available from leftwingbooks.net This is exciting. Because it starts to break away from the once fresh but increasingly dead end of what had become macho antifa. There’s not only false gender assumptions involved, but white racism stirred in here. Some white people always want to think that fascism is a
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Kersplebedeb: THE IMPERIALIST STATE OF THE MULTINATIONALS IS NEITHER FASCIST NOR SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC (Red Brigades, 1978)
In the transition from armed peace to war, the revolution/counter-revolution confrontation grows increasingly direct and generalized, but there is not, as some claim, a transformation of the democratic state into a fascist state. Instead we find ourselves confronted by a state which through restructuring has experienced a modification in the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot writes that the fossil fuel companies most responsible for endangering our living environment are also polluting our politics: …What counts, in seeking to prevent runaway global heating, is not the good things we start to do, but the bad things we
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Climate Change Lead To Fascist Hell?
It's going to be a really hot day in France, and the beginning of a heatwave in Europe that some are already calling Hell Week. Authorities have urged children and older people to stay indoors and issued severe warnings against dehydration and heatstroke as an unprecedented week-long heatwave begins its advance
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Growing Fascist Darkness
For more than two years I have been trying to warn Canadians that Andrew Scheer is a leader like no other this country has ever known.A far-right ideologue who is a mortal threat to the Canada we know and love.But because my voice is a small and humble one, and I live
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Andrew Scheer Must Never Be Prime Minister
It was one of the most appalling spectacles I have ever witnessed, a deplorable assault on the very foundations of our democracy.The sight of Andrew Scheer, the Leader of the Opposition, on Parliament Hill, addressing a rally riddled with racists and far right extremists.Members of a grotesque yellow vested movement whose members
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer, the Con Media, and the Far-Right Menace
This should have been the biggest story in Canada yesterday. The sight of Andrew Scheer addressing a gathering on Parliament Hill that was riddled with racists and other far-right extremists.Members of a movement who routinely accuse Justin Trudeau of treason and demand that he be executed.But instead our ghastly Con
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Fascist Connection
The first time I saw Andrew Scheer ranting and raving about the U.N. Global Compact for Migration, I couldn't understand what he was talking about. Or where he got that bizarre idea from.Especially since the Compact, which was endorsed the other day by almost all the countries in the world, is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Growing Darkness
Afterwards just about everybody agreed, it wasn't one of Donald Trump's better days. He was up at 3:14 am angrily tweeting out this: Which let's face it, wasn't very Presidential. Just very Trump.Only to have his day, a few hours later, become even worse.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why We Should Be Scared About Fascism in America
When I was in high school my friends used to make fun of me for regularly predicting that fascism was coming to America.And telling them that if they thought it couldn't happen here, they were dead wrong, or worse dangerously deludedBut as the years went by, I began to think
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Now Can We Call Doug Ford A Fascist?
As you know I like to portray Doug Ford as a political ape, a brutish demagogue drunk on power who is leading Ontario to disaster.But now I think I may have underestimated the threat he poses to this country and its values.Now I think we can all start calling him a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford and the Harperite Conspiracy
It was a scene I never thought I would see in Canada. It could only happen in Doug Ford's Ontario.And it can only be called fascism.Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government has tabled legislation that uses the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to push through a bill slashing Toronto council in half because
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford and the Day of the Dictator
When I saw the look on the faces of Doug Ford and his Con handler, I didn't need to turn up the sound on the TV to know what he was going to say. I had predicted what was about to happen long ago. And sure enough I was right.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Right-Wing Assault on Canada
Justin Trudeau has had to deal with all kinds of crazed hecklers as he travels across the country.There's one being removed from a town hall in Quebec City last January, with a Canadian flag defaced by a swastika.But the way he dealt with an aggressive heckler from the far-right group
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Saudi Arabia Declared War on Canada
I was relaxing in the little park next to the marine police station, on the last day of a long sweltering weekend, when Callum came running up with the shocking news.Mohammed bin Salman aka MBS, the perfumed crown prince of the barbaric Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, had declared war on Canada
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford and the Nightmare In A Beer Garden
It's starting to resemble a nightmare in a beer garden, with Doug Ford already looking like one of the worst Premiers Ontario has ever known.He has ended the fight against climate change, even as the province is hit by record temperatures. He has halved the size of Toronto's City Council without any
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Fight Against Neoliberal Fascism is Anchored in Memory
Fascism today doesn’t look exactly as it did when it spread through Germany and Italy in the 30s but the foundational elements are alive and well around the world today, including the United States of America. Henry Giroux contends the key to beating back modern neo-fascists rests in historical memory.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Andrew Scheer Revealed His Inner Maniac
As we all know Andrew Scheer likes to portray himself as a Mr Nice Guy, the Con Forrest Gump, or the politician next door.And as you also know, I've been trying to warn Canadians that he isn't what he appears to be.Warn them that he is not a harmless Gump, or
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Porky Trump’s Parade and the Roman Triumph
I suppose it was inevitable, and nobody should be surprised. When you have a bloated authoritarian would be dictator like Donald Trump in the White House.One who needs to be told how great he is every day of the year, it was only a matter of time.Sooner or later he was
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Sinister Fake News Awards
In my last post I lamented the fact that the White House doctor had horrified people all over the world, by giving Donald Trump a clean bill of health.And by declaring that he was mentally competent, when just about everything he says or does seems to suggest the opposite.Which predictably enough
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