#action antifasciste

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 16, 2024 - Around 10.000 antifascists marched through Brussels to show their disgust with the Belgian EU election results, in which fascist party Vlaams Belang got 14,5% of the votes, and other far-right parties also got huge shares of the vote. During the march the headquarters of Vlaams Belang was pelted with rocks and trash and covered in graffiti. [video]

[antifainternational]

April 25, Antwerpen - Solidariteit, Geen Haat!

[nando161mando]

"Eath the rich" (EN: English)

[ladyinrainbowglasses]

Fascism relies on fear and withers against mockery.

We are all terrified, for excellent reasons. We keep getting reminded that we need community and joy to survive this.

I propose we #RockytheInauguration

Organize as many stagings, showings, and shadowcasts of "Rocky Horror" as humanly possible on Inauguration Day 2025.

Make it a newsworthy event. Showcase queer joy and queer love. Fill every capital city, especially DC, with people dancing in fishnets. Have an Eddie brigade re-enact Rolling Thunder wherever they can. Play "The Time Warp" on the steps of every Capitol building.

Make our militant, joyful defiance a news event for the history books. Let all coverage of Fueher Scheisshosen's coronation be forever linked with Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

Let's make this happen.

[rosair-rosedees]

If youre voting remember thats the lesser of your actions. Start unionizing, start beating up fascists who invade our protests and protect our protesting college kids from cops. You wanna win dont just put the onus on voting the lesser of two evils the major length of your resistance simply must be more than that. Consider everything legal and choose your battles.

[wheelie-sick]

had an idea

[ID: two versions of the same image, the first with a transparent background the second with a white background. it shows the active access symbol with the wheel of the wheelchair being the antifascist action flag symbol. the top flag has been edited to be the disabled flag]

free to use for anyone

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

Reminder to literally everyone: You should be using a VPN. Especially if your web habits are completely inane and you have nothing to hide. Somewhere out there is (for example) a woman trying to research how to get an abortion in a state where it's illegal, and she needs the net traffic of "upstanding citizens" so that she can safely get "lost in the crowd". Because if criminal activities are the only thing coming out of a VPN, the powers-that-be can justify pulling the plug on the whole thing. Be the smokescreen that hides the vulnerable. Use a VPN.

[queerism1969]

[radicalgraff]

"Youth against fascism"

Sticker spotted in Ljubljana, Slovenia

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 7, 2024 - Antifascists in Paris chant ¡No pasarán! as they celebrate the election win of the left-wing coalition NFP, and the loss by fascist party RN. [video]

[antifainternational]

February 28, Leuven - Geen fascisme in ons Le(u)ven - Dries Van Langenhove en NSV niet welkom aan de KUL

[nando161mando]

"Action antifasciste" (FR: Français)

"Antifascist action" (EN: English)

[undi-snowkitteh]

Going on HRT is MY choice. Not the government's.

I don't need anyone's permission to be myself.

[queertranshappiness]

This is slightly different to what I usually do, but given the disgusting far right riots across the UK this weekend, here's some stuff you can do to help:

Hope Not Hate is worth supporting, they do lots of work against far right extremism (https://hopenothate.org.uk/)

Stop Hate UK helps victims of hate crime across the country (https://www.stophateuk.org/)

And please write to your local representatives (MPs, councillors, Sennedd members (Wales), MSPs (Scotland), MLAs (Northern Ireland), etc.) asking them to speak out against the far right, and actively fight for anti-racism, against Islamophobia and for migrants' rights (https://www.writetothem.com is a very good resource for that)

If there's any organisations I've missed, let me know in the comments or send me an ask. Hopefully this can help. Take some time to do something good today, and don't forget to educate yourself too.

[all-socialism-is-democratic]

Project 2025 is terrifying. But when the history books talk about this period, they will point to July 1, 2024, as the beginning of the Fascist Era in the United States.

That's the day SCOTUS ruled on the perfectly-named Trump v. United States, in which the Court said the president could not be prosecuted for crimes committed in office.

In the 11 days since, Biden and the Democrats have taken absolutely no action. That's because they are not an antifascist party. They will capitulate and capitulate until fascism is complete.

The media are playing this down as something that only applies to Trump. As something not especially dangerous. As something normal.

Protest, strikes, even "rioting" (a slur for direct action) are not failures of democracy, they are integral to it. The system has failed and will not replace itself. The People still have the power to make real, substantive change and create a society that is not just not-fascist but actively antifascist. And anticolonialist, antiracist, antisexist, genuinely democratic, and free.

Voting for Democrats AT BEST delays the inevitable furthering of fascism for a short while, and AT WORST actually accelerates fascism by empowering capitulators. Want to vote Biden? Fine, waste an hour of your time.

If you want to actually fight fascism, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT.

[baelpenrose]

Alright, action plan for the Left

I keep telling anti-Voting advocates "okay so what's your plan" and they keep asking me, "okay but what's yours" Alright, bet. It exists in three parts.

Phase 1: Apotheosis Denied. Republicans have spent the last 40 years playing a very long game in order to weaken institutions in ways that only benefit them - jerrymandering, weakening institutions at state and local levels, and seizing supreme court, in order to make something like Project 2025 a reality, but it has also led to a critical fracturing of their party. At this point, they are making one desperate gambit to seize power, and if it fails, they will have a critical fracture in their party as the authoritarian wing, now a cult of personality around trump, attempts a second violent coup and is met with the violence of the state and is curbstomped into the dirt. The resulting republican realignment will be frantic, and leave them in a much weaker position - no less fascist, but weaker. Our first step, right now, because we are so far behind, has to be to deny them the apotheosis of their 40 year long game. Phase 2: Parallel Systems. There are multiple components to this one and this is where the government is going to get a little more concerned. This can start NOW, and should start NOW, but continue in tandem with phase 3. Phase 2.1: United Labor - Join the IWW. Join a union. Look into unionizing your workplace. Regardless of how small a difference you think it makes, increasing the power of labor decreases corporate power, full stop.

Phase 2.2: Mutual Aid: Set aside a certain percentage of your income each month - doesn’t have to be a lot, but just a certain amount, that you can budget for each month for helping your community. Make helping other people part of the budget. Creating this simple system, if enough people do it, will limit the reliance on corporate and state control. Do not exceed this - you will expend your resources and wind up needing to rely on others and then overdraw. Keep it to within what you can give.  Further, budget a certain amount of TIME each week to doing something that serves your community (see below as well) and getting to know them. 

Phase 2.3: Community Networking: Engage with your community in real life, outside. Set aside a certain amount of time each week to do this. If it’s working with underprivileged kids or providing childcare, taking care of the elderly, etc. You can go to a sewing circle and start talking to the people there and bring salvaged clothing that you repair and donate and talk them into doing something similar. Work your hobbies into it! Can you sew? Knit? Scarves and ponchos are never a bad thing, and you can show people how to do it - or swap labor for something you need.. Can you do carpentry? Repair furniture for people who need it, and odds are you can give lessons to people for free and put on a workshop - or swap labor for things you need. Start building these networks in your community. Also, anyone who has a yard? Start looking towards native food-bearing plants. If you’re rural, look into ethical hunting and community cookouts. Kill feral pigs, especially. There’s a shit ton of them, they’re invasive, and they’re tasty, and a cookout of them will bring people together. 

Phase 2.4: Community Accountability/Mentoring. Do you have problems in the community with crime? Kids being assholes? Have you considered, rather than calling the cops, giving the kids something to do so they aren’t shitheels? Hooking them up with mentors who can give them skills or help them explore their passions? Providing programs with volunteering? Get involved at your school as well, or form a parent group for it, this will help reduce how many of your kids wind up in the school to prison pipeline. 

Phase 2.5: Community Defense: Arm. Odds are you have at least a few disaffected veterans in the community who know the government screwed them and their families who are willing to train you to defend yourselves and who will be happy to be asked to do so - and easy enough to radicalize if they spend time with other people the state is fucking over. It doesn’t have to be everyone in the community, but realistically, you should have at least a few able-bodied people with guns from every community who are practicing with firearms and tactics to protect their community from the fascists as things escalate. This will allow considerably better protection in the event of a shooting or similar.  Phase 2.6: Community Assets: Every community should develop a battery of people who can provide at least some degree of help in a variety of situations. Become trained in first aid, CPR, etc. You won't be as good as a doctor, but you can still help. Have a community garden or three. Develop a neighborhood mechanic. Develop a neighborhood seamstress or carpenter if you know one. Trade services. Watch each other's kids.

Phase 3: Electoral Counterstroke This phase exists in two parts: Phase 3.1: Divide and Conquer: Further hasten the crumbling of the republican party. While it realigns, it will do so into a number of factions, the one most likely to win is the authoritarian, christian, culture war, racist wing. You have the ability, if you approach gun nuts and "small government" conservatives (which still exist in many areas of the country) to discuss with them their options. They will NEVER vote democrat or green or left - and they will never be leftists. BUT. They will be easy to convince to splinter from fascism and join a right-wing Libertarian party. They won't be on our side, but their defection from the fascists serves us still in that it splits a right wing further and makes a divided left much less of a gamble.

Phase 3.2: Left Surge Okay, so flat out? This year, Jasmine Sherman is not a viable candidate. They should be, by all rights, but they are not. This is partially due to ballot access tampering, but also partially because far-left candidates have a bad habit of starting their homework five minutes before class starts and then wondering why they don't get a good grade. We have four years to figure out how to get them ballot access in all 50 states, and we need to accomplish that goal, and ensure that they actually are on the ballot in all 50 states in 2028. A vote for them in 2024 is wasted, a vote for them in 2028 should not be unless we've all fucked up to a ridiculous degree. (Yes, I know they have it in 48 states. One of the two where they DON'T because both the democrats and the green party bent over backwards to stop them is CALIFORNIA. You know, the state that no left-wing candidate can win without because of our whopping 55 electoral votes. I mean it when I say they need it in all 50. We can get them there by 2028 if we aren't stupid.)

Further, your local elections should be contested. That public defender who tries to keep juvenile offenders out of jail? Push him to run as a judge and rally as much support as possible. Push left wing retired teachers to run for school board and help them run their campaigns. Push librarians who have lost their libraries to right wing culture war nonsense to run for school board. Politics is local and controlling local power controls most of the governing.

In the senate races, the party machines in almost every state have a lock, so what you're going to do is vote the farthest left democrat you can, consistently, and force the dems to move towards us. This will damage the republican obstruction capacity and begin hijacking the democratic party and make us a block the dems MUST appease.

In the House, you vote radicals, and try to encourage other radicals to run. Where possible, vote green or left-wing third party, where not, repeat the strategy in the Senate.

For state legislature, there's more play for independents - check your state races, these vary a lot more, and to be honest I am much, much more aware of my own state's political machinery than I am aware of anyone else's to the point that any advice I gave on this point would really only be relevant to CA.

There you go, actionable, intelligent planning for the next decade of how the left can effectively sieze power and specific things YOU can do to make the situation better.