Anti Fascism

Anti-fascism in the age of Trump

June 1, 2018 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On October 17, 2017, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion entitled “Anti-fascism in the Age of Trump” at Berkeley City College. The event’s speakers were Eugene Ruyle of Peace and Freedom (Democratic Socialists of America), Luma Nichol of Freedom Socialist Party, Victoria Fierce of East Bay for Everyone (Democratic Socialists of America), and Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press and founder of AK Press. The event was moderated by William Lushbough of Platypus. [Read More]

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Anti-racism in the age of Trump

June 1, 2018 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On February 17, 2018, the white-nationalist Traditionalist Workers’ Party (TWP) held a rally on the campus of the University of Tennessee. The rally was led by Matthew Heimbach, a central organizer of the Unite the Right rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 in opposition to the planned removal of a public statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. The TWP’s February 2018 rally on the University of Tennessee (UT) campus drew about 45 white nationalists, about 250 protesters, and about 200 law enforcement officers. [Read More]

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Not just snowflakes, fighting the culture wars in the age of Trump

November 1, 2017 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON OCTOBER 12, 2017, Erin Hagood interviewed Mark Bray, a participant in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, lecturer at Dartmouth and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, to discuss the relationship of the anti-fascist movement to the Left and the challenges it faces in the age of Trump. The interview was aired during an episode of “Radical Minds” on WHPK-FM 88.5 Chicago. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. [Read More]

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Not your grandfather's anti-fascism

Challenges facing the anti-fascist movement in the age of Trump

October 1, 2017 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

An earlier version of this article is available with full links and citations at cwc.im/antifascism. It is worth taking a moment to review what anarchists and anti-fascists have accomplished since Donald Trump was elected. Despite harassment and attacks from fascists and law enforcement, what was initially a few hundred people without financial resources has grown into the foundation for a massive social movement. After the election, while liberals were immobilized by shock, anarchists immediately went on the offensive in order to destabilize the Trump regime before it could normalize a new level of tyranny. [Read More]

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Antifascism in the Age of Trump

A Panel Discussion

September 15, 2017 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel hosted by Platypus Houston on September 15, 2017. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Gloria Rubac Gus Breslauer Mark Kazanski Bernard Sampson Description Since the Nazi seizure of power eighty years ago anti-fascism has been a component of left-wing politics. In response to the Trump presidency, the politics of anti-fascism, reminiscent of the Popular Front of the 30’s or the Black Bloc politics of the 90s, have – once again – been resurrected by the Left. [Read More]

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Anti-fascism

A panel discussion on its problematic history and meaning

February 1, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

SINCE THE NAZI SEIZURE OF POWER eighty years ago anti-fascism has been integral to left-wing politics. The struggle against fascists and Nazis is morally self-evident, so that political anti-fascism seems to be similarly self-evident. Yet in past periods of history, the politics of anti-fascism was completely different, as was the understanding of what it contributed to leftist politics more generally. Still certain continuity can be discerned in anti-fascism’s retention of anti-capitalist claims. [Read More]

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Platypus 2011 President's report

The "Anti-Fascist" vs. "Anti-Imperialist" Left: Some Genealogies and Prospects

May 1, 2011 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Platypus President’s report by Chris Cutrone at the third annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention, Chicago, May 1st, 2011. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description The usual ways of categorizing various trends on the “Left” today have become less useful for distinguishing politically and indicating potential future developments. Trends have defied historical or expected trajectories – if these in fact ever applied properly – and so call for a new and different approach to sort out what we’re dealing with today and are likely to encounter going forward. [Read More]

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