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Pedagogy of Confrontation
by reddboy The Growing Pains editorial and the Sketchy Thoughts response to it are welcome treatments of important issues. I want to make a few comments on one aspect; the editorial’s treatment of the pedagogy of ...
Sketchy Thoughts on UTA’s, Growing Pains
…It is worth remembering that the pedagogy of confrontation does not need to take the specific forms it did during the anti-globalization moment in order to remain true to the idea that people will be moved ...
Twilight of the Heart
from, Growing Pains, Editorial from Upping the Anti issue 3 Writing our most recent histories seems to bring to mind the reliable touchstones of literature. Let us say, then, that it was the best of times ...
Aryan Jihad? New Directions for the Aryan Nations
The following was forwarded to threewayfight from a former contributor to the ARA Research Bulletin and author of the article The Southern Poverty Law Center “Bad Jackets” Anarchists. It’s been awhile since I paid attention to ...
Bash the Fash – Anti-fascist recollections, 1984-1993
This is literally a no-punches pulled account of militant group Anti Fascist Action’s fight against fascism in Britain by a grassroots anarchist member of AFA. Highly recommended. It is important, not because he makes any pretence ...
democratic centralism, State ideology and the suppression of the revolutionary potentials: a response to Burningman
the following was forwarded on to threewayfight from contributor, reddboy. RX, before you get that gleam in your eye because Goff invokes the hot button anarchist topics of hierarchy and authoritarianism, look at his political alternative ...
Hindu Fascism
The excellent blog sketchythoughts recently posted an interview with a South Asian antifascist living in New York City, along with an analysis of the interview. The whole thing is worth reviewing, but in particular the questions ...
Stan Goff on the Crisis of Authoritarian Socialism in the U.S.
Stan Goff, Special Forces militarist turned Marxist, has put out a new piece critiquing Marxism-Leninism (M-L) concepts and models as a way of building revolutionary movements. His critique centers on the centralizing and rigid traditions of ...
Uprising or Civil War in Mexico
“we do not recognize the official president or the legitimate one. What happens at the top does not matter at all to us. What matters is what will arise from below. When we carry out this ...
Social critic and author Mike Davis writes that in the growing world of urban slums, “Marx has yielded the historical stage to Mohammed and the Holy Ghost. If God died in the cities of the industrial ...
Terraces & Peripheries: Left Snobbery & the Radical Right
An examination of far-right influence within Italian soccer and wider realms of the “peripheries”. from the article, “In its renunciation of everything, the left has ended up regarding it as inappropriate to maintain any kind of ...
The Three-Way Fight and militant antifascism: a short review
A communiqué from a group of western U.S. antifascists recently appeared on the international class struggle anarchist news website, anarkismo. The communiqué adopts the concept of a Three Way Fight. From the title and language it ...