the anti-fascist handbook

July 29, 2020 by achrilock

“The overwhelming majority of studies on postwar anti-fascism has focused on questions of historical memory and commemoration, thereby implicitly reinforcing the tendency to relegate struggles against fascism to the past.”

— Mark Bray,
‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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July 6, 2020 by achrilock

“Both Trump and the alt-right have managed to tap into a widespread white conservative anxiety about the rapid demise of ‘traditional’ white America—an anxiety about the fact that they are losing the demographic ‘battle’ and will no longer constitute a majority of the population in a generation, that they are losing the culture war as gay marriage has become legal, that the notion of white privilege is gaining currency, that the black struggle is ascendant, that ‘rape culture’ is being targeted, and transgender identity and rights are increasingly legitimized. Moreover, liberal elitism and neoliberalism have hardened reactionary sentiments among many working-class whites.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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June 9, 2020 by achrilock

“The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillars of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy but also in ableism, heteronormativity, patriarchy, nationalism, transphobia, class rule, and many others. This long-term goal points to the tensions that exist in defining anti-fascism, because at a certain point destroying fascism is really about promoting a revolutionary socialist alternative (in my opinion one that is antiauthoritarian and nonhierarchical) to a world of crisis, poverty, famine, and war that breeds fascist reaction.”
— Mark Bray, ‘Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/09/563/

June 5, 2020 by achrilock

“By the turn of the twenty-first century, antifa had become a potent and portable formula for confronting fascism. Moving into the new millennium, however, anti-fascists in a number of countries would have to recalibrate their strategies as new far-right parties rose to prominence by distancing themselves from overtly fascist politics, and explicitly bonehead supporters.”
— Mark Bray, ‘Antifa: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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