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to the writers & poets of england, scotland, ireland & wales, nancy cunard (born #otd in 1896) enquired about their attitudes to the Spanish Civil War: 'are you for, or against, the legal Government & the People of the Republican Spain? are you for, or against, franco and fascism?' what do you think she'd have thought about war on #gaza today? if you don't already know the answer, a short thread follows.
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I've been working on this for quite some time, and now here it is at last - my latest piece, on how the shock of the pandemic, and its mishandling, has for too long been exploited by right-wing interests: https://www.mediaactivist.com/recovering-from-shock/ #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #AntiFascism
My latest piece - on how a sinister and cynical careerist, who seems to have haunted me for years, is about to make the UK even more vulnerable to fascist takeover: https://www.mediaactivist.com/the-spectre-of-starmer-keeps-haunting-me/ #LabourTorySameOldStory #Labour #LabourParty #ge2024 #fascism #AntiFascism #anarchism #documentary
When I write about the fact that mainstream American society, and in particular its media, bears a tremendous amount of responsibility for the rise of violent, overt fascism in American politics, the recent mainstream coverage of the Republican National Convention is a very good example of what I mean.
I'm literally watching mainstream media outlets and Very Serious PeopleTM all over the anglosphere cover the biggest nazi rally since the production of Triumph of the Will like it's the fucking Met Gala and what we're really here for is the "ownz." Meanwhile the entire goddamn crowd full of cracker American nazis, populated by the kind of professional class pigfucking fascists who can afford to attend the Republican National Convention, are waving matching professionally designed, mass produced signs in GOP/Trump campaign colors that say "Mass Deportations Now." And somehow, this rates less coverage and commentary than the fact that Downmarket Mussolini fell asleep during his nazi failson's speech.
Meanwhile these same professional media and political classes that are too squeamish to even utter the word fascism to describe the obvious fascism we're watching, are clutching their pearls and trying to tell me that some 20 year old loser reactionary taking a shot at the head American nazi means people who are correctly identifying Trump and his movement as fascist need to 'turn down the temperature" and "moderate our rhetoric."
Folks, fucking newsflash okay? Not only are mass deportations part of what we legally define as genocide on their own, but millions of people aren't just going to surrender their lives and quietly disappear. "Mass Deportations Now" means "political violence" and it's accomplished by the application of real as fuck deadly force; it's only a matter of time before some clever fucking nazi points out that bullets are cheaper than boats. The GOP is fully, totally, and completely a fucking fascist party and your goddamn "sensible adult in the room" instincts to both-sides and punch left in political discourse is actively HELPING the new American Nazi Party to install a violent, genocidal, overtly-fascist political and social order as we speak.
And don't gimme no shit about the Democratic Party being the instrument of our salvation because I haven't been in a fucking coma the past 10 years. I literally just watched a bunch of "Very Serious" and powerful liberals trot in front of microphones one at a time to say they were very happy American Hitler is okay and they were praying for his family, while pointing out that what we need now is civility and to seek "unity" in America, with the very same goddamn fascists waving "Mass Deportations Now" signs on my TV screen. Trump has been actively transforming the GOP from a crypto-fascist money cult into a violent, overtly fascist movement before our very eyes and I can think of literally one fucking time Biden said the words "semi-fascist" and then spent three days hiding in his basement because the fascist-aligned right wing media actively supporting a real as fuck fascist and his really fascist political party howled up a goddamn storm about how DARE you call them and their cracker fascist voters, fascists.
You want to know how Nazism and the Third Reich happened in Germany? It was rather a lot like this. A bunch of "Very Serious" and "Very Important" so-called centrists pretending everything is normal, punching left, and bowing and scraping to appease literal fucking nazis because "loud noises" and "what if the fascists get angry" and "both sides." Whether it's because they're cowards, or because they agree more with the fascists than they agree with you, is more or less fucking irrelevant. The reality is that mainstream America, its media, its political class, and its business sector are either frogmarching or sleepwalking you into a fascist nightmare that *will* end in mass fucking killings because the whole damn capitalist Pig Empire order is built to appease nazis, and smash the underclasses, the traditional wellspring of antifascism, in the process.
These people don't have a plan, they are not the wise ones here, and when they fucking lose to these nazis they're going to go back to their wine cellars, pour themselves a big ole drink and say "well we tried our best, the rabble are to blame" while you and yours are getting straight up fucking enslaved and murdered. The Very Serious PeopleTM are not gonna save you, in fact they're not even prepared to tell you what fucking time it is, so I strongly suggest you stop listening to them and start committing yourself to antifascist action because it might be the difference between surviving this and digging your own shallow grave while pundits cry about the death of bipartisan unity and blame you for your own demise.
That is all.
I updated the Paradox of Tolerance.
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Canadian - This Man is Your Friend. He Fights for Freedom.
US Office of War Information World War II poster, series of anti-fascist allies.
Interested in helping trans folks access healthcare, education, and other services? Here's another list of orgs to get involved with or donate to:
https://www.bamsi.org/bamsi-home/
https://www.glsen.org/chapter/massachusetts
https://www.communityaction.us/program/lgbtqia-supports/
Pick one with a mission that speaks to you and set up a recurring donation or start volunteering. Let them know you've got their back as they support trans youth in Massachusetts during this scary time.
A Tennessee mainstream news piece went out yesterday covering Patriot Front and including detailed aerial photographs of their compound in the east of the state.
While we're glad that this information is reaching a wide audience, and overall Phil Williams has done fantastic work covering the far right, we'd also like to note that our group is the one that originally exposed Ian Michael Elliott in 2021 and also first discovered and published the location and ownership of the compound in 2024.
We're not mentioning our original pieces because we're in it for the credit, but because it's better for everyone when news sources cite original antifascist grassroots research. The more exposure our pieces get, the more likely it is we get tips on white supremacist activity.
More links exposing white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the south:
https://arelephanteau.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/15/aryan-freedom-network-north-carolina-exposed/
#PatriotFront #Tennessee #georgia #alabama #IanElliot #IanMichaelElliott #antifascism #nazi #NorthCarolina
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Tomorrow dozens of national organizations are teaming up to host protests in cities across the United States. With hundreds of thousands of people hitting the streets for the first time since the effective collapse of the constitutional republic, there’s a growing need to widely disseminate information on keeping ourselves and others safe. To that end, we’re sharing a new zine based on text from @privacyguides, which includes best practices and helpful tips for smartphone security, protests, and mass surveillance. You can read and download the free guide at https://archive.org/details/protesters-guide-to-smartphone-security.
In Asheville, protesters will be rallying in Pack Square from 11am to 1pm. Members of our collective will be there distributing copies of “The Protesters’ Guide to Smartphone Security” along with practical zines for folks interested in taking effective action against fascism.
Looking for more opportunities to pick up introductory materials? We maintain a table of free resources at Firestorm that we think everyone should read! We’d also encourage you to check out the zines available at https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/direct-action.
#Antifascism #Protesting #DirectAction #Zinestagram #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop
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(all images Copyright National Geographic)
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