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Aug 5th, 2024
Against Fascism, Against the State
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? Writers Xtn Alexander and Matthew Lyons share their new edited volume on the "three way fight" approach to antifascism and offer reflections on the dangers we now face from the ruling class and the far right.
Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism 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, from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and 1990s to the political upheavals of the twenty-first century. 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.
Xtn Alexander first became a part of the revolutionary and anarchist youth movements of the late 1980s, and 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.
Three Way Fight is a project that promotes revolutionary anti-fascist analysis, strategy, and activism. threewayfight.org