On August 17th, 2019, the Proud Boys staged a rally against “domestic terrorism” in Portland, Oregon, allegedly in response to a p rior scuffle between far-right media personality Andy Ngo and counter-demonstrators who were opposing the Proud Boys and the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer. Despite the ironies of one…

Schadenfreude is a German word that describes the absolute joy we feel in the misfortune of our enemies. Because we now experience news primarily through social media, which invites us to comment on breaking stories, we are even more likely to celebrate when some particularly unsavory character gets their comeuppance…

Clinic defense has been a crucial part of left-wing social movements since Roe v. Wade affirmed the constitutional right to abortion in in 1973. The effort to defend clinics against an increasingly violent anti-abortion movement was where incredibly broad coalitions could be built to unite various ideological tendencies behind one…

In a conversation with anarchist writer and organizer Cindy Milstein, we discuss how mutual aid, direct action, and solidarity can help build a revolutionary life. As mutual aid networks created the infrastructure that allowed for the explosion of mass movements, direct action, and the occupation of public spaces during the…

Amid police crackdowns on mutual aid efforts around housing, many activists are finding support in each other. When Sarah Norris joined a “community art build,” a protest that invited community members to work on art projects in a public park in December 2021, she had no idea she would soon…

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. We got into a discussion about the future, what kind of community actually stops the advance of the far-right, and why the left needs…

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…