Prof. Smadar Lavie discusses the possibilities and contradictions of the Ashkenazi-dominated protests against the government, and traces the efforts of a small cohort of Mizrahi activists to make their voices heard. Over the past few months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s radical right-wing coalition government has moved to curtail the…

The idea of a political coalition that mixes self-identified communists with neo-Nazis may seem implausible at first. However, a February 19 rally in Washington, D.C., branded as an effort to “Rage Against the War Machine,” brought together dissident parts of the left and the right into common opposition to the…

I joined Patrick Farnsworth at the Last Born in the Wilderness podcast, one where I have appeared five or six times over the past five years. …

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.

Note: The text that follows is an excerpt of an interview with Kelly Hayes that is featured in the anthology of antifascist writing No Pasarán! (AK Press, October 2022). “ Kops and Klan go hand in hand!” This chant was shouted in street gatherings across the country during the 2020…

(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…

The news alerts rolling in from Buffalo, New York, on Saturday all had a revolting familiarity. An 18-year-old man who espoused white nationalist views was suspected of storming into the local Tops grocery store and unloading his rifle on the mostly Black shoppers, killing 10 and injuring several others. Police…