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July, 2021
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RefuseFascism.org exposes, analyzes, and stands against the very real danger and threat of fascism coming to power in this country. Seventy-four million people voted for Trump in 2020. The Republi-fascist Party has been purged of dissenting voices. The mass fascist movement has hardened in the wake of their January 6 coup attempt. Fascist initiatives around restricting voting, immigration and abortion rapidly advance in statehouses across the country. The election of Biden has not eliminated the danger, it has only bought some time.
Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. Once in power, fascism’s defining feature is the essential elimination of the rule of law and democratic and civil rights. Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, misogyny, and the aggressive re-institution of oppressive “traditional values.” Truth is obliterated and fascist mobs and threats of violence are unleashed to build their movement and consolidate power.
The Democratic Party will not stop this nightmare. Trump, fascist Fox News, and the Republi-fascist Party have branded them as enemies and “traitors.” Yet, the Democratic Party will consistently pull to try to work with, conciliate with and collaborate with them. There can be no reconciliation with fascism except on the terms of the fascists. Fascism must be resolutely opposed.
RefuseFascism.org unites with people from diverse perspectives to sound the alarm and prevent the consolidation of this American fascism. Through our website, podcast, social media, and publications we engage, dialogue and debate with a broad array of writers, scholars, legal experts and people from different walks of life to educate people on the roots, nature, trajectory of the real and present danger of fascism. And, through our engagement and networking with people and social movements we are forging understanding and relationships aimed at preventing the consolidation of fascism.
Since the founding of RefuseFascism.org our stand and resolve have not wavered:
We pledge to the people of the world:
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America
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The very real danger and threat of fascism coming to power in this country
RefuseFascism.org unites with people from diverse perspectives to sound the alarm and prevent the consolidation of this American fascism. Below, we share articles and other resources aimed at understanding and waging the commensurate response to this threat.
Recommended Reading in Light of the FBI Raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and Escalating Talk of “Civil War”
What Trump and Orbán want: It’s fascism — it’s not a metaphor or a joke
Read the article by Chauncey DeVega at Salon.com
Mid-Summer 2022: Intensifying Conflict Between Republi-fascists and Democrats Amidst Increasing Talk of “Civil War”
Read the article at revcom.us
Now They’re Calling for Violence
Read the article by Peter Wehner in The Atlantic
The Illegitimate Overturning of Abortion Rights MUST NOT STAND! INTO THE STREETS TO DEMAND: The Federal Government Must Restore LEGAL ABORTION nationwide NOW!
From Riseup4abortionrights.org
We Need Honest Debate, Not Unprincipled Attacks:
A Further Response to the Attacks On Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights
by Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights co-initiators Merle Hoffman, Lori Sokol, Sunsara Taylor
Learn more / get involved at Riseup4abortionrights.org
Why is “the Left” Red-Baiting Rise Up for Abortion Rights on the Eve of Fascist Destruction?
Paul Street
There’s nothing new in United States history about the slanderous demonization of those who step up and fight to make a better world from the bottom up… Still, it’s bracing and a little bizarre in 2022 to see an anti-Communist jihad launched from “the left” …
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Why is Texas banning abortions? Because this state is run by Christian fundamentalist fascist lunatics.
Speech by Coco Das at abortion rights protest in Austin, TX August 6, 2022
… they are the spiritual and moral descendants of the slave holders and segregationists who founded and dominated this state until the civil rights and liberation movements of the 60s…
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The Refuse Fascism podcast, featuring commentary on the latest events and interviews with scholars and activists from many different perspectives, is an essential tool for understanding and uniting to stop an American fascist movement that imperils all of humanity. PROMOTE THIS PODCAST
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It Can, It Has, It Is Happening Here
Sam talks to Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio about Trump’s open embrace of the fascist Qanon movement, the kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants by Florida governor Desantis, media and politicians’ normalization of fascism and much more. Paul Street is an historian, author of This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America, and member of the Refuse Fascism editorial board. Anthony DiMaggio is a political scientist and author of Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here.
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If One Of Us Is Not Free, None Of Us Are
Sunsara Taylor, co-host of The RNL (Revolution Nothing Less) Show and one of the initiators of RiseUp4AbortionRights.org discusses federal legislation that would ban abortions after 15 weeks. Then, Sam Goldman interviews Dr. Heather Costello, an emergency room and hospice doctor in Chicago about the already terrible impact of the Dobbs decision.
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Teddy Wilson on the Metastasizing Fascist Base: Many January 6ths at state capitols?
Sam Goldman reviews ominous developments including recent statements by Trump and historical analogies, and responds to dangerous illusions. And Sam interviews independent journalist and researcher Teddy Wilson about the base for fascism in the US and how they are responding to recent events.
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The GOP: Fascist, Nothing Semi- About It
On the occasion of our 125th episode, RefuseFascism.org editorial board members Coco Das and Paul Street share recollections on the mission and analysis of the organization. PLUS: Sam Goldman shares commentary Joe Biden’s recent use of the phrase “semi-fascist” to describe the GOP. PLUS, SAM interviews freelance journalist Laura Jedeed, author of “CPAC’s Four-Day Sermon of Unrelenting Fear Has Set Trumpism on a New Path.”
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Understand, STOP this American Fascism
Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. …What is crucial to understand is that once in power fascism essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights. – READ MORE
The Danger is FASCISM… What IS Fascism?
Andy Zee’s remarks from a panel hosted by Sunsara Taylor, host of the radio program We Only want the World and co-host of The RNL — Revolution, Nothing Less — Show.
What are you going to do about the Nazi Problem?
By Coco Das
…Whatever moral and political stand the German people should have taken to defeat the Nazis early, however much determination they should have shown, applies to us tenfold now.- READ MORE
Why did 74 Million Vote for Trump?The simple and basic answer: Because they agree with him.
Presentation from Andy Zee at the panel discussion “Why did 74 million people vote for Trump? What is the danger and what do we do about it?”
Trump has cohered diverse reactionary and fascist movements that predated his regime into a force that has now tasted power, is embedded in key institutions especially the courts, and that lives and seethes in its own conspiracy laden universe of victimization that will propel an aggreived revanchism. This is a movement that is not going away. – READ ANDY ZEE’S PRESENTATION
Bob Avakian: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America: A Better World IS Possible!
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Bob Avakian is the revolutionary leader who has – for decades – been warning of the development of a fascist movement in the US.
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Organize / Resist – Resources
This round table on the abortion rights emergency sounds the alarm , deepens understanding of the stakes, arouses people’s fighting spirit to not let this go down, and explores what kind of future is possible and worth fighting for.
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What is Refuse Fascism?
RefuseFascism.org was initiated on an emergency basis in the wake of the election of Trump and Pence in 2016. Our founding mission called on all who recognized the catastrophic danger of the Trump/Pence regime to unite and organize to drive the regime out of power through sustained, non-violent mass protest. We pledged to the world that we would not stand aside while there was still a chance to stop a regime that imperiled humanity and the earth itself. With our slogan: In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! And our single unifying demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
This Pledge to the People of the World, initiated by Refuse Fascism, appeared in the New York Times on November 9, 2020
Co-initiator of Refuse Fascism Cornel West on the impact of the analysis and work of Refuse Fascism over the past five years
It was the Refuse Fascism movement … that has put fascism on the map for the past five years. And that needs to be said!
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