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antifascism, Matthew N Lyons, Three Way Fight - September 17, 2025

What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump [ThreeWayFight]

by Matthew N Lyons [This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 16, 2025.] Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that has fueled that shift. Regardless of why Kirk was targeted, the right is using his killing as an opportunity to impose a climate of enforced loyalty and gear up for what could be a major political crackdown. Despite efforts to mythologize him as someone committed to open, principled debate, Charlie Kirk built his political career on punching down. He told...

Epstein’s Ghost and the Many Sides of Conspiracism [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 1, 2025.] The Trump administration’s botched handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal put conspiracy theories back in the headlines. It has also highlighted that assessing conspiracy theories’ political meaning and significance can be complicated. Epstein, financier and convicted child sex offender, died in prison in 2019 five weeks after being arrested on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide, but suspicions that he was murdered to stop him from testifying against other powerful people have been integral to right-wing conspiracy theories about pedophile elites ever since. That populist anger...

Hostile Takeover - Tech Capital & the Coup of the US Government, pt. 2: Endgames & Ideologies, with Matthew N. Lyons & Becca Lewis

Youtube video description: CPE is hosting a three-part series on tech capital and the administrative coup of the US government. Hostile Takeover: Tech Capital and the Coup of the US Government will feature a series of conversations among subject matter experts, strategists, and organizers trying to make sense of how and why the forces of capital—led by billionaire tech barons—are so determined to seize the administrative state and what its evisceration means for working-class communities in the near and long-term. In our second conversation in the series, Part 2: Endgames and Ideologies, we’ll identify the roots of far right ideologies...

Three Way Fight: Author Q&A with Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons [PoliticalResearch.org]

Protestors in Minneapolis protesting against Trump in January 2017 (Credit: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr.com) Ben Lorber March 11, 2025 This interview was conducted in September 2024 and updated in January 2025. [It is mirrored from PoliticalResearch.org.] PRA sat down to talk with activists Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons about their book, Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (2024, PM Press). Three Way Fight is a compilation of over thirty essays, statements, and interviews spanning the last several decades of antifascist organizing, partly drawn from the longstanding movement blog of the same name. The term “three way fight” describes an approach to movement...

The DOGE and the Neoreactionaries [ThreeWayFight.org]

[This article is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was posted on March 2, 2025.] By Matthew N. Lyons I anticipated a drive toward dictatorship, but I didn’t anticipate DOGE. When Donald Trump was reelected president, I (like many other people) knew he would make a grab for power beyond anything in his first term. I’ve traced Trump’s increasingly intimate relationship with far right politics, from his mutually beneficial arrangement with the alt-right in 2016 to his efforts in 2024 to remake the Republican Party itself as his personal vehicle. Like many other critics, I noted that the erosion of structural...

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