Don’t Let Nazis Have Nice Things
It behooves people who are in contested cultural terrain to, well, contest it.
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No Pasarán!
“Antifa is indispensable.”
We knew even before the NSU that neo-Nazis don’t shy away from killing people. Violence is part of their ideology. Writing “Jena is colorful” on the streets with chalk is nice, but not enough. Nazi activity has to be confronted, and limits imposed.
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The Origins of Antifa
Fractures in antifascist politics persisted until 30 January 1933, when the German elites transferred power to Hitler. After that, the greatest workers movement in the world was crushed by the brownshirts and the police.
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On Liberal Useful Idiots
Why the radical right should not be given a platform, ever.
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Italian Lessons
The demoralization following the collapse in the nineties of the Communist party still shapes all aspects of Italian political life.
Liberalism, Fascism, and Emotional Neglect
It’s because liberalism and leftism have systematically neglected a whole range of human experience that we are in this mess right now.
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Back in Black
It’s worth reconsidering the role that militant confrontation, and self-defense, might play in protecting collective movements.
Trump, Brexit, Temer
Just as Trump’s election has validated all kinds of hate rhetoric in the United States, the removal of the PT government has validated all kinds of hate rhetoric in Brazil as well.
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Cops → Copy Paste → Content
Many journalists apparently regard the reports of police spokespeople as a priori accurate and true descriptions of factual reality not to be questioned. Hmph.
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Democracy Has Ended in Brazil
“We’ve entered a new state of exception through an illegal impeachment process, and I don’t have very much hope that anything’s going to change by 2018. The only left candidate who has a chance of winning is Lula, and they’re going to try to arrest him or kill him before 2018.”
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