Kersplebedeb, October 28, 2000 EC: Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat is a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things? JS: Settlers completely came about by accident, not design. And what was so…
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Aime Cesaire: Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism Discourse on Colonialism (French: Discours sur le colonialisme) is an essay by Aimé Césaire, a poet and politician from Martinique who helped found the négritude movement in Francophone literature. Césaire first published the essay in 1950 in Paris with Éditions Réclame, a small publisher associated with the French Communist Party (PCF). Five…
Fascism in Europe Today
Mark L Thomas We live in troubling times. Across Europe, the far right is advancing and growing in confidence. In France, the Front National candidate Marine Le Pen entered the run-off for the French presidency in 2017 for only the second time in the party’s history. She took 10.6 million votes, double what her father…
Amílcar Cabral: “Nazis are the most tragic expression of imperialism and its thirst for domination”
Amilcar L. Cabral: National Liberation and Culture – PDF This text was originally delivered on February 20, 1970; as part of the Eduardo Mondlane (1) Memorial Lecture Series at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, under the auspices of The Program of Eastern African Studies. It was translated from the French by Maureen Webster. When Goebbels,…
Nazis & Nationalists: The Rise of Greece’s Far-Right
Greece’s governing Syriza coalition betrayed its supporters and capitulated to the EU and international finance. Far-right groups are positioning to win the support of disaffected voters.
The Roots of Fascism in Ukraine: From Nazi Collaboration to Maidan
Sam Shipman In recent years Ukraine has popped up in the mainstream media due to explosive political developments. Starting with the “Orange Revolution” in November of 2004, to the Euromaidan coup d’etat that was carried out by multiple fascists organizations and was propped up and propagated by the US government. With the recent surge in…
From George Wallace to the Alt-Right: Resisting White Supremacy
By Lorenzo Raymond The history of the civil rights movement is often used to pressure militants into passive resistance. But how nonviolent was the Black Freedom Movement, particularly when it was winning? Historians now agree that the use of force played a constructive role for many liberation projects of the period, including not just the Black…
A Dozen Shades of Far Right
The growing threat of authoritarianism demands mass movements and broad-based anti-fascist action on the basis of internationalism and genuine solidarity. By Maik Fielitz Earlier this year, a site in the German city of Dresden that had originally been designated for a refugee shelter was turned into a court room. Ironically, it now hosts a terror…
First, They Shot the Anarchists…
Trump and the New Normal Its Going Down The riots that took place during Trump’s inauguration as well as in Berkeley, California against Breitbart editor and Alt-Right troll Milo Yiannopoulos, have rocked the political establishment, created a collective gasp of disdain from liberal and leftist leadership, and generated a wave of blowback from both within…
Deep State: Germany, Immigration, and the Fascist Nationalist Socialist Underground
“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” – Antonio Gramsci Wildcat In November 2011, news of a double suicide after a failed bank robbery developed into one of the biggest scandals in postwar German history.1 Even now, it remains unresolved. For thirteen years…
Europe’s “Nouvelle Droite” Co-opting the Counter Culture
Editorial Comment: “Co-opting the Counter Culture” was written several years ago, but it is relevant and urgent reading today in light of the crisis in the Ukraine combined with the rising popularity of the “nouvelle droite” globally. Apparently disconnected phenomenon are deeply connected, carefully orchestrated events that have been manifesting a definite agenda in incremental…
Nazis, New Jersey State Police and Assata Shakur
By Hans Wolff August, 1998 There have been persistent reports of a Nazi subculture in the New Jersey State Police, which has long had a reputation for violence and racism. Recently, the State Police was the subject of a review article in the New York Times, which cited years of allegations and a landmark court…
