Three mass shootings in a little over a week have changed the political discussion in the U.S., bringing to the fore white supremacy and the terrorist mass murder it has produced.
Many in the media and Democratic presidential candidates have cited Trump’s racist themes and actions as furthering (...)
The mass shooting in El Paso reveals the darker undercurrents of the gun control debate.
The death of Justice John Paul Stevens earlier this summer occasioned a look back at what he considered his cruelest defeat in his 35 years on the Supreme Court : the 2008 decision District of Columbia v. (...)
WASHINGTON - This week was devastating. In Kentucky, two Black people – Maurice Stallard and Vickie Jones – were killed by a white supremacist who first tried to enter a Black church. And in Pennsylvania, people were killed in a synagogue by a man who believed Jews were behind a caravan of (...)
We would like to bring to your attention the horrific nature of the hate groups organizing the World Hindu Congress (WHC), and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s ties with these organizations. Our hope is that you, and other progressive voices persuade Tulsi Gabbard to not only withdraw from the WHC, but also (...)
On April 9 Facebook began notifying 87 million users that Cambridge Analytica, a far-right political consulting firm, had accessed their information, including their private profiles, postings, likes and friends. Facebook claims that in April 2015 it blocked the path by which Cambridge Analytica accessed the data, but it didn’t acknowledge the massive breach or suspend Cambridge Analytica until now.
Other paths remain. On April 4 Facebook acknowledged that data-mining outfits may have used (...)
Phil Hearse examines Steve Bannon’s recent speech in which he explains how the hard right in the United States can stay in power “for 50 or 75 years”.
Steve Bannon’s October 20 speech to California Republicans got worldwide publicity because of his scathing remarks about George W. Bush. But that (...)
The election of Donald Trump and the resulting uptick of racist violence since November 2016 has placed the issue of fascism back on the agenda of the US left. In the past few months, socialists, anarchists and other radicals in the US are debating what fascism is (and is not) and how (or how (...)
Thousands demonstrated in dozens of cities and universities across the United States to protest the “Unite the Right” racist march and rally in Charlottesville Virginia and the automobile terrorist attack on anti-fascists that took the life of Heather Heyer on Aug. 12.
The demonstrations took (...)
In late July, HBO unveiled plans for a new show set in an alternative reality, in which the Confederate South, led by General Robert E. Lee, has successfully seceded from the Union. D.B. Weiss, one of the producers of Confederate, explained the thinking behind the series: ‘What would the world (...)
Katherine Nolde, Richard Capron and Scott McLemee round up on-the-spot reports from the deadly confrontation between the far right and anti-racists in a Virginia city.
THE FAR-right demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12—probably the largest public gathering of the racist (...)
We express our deepest sympathy and solidarity with the brave protestors—including comrades in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and International Socialist Organization (ISO)—who fell victim to an act of white supremacist terror in (...)
The “Unite the Right” rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend attracted several hundred white men from the “alt-right,” the neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan who marched with torches through the University of Virginia chanting, “You will not replace us.” Nothing better explains the (...)
Portland, Oregon became national news, following the May 26 murders on the MAX (the city’s light rail system). The killer, Jeremy Christian, slashed the necks of three white men (one survived) who tried to end his threatening tirade against two black teenage girls, one wearing a hijab.
Shortly (...)
Two murders and an attempted murder in Portland, Oregon, on the first day of Ramadan, by a white fascist-minded racist Islamophob are the latest in a string of hate crimes inspired by Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric, and racist actions since he took office. Heidi Beirich, Intelligence Project (...)
White House strategist has borrowed heavily from Le Pen and other touchstones of the French far right.
White House senior adviser Steve Bannon’s political credo is “America First” — but it has a distinctly French flavor.
Bannon admires the anti-immigrant policies and economic nationalism of (...)
For 25 years, invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been a favourite tactic of the right – and Donald Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.
Three weeks ago, around a quarter of the American population elected a demagogue with no prior experience in public service to the (...)
The Steve Bannon appointment “signals that white supremacists will be represented at the highest levels in Trump’s White House.”
Every White House has a political Svengali in a position of power. They get different titles. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s guy, James Farley, served simultaneously as (...)
Given the current Islamophobic climate it is wise for Muslims to make their position of peace and tolerance clear, even though it may not be fair.
How much can change in a week and yet stay the same.
It started on June 3rd with sadness upon learning of the death of Muhammad Ali. Thanks to the (...)
The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy
According to Matt Ford at The Atlantic , the Charleston, South Carolina, church where a white gunman murdered nine people was "The oldest black church south of Baltimore, and one of the most storied black congregations in the United (...)
The modern religious right formed, practically overnight, as a rapid response to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade. Or, at least, that’s how the story goes. The reality, Randall Balmer, a Dartmouth professor writing for Politico Magazine, says, is actually a little less savory to (...)
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