Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York (repost)
An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading…
Un-mappable Fascism: What maps can (and can’t) explain about the Brazilian election (repost)
Brazil has been lobotomised twice in the last two months. In the first lobotomy on 2 September, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was burnt down, in a catastrophe…
Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture (repost)
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly…
Et Tu, BrutesDonna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics (repost)
When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics. Read the rest of this…
Danish left veering right on immigration (repost)
COPENHAGEN — Denmark’s right-wing government might once have expected pushback from the left-wing opposition when it introduced a controversial new integration policy. No longer. Read the rest of this post…
‘Zine: Fascism & Anti-Fascism: A Decolonial Perspective (repost)
Downloadable ‘zine format here. (PDF, 425kb) Truly, there are stains that it is beyond the power of man to wipe out and that can never be fully expiated. Read the…
Federal officials discussed raising alert level to highest level during Idle No More, book says (repost)
Senior federal officials discussed raising the country’s alert level to the highest tier at the height of the Idle No More movement, which also shaped how Canada’s security agencies handle…
Workers of Germany, Unite: The New Siren Call of the Far Right (repost)
BOTTROP, Germany — Guido Reil is a coal miner, like his father and grandfather before him. He joined a trade union at 18 and the center-left Social Democratic Party at…
Prosecutors Say A Woman Who Went Undercover With An “Anarchist Extremist Group” Will Testify At Inauguration Protest Trials (repost)
In the next round of trials against people charged with rioting during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, federal prosecutors want to put a witness on the stand under an alias who…
Assembly of First Nations, RCMP co-operated on response to mass protests in 2007 (repost)
The Assembly of First Nations worked closely with the Mounties and provincial police to exchange information about protests and develop common stances before a national aboriginal day of action in…
Organizing the lumpenproletariat: Cliques and communists in Berlin during the Weimar Republic – Eve Rosenhaft (repost)
During the Weimar Republic, popular anxieties about the state of society became focused on a field of problems in which youth, political radicalism and a general brutalisation of social and…
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (repost)
My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside…
The Terrifying Rise of Alt-Right Fight Clubs (repost)
Anastasia Yankova, a Russian model-turned-mixed martial artist who has appeared in a Nike commercial, was a month away from her professional debut when she took to Instagram to post a…
Florida Prisoners Are Laying It Down (repost)
During early 2018 prisoners across Florida are gonna “laydown” in nonviolent protest of the intolerable conditions in Florida’s prisons. Read the rest of this post on the original site at…
5 Ways to Support FL Prisoners Going on Strike Tomorrow (repost)
Tomorrow, prisoners across the state of Florida plan to launch a work strike against prison slavery, high canteen prices, and to fully return parole – among other demands. Read the…
Florida Prisoners Set to Begin Strike (repost)
Inmates at Florida state prisons prepared to strike Monday to protest brutal living conditions and their work for little or no pay. The strike, which has been coordinated between 10…
Florida Prisoners Are Preparing to Strike Against Unpaid Labor (repost)
People incarcerated throughout the state of Florida are planning a January 15 work stoppage to protest their conditions, and they say they are prepared to continue the protest for more…
The lower your social class, the ‘wiser’ you are, suggests new study (repost)
There’s an apparent paradox in modern life: Society as a whole is getting smarter, yet we aren’t any closer to figuring out how to all get along. Read the rest…
Bitcoin, a commentary (repost)
When this commentary was broadcast at the beginning of my radio show at noon, Pacific time, December 21, bitcoin was trading at about $15,600. It had a bad Friday, losing…
The challenges of being trans, male, and homeless in Montreal (repost)
Getting an apartment is a rite of passage for thousands of Canadians in their late teens and early 20s, but for Esteban Torres, a 21-year-old trans man living in Montreal,…