

January 12, 2024

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.

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Reading Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza

November 7, 2023

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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 …

Burn the foundation and all that it upholds: an antifascist review of “Tell Me I’m Worthless” by Alison Rumfitt

November 15, 2023

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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. …

SHUT IT DOWN! Mass mobilization for Palestine cancels the first day of the 2024 California State Legislature

Xtn Alexander

January 4, 2024

For Palestine, hundreds of people took over the California State Capitol on January 3, 2024. The first day of the state’s legislature for the new year, or should we say, the attempted first day. The takeover forced the cancellation of the legislature’s session.

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Frazier Glenn Miller, Nazi violence, and the state

May 8, 2014

In the 1980s, Frazier Glenn Miller was one of the most prominent white supremacist leaders in the United States. Lately he’s been in the news again — sometimes identified as Miller, sometimes as Frazier Glenn

Spencer Sunshine on rightists in the Occupy movement

March 31, 2014

Spencer Sunshine has a good article in the Political Research Associates newsletter (Winter 2014 issue): “The Right Hand of Occupy Wall Street: From Libertarians to Nazis, the Fact and Fiction of Right-Wing Involvement.” As Sunshine

U.S. fascists debate the conflict in Ukraine

March 13, 2014

The Ukrainian fascists who helped seize power in Kiev three weeks ago have gotten a strikingly mixed response from U.S. far rightists. Like others across the political spectrum, U.S. fascists are struggling to understand and

Who are Ukraine’s fascists?

March 4, 2014

My previous post attempted to make sense of the struggle that recently overthrew Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych. As Tash Shifrin points out, not only did fascist groups play a leading role in this struggle, but

Ukraine’s upheaval: between fascists, neoliberals, and Kremlin tools

March 1, 2014

“It is right to be horrified and appalled by the brutality of Yanukovych’s — failed — crackdown, and the huge death toll. No one should support the violence of the state. “But nor should we

TORCH anti-fascist network forms

January 16, 2014

Several former chapters of Anti-Racist Action (ARA) have formed a new anti-fascist network called TORCH. They write, “This isn’t a fracture or schism coming from internal strife but the result of the realization that the