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antifascism, Matthew N Lyons, repression, Three Way Fight - July 8, 2026

Demonizing Antifa: Federal Prosecutions Target Radical Organizers [ThreeWayFight]

[Originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on July 3, 2026] By Matthew N. Lyons With the court cases against the Prairieland ICE protesters and the Minnesota 15, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its authoritarian power drive. The regime is trying to criminalize radical politics and grassroots organizing, as a cornerstone of its campaign to suppress all political dissent. In the Prairieland case, a federal judge slapped extraordinarily harsh sentences—ranging from 30 to 100 years—on eight defendants connected with a July 4, 2025 demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas. Benjamin Song, who was convicted of attempted murder for shooting...

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audio, ireland, Laurence McKeown - June 23, 2026

Ex-POW Laurence McKeown on the Irish republican prisoner struggle after the 1981 hunger strike

Laurence McKeown—Irish Republican, former hunger-striker, writer—was on Montreal community radio station CKUT's Prison Radio Show recently to discuss And Flowers Grew Up Through the Concrete, his second prison memoir. This book covers the period after the 1981 hunger strike on which 10 republicans died in the struggle against British criminalization. In the conversation, Laurence discusses the shifting strategies adopted in this new period, and how they built on lessons learned during the blanket protest to achieve the substance of their demands. He also discusses how the prisoners used this strength and autonomy to pursue the continuation of the republican struggle...

Southern Poverty Law Center tries to avoid angering MAGA but still gets targeted [ThreeWayFight]

Matthew N Lyons [Originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on April 22, 2026] For decades the Southern Poverty Law Center was a mixed bag. On the plus side, it produced valuable research reports about the far right and brought lawsuits that helped shut down several important white supremacist groups, including United Klans of America, White Aryan Resistance, and Aryan Nations. On the negative side, it collaborated with the FBI, promoted a shallow and system-supporting anti-“hate” analytic framework, hoarded donations, and fostered a toxic and discriminatory workplace environment. It gets worse. An April 3, 2026, Substack article by former SPLC Senior Investigative Reporter...

Vijay Prashad’s Iran

Vijay Prashad’s Iran: A Response to CounterPunch’s Declaration “Six Non-Negotiable Terms from International Scholars…to End the U.S. War on Iran,” and to the Political Framework That Made It Possible We appreciated and recommend this recent essay.

Two Takes on Radical Strategy in the Time of Trump [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on March 20, 2026.] by Matthew N Lyons Fourteen months into Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, the political situation in the United States of America looks both more horrifying and more hopeful than it did, say, last summer. Since returning to the White House, Trump has pursued a drive toward dictatorship with a speed, scope, and effectiveness arguably beyond anything in U.S. history. His regime has sharply intensified repression—kidnapping hundreds of thousands of people in the name of immigration enforcement and using a host of measures to stifle political dissent—and has seized unprecedented...

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