In celebration of the recent antifascism anthology, No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis from AK Press and the IAS, editor Shane Burley is holding a conversation with two contributors. Daryle Lamont Jenkins is a longtime antifascist organizer and founder of the One People’s Project and Margaret Rex…

¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple angles. From the history of antifascism to today’s movement to identify, deplatform, and confront the right, and the ways an insurgent fascism is growing within capitalist democracies, a myriad of voices come together to shape the new face of antifascism in a moment of social and political flux. This virtual event features the book’s Editor, Shane Burley, and contributors Daryle Lamont Jenkins and Margaret Rex.

(This article previously appeared in the Jewish Currents email newsletter; subscribe here!) Adopted in 2016, the controversial definition of antisemitism used today by mainstream Jewish institutions, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “working definitionI spoke with Lerman about the major players who advocated for the “new antisemitism” approach, the flaws…

Back in 2018 I had an idea to pull together a large-scale antifascism anthology, and for the last four years I have been working with AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies to make the project a reality. We are just now finishing up on what is the biggest…

David Rovics has been having a problem. “You don’t have to be Mossad to do Mossad’s job,” wrote Rovics in one of the many numerous Twitter screeds, directed at Jewish antifascist writers.[1] …

After several years of far-right insurgencies in the United States, the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump’s return to public life, few expected Canada to be the location of the next great explosion of right-wing energy. Over the past several weeks, people around the world have watched as…

2021 felt like an extension of 2020 (I’m sure I’m not the only one), and it was also where I continued, or finally finished, a lot of projects I started back when the lock-down was first in full swing. The biggest thing of the year was the release of my…

An interview with British socialist historian David Renton on lessons from Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as Labour leader. Pro-Jeremy Corbyn protestors gather outside Labour Party headquarters in London ahead of a National Executive Committee meeting on whether to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, April 9th, 2018. …

Sometimes we have walked so far off course on a struggle that we have to reset to the basics. Over the past two decades, conservative organizations have routinely lobbed accusations of antisemitism at left-wing organizers, usually related to problematic discourses on Israel or conspiracy theories, and those claims have done…