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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.

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Tinley Park Five: Anti-fascists accept non-cooperating plea bargain

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The Tinley Park Five are a group of anti-fascists who were arrested for allegedly assaulting a number of neo-nazi organizers in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park, Illinois, on May 19, 2012.  From the Tinley …

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Feds + Corporate America versus the Occupy movement

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This post was originally titled “FBI versus the Occupy movement” but has been retitled based on a reader’s comment below. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) recently released federal documents showing that the FBI …

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Liberal counterinsurgency versus the paramilitary right

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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 …

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

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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, …

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Golden Dawn’s fascist ideology

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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 …

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Black Orchid Collective on strategizing against repression and fascism

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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 …

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

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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. …

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

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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

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

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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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Reading Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza

Reading Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza

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

Israel, Palestine and the Contradictions of Nationalism

Israel, Palestine and the Contradictions of Nationalism

Guest post by Plotnikov Editors’ Note: The following guest post is intended to offer some helpful context for understanding and discussing the current war between Israel and Hamas—and the broader war between Israel and the

Revisiting “Antifascism Against Machismo”

Revisiting “Antifascism Against Machismo”

Tammy Kovich, Antifascism Against Machismo With an introduction by El Jones and commentary by Butch Lee and Veronica L. Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023 153pp.; ISBN: 9781989701232 Review by D. Z. Shaw In 2019, Tammy Kovich published,

Review of “The Rise of Ecofascism” by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts

Review of “The Rise of Ecofascism” by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts

Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2022 160 pages; paperback $19.95, ISBN 9781509545384; hardback $59.95, ISBN 9781509545377 Review by Matthew N. Lyons How

Hindu nationalism in the United States: Challenging racial subordination from the far right?

Hindu nationalism in the United States: Challenging racial subordination from the far right?

A growing U.S. network of Modi supporters mixes Hindu supremacism with MAGA politics. The result could stretch the boundaries of who is white. by Matthew N. Lyons Even mainstream media noted the disconnect when Joe

On the dangers of liberal antifascism: A reply to Robert Reich

On the dangers of liberal antifascism: A reply to Robert Reich

Longtime antifascist Paul Bowman criticizes liberals who collapse the difference between fascism and right-wing populism to score electoral points.  By Paul Bowman  This is a response to Robert Reich’s piece in the Guardian of Saturday

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Anti-Fascism and the Three Way Fight in Québec

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.

Three Way Fight virtual book event August 5th

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.

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

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.

New Video Promo For Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism

What’s the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? What does it mean when fascists intensify racial oppression and patriarchy, but also call for the downfall of economic elites or even take up arms against the state? Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Anti-Fascism offers an introduction to three way fight politics, with more than thirty essays, position statements, and interviews spanning from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and 1990s to the political upheavals of the 21st century. Check out the new book promo by kersplebedeb and PM Press to learn more.

Anti-Zionist Reflections on Zionism and the American Jewish Community

To uphold the idea that Jewishness is equivalent to Zionism in a world where a large chunk of younger Jews no longer identify with Zionism and oppose the inhumanity of Israel’s rule over Palestinians, you have to silence all of the Jews who disagree with you.