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Resisting Trump’s coup
People across the political spectrum—from anarchists to social democrats to neoconservatives—have been warning that Trump may try to sabotage the election to stay in office. This is a realistic and serious danger. A Trump coup would ...
Trump, the far right, and the return of vigilante repression
Trump’s relationship with the far right is just as important in 2020 as it was in 2016, but the character of the relationship has changed dramatically. I’ve been revisiting the articles I wrote about Trump during ...
A constellation of threats: far rightists respond to the Black-led uprising
Guest post by Ben Lorber It’s important to remember that when we talk about the far right, we’re not talking about a single unitary force, but rather a constellation of different actors, organizations and movements with ...
Cooptation as ruling class strategy
It’s the biggest threat the U.S. power structure has faced in many years—a Black-led, multiracial wave of protests, uprisings, and strikes against the police and white supremacy in cities across the country. Defenders of the established ...
Distinguishing The Possible From The Probable: Contending strategic approaches within and against transnational capitalism
The following article by Don Hamerquist has been published by our friends over at Kersplebedeb. Hamerquist’s document addresses class and social conflict, ruling class responses (actual and potentials) and the threats of emerging fascisms that are opposed to not ...
Prospects for Global Capitalism
graphic from CNN this past Thursday saw another market shake up with the Dow dropping nearly 7% and the S&P having a drop of over 4.8% . fears of a second coronavirus wave and a still ...
It’s Going Down: Rebellion, Counter-Insurgency, And Cracks Within The Ruling Class
The following was originally published over at It’s Going Down after the first week and a half of the rebellion that emerged in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN. The podcast ...
Disaster Politics
This review first appeared in Socialism and Democracy (July 2010) and is republished with permission. An Editorial Comment follows the review below. * * * A Paradise Built ...
Threat or model?: U.S. rightists look at China
The coronavirus crisis has spurred a sharp increase in scapegoating, harassment, and physical attacks against Chinese and other Asian people in the United States. This racist upsurge has been fomented not only by white nationalists, but ...
No longer merely metaphor: Re-reading The Plague by Albert Camus
Albert Camus, 1957 Albert Camus’ novel The Plague offers a portrait of a town under quarantine, ravaged by an epidemic. It tells us of life arbitrarily constrained and unjustly shortened, of human beings isolated by law ...
Interview with Hilary Moore, co-author of No Fascist USA!
I recently interviewed writer and anti-racist political educator Hilary Moore about the new book No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements, which she co-authored with James Tracy. The book includes ...
Far rightists divided on coronavirus and Trump
Julia DeCook has a good article outlining how right-wing media activists have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to spread xenophobia, conspiracy theories, and other forms of misinformation: The conspiracy theories about the virus range from it ...