Refuse Fascism Statement on First Anniversary of January 6 Fascist Coup Attempt
PRINT THIS AS A FLYER One year ago, we saw Donald Trump call forth and unleash fascist mobs to storm the U.S. Capitol. This was a violent coup attempt – the culmination of a rolling coup Trump had been announcing and carrying out for months. While it failed in the immediate sense, January 6 became […]
Sunsara Taylor Interview with Dahlia Lithwick: “We’re Not Going Back ‘Before Roe,’ We’re Headed Somewhere Worse.”
This interview with Dahlia Lithwick, writer for Slate.com, originally appeared December 16 on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show and can be watched here. Sunsara Taylor: In the days since the fascist majority on the Supreme Court showed their fangs on December 1, making clear to the world that they are poised and likely eager to gut […]
Paul Street on Confronting and Responding to the Real Danger of Fascism
Listen to Paul Street on the Michael Slate Show (12/10, 2021) on KPFK Los Angeles / Pacifica Network) as he makes a compelling and wide-ranging case that the danger of fascism is real, imminent, and that the necessary response requires masses in the streets. Paul Street is a historian, author, activist and member of the […]
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The Trump/Pence regime is out of power, but 2021 has shown us that Trumpism – a virulent 21st century fascism based on white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia – is far from defeated. In the wake of the January 6 coup attempt, Trump’s GOP has hardened around the Big Lie and has rapidly advanced attacks on […]
Protests Over the Not Guilty Verdict for Rittenhouse: Taking a Stand in the Streets
Within hours of the acquittal of the fascist vigilante killer Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges on Friday, November 19, people in cities across the country began taking to the streets in outrage and anger. That night saw protests in New York, Chicago, Oakland, Los Angeles and Portland, while smaller groups gathered in San Diego and […]
Voices in Outrage at the Rittenhouse Verdict
REPOSTED FROM REVCOM.US | Across the U.S., people in the arts, sports, entertainment, media, and other spheres are expressing outrage at the verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. The families of victims of Rittenhouse and of Jacob Blake, shot seven times in the back by Kenosha cops, are also speaking out. Here are some […]
Refuse Fascism Statement on the Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse: We Need a Beautiful Rising to Stop Rising Fascism – No Fascist Vigilantes in Our Streets!
PRINTABLE POSTER AND FLYER → The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse gives a green light and judicial backing to a fanatical movement primed to unleash widespread violence and terror and commit ever-greater atrocities against the people they hate. This verdict puts Black and brown people, women, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and anyone standing up for justice or […]
The Rittenhouse Trial and Two Sides in Contention
Refuse Fascism Statement on the Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse: We Need a Beautiful Rising to Stop Rising Fascism No Fascist Vigilantes in Our Streets! → A Beautiful Rising Or Rising Fascism? The Stakes of the Rittenhouse Trial: The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial in the Context of the Fascist Movement he is a Part of Sam Goldman […]
Reflections on Kenosha
By Paul Street | This week, I’m returning to Kenosha along with others from the Chicago chapter of Refuse Fascism during the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. I go there not merely to condemn Kyle Rittenhouse but more importantly to convict the racist and fascist politics and the underlying system of oppression that produced Rittenhouse’s crimes. […]
The Rittenhouse Trial and Two Sides in Contention: A Beautiful Rising or Rising Fascism
By Coco Das Kyle Rittenhouse is a fascist youth who joined an armed militia on a self-appointed patrol of a protest for Black lives. What is being fought out in his trial for murder is not self-defense as he so tearfully claims but the green-lighting of extra-legal fascist violence – for the “right” of armed […]