Category: Fascism

Recording of webinar sponsored by Haymarket Books & Ukraine Solidarity Network (U.S.). 

To have the unity needed to go beyond discussion and take common action, we’ll have to be clear that states and their defenders cannot be part of our peoples’ unity against fascism.

In an interview, Gilbert Achcar analyzes the grim state of affairs in the Middle East, in the age of neofascism.

A report on the largest protests so far of Trump’s second term.

Elon Musk is an eminently hateable figure. He is the personification of a decaying system. He is the perfect target for anyone looking to pick a fight with modern capitalism.

I was born in 1955 in the segregated state of Alabama where the oppressive conditions of segregation meant that my only escape was to “travel in thought” which could only be found in books.

Trump’s brand of governance inevitably culminates in chaos and accelerates the tendency toward crisis that is already built into capitalism, accelerating as the profit system confronts its growing contradictions.

We can understand the institutionalisation of Trumpism as a response to three or four basic trends, including relative imperial decline, problems of ‘secular stagnation’ in the capitalist core, the rise of Chinese state-capitalism, and the energy crisis.

The threat of rising fascism in France, Germany, Britain, and the USA

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.

We need to appreciate both the dangers of the present juncture and the possibilities – and realities – of positive change

The past week of antifascist mobilisation in Britain has seen off the immediate threat, but we need to construct a counter-hegemonic force that puts an end to the cycle of state racism and far-right violence.

Wayne Price reviews Rachel Maddow’s book on US fascism, which lacks a critical perspective on capitalist anti-communism as the cause of fascism.

You cannot understand the war in Ukraine without knowing its history.

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.

Shane Burley interviews militants from the antifascist network Anti-Racist Action, active in North America between the 1980s and early 2000s.

Silvio Berlusconi has died at the age of 86….He will undoubtedly leave a lasting mark.