
Three Way Fight
Description
What's the relationship between combating the far right and
working for systemic change? What does it mean when fascists intensify
racial oppression and patriarchy but also call for the downfall of
economic elites or even take up arms against the state?
Three
way fight politics confront these urgent questions squarely, arguing
that the far right grows out of an oppressive capitalist order but is
also in conflict with it in real ways, and that radicals need to combat
both. The three way fight approach says we need sharper analysis of
far-right movements so we can fight them more effectively, and we also
need to track ongoing developments within the ruling class, including
liberal or centrist efforts to co-opt antifascism as a tool of state
repression and system legitimation.
This book offers an
introduction to three way fight politics, with more than thirty essays,
position statements, and interviews from the Three Way Fight website and
elsewhere, spanning from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and
1990s to the political upheavals of the twenty-first century. Over
fifteen authors explore a range of topics, such as fascist politics'
relationship with patriarchy and settler colonialism, Tom Metzger's
"Third Position" (anticapitalist) fascism, conflict within the business
community over the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump
administration's shifting relationship with the organized far right.
Many of the writings address issues of political strategy, such as
tensions between radicals and liberals within the reproductive rights
movement and the George Floyd rebellion, video gaming as an arena of
political struggle, and the importance (and challenges) of approaching
antifascist organizing in ways that are militant, community based, and
nonsectarian.
Product Details
Publisher | PM Press |
Publish Date | May 28, 2024 |
Pages | 416 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9798887440415 |
Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches | 1.0 pounds |
About the Author
spent the better part of his time on earth participating in anticop,
antiracist, anti-imperialist, and antifascist organizing and action. He
works in emergency and trauma medicine and is an avid supporter of
music, art, and radical (sub)cultures and has been involved with Three
Way Fight since its founding in 2004.
Matthew N. Lyons is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire and coauthor with Chip Berlet of Right-Wing Populism in America.
He has been a contributor to Three Way Fight since 2005, and his
writings have also appeared in several other leftist and mainstream
publications. Matthew is co-trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary
Trust, which stewards the literary legacy of the late playwright and
activist Lorraine Hansberry.
Janeen Porter recently retired from a rewarding job in
corrections education. She spends her time fighting
the cumulative impact of numerous previous vices, desperately wanting to be on
the front line against the ongoing murders by cops, being outraged at
environmental homicides throughout the world, fighting the screwed-up health
care system, and trying to figure out where her generation went wrong and
righting it.
history at Manchester University. He writes and teaches about Chicago's
Puerto Rican community, Latina/o/x social movements in the second half
of the twentieth century, and the roles of race, racism, and antiracism
in US history.
Reviews
"Three Way Fight not only represents the most pressing and
insightful analysis on the far right available, but it is also written
from within the movements to fight back. Offering some of the most
explosive documents from the recent antifascist movement, these authors
chart a new course for understanding the far right. A great read for
both newcomers and longtime antifascists, Three Way Fight is
simultaneously a documentary history of twenty-first-century antifascism
and a theoretical evolution in the way we understand the future of the
far right."
--Shane Burley, author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse
"The
essays and interviews in this volume offer a bracing clarity about the
dangers we face, complex understandings of how we got here, and deeply
critical perspectives on how to move forward toward liberatory futures.
Three Way Fight's hard-earned wisdom, grounded in real political
struggle over many decades, consistently provides better analyses of the
far right than any current academic debates about fascism."
--Joe Lowndes, coauthor of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
"Three Way Fight introduces an invaluable genealogy of antifascist thought and practice that has long been attentive to the ways that capitalism and liberal governance have nourished right-wing authoritarianism. In a moment of growing political despair, the contributors remind us of the rich lessons and insights developed across decades of struggle against the far right that must be centered in our collective work for human dignity and liberation."
--Daniel Martinez HoSang, co-author of Producer, Patriots, and Parasites: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
Earn by promoting books