Anti-fascist groups, often called “antifa,” are popping up all around the United States, and a number of people have asked us for advice on forming a group.
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Anti-fascist groups, often called “antifa,” are popping up all around the United States, and a number of people have asked us for advice on forming a group.
Read the rest of this post on the original site at Forming An Antifa Group: A Manual
A new edition of Confronting Fascism, containing exactly the same material as in the first edition (though redesigned to look nicer) is now at the printers!
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement is a series of texts that came out of conversations revolutionaries in and around Anti-Racist Action were having at the highpoint of the previous wave of antifascist organizing in North America.
First published in 2002 as a collaboration between Kersplebedeb, ARA Chicago, and the anarchist magazine Arsenal, Confronting Fascism is structured around a text by Don Hamerquist, “Fascism & Antifascism.” Hamerquist takes a wrecking ball to the mythology around fascism that had been traditionally peddled by the reformist left; against objections that fascists are just a distraction, or are simple-minded agents of the state and capital, he shows how fascism contains a revolutionary and even anticapitalist impulse thoroughly enmeshed with its own deeply oppressive and anti-liberatory politics. Unraveling what this means for antifascists and our strategies is the task at hand, and Hamerquist proceeds to lay down some important preliminary realities that we need to deal with. Almost twenty years later, what is most striking is how prescient so many of Hamerquist’s observations were, not only about the ambiguously dynamic appeal of fascism, but also about the specific characteristics of antifascist work and the advantages and disadvantages they confer.
J. Sakai follows Hamerquist, interrogating his analysis as he pushes it forward. Sakai argues against the idea that fascism comes primarily from the working class, just as he extends the point that fascism is not an inherently or essentially “white” ideology. A discussion of different forms of capitalist rule, the class structure of global imperialism, and the history of anticapitalist critique within both Italian and German “classical” fascism, flows into a contemporary contextualization of fascism within the neocolonial context; throughout, Sakai shows that support for fascism comes primarily from middle class men who are losing or being denied their traditional privileges, what many consider their birthrght, as a result of capitalist and imperialist “progress.” As such, a thread of parasitism and social revanchism is traced, connecting the tax resister from the American midwest to the racist bonehead in neoliberal Britain to the Taliban fighter in Afghanistan.
Shorter texts from the ARA Research Bulletin, Mark Salotte and Xtn of ARA Chicago, place these theoretical insights in the concrete context of the political and physical fight against the far right, while also recovering the connections between this fight and the broader rise of anticapitalist struggle at the time. Militant antifascist activism constituted an important factor in hemming in and ultimately thwarting the attempts at advance being made by several leading fascist groups at the time — it was a form of struggle that worked. Without providing any kind of blueprint for the current resurgent antifa movement, they nonetheless provide insights and frameworks that should be examined and integrated, so that those taking up the work today can draw upon what was done before.
Breaking with established Left practice, Confronting Fascism attempts to deal with the questions of fascism and antifascism in a serious and non-dogmatic manner. Attention is paid to to the class appeal of fascism, its continuities and breaks with the “regular” far-right and also even with the Left, the ways in which the fascist movement is flexible and the ways in which it isn’t. Left failures, both in opposing fascism head-on, and also in providing a viable alternative to right-wing revolt, are also dealt with at length.The lived experiences of anti-fascist activists inform this work, and more attention is paid to actual historical developments and facts than to neat theories that explain everything but only coincidentally intersect with reality. Understanding the relationship of fascism, the State, left reformism and what it means to be revolutionary are priorities in a world where it seems increasingly true that those who do not advance will have to retreat.
First published in 2017, Confronting Fascism was downloaded and purchased by thousands following the Trump election in 2016, making it suddenly “out of print”. This new edition consists of the same material as in the 2002 edition.
The Canadian Coalition of Concerned Citizens is an Islamophobic organization that held a “pop up” protest outside of a mosque in Toronto last week, and which is trying to instigate a number of racist marches across Canada on March 4th. In their callout, the racists explain that they are “calling on all Canadian Patriots that believe in Freedom, Liberty & Justice, that stand against Sharia Law & Globalization” to join these rallies.
This national far right gambit — coming just weeks after a young man with ties to the far right entered a mosque and opened fire, killing 6 people and wounding many more — is being responded to by a variety of different forces on the ground, which have organized several different antifascist actions the day in question. What follows is a partial list of the antifascist actions, which it would be really good for people to show up at:
Hotel De Ville De Montreal, 275 Rue Notre-Dame E from 11:30am to 2pm
Bloquons l’extrême droite islamophobe!: http://ift.tt/2loFdrX
Hotel De Ville De Quebec, 2 rue Desjardins, de 11h30 à 14h00
Contre-manifestation pour s’opposer à l’islamophobie: http://ift.tt/2kQLz4t
three different marches/rallies, all at Toronto City Hall (Nathan Phillips Square),
100 Queen Street West from 11am to 2pm
Counterprotest to Fight Islamophobia: http://ift.tt/2loJfR0
Fight Islamophobia!: Counter-protest against white supremacy: http://ift.tt/2kR1lfR
Stand against Islamophobia: http://ift.tt/2l3TIy4
Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West from 12 to 2pm
Counter Rally Against Ottawa Islamophobes: http://ift.tt/2kR4Vqf
Hamilton City Hall, 71 Main Street West, from 12pm to 2pm
Counter Rally Against Hamilton Islamophobes: http://ift.tt/2l44TGQ
Winnipeg City Hall, 510 Main Street, from 11:30 to 2pm
Counter Rally against Winnipeg ISLAMOPHOBES: http://ift.tt/2kZs7ho
When first joining the u.s. left in the late 1950s, we had our local social-democratic group’s small May Day celebration in a room at the cheap edge of downtown. Memorably, there was a strip-tease joint downstairs, giving the building a kind of lumpen/proletarian air. At the speaker’s side of the room there was an older Jewish worker from one of the garment unions, with an elderly woman garment worker representing the inactive social-democratic “Italian chapter”. The audience was less than thirty persons, almost all whites The meeting was a remnant, of an old u.s. left from the 1930s industrial labor battles.
If you could skip ahead in time only a few years to the start of the 1960s, There would be many more people, but the old white trade unionists would be gone. The white side of the left was mostly young, university students or drop-outs. The many workers and poor street people in the struggle would be Black, and had their own movement. Almost everyone in the young left mixed in the civil rights movement or the student anti-war movement—or often both. It was easy for the u.s. white left to become dominantly middle-class, and the full future implications of that were never faced. This New Left would constantly attract a small stream of white working class kids, but almost as migrants from across a national border.
Once the u.s. left became allies and activists with the Black freedom movement in the 1960s-1970s, white areas even working class ones became enemy territory for us—those were places where you worried about physical attacks and violent mobs. Remember that America was always divided into oppressor territories and oppressed colonial territories—called the rez, barrios, and ghettos—and the white settler population were constantly engaged in daily social policing. Informally, a low-level war by whites of beatings and terrorism and killings happened every day to keep the angry colonies inside their social prisons.
But there was a real division in the white working class communities in the 1960s-70s. The white labor aristocracy, like hard-hat construction workers and over the road truckers, were used as patriotic shock troops by the government, politically and in attacking anti-war protests. On the other hand, we worked with many white working class youth who were being drafted to fight in Vietnam, and were anti-government and sharing a rebel youth culture. Many white working class GIs became antiwar in Vietnam, and some joined us in the resistance.
After Washington’s Vietnam pull-out in 1973, though, this contact with white working class rebels sharply dropped off. Recall, for a while was working in a major parts factory in the far South Side. A crew of young white guys there, who were mostly ’Nam vets and dope smokers, invited me to join their clique and come party at the Indianapolis 500 auto race with them. They even supported me for being night-shift union shop steward. The only thing they warned me about—is that i had to stop hanging with the young Black workers or else they wouldn’t even say hello. The euro-settler/Black divide was and is everything here, really.
Q. In the 1980s, you wrote the book Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat. A new edition has been published recently. How is settlerism different from racism? It seems that some folks use the terms interchangeably.
A. Yes, often young anarchists or socialists here do use the words in an uncertain way, as though they mean the same. Settlerism, as we know, is a very specific type of capitalist colonialism. It is the most complete colonialism. A conquest society, where a loyal national population was brought in to both economically populate and be the permanent garrison for capitalism over the conquered territory.
Settlerism has within it the broader phenomena of racism, but is importantly different. The culture is capitalist but twisted further. Sometimes you can see the cultural mark of being a garrison population, like the American white “gun mania.” The ruling class has always supported a heavily armed white citizenry to keep colonized people under the boot. This is their neurotically guilty culture of would-be conquerors and genocidists. Settlerism means that we are always fighting “Americanism” itself, not just some extreme nationalistic form.
What the real deal is: Between 1963 and 1968, as violent and massive Black ghetto “riots” spread, the u.s. ruling class made two critical decisions. That Civil Rights would be made national law as an “airbag” to cushion the crash of repressing Black revolution, and that the real costs of any “integration” would be shifted completely onto the euro-settler working class.
People who weren’t around then can’t realize how bitter and explosive this was. Before, euro-settler workers may have gotten their hands dirty, but they had all the good paying jobs, it was that simple. Suddenly it was the same but different. About that time was graduating from the u.s. government mechanics school, trying to find a job. The state employment office sent me to the mechanics department at the big railway freight yards. In the office, the supervisor leaned back in his chair and said unhappily: “We heard that the government was going to pass this law, so we figured it was better you than a nigger!” That was still in the old days, when we always knew what white men were thinking, because they felt free to say out loud whatever crossed their minds. Of course, the white mechanics had gathered nearby in the garage to see the “new hire”, and together serenaded me with the then popular toothpaste commercial: “You’ll wonder where the YELLOW went/When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.” ( Starting the daily harassment on the job. )
The point was, the white working class never had any “democratic” vote or say over this social tax on their communities. For two generations the u.s. ruling class solidified government, political parties, media and elections into an iron wall, enforcing this unpopular strategic concession. For the euro-settler working class communities shifting from being very privileged to less privileged. There never was any plebiscite or national popular vote on civil rights—which wouldn’t have passed. When the rare candidate to major office appeared who dead-on opposed civil rights, the establishment united to shoot him down. Famously, when Ku Klux Klan and neo-nazi leader David Duke ran for governor of the state of Louisiana in 1991, both parties united behind the Democratic candidate to block Duke, who still won 55% of the white vote. That was a signal flare of shipwreck sent up by settler communities, including but no means limited to their working class.
Donald Trump was today’s more respectable version of Duke. Marketing smarts told him that running on a platform of settler nationalism, of restoring the white nation to power and having a state publically dedicated to only their racial interests, would be the path to his elevation. The key to that would be his “dog whistle”, silently giving the piercing signal to euro-settlers that his was a united front of all whites in their common racial interests. He wouldn’t sell them out. What better way to silently do that than by conspicuously including the neo-nazis and klan haters in his campaign. Promoting the Confederate flag at his campaign rallies. Every Trump sexist vulgarity, every hate message and bullying threat, was only further proof to his enraptured followers that he wasn’t “politically correct” against them. That he would restore the white nation because at long last through him they could vote “civil rights” and the whole establishment agenda down.
The metropolitan elite, university-educated, residing in major urban areas, dominates the computer industry and global corporate sectors like finance and media. While backing Hillary and LGBT human rights for public politics and all that, in their own worlds they live in apartheid racial/gender discipline. In the futuristic Silicon Valley, computer firms like Twitter and Pinterest are each coincidentally 92% white and Asian for tech employees. Google is right there, too, with tech employees being 94% white and Asian. Same at other computer corporations. It isn’t hard to guess that there are ethnic quotas or near-blanket exclusions secretly agreed upon between these outspokenly liberal corporate leaders. It’s ironic that conservative white factory workers and small industrial employers in the Midwest may be for Trump, but have much more integrated workplaces. Incidentally, the liberal icon New York Times, where Paul Krugman’s columns appear, has 6 White House reporters, but none of them are Black. It has 21 sports reporters, but none of them are Black ( although basketball and American football, for instance, are heavily Black ). Their lifestyles section has no Black writers, although Black people do have real lives. So who is more racist and backward?
Right now we are at intermission. As the previous left from the 1960s-70s has finally faded away, and exited the stage. In this transition, protest and struggle is starting all over again from ground zero. A new kind of radical movement with its own politics and startling ideas is still to come. But it had better have a real power hook-up for working class heroes and outcasts.
An earlier version of this story appeared in Das Magazin in December. On November 9 at around 8.30 AM., Michal Kosinski woke up in the Hotel Sunnehus in Zurich.
Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Data That Turned the World Upside Down
An earlier version of this story appeared in Das Magazin in December. On November 9 at around 8.30 AM., Michal Kosinski woke up in the Hotel Sunnehus in Zurich.
Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Data That Turned the World Upside Down
Police said that between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. an employee at the Khadijah Masjid Islamic Centre in Montreal’s Pointe-Sainte-Charles neighbourhood discovered a window had been smashed with a heavy object. The building had also been egged.
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Police said that between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. an employee at the Khadijah Masjid Islamic Centre in Montreal's Pointe-Sainte-Charles neighbourhood discovered a window had been smashed with a heavy object. The building had also been egged.
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Words fail me… i spent much of yesterday and the night before trying to write, but nothing measured up to the horror of the Quebec City massacre, where a young far-rightist shot up a mosque, killing six and wounding many more
i will come back to this, but as things are right now, all i could do was the following; these images can be downloaded from facebook, or here. The text on each image translated as “It wasn’t me who fired — My hands are clean.”
These are politicians and journalists, most but not all from Quebec, who have worked hard to spread Islamophobia here over the past decade or so. This was not an “organic” development, it was nurtured and encouraged, part of several people’s personal agenda, something they did for votes, for money, and occasionally of course out of plain old racist principle.
More will be added, i am sure
Bernard Drainville
Pauline Marois
Richard Martineau
Jacques Brassard
André Arthur
Pierre-Karl Péladeau
Kellie Leitch
Ezra Levant
Jean-François Lisée
André Drouin
Stephen Harper
Eric Duhaime
Mathieu Bock-Côté
Mario Dumont
Janette Bertrand
Lise Payette
Jeff Fillion
Jean Tremblay
(le française suivra)
WHEN: Monday January 30 at 12 PM noon
WHERE: 1155 Rue St-Alexandre, Montréal (metro Place-des-arts) in Montreal
FACEBOOK: http://ift.tt/2jH1xMH
Remember sitting in school learning about history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would have…”
You are alive now. What you do now is what you would have done then.
We live in horrific times. The United States, the most powerful country in the world, has embarked on a path of naked racism, celebrating cruelty and contempt for the world’s poor and oppressed.
With his Muslim ban, his renewed aggression against the sovereign Indigenous nations resisting ecocide at Standing Rock, the global abortion gag order signed on his first day in office which condemns women and others to death throughout the Global South, and his proposed Great Wall of Hate, Donald Trump has made himself the champion of everything that is wrong in this world.
To many, it’s a brand new nightmare. And that’s a big part of why we are here today, outside the U.S. consulate, to make it clear that around the world, we’re watching and we don’t intend to accept these atrocities.
Justin Trudeau is using the Trump horror-show to make a lot of nice sounding statements. Around the world, Canada is positioning itself as the “good guy” yet again. But being “better than Trump” is a pathetically low goal to aim for, and all the noise about Canadian generosity is really just that: empty noise.
As people who live within Canada’s borders, we are here to denounce Trudeau’s sugar-coated lies, just as we are here to denounce Trump’s shameless white supremacism.
We need to remember that:
– Under the Safe Third Country agreement, asylum seekers travelling through or within the USA are denied claims in Canada. At one point, estimates were that over 40% of refugees trying to come to Canada were unable to make a claim as a result of the Safe Third Country Agreement.
– On the same day as Trump’s executive order, Trudeau issued a notice ending the policy to sponsor Syrian and Iraqi refugees by Groups of Five and Community Sponsors, stating that the “quota” was full —a more “polite Canadian” way of spewing a similar racist exclusionary agenda.
– The Designated Countries of Origin (DCO) list means that those seeking refuge from the US and 40+ other countries are deemed to be “safe” – making it essentially impossible to seek asylum in Canada regardless of one’s individual circumstances.
– Canadian immigration policies are themselves racist, sexist, ableist, and anti-poor. Hundreds of people languish in Canada’s immigration detention centers. Every day dozens of people are deported from here. People with disabilities or illnesses, without money, or with criminal records are all routinely turned away at Canada’s borders.
We demand:
– An immediate opening of the Canadian-USA border to everyone seeking to flee the catastrophe unfolding;
– An immediate cancellation of the Safe 3rd Country Agreement with the USA and the Designated Countries of Origin list;
– The implementation of an ongoing, comprehensive and inclusive regularization program for the more than 500,000 undocumented people already living in Canada;
– Establishing Montreal as a Solidarity/Sanctuary City, open to all migrants, with funding for access to services including health care, housing and education.
War, super-exploitation, climate chaos, and genocide are forcing millions to leave their homes, to flee for their lives. Countries like Canada and the United States are responsible for this global misery. This is where the drones are sent from. This is where the mining companies bring their stolen profits back to. This is where the bombs get made. This is where the warlords get their orders from and store their cash.
That’s why we’re going to be organizing to shut them down wherever we can, including here in Canada. We will support those fleeing and those who stay. We will do what we can against the nightmares of racism, xenophobia, and jingoism.
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Lundi le 30 janvier, 2017 à 12h
1155 Rue St-Alexandre, Montréal (métro Place-des-arts)
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Quand tu étais à l’école dans tes cours d’histoires, tu te rappelles t’être dit : « Si j’avais vécu à cette époque, j’aurais fait…. ». Tu vis aujourd’hui et ce que tu fais maintenant, c’est ce que tu aurais fait avant.
Nous vivons à une époque horrible. Les États-Unis, le pays le plus puissant au monde, a pris le chemin du racisme mis à nu, en célébrant la cruauté et le mépris envers les pauvres et les opprimé.es de ce monde.
Avec le décret contre les musulman.es, l’agression renouvelée contre les peuples autochtones souverains qui résistent l’écocide à Standing Rock, la mesure anti-avortement condamnant à mort les femmes des pays du Sud adoptée dans les premiers jours de son mandat ainsi que son Mur de la haine, Donald Trump est devenu l’emblème de tout ce qui va mal sur la planète.
Justin Trudeau utilise le film d’horreur joué par Trump pour faire des déclarations empathiques. À travers le monde, le Canada est en train de se positionner comme « le bon gars » encore une autre fois. Mais être « mieux que Trump » est un objectif pathétiquement bas à viser et les discours vides de Trudeau sur la générosité canadienne ne sont que du bruit à nos oreilles.
En tant que personnes vivant à l’intérieur des frontières canadiennes, nous sommes ici pour dénoncer les mensonges déguisés de Trudeau, tout comme nous sommes ici pour dénoncer l’utilisation éhontée de l’idéologie suprématiste blanche de Trump.
Rappelons que :
– D’après l’Entente sur les tiers pays sûrs, les demandeurs d’asile voyageant par ou à l’intérieur des États-Unis se voient refuser leurs demandes au Canada. Des estimations évaluent que plus de 40% des refugié.es cherchant à venir au Canada ont été incapables de faire leur demande à cause de l’Entente sur les pays tiers.
– La même journée que le décret de Trump, Trudeau émettait un avis sur la fin de la politique de parrainage des réfugié.es de Syrie et d’Iraq par groupes de 5 ou des répondants communautaires, arguant que les quotas avaient été remplis – une façon plus polie à la Canadienne pour justifier un agenda d’exclusion raciale similaire à celui de Trump.
– La Liste des pays d’origine désignés, qui sous-entend que les personnes demandant refuge qui proviennent des États-Unis ou d’un de la quarantaine de pays identifiés comme « sûrs », signifie dans les faits qu’il est pratiquement impossible de demander l’asile au Canada peu importe les circonstances individuelles de la personne.
– Les politiques d’immigration canadiennes sont en elles-mêmes racistes, sexistes, capacitistes et anti-pauvres. Des centaines de personnes languissent dans les centres de détention pour immigrant.es du Canada. Chaque jour, des douzaines de personnes sont déportées d’ici. Des gens avec des handicaps ou des maladies, sans argent ou encore avec un dossier criminel sont régulièrement reflués aux frontières canadiennes.
Nous demandons :
– L’ouverture immédiate de la frontière Canada-États-Unis à toute personne cherchant à fuir la catastrophe qui voit le jour en ce moment;
– L’annulation immédiate de l’Entente sur les tiers pays sûrs et la Liste des pays d’origine désignés;
– L’établissement d’un programme de régularisation continu, complet et inclusif pour les 500 000 et + de personnes sans documents vivant déjà au Canada;
– La déclaration de Montréal comme une ville solidaire et sanctuaire, ouverte à toutes les personnes migrantes et fournissant un financement pour accéder aux services tels que les soins de santé, le logement et l’éducation.
La guerre, la surexploitation, le chaos climatique, l’écocide et le génocide forcent des millions de personnes à quitter leur maison et à fuir pour sauver leur vie. Des pays comme le Canada et les États-Unis sont responsables de cette misère globale. C’est d’ici que les drones partent. C’est ici que les compagnies minières rapatrient leurs profits volés des ressources du Sud. C’est ici que les bombes sont faites. C’est ici que les seigneurs de guerre reçoivent leurs directives et entreposent leurs richesses.
C’est pourquoi nous allons nous organiser pour les perturber et les faire fermer partout où nous pouvons, incluant ici au Canada. En appui à ceux et celles qui fuient et qui restent. Pour faire ce que nous pouvons contre ces cauchemars racistes, xénophobes et chauvinistes.
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A guest column by PG How should we understand the impending presidency of Donald Trump? What should we be prepared for? While some have framed Trump’s victory as a sign of resurgent fascism, our guest contributor argues that we should see it as the latest development in a much older phenomenon, w
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A guest column by PG How should we understand the impending presidency of Donald Trump? What should we be prepared for? While some have framed Trump’s victory as a sign of resurgent fascism, our guest contributor argues that we should see it as the latest development in a much older phenomenon, w
Read the rest of this post on the original site at Does Trump Represent Fascism or White Supremacy?
MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2017
Préparez vos calendriers…
LE SALON DU LIVRE ANARCHISTE DE MONTRÉAL 2017
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Mark your calendars …
MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2017
Two days: Saturday, May 27 & Sunday, May 28
From 10am to 5pm on both days
The Anarchist Bookfair will take place in two buildings across from each other in Parc Vinet:
– Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA), 2515 rue Delisle
– Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), 2450 rue Workman
A short walk from Lionel-Groulx metro.
No gods, no masters, no bosses, no borders.
FREE. Welcome to all!
For anarchists, and people curious about anarchism.
-> Participants from all over Quebec and North America, booksellers and vendors, workshops, films, discussions, kids’ activities, art exhibits and more!
-> Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy held throughout May 2017 at venues and locations all over the island of Montreal.
-> During this year’s Bookfair, tabling will take place over two days: May 27-28, between 10am and 5pm.
– Callout: Seeking Bookfair poster designs (deadline: February 10, 2017):http://ift.tt/2jhejzE
– The callout for vendors, workshops & presentations, film, art and Festival of Anarchy events will be posted shortly.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
-> e-mail: info@anarchistbookfair.ca
-> mail: Salon du livre Anarchiste de Montréal
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Suite 204
Montréal, Québec H3G 1N1
FOR UPDATES:
-> web: http://ift.tt/1iSm5pV
-> announcements list: http://ift.tt/1iSm3yl
SOCIAL MEDIA:
-> facebook: http://ift.tt/1N608q4
-> twitter: @BookfairAnarMTL
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Deux journées : samedi le 27 mai et dimanche le 28 mai
De 10h à 17h les deux jours
Le Salon du livre anarchiste se tiendra dans deux bâtiments situés l’un en face de l’autre autour du Parc Vinet:
– Au Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA), 2515 rue Delisle
– Au Centre culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), 2450 rue Workman
C’est à une courte distance de marche du métro Lionel-Groulx.
Ni dieu, ni maîtres; ni patrons, ni frontières.
GRATUIT. Bienvenue à tous et toutes.
Pour les anarchistes et pour les personnes curieuses de l’anarchisme.
->Des participants venant de partout au Québec et en Amérique du Nord : des libraires, éditeurs, ateliers, films, discussions, activités pour enfants, expositions d’arts et plus!
->Dans le cadre du Festival de l’Anarchie se déroulant tout le long du mois de mai 2017 et offrant des activités dans différents lieux de Montréal.
->Lors du Salon du livre de cette année, les tables d’exposition prendront place sur deux jours : le 27 et le 28 mai, entre 10h et 17h.
– Appel : Nous cherchons une personne pour faire le design de l’affiche du Salon (date limite : 10 février 2017): http://ift.tt/2jhahae
– L’appel pour les distributeurs de livres, les ateliers & présentations, les films, l’art et le Festival de l’Anarchie sera diffusé bientôt.
POUR INFORMATION :
-> Courriel : info@salonanarchiste.ca
-> Poste: Salon du livre Anarchiste de Montréal
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Suite 204
Montréal, Québec H3G 1N1
POUR DES MISES- À-JOUR :
-> web: http://ift.tt/1wDugPo
-> liste d’envoi: http://ift.tt/1iSm3yl
MÉDIAS SOCIAUX :
-> facebook: http://ift.tt/1N608q4
-> twitter: @BookfairAnarMTL
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The title essay, Matthew Lyons’s “Ctrl-Alt-Delete,” is a thorough survey of the origins of the alt-right, a look at its constituent parts and beliefs at the present time, as well as observations about how its future relationship with the Trump administration may play out. Of particular interest, Lyons draws attention to the importance of sexism and misogyny within this movement, to its long-term “metapolitical” strategy, as well as to the tensions between the disparate groups that have found their home under its banner.
Lyons’s essay was already in the works prior to the developments of 2016, part of a broader study of anti-systemic far right movements in the United States. That book, Insurgent Supremacists, is due out from Kersplebedeb and PM Press in 2018. Given the rapid developments of the past few months, however, it was felt important to make his chapter on the alt-right available as soon as possible – therein lies the origin of this publication.
Supplementing “Ctrl-Alt-Delete” is an essay written by comrades from the Its Going Down website, “The Rich Kids of Fascism.” This is a view from activists currently involved in opposing both the far right and the state, on the streets. As its title would imply, “Rich Kids” focuses on the elitist class politics of the alt right, and how that sets it apart from other far right phenomenon like boneheads or militias. Looking at the alt-right’s fortunes over the past few years, IGD show the role played by both the media, and white racist fears about the ongoing struggles of Black people and immigrants, in feeding this threat.
An appendix, “Notes on Trump,” by Bromma (also available on the Kersplebedeb website), serves not so much as a counterpoint, as a contextualization. Not directly addressing the alt-right itself, Bromma’s Notes posit that the election of Trump and the rise of the far right are not simple accidents of history, nor the result of some single failure on our side or success on theirs, but are conjoined expressions of a deep shift within the world economy. As he argues, “What’s coming into view, semi-hidden underneath the frenzied soap opera of reactionary populism, is that the tide of globalization has crested and started to recede.”
The alt right in one expression of this reactionary moment. We must oppose them, but also prepare ourselves to oppose what might come next. Understanding one’s enemy can only help in this regard, and indeed a thorough understanding of an opposing political force can also help us prepare for future far right iterations.
That is why this book is being offered now. A tool for work that needs doing. Let’s get started.
Paris and Amsterdam—Leon de Winter, a Jewish bestselling novelist in Amsterdam, says supporting the Dutch political figure Geert Wilders, who seeks to “de-Islamify” the Netherlands, is “politically incorrect” and “not civilized.
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On Saturday December 17th 2016, roughly 30-40 demonstrators converged in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside at Pigeon Park, the site of the recently erected Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Survivor’s Totem Pole.
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(Québec) Le resserrement des règles sur les séjours à l’étranger touche très majoritairement des citoyens nés à l’extérieur du Canada, révèlent des données obtenues par La Presse.
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On Saturday December 17th 2016, roughly 30-40 demonstrators converged in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside at Pigeon Park, the site of the recently erected Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Survivor’s Totem Pole.
Read the rest of this post on the original site at Vancouver: Report Back from Anti-Alt-Right Demo
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