The Three Way Fight approach to fascism sees it as an independent force which opposes both the capitalist order and movements of the workers and the oppressed. Daphne Lawless reviews a book containing a number of documents from this tradition.
Author: Dan Fischer
Fighting Antisemitism Today—An Interview with Shane Burley and Ben Lorber
Fighting antisemitism through solidarity doesn’t just create safety for Jews and all people; it allows us to directly confront the conspiratory core of contemporary fascist and rightwing arguments while building resilient antifascist and left movements.
Cuba since COVID: Communist Party represses social unrest
“The conditions in Cuba are tough for those dissenting,” Alina Bárbara López says. “I have refused to flee Cuba and that strengthens the pressure on me. Nevertheless, I believe it is possible to get involved.”
Libertarianism and the Far Right
Not So Strange Bedfellows
The Libertarian Party has become just another flavor of the same reaction that propelled Trump to office in the first place.
Launch statement of Zabalaza for Socialism
Launch statement of Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO), a new eco-socialist, feminist, and anti-racist organization in South Africa, which aims to unite the left and contribute to building a mass movement for socialism in response to the crisis and failures of capitalism in the country.
No To Warmongering: Statement by a Group of Iranian Civil Rights Activists
We believe that in the current situation, saying “no to warmongering” is a necessary position both to reject the militarist structure of the Islamic Republic and to clearly delineate a stand against war and bloodshed in the region.
The coming Israeli attack on Iran
There is little doubt that Israel will respond to Iran’s launch of three hundred and twenty drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles on its territory with a major attack on Iran, and this for several reasons.
Labor Education for All Workers
As the cause of labor has long declared “a new social order is needed.” Labor education will help create the possibility for this new social order—democratic control of our workplaces and communities—to emerge.
Gentrification and Social War
Andrew talks through the organizing reality of confronting housing as both a commodity and a human necessity.
We Need Creative Measures Against the Genocidaires
Use all kinds of peaceful creative measures to embarrass, shame, inconvenience and bother the mass killers.
Yes, it’s a Genocide
The ongoing suffering, displacement, and destruction in Gaza invoke a sense of urgency in labeling the situation for what it is, and for prompt investigation and adjudication, rather than waiting for a tragic culmination.
The Political and Legal Underpinnings of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
The Israeli state has responded by bombing the Gaza Strip, in which Hamas has its headquarters and over 2.3 million civilians have their homes, starving inhabitants of food, water, medicines and fuel. But why did this happen? And what can be done about it?
The Claim that Hamas’ Military Center is Under Gaza’s Biggest Hospital
Barak said, “Every reporter that lives in Gaza or in Israel knows” about the location of this command center. His claim is preposterous.
Statement from the Leadership of Religion and Public Life on the Current Spate of Violence in Palestine/Israel
Start with the rockets fired into Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and not with the illegal occupation of Palestinian land by Israel and the blockade of Gaza since 2007, and you have an entirely different story.
Zionist Volksgemeinschaft
On the völkisch nature of Zionism and its relation to imperialism
In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.
The Struggle to Stop Cop City—By Any Means Necessary
A history of Stop Cop City and the struggle to defend the Atlanta Forest. A must read for anyone interested in getting the whole story.
I’m Sick to Death of Florida’s Racism
Before the Florida Department of Education issued its curriculum directive that slavery in the United States did, after all, produce “personal benefits” for the enslaved in the form of a well-stocked resumé of trades, useful after Emancipation in 1863, the board members might have consulted a seminal document in the literature of the oppressed—Angela Davis’s 1971 essay, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.”
Toxic Entanglements
A review of Nicole Fabricant’s Fighting to Breathe
Review of “activist ethnographer” Nicole Fabricant’s book on youth activism and environmental justice in the South Baltimore Peninsula.
Kali Akuno to Get 2023 Peace Award
Kali and his fellow members of Cooperation Jackson are creating a model for how the rest of us might be able to achieve peace on and with Earth.
Review: Socialism in Yiddish
Socialism in Yiddish: The Jewish Labor Bund in Sweden
by Hakkan Blomqvist
Translated by Blomqvist and Glasser
(Stockholm, Sodertons University, 2021)
The Jewish Labor Bund in Stockholm, Sweden, marching with the Swedish Social-Democrats on the First of May 1946
If one knows anything . . .
Book Review Essay: Anti-Authoritarian Internationalism, Then and Now
The consensus from the authors reviewed here is that the anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian causes requires profound socio-economic and political changes at all levels of global society.
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