Al Jazeera, “Populism and the fight for the soul of German churches”
During the Holocaust (1933-1945), more than six million Jews were systematically exterminated, and the Nazi regime carried out the mass killing of millions of ethnic and political minorities, among them Roma, Poles, Slavs, communists and anarchists. Continue Reading
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,” […]
Los Angeles Times, “Op-Ed: The best way to fight white supremacists: Ignore them”
The neo-Nazis in our midst are outcasts who do not deserve the attention of reasonable citizens who seek measured debate in the public sphere. Dressed in their helmets and capes, wielding sticks, they are like the extras of a bad dystopian staging of one of Shakespeare’s war plays. They are looking for their fellow actors, […]
The Washington Post, “No, don’t punch more Nazis”
Clear-eyed, honest political leaders on the left, whether Democrats, progressives or left-leaning independents, must confront not only the growth of anarchist and anti-fascist groups but also what seems to be a creeping acceptance, within the broad, diverse world of their political allies, of a commitment to low-grade violence as a political tool. Continue Reading
Vocativ, “Kentucky Town Prohibits Masks And Hoods Before Neo-Nazi Rally”
Many of the protestors wore masks, hoods and other clothing that hid their identity in accordance with the “black bloc,” anarchist style of protesting. In February, a speech by far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California, Berkeley was cancelled after “black bloc” demonstrators protesting Yiannopoulos broke windows and set fires prior to his speech. Continue […]
ABC 7 Chicago, “Activists confront group they claim were celebrating Hitler’s birthday at Ky. restaurant”
In a statement to WAVE-TV via social media, Hess said, “The Antifa attacked the entire restaurant. They attack Trump supporters. They attack reporters, too. They attack anyone who’s not a radical anarchist. We will not be intimidated. We will defend our people. We will prevail.” Continue Reading
Mother Jones, “Left Hook: A Brief History of Nazi Punching in America”
2002: ARA and a Boston anarchist group skirmish with white supremacists who turn out for a speech by Hale in York, Pennsylvania. (Hale is currently serving a 40-year sentence for soliciting the murder of a federal judge.) Continue Reading
Wired, “Meet Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Insatiable Doxxer of Fascists and Nazis”
But antifascists haven’t only picked off easy targets like Milo Yiannopoulos’ talk at UC Berkeley: They’ve also exposed the in-real-life identities of prominent neo-Nazi podcasters and moved to block white nationalist recruitment even in teensy towns of 6,000 people. “They can’t have a book club meeting without someone kicking down their door,” says James Anderson, a member […]
Al Jazeera, “US anti-fascists: ‘We can make racists afraid again'”
Largely made up of anarchists and, to a lesser extent, activists ascribing to various strands of Marxism, anti-fascist activists decided to adopt the tactic of physical confrontations against white supremacists from across the spectrum: from neo-Nazi punks to the resurgent Ku Klux Klan. The Anti-Racist Action (ARA) was established in 1988 in Minneapolis as one […]
Greensboro News & Record, “Our Opinion: UNC campuses can police speech”
One spectacle occurred Feb. 1 at the University of California-Berkeley, where an anarchist group carried out a violent demonstration against a right-wing speaker, forcing cancellation of a scheduled speech. Protests included arson and destruction of property, which should result in criminal prosecutions. Continue Reading