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[This review was originally posted to The Brotherwise Dispatch on Dec. 1, 2024.]  Devin Z. Shaw, Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique and the Three Way Fight, (Montreal, Canada: Kersplebedeb, 2024).   by A. Shahid Stover Devin Z. Shaw’s Genealogies of Antifascism insightfully works towards demarcating[1] a fundamental redefinition of fascism itself – for social activists – whose hope in the capacity of the imperial mainstream-as-civil society to prevent the rise of fascism is waning, – and for radical intellectuals – whose impatience with challenging fascism on terms conducive to reinforcing advanced neoliberal capitalist hegemony is at an all-time high. ...

* Version française ci-dessous.* Traduction chuchotée disponible lors de l'évènement. August 15th 2024 6:30pm EDTJ.A. DèSeve Cinema, Concordia University J.W. McConnell Building (Library building)LB-125, 1400 De Maisonneuve OuestMontreal (Tiohtiake) Facebook event With speakers: * Afreen Fatima* Fahad Ahmad* Mayur* Teesta Setalvad (Bios below) After ten years of a Hindu Supremacist government in power in India, the ruling fascist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finally lost their outright majority when 640 million people went to the polls earlier this year. They lost a whopping 63 seats, dropping down to 240 out of 543. Despite these uplifting electoral results, the BJP remains at...

Double book launch for Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism + Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique, and the Three Way FightAn evening of discussion with Xtn Alexander, D.Z. Shaw, and Rob Luzecky. Friday, June 14, 6–8pmOttawa Trans Library (1104 Somerset St. W.)Facebook eventThree Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, edited by Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons, brings together more than thirty essays, position statements, and interviews from the Three Way Fight website and elsewhere, spanning from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and 1990s to the political upheavals of the twenty-first century.Three way fight politics argue that the...

Mirrored from the Three Way Fight blog. We are publishing a book! Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism is forthcoming from PM Press and Kersplebedeb Publishing in May 2024. The book is edited by Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons, with a foreword by Janeen Porter and an afterword by Michael Staudenmaier. Here’s the description from the publishers’ websites: What’s the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? What does it mean when fascists intensify racial oppression and patriarchy but also call for the downfall of economic elites or even take up arms against the...

[Originally posted to the ThreeWayFight on June 3, 2023.] 3WF: Trans and other gender-nonconforming people have become a major target of right-wing political attacks in recent years, and they continue to be major targets of systemic oppression and physical violence in U.S. society. How do you apply a three way fight framework to help us understand the contending forces in this situation? Rowan: It feels important to start this out by speaking to the seriousness and urgency of this moment. Transgender people I know (particularly trans women) are panicking. Trans people are fleeing Republican-controlled states, and even trans women in...