Left photo shows soldiers and barefoot girls walking past each other on a dirt road in a village. Right photo shows soldiers surrounding several boys.

Camus and Algeria: A Short Retrospective

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Kristian Williams explores Albert Camus’ position on the Algerian Revolution, particularly his opposition to the killing of civilians by both sides, and relates these to issues surrounding the October 7th attacks and Israel’s war on the people of Gaza. With a short response to Kristian’s essay by Matthew Lyons.

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Responding to Stan Goff’s, Debating a NeoCon

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Goff’s positions are refreshing given what is often presented as radical. I agree with him that the war in Iraq is “…symptomatic of a much deeper global crisis”. I agree that the difficulties facing capital …

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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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Books

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Do Zionists Run America?

An interesting review of the latest book by James Petras, The Power of Israel in the United States, this piece represents a cross-section of two themes that have surfaced recently on Three Way Fight: a

Two Ways of Looking at Fascism

This essay is a work in progress. It is an attempt to synthesize two different theoretical approaches that have significantly influenced my thinking about fascism.  Excerpt from Introduction:  …Unlike most leftist discussions, this essay offers

Ecofeminism, Global Justice, and “Culturally-Perceived Poverty”

Regina Cochrane University of Calgary, Canada excerpt from section four, Neoliberalism and the Political Trajectory of Post-Development Populism The post-development populist notion of “culturally-perceived poverty” is problematic for a whole host of general reasons as

The Nation does a short examination of the “new” SDS movement.

Challenges to Capital, Challenges for the Left

The text of a talk given at the National Conference on Organized Resistance, entitled “Challenges to Capital, Challenges for the Left: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Three Way Fight.” “The nineteenth century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin

National Conference on Organized Resistance

Co-curated by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the Free Society Collective — For the first time, the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR, http://www.organizedresistance.org) held in Washington, DC, is offering a Radical Theory Track

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Camus and Algeria: A Short Retrospective

Kristian Williams explores Albert Camus’ position on the Algerian Revolution, particularly his opposition to the killing of civilians by both sides, and relates these to issues surrounding the October 7th attacks and Israel’s war on the people of Gaza. With a short response to Kristian’s essay by Matthew Lyons.

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

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.

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.