Three Way Fight - Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism

"What's the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? What does it mean when fascists intensify racial oppression and patriarchy but also call for the downfall of economic elites or even take up arms against the state? Three way fight politics confront these urgent questions squarely, arguing that the far right grows out of an oppressive capitalist order but is also in conflict with it in real ways, and that radicals need to combat both. The three way fight approach says we need sharper analysis of far-right movements so we can fight them more effectively, and we also need to track ongoing developments within the ruling class, including liberal or centrist efforts to co-opt antifascism as a tool of state repression and system legitimation. This book offers an introduction to three way fight politics, with more than thirty essays, position statements, and interviews from the Three Way Fight website and elsewhere, spanning from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and 1990s to the political upheavals of the twenty-first century. Over fifteen authors explore a range of topics, such as fascist politics' relationship with patriarchy and settler colonialism, Tom Metzger's "Third Position" (anticapitalist) fascism, conflict within the business community over the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump administration's shifting relationship with the organized far right. Many of the writings address issues of political strategy, such as tensions between radicals and liberals within the reproductive rights movement and the George Floyd rebellion, video gaming as an arena of political struggle, and the importance (and challenges) of approaching antifascist organizing in ways that are militant, community based, and nonsectarian." --

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Origins
Theses On Fascism by Sojourner Truth Organization
No Tears for the Fascists, No Support for the State by Anti-Racist Action Research Bulletin
Fifth Column Fascism in the Anti-War Movement by Kdog
Above and Below: Them, Them and Us by BRICK Collective
About Us by Three Way Fight

II: Basic Principles
A Demand That Radicals Tell the Truth: On Three Way Fight Politics and Why It Matters interview with rowan
Fascism & Antifascism: A Decolonial Perspective by Rowland Keshena Robinson
Antifascism Against Machismo: Gender, Politics, and the Struggle Against Fascism by Tammy Kovich
Seven Theses on the Three Way Fight by Devin Zane Shaw

III: Complex Politics, Multiple Opponents
American Strasser by Kdog
Principal Enemy: Demystifying Far-Right Antisemitism by Matthew N. Lyons
Threat or Model? U.S. Rightists Look at China by Matthew N. Lyons
Moscow Conference Draws Fascists, Neo-Confederates, U.S. Leftists by Matthew N. Lyons
Network Contagion Research Institute: Helping the State Fight Political Infection Left and Right by Matthew N. Lyons

IV: Global Capitalists and the Far Right
Distinguishing the Possible from the Probable: Contending Strategic Approaches Within and Against Transnational Capitalism by Don Hamerquist
Trump's Shaky Capitalist Support: Business Conflict and the 2016 Election by Matthew N. Lyons
Trump's Election and Capitalist Power: An Exchange by Don Hamerquist and Matthew N Lyons

V: Making Sense of Trumpism in Real Time
Trump, the Far Right, and the Return of Vigilante Repression by Matthew N. Lyons
Lockdowns, the Insurgent Far Right, and the Future of Antifascism: A Conversation With Three Way Fight interview with Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons
Broken Windows Fascism by Three Way Fight
Insurgent Movement, Government Complicity, or Both? by Xloi and B. Sandor

VI: The George Floyd Rebellion
Abolition and the Movement Against Police Brutality by Twin Cities Workers Defense Alliance
Theses on the George Floyd Rebellion by Shemon Salam and Arturo Castillon
Five “I”s for a City Beyond Policing: A Message to Defense Groups in Minneapolis by Twin Cities Workers Defense Alliance
States of Incarceration: A Discussion interview with Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan

VII: Organizing and Strategy
Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue by Suzy Subways
Militant Tactics in Antifascist Organizing interview with Kieran
For an Antifascist, Revolutionary Unionism by Twin Cities IWW African Peoples Caucus
Tigertown Beat Nazis Down by Three Members of Atlanta General Defense Committee
Gaming’s Three Way Fight: Why Antifascists Should Organize in and Around Video Games by Three antifascist gamers part of an emerging Abolitionist Gaming Network
There Will Always Be More Of Us: Antifascist Organizing by Paul O’Banion

Afterword by Michael Staudenmaier
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Since first becoming a part of the revolutionary and anarchist youth movements of the late 1980s, Xtn Alexander has
spent the better part of his time on earth participating in anticop,
antiracist, anti-imperialist, and antifascist organizing and action. He
works in emergency and trauma medicine and is an avid supporter of
music, art, and radical (sub)cultures and has been involved with Three
Way Fight since its founding in 2004.Matthew N. Lyons is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire and coauthor with Chip Berlet of Right-Wing Populism in America.
He has been a contributor to Three Way Fight since 2005, and his
writings have also appeared in several other leftist and mainstream
publications. Matthew is co-trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary
Trust, which stewards the literary legacy of the late playwright and
activist Lorraine Hansberry.
Janeen Porter recently retired from a rewarding job in
corrections education. She spends her time fighting
the cumulative impact of numerous previous vices, desperately wanting to be on
the front line against the ongoing murders by cops, being outraged at
environmental homicides throughout the world, fighting the screwed-up health
care system, and trying to figure out where her generation went wrong and
righting it.
Michael Staudenmaier is an assistant professor of
history at Manchester University. He writes and teaches about Chicago’s
Puerto Rican community, Latina/o/x social movements in the second half
of the twentieth century, and the roles of race, racism, and antiracism
in US history.

Zusammenfassung

What’s the relationship between combating the far right and
working for systemic change? What does it mean when fascists intensify
racial oppression and patriarchy but also call for the downfall of
economic elites or even take up arms against the state?
Three
way fight politics confront these urgent questions squarely, arguing
that the far right grows out of an oppressive capitalist order but is
also in conflict with it in real ways, and that radicals need to combat
both. The three way fight approach says we need sharper analysis of
far-right movements so we can fight them more effectively, and we also
need to track ongoing developments within the ruling class, including
liberal or centrist efforts to co-opt antifascism as a tool of state
repression and system legitimation.
This book offers an
introduction to three way fight politics, with more than thirty essays,
position statements, and interviews from the Three Way Fight website and
elsewhere, spanning from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and
1990s to the political upheavals of the twenty-first century. Over
fifteen authors explore a range of topics, such as fascist politics’
relationship with patriarchy and settler colonialism, Tom Metzger’s
“Third Position” (anticapitalist) fascism, conflict within the business
community over the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump
administration’s shifting relationship with the organized far right.
Many of the writings address issues of political strategy, such as
tensions between radicals and liberals within the reproductive rights
movement and the George Floyd rebellion, video gaming as an arena of
political struggle, and the importance (and challenges) of approaching
antifascist organizing in ways that are militant, community based, and
nonsectarian.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Xtn Alexander, Matthew N. Lyons
• Mitarbeit: Xtn Alexander (Herausgeber), Matthew N. Lyons (Herausgeber), Janeen Porter (Vorwort), Michael Staudenmaier (Nachwort)
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.05.2024
• EAN: 9798887440415
• ISBN: 979-8-8874404-1-5
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 228 mm x 29 mm
• Gewicht: 472 g
• Serie: Kerseplebedeb
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism