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Three Way Fight book announcement and excerpt
We are publishing a book! Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism is forthcoming from PM Press and Kersplebedeb Publishing in May 2024.
Trump’s Gospel: A Review of Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow
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.
SHUT IT DOWN! Mass mobilization for Palestine cancels the first day of the 2024 California State Legislature
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.
Genocide Joe and the Second Nakba
By Xtn Alexander First, it’s gotta be said that the masses taking to the streets against the war on Gaza and the Palestinians is righteous. It is an angry and determined righteousness. Lockdowns and ...
Contending with the Present and Building a Future for Antifascism in the Pacific Northwest
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. Before ...
Burn the foundation and all that it upholds: an antifascist review of “Tell Me I’m Worthless” by Alison Rumfitt
“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. It ...
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 been ...
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 people ...
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, under ...
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 are ...
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 Biden ...
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 17th ...