Tag: antifa

solacekames:

howlfromthecore:

solacekames:

Text: @danarel 10/28/18 

You are either 100% anti-fascist or you’re a fascist.

No more pretending there is some middle ground. There are only two sides in this fight.

There is no time for both-side-ism here. The debate isn’t even over, it never should have happened in the first place. The nazis killing Jews are from the same cloth that Sam Harris called “peaceful Nazis” when they confronted antifascists last year.

The people emboldened to build and send bombs to politicians, to kill POC in the open, are the same people who centrists said deserved a seat at the table and had a right to a platform. The same centrists who warned that the left was the problem, and allowed Nazis or organize.

I have not forgotten a single centrist who defended Nazis, fascists, added “anti-antifa” to their profiles, or gave platforms to these peddlers of death on their YouTube shows or podcasts.

You chose your side, you decided to align with murders in order to score anti-left points

You need to understand that people are surrounded by propaganda that paints a real ugly picture of antifa. From sources that people have been taught to trust. See…. This if you’re not a hundred percent with us and all of our tactics then you’re equivalent to Them" rhetoric really makes me take a step back. That means if I disagree with you on anything , I’m a target? Seems…a little…. authoritarian?

Here’s what YOU need to understand.

Let’s say fascists want to kill my family (they actually do want to kill my family, so I’m not being hyperbolic). If I have two people in front of me, a fascist who wants to kill my family and someone who claims to not be fascist, but who also says, “hey that fascist has a right to want to kill your family, and I will defend their freedom to do so,” then guess what? YOU ARE BOTH MY ENEMY. You are both a danger, the fascist and the fascist-enabler. You don’t get to wriggle out of enabling a bunch of genocidal maniacs just because Trump told you that antifa are bad hombres. As a targeted individual, I don’t have the time to ascertain your good intentions, and even if I did, I’d find out your so-called “good intentions” are really just a mess of willful ignorance, unexamined prejudice, and rejection of the principles of critical thinking.

And if people who enable fascism feel targeted… good! How the hell else are they going to change their fascist-enabling behavior? When we ask nicely, they just ignore us.

Also, keep in mind they’re only being targeted for what they believe and how they enact those beliefs: that it’s OK to enable fascists. And we’ll stop targeting them the second they change that stupid belief. In contrast, fascists don’t target people for their beliefs, they target them/us because they believe we’re not real human beings, that some aspect of who we’re born as makes us unworthy of life itself, no matter what we believe. 

jewish-privilege:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

redmensch:

argyrocratie:

berniesrevolution:

Full thread here by @JackSmithIV 

also after the war

i love how he says “older jews” were against it but “british antifa” went against them, as if old jews were particularly against antifascism & as if the majority of british antifa fighting the BUF weren’t london jews ??? what the fuck

Seriously, way to gloss over the fact that the march was meant to terrorise the large Jewish population living in the East End and that the Battle of Cable Street was mostly orchestrated by a leftist Jewish collective known as the Jewish People’s Council. You can read more about them here.

I also think that you can’t paint Jewish resistance to fascism without also acknowledging that they were literally putting their and their families lives on the line. For Jews it’s always a question of whether to fight or to keep our heads down because history (yes before the Holocaust) has shown us time and time again that it can always get worse.

The original thread on twitter, doesn’t gloss over that by the way. I don’t know why the OP decided to include “older Jews” but none of the following (link to the full thread):

jumpingjacktrash:

howlfromthecore:

socalledunitedstates:

saint-aries:

socalledunitedstates:

I want other young people to understand that if the extent of your radical action is posting “eat the rich!” on social media and waiting for somebody to tell you a revolution has started, nothing will change and you’ll get arrested in the Third Red Scare and that’ll be it

What’s the plan?

Join a local trade union and the IWW. Join or start a local tenant’s union. Volunteer with Food Not Bombs and do other mutual aid in your community. Support your local solidarity economy and maker community. Build, fix, and grow stuff. Use free, open-source software and stop letting companies sell your data. Pirate stuff. Break unjust laws. Attend local actions

And most importantly, join radical groups in your area. Strength is found in numbers and none of us can change the world alone. If you need help finding your local movement, DM me and I’ll look around for you so you can start getting stuff done

Feed the people. People can’t–won’t– strike, protest, go against the bosses, sit in, down, or out, show up for community actions, marches or any other damn thing, and they won’t put thier jobs or homes or freedom or ability to feed and house thier kids in jepoardy unless you can answer the question “How are we going to eat?”

You’ve got to have an alternative. People need to eat and live and meet thier needs and the needs of the people they are responsible for. People have to come together and get each other taken care of and fed. Otherwise the only people who show up are the ones who can afford to. And since the group of people who both have resources-time, emotional, financial, transportation, etc and want to show up and change the system–is fairly small, and not growing fast…. That’s not enough people for a revolution.

Learn consensus. Build community with people. Talk to the humans around you and figure out what they need and how to organize people to meet that need. People aren’t going to show up and be told what they need. If you–if we–want a different system, we have to show up and show–not tell-people how they can meet each other’s needs.

and if your sole contribution is gatekeeping and infighting, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. turn outward. look for opportunities to help. DO SOME WORK.

socialistexan:

socialistexan:

@realphilosophytube , “The Philosophy of Antifa”

“If you’re a political enemy of fascism though, either they lose or you die”

Transcript of the gifs:

If you’re a fascist and anti-fascists come for you, you have a choice. You can give it up. You can renounce what you said. You could go on with the rest of your life and stop turning up to fascist rallies. Anti-fascists probably aren’t going to be your best friends, but they’ll move on.

But if you’re a person of color, if you’re trans, or a person with a disability, or gay, or Jewish and fascists come for you, there is nothing you can do to make them happy except stop existing.

That’s the key difference between the far-left and the far-right. Anti-fascists organize themselves against those that are building fascism. If you are doing that, that is something you can nonviolently stop doing. If you’re a political enemy of antifa, you can become a friend. If you’re a political enemy of fascism though, then they lose or you die.

How a Single Blog Post Derailed a Nationalist March

allthecanadianpolitics:

A group of far-right anti-Islam protesters attempting to flex their power on the streets of Hamilton were met with sharp counter-resistance and a massive police presence on Sunday. The failed “Patriot Walk on Lock” was largely derailed thanks to a 1,200-word anti-racist blog post that looks straight out of 2009.

The pushback was so intense that the “patriots” attempted to reschedule their event but in haste forgot to tell the people attending—leaving lots of their supporters high and dry.

Continue Reading.

How a Single Blog Post Derailed a Nationalist March

portentsofwoe:

nokiabae:

The alt-right is falling apart. Richard Spencer says it’s not “fun” anymore and is considering suspending his speaking tours amidst low turn out numbers. 

One of their leaders, Matthew Heimbach (communismkill’s ex-boyfriend), was engaged in an affair with another leader’s mother in-law which led to major infighting.

Their forums are getting shut down thanks to leaks obtained by antifa groups. As well as planned events being pulled out because they’ve been consistently opposed and usually outnumbered by antifa counter-protesters.

Doxing racists work. They’re terrified of going to events and several of them are being charged with hate crimes and even attempted murder. 

Antifa needs a lot more credit for fragmenting a group that at it’s peak in Charlottesville was engaging in a race war. We can’t keep moralising the point of Antifa but instead we should look at the bigger picture, which is that the resurgence of public antisemitics, race science and xenophobia should be met with an equal amount of retaliation 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/satanism-drama-is-tearing-apart-the-murderous-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen?ref=home

heres something about a different group being torn apart because neonazis are concerned the group might also be a front for satanists