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Logo of IRMS: Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

A feminist think tank studying misogyny and the far right

Matthew N Lyons

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The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism studies the role of misogynist ideology in far right politics and its relationship with systemic oppression of women and other marginalized groups.
Disability rights activists risking arrest to protest cuts in front of State of CA building

Disability and the Far Right: Joan Braune interviews Esther Warwick

D.Z. Shaw

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Esther Warwick discusses the relationship between disability movements and the far right, and how eugenics has influenced laws that harm people with disabilities and people experiencing homelessness.

“Naming the Moment”: new pamphlet addresses revolutionary analysis and strategy

Matthew N Lyons

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Faced with the Trump regime's drive toward authoritarianism, the authors of a new pamphlet ask, “How do we pull the emergency brake so that we can create a fundamentally different society together?”
The cover of Speculative Whiteness

Science Fiction and Speculative Whiteness

D.Z. Shaw

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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.
Montage of photos of destruction caused by Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The Day I Threw Away a Book (by Ilya Kharkow)

3WF

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A reflection on language oppression in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Southern Poverty Law Center tries to avoid angering MAGA but still gets targeted

Matthew N Lyons

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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.
Painting of an armed mob attacking a tall fortress, with smoke billowing out of the top.

Two takes on radical strategy in the time of Trump

Matthew N Lyons

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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).
Man at podium at large indoor rally; banner in front of speaker reads "Defend America First", portrait of George Washington is behind speaker.

On the roots of America First foreign policy

Matthew N Lyons

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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.
Chip Berlet wearing a jacket and tie, speaking in front of a microphone, gesturing with his hands.

Remembering Chip Berlet

3WF

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Three Way Fight mourns groundbreaking antifascist researcher Chip Berlet, who died on January 30th, and republishes Matthew N. Lyons’s essay, “Chip Berlet, Co-Author” from the 2021 book Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy: Celebrating Chip Berlet as Journalist and Scholar.
Uniformed ICE officers face protesters along snow-covered street.

What the F**k Is to Be Done?

3WF

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Dandy Andy attempts to answer the question, How do we craft an anti-capitalist strategy for our current period? His discussion touches on the relationship between class analysis and intersectionality, the dynamic tension between nonviolent civil disobedience and militant action, some guidelines for political coalitions, the importance of building community spaces and human connection, and the tension between the needs for public organizing and movement security.
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Cracks in the Foundation: Heritage and Ruling Class Strategy

Matthew N Lyons

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When more than a dozen Heritage Foundation staffers recently quit, it highlighted the Trump coalition’s growing internal debate over white nationalist antisemitism. But it also points to a crisis of strategic direction for the US ruling class.
Charlie Kirk standing on stage facing audience with his back to the camera, with confetti falling everywhere

What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump

Matthew N Lyons

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Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that has fueled that shift. Regardless of why Kirk was targeted, the right is using his killing as an opportunity to impose a climate of enforced loyalty and gear up for what could be a major political crackdown.
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