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antifascism, Matthew N Lyons, Three Way Fight - March 5, 2025

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...

“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted on ThreeWayFight.org on October 8, 2024.] Israeli airstrike on Tyre, Lebanon, 25 September 2024. by Matthew N. Lyons The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight (here, here, and here) that US leftists should support Hezbollah against Israeli aggression, despite the fact that it was a right-wing movement with ultimately theocratic goals. This pissed off a lot of leftists. Some people said we should reject both Israel and Hezbollah equally, but the stronger disagreement came from leftists who declared it was wrong to characterize Hezbollah...

Strategies to defend abortion access: a review article by Matthew N. Lyons [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted on Three Way Fight: An Insurgent Blog on the Struggle Against the State and Fascism on July 19, 2022.] How do we assert reproductive autonomy when far rightists are on the offensive and liberals have failed to stop them? As we noted two months ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision repealing Roe v. Wade marks a historic victory for the Christian right and specifically its fascist, theocratic wing. Defending access to abortion is an antifascist struggle, but that doesn’t mean the focus should be only, or even primarily, on combating the far right. What’s...

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