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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...

[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...

[Originally posted to RashidMOD.com on May 15, 2025.] On the early morning on May 1, 2025 I was awakened by guards opening my general population cell door at Virginia’s Keen Mountain Correctional (sic!) Center and telling me to report to the prison’s personal property department. Upon reporting to property I was dressed out for a transportation run, loaded onto a steel-lined transport van, driven to an airfield and loaded onto a prison airplane. I was promptly flown to South Carolina, where we were met by a convoy of transport officials including local cops and prison officials. From this point things...

We'll be at the LA Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday! The event continues through Sunday, but without us. 654 Gibbons St.May 17, 10am–8pmMay 18, 9am–4pm Visit the book fair's website here. See below for the full workshop schedule!  

Trial statement at the Verden Regional Court, March 25, 2025. I agree with the defense motion to dismiss. I would, however, like to add a few things. After the RAF [Red Army Faction] ended its urban guerrilla project in April, twenty-seven years ago, Burkhard Garweg, Volker Staub, and I were confronted with the BKA’s ongoing public manhunt for the alleged “last former RAF militants.”[1] In fact, Burkhard Garweg was only dragged into this public manhunt after the RAF had disbanded. The state’s response to the RAF’s self-dissolution was consistent with Bad Kleinen—the shooting of Wolfgang Grams—and the continued heavy sentences...