Fascism

Eyewitness Odessa: Anti-Fascist Resistance In Ukraine

May 19, 2016 Phil Wilayto, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Fascism, Ukraine

By Phil Wilayto for Counter Punch - At the end of World War Two, the city of Odessa in present-day Ukraine was declared a Hero City by the Soviet Union for its determined resistance to Nazi occupation. It’s a designation still valued by the people of this multicultural metropolis of a million people on the western shore of the Black Sea. On May 2, 2016, Odessans once again showed their great capacity for courage. Defying threats by local and national fascist organizations, thousands of city residents, accompanied by international monitors from across Europe and the United States...

Report From Odessa May 2nd Memorial

May 8, 2016 Bruce Gagnon, Phil Wilayto and Regis Tremblay, www.unacpeace.org Resist! Fascism, Massacre, Neo-Nazis, Ukraine

By Bruce Gagnon, Phil Wilayto and Regis Tremblay for the United National Antiwar Coalition. Odessa, Ukraine - The three members of UNAC'S delegation that traveled to Odessa on the Black Sea to help monitor the May 2 memorial in Kolikovo Square. From left, Bruce Gagnon, who coordinates a global network opposing nuclear weapons in space; Phil Wilayto, editor of The Virginia Defender newspaper: and Regis Tremblay, an independent documentary filmmaker who will be producing a video about this issue. Many feared that there would be more violence in Odessa, Ukraine yesterday similar to what took well over 50 lives on May 2, 2014. But in fact the day was peaceful when up to 10,000 people gathered near the Trades Union Hall to place flowers and stand with the Mothers Committee in a make shift memorial.

Real America: An Endangering And Endangered Ruination

March 31, 2016 Gary Brumback, www.dissidentvoice.org Educate! Democracy, Environment, Failed State, Fascism

By Gary Brumback for Dissident Voice. Real America is not the window dressing of a nation posed by her government or by the corporate dominated mass media. Behind that pose is an endangering and endangered “ruination.” If you follow unbiased accounts of current events and conditions you know I am not exaggerating. For decades I have been keeping tabs on Real America’s conditions and her actions at home and away and they are appalling. To summarize them I compiled and reported elsewhere a list of what I call “sadtistics.” [1] They amount to a pitiful portrait of every element of America that matters, whether domestic (e.g., high rates of homelessness and poverty), environmental (e.g. polluted rivers/reservoirs/drinking water) or international (e.g., ubiquitous military bases and destructive and deadly military and CIA operations around the globe).

FBI Has New Plan To Spy On High School Students Across Country

March 7, 2016 Sarah Lazare, www.alternet.org Educate! Fascism, FBI, Students

By Sarah Lazare for AlterNet - Under new guidelines, the FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies and “western corruption” as potential future terrorists, warning that “anarchist extremists” are in the same category as ISIS and young people who are poor, immigrants or travel to “suspicious” countries are more likely to commit horrific violence. Based on the widely unpopular British “anti-terror” mass surveillance program, the FBI’s "Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools" guidelines, released in January, are almost certainly designed to single out and target Muslim-American communities.

When Fascism Was American

January 3, 2016 Joe Allen, www.jacobinmag.com Educate! Donald Trump, Fascism, Nazis, United States

By Joe Allen for Jacobin Mag. The open racism and xenophobia that have characterized Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and perhaps provided much of its appeal, has been alarming. For a growing number of people, Trump’s rhetoric is a sign of something deeper and more frightening: the growth of a fascist movement in the United States. Ohio governor John Kasich — one of Trump’s many rivals for the Republican nomination — produced an anti-Trump video that paraphrases Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning about the Nazis. For many other commentators, as well, the violence Trump supporters have directed at critics during campaign rallies, along with the candidate’s call for banning Muslims from the United States, are further confirmation that Trump is a Nazi.

1942 Norwegian Teachers’ Nonviolent Resistance to Nazis

December 29, 2015 Rivera Sun, www.peacevoice.info Resist! Fascism, Protests, Teachers

By Rivera Sun for Peace Voice - With bigotry and hatred on the rise in the United States and politicians like Donald Trump giving everyone the nightmares of an American Hitler and Nazi Party, revisiting history offers us kernels of wisdom in resisting such extremism. In April 1940, the Nazis invaded Norway and occupied the country. In 1942, as part of an attempt to implement a fascist curriculum in the schools, Minister-President Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian collaborator, disbanded the existing teachers’ union and required all teachers to register with the new Norwegian Teachers’ Union by February 5. Between 8,000-10,000 of Norway’s 12,000 teachers responded by signing a letter of refusal to cooperate.

Civil Resistance & The Geopolitics Of Impunity

May 11, 2015 Baltasar Garzón, www.opendemocracy.net Educate! Chile, Corruption, Fascism, Impunity, Latin America, Resistance, Spain

The first of these cases is probably the most unsavoury, and we have more than enough examples worldwide, especially in Latin America (Chile, Argentina, Perú, El Salvador, etc.). Here, the perpetrators employ relevant institutional powers to forge a renewed ‘democratic’ structure, in which they receive a guarantee of legal impunity for previous criminal activities justified by a misguided concept of national security and stability. Such is the case of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Despite the gradual democratisation signalled by the 1988 national referendum to remove him from power, he clung to his position as head of state for a further two years, and his subsequent appointment as a senator for life took place and was previously sanctioned under the terms of decree no. 2191 in 1978.

The Rise Of A ‘Democratic’ Fascism

March 9, 2015 John Pilger, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Fascism, History, Middle East, Torture

The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our consciousness. Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism. “To initiate a war of aggression…,” said the Nuremberg Tribunal judges in 1946, “is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Had the Nazis not invaded Europe, Auschwitz and the Holocaust would not have happened.

From Chiapas To Rojava: Seas Divide Us, Autonomy Binds Us

February 18, 2015 Petar Stanchev, www.roarmag.org Resist! Autonomy, Fascism, Resistance

As the battle for every street and corner of the city intensified, Kobani managed to capture the imagination of the global left — and of left-libertarian groups in particular — as a symbol of resistance. It was not without reason that the Turkish Marxist-Leninist group MLKP, which joined the YPG/YPJ on the battlefield, raised the flag of the Spanish Republic over the ruins of the city on the day of its liberation while calling for the formation of International Brigades, following the example of the Spanish Revolution. It was not necessarily the battle for Kobani itself, but the libertarian essence of the cantons of Rojava, the implementation of direct democracy at the grassroots, and the participation of women in the autonomous government that gave grounds to such historical comparisons.

A New Political Force Emerges In Spain

September 13, 2014 Sebastiaan Faber, www.albavolunteer.org Organize! Fascism, Spain

n Spain this past May, the usually dull and boring elections to the European Union’s Parliament produced a sudden shock to the political system. A new two-month-old party led by a 35-year-old, pony-tailed political scientist, appeared out of nowhere—but clearly from the Left—to sweep up a surprising 8 percent of the votes. The result was good to win five European seats, transforming the infant organization into the country’s 4th largest political force. One of the party’s founders, political scientist Juan Carlos Monedero, spoke with us in late August. The unexpected European triumph of Spain’s newcomer on the Left underscored the affirmative simplicity of its name—PODEMOS: We Can. Or perhaps better: Together We Can Do It. The party’s rise has been meteoric. PODEMOS began as a grassroots movement in January 2014 and did not register as a party until March. Since the May elections, it has multiplied its support; according to an August 31 poll PODEMOS would earn 21 percent of the votes, only one percent less than the Socialist Party.

Pirate Party Protests Fascism As Nazis Enter Parliament

June 15, 2014 Staff, www.revolution-news.com Resist! European Union (EU), Fascism, Nazis

The recent elections to the European Parliament saw many fascist parties entering the European Union’s own parliament. In France, National Front – whose founder a couple of weeks ago proposed the Ebola virus as a “solution to the European immigration problem” – became the largest political party of the country. Poland’s party Congress of the New Right, which strives to abolish the right to vote for women and prohibit disabled people from using public spaces, reached 7 percent of the vote. And for the first time since the 1930’s, Nazis who cheer for Hitler and murder political opponents have been elected from Germany and Greece in a democratic parliament in Europe, as the German NDP and the Greece Golden Dawn entered the European Parliament.

Fighting Fascism in England

April 26, 2014 South London Anti-Fascists, www.theoccupiedtimes.org Resist! Fascism, Occupy, United Kingdom (UK)

After the local elections on the 2nd May 2013, there was a certain level of satisfaction amongst some anti-fascists that the British fascist threat was in the process of being comprehensively defeated. Despite five years of national economic turmoil, the British National Party (BNP), riddled with splits and infighting, faced electoral oblivion. The strategic focus of the two most recognised anti-fascist organisations, Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Hope Not Hate, appeared effective, with the number of elected BNP councillors falling from its peak of 57 in 2009 to its current two. Their leader, Nick Griffin, MEP for the North West, is left to defend the BNP’s sole European Parliamentary seat in 2014. Andrew Brons, a former BNP and National Front activist, is also believed to be attempting to defend his European seat in Yorkshire and the Humber with the British Democratic Party, an organisation he set up last year. In November 2012, the English Defence League at Westminster were unable to mobilise 100 people for their national march and their “March for England” splinter group was chased off the streets of Brighton.The far-right seemed increasingly irrelevant. Then on 22nd May 2013, Lee Rigby was brutally murdered and everything changed.

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