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A Diversity of Tactics is Not Enough; We Need Rules of Engagement
The following is part of a series of responses to the events of August 22, 2001 (A22) in Portland, Oregon. We support any and all genuine and honest discussion that is of use to our movements regardless of ...
It was no Harpers Ferry: August 22d wasn’t an accident, it was a product of our thinking
The following is part of a series of responses to the events of August 22, 2021 (A22) in Portland, Oregon. We support any and all genuine and honest discussion that is of use to our movements regardless ...
“Create a fire in you to fight injustice”: How some Christian theocrats co-opt liberatory themes
New Apostolic Reformers advocate Christian dominance through spiritual warfare, yet some of them also call for empowering women and combating racism. Charismatics seeking dominion over society The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is a powerful movement within ...
There Will Always Be More Of Us: Antifascist Organizing
In keeping with discussion and debate on A22 in PDX and its broader meanings for antifascism and developing a revolutionary liberatory vision, we post the following from Paul O’Banion in which, while making an assessment of ...
Understanding A22 PDX: Response from a Comrade, “We Go Where They Go” as strategy for militant antifascism
A22 PDX. PB and antifascist confrontation. Photo via AP by A Comrade I largely agree with many of the evaluations that the decision to go and confront the fascists at Parkrose was poorly executed and handed ...
Understanding A22 PDX: Broader implications for militant movements
The following is a response by Don H. to the discussion. It goes beyond the specifics of PDX and looks more at the generalized meanings and risks of and for militant organizing, strategies and actions. militant ...
Understanding A22 PDX: Never Let the Nazis Have the Story! The Narrative Aspect of Conflict
Proud Boys Rally at Delta Park, PDX in 2020. Photo from WaPo.com The following is part of a series of responses to the events of August 22, 2001 (A22) in Portland, Oregon. They are part of the ...
Understanding A22 PDX: Three Responses
Antifascists face Proud Boys. A22 PDX. Photo Jonathan Levinson / OPB The following are three responses we received to the events of August 22, 2001 (A22) in Portland, Oregon. Three sets of voices, each with their ...
Understanding A22 PDX : discussion and analysis for the antifascist movements
Proud Boy attacks man in Portland, Aug 22, 2001. Photo Getty Images On August 22nd (A22), Portland, Oregon, played host to another of the demonstration/counter-demonstrations/streetfights that have defined much of the political terrain over the past ...
Guest post: A Response to “Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight”
The concern is that the “everyday antifascism” the author is talking about, is a watered down version of antifascism which focuses too much on uniting with liberals and bourgeois democracy. We’ve seen some of this in ...
Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight
By Devin Zane Shaw The seven theses I propose here were first published as part of a preface to T. Derbent’s German Communist Resistance 1933–1945, published by Foreign Languages Press (2020). I have reworked parts of ...
Review of Robyn Marasco’s “Reconsidering the Sexual Politics of Fascism”
Memorial to Ashli Babbitt, killed duringJanuary 6 attack on U.S. Capitol Most critiques of the far right take women for granted. Either they ignore women entirely, or they assume that far right gender politics are simple ...