Motherboard, “This Anarchist Browser Plug-In Wants You to Fight Fascism on the Internet”
Help remove far-right propaganda from YouTube with this extension for Chrome and Firefox. YouTube has long been acknowledged as, well, not exactly the friendliest place on the Internet. But as the far right has ascended in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, many critics have accused the video-sharing website of being much worse than a […]
Raw Story, “Why it’s just bonkers to compare fascists to the activists trying to stop them”
Small bands of antifa protesters have formed around anarchist ideas in the United States for decades, being integral part of the anti-globalization protests of the 1990s. They are not controlled by any party and few of the small groups are in organizational contact with others. It is a sign of the weakness of the left […]
New Republic, “How Trump Is Creating a Propaganda State”
In this, Trump and Loesch aren’t just trying to deceive their followers. They are reinforcing and expanding on what their supporters already believe, which Jacques Ellul, a Christian anarchist who lost a university position for refusing to collaborate with France’s Vichy regime, identified as a staple of propaganda. “All propaganda must respond to a need,” […]
San Francisco Chronicle, “How should we protest neo-Nazis? Lessons from German history”
“Antifa” is short for antifascists, though the name by no means includes everyone who opposes fascism. The antifa is a relatively small movement of the far left, with ties to anarchism. It arose in Europe’s punk scene in the 1980s to fight neo-Nazism. Continue Reading
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
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 […]
Noisey (Vice), “A Brief But Very Informative History of How Fascists Infiltrated Punk and Metal”
European Liberation Front organizers like Troy Southgate, formerly of the Official National Front, sought to exploit the anarchist ideology associated with punk and metal subcultures, as well as rebellious autonomous radical groups. Calling their syncretic ideological fusion “national-anarchism,” these fascists commandeered a Trotskyist strategy known as “entryism,” entering groups (particularly in the green movement) and […]
Los Angeles Times, “Far-right activist faces criminal charges in Berkeley violence caught on video”
Court files show felony charges have been filed against two others related to the demonstrations. Eric Clanton, 28, is charged with four counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Clanton, a former community college professor affiliated with the anarchist movement, has been arraigned on charges of hitting multiple people on the head with a bicycle […]
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
ABC 12 (WI), “Who monitors hate groups in Wisconsin?”
“Abortion extremists, anarchists, animal rights, black separatists, militias, sovereigns, white supremacy and it goes on and on,” he said. Day said FBI sources and the public are critical. He said a citizen tip foiled a mass shooting last year at Milwaukee’s Scottish Rite Masonic center. Suspect Samy Hamzeh was never on their radar. Continue Reading