Pensacola News Journal, “Trump is right — violent extremists on both sides are a threat”
Everyone understands that the neo-Nazi and KKK groups are composed of violent extremists. The apparent blind spot is with the anarchist/socialist far left, which is puzzling given recent history. Take for example the radicals who toppled the Confederate statue in Durham, NC, who were affiliated with the Worker’s World Party(WWP). Their program includes disarming police, […]
Salon, “Heather Heyer picked her side”
The IWW, an anarcho-syndicalist union whose members are called “Wobblies,” was known for organizing across lines of race and ethnicity. Its direct actions and its willingness to recruit African Americans and immigrants led to its violent repression by government agents and corporate goons in the wake of World War I. Continue Reading
New Hampshire Union Leader, “Deroy Murdock: Both sides were to blame for Charlottesville violence”
“He was arrested Saturday for throwing objects at ‘Nazi protesters,’ according to court documents.” Beth Foster, director of the Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center, told NBC-TV’s Chattanooga affiliate WRBC that she knows Dunigan. “He is an anarchist and is part of an Antifa action to confront white supremacy, and that’s why he was in […]
20/20 (ABC), ” Who are the white nationalists and Antifa”
For the past six months, ABC News’ “20/20” traveled the country tracking political violence and following extremists. Continue Reading
The Villager (NYC), “Cops let C’ville alt-right rally spin out of control”
Former East Village activist John Penley used to cover squatter evictions and clashes between anarchists and police in Alphabet City. Last weekend, he was in the middle of the fray in Charlottesville, Virginia, as hardcore alt-right members, neo-Nazis and the Klan clashed with anti-fascists over that city’s planned removal of a statue of Confederate hero […]
Raw Story, “Charlottesville is not an aberration — it’s Trump’s strategy to stay in power”
The heroes in this story are the Heather Heyers: antifa, anarchists, socialists and Black Lives Matter who put their lives on the line. Dr. Cornel West described how in Charlottesville, after police had pulled back, he and a small group, many clergy, “would have been crushed like cockroaches if it were not for the anarchists […]
DCist, “Charlottesville Victim’s Mother Won’t Talk To Trump ‘After What He Said About My Child'”
Interfaith clergy who were protesting the Unite the Right gathering say that counterprotesters like Heyer prevented the armed Nazis and alt-righters from attacking them. “We were prepared to be beaten to a bloody pulp to show that while the state permitted white nationalists to rally in hate, in the many names of God, we did […]
USA Today, “Three homeland security lessons from Charlottesville: Michael Chertoff”
Indeed, from 2000 to last year, white supremacists carried out 26 domestic attacks, causing 49 deaths. And such demonstrators often come prepared for violence at demonstrations, as do their anarchist counterparts on the left. Continue Reading
USA Today, “Trump is right — violent extremists on both sides are a threat”
Everyone understands that the neo-Nazi and KKK groups are composed of violent extremists. The apparent blind spot is with the anarchist/socialist far left, which is puzzling given recent history. Take for example the radicals who toppled the Confederate statue in Durham, NC, who were affiliated with the Worker’s World Party (WWP). Their program includes disarming […]
The New York Times, “‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right”
Driven by a range of political passions — including anticapitalism, environmentalism, and gay and indigenous rights — the diverse collection of anarchists, communists and socialists has found common cause in opposing right-wing extremists and white supremacists. In the fight against the far right, antifa has allied itself at times with local clergy, members of the […]