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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.
“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
Theses On Fascism by Sojourner Truth Organization
No Tears for the Fascists, No Support for the State by Anti-Racist Action Research Bulletin
Fifth Column Fascism in the Anti-War Movement by Kdog
Above and Below: Them, Them and Us by BRICK Collective
About Us by Three Way Fight
II: Basic Principles
A Demand That Radicals Tell the Truth: On Three Way Fight Politics and Why It Matters interview with rowan
Fascism & Antifascism: A Decolonial Perspective by Rowland Keshena Robinson
Antifascism Against Machismo: Gender, Politics, and the Struggle Against Fascism by Tammy Kovich
Seven Theses on the Three Way Fight by Devin Zane Shaw
III: Complex Politics, Multiple Opponents
American Strasser by Kdog
Principal Enemy: Demystifying Far-Right Antisemitism by Matthew N. Lyons
Threat or Model? U.S. Rightists Look at China by Matthew N. Lyons
Moscow Conference Draws Fascists, Neo-Confederates, U.S. Leftists by Matthew N. Lyons
Network Contagion Research Institute: Helping the State Fight Political Infection Left and Right by Matthew N. Lyons
IV: Global Capitalists and the Far Right
Distinguishing the Possible from the Probable: Contending Strategic Approaches Within and Against Transnational Capitalism by Don Hamerquist
Trump's Shaky Capitalist Support: Business Conflict and the 2016 Election by Matthew N. Lyons
Trump's Election and Capitalist Power: An Exchange by Don Hamerquist and Matthew N Lyons
V: Making Sense of Trumpism in Real Time
Trump, the Far Right, and the Return of Vigilante Repression by Matthew N. Lyons
Lockdowns, the Insurgent Far Right, and the Future of Antifascism: A Conversation With Three Way Fight interview with Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons
Broken Windows Fascism by Three Way Fight
Insurgent Movement, Government Complicity, or Both? by Xloi and B. Sandor
VI: The George Floyd Rebellion
Abolition and the Movement Against Police Brutality by Twin Cities Workers Defense Alliance
Theses on the George Floyd Rebellion by Shemon Salam and Arturo Castillon
Five “I”s for a City Beyond Policing: A Message to Defense Groups in Minneapolis by Twin Cities Workers Defense Alliance
States of Incarceration: A Discussion interview with Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan
VII: Organizing and Strategy
Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue by Suzy Subways
Militant Tactics in Antifascist Organizing interview with Kieran
For an Antifascist, Revolutionary Unionism by Twin Cities IWW African Peoples Caucus
Tigertown Beat Nazis Down by Three Members of Atlanta General Defense Committee
Gaming’s Three Way Fight: Why Antifascists Should Organize in and Around Video Games by Three antifascist gamers part of an emerging Abolitionist Gaming Network
There Will Always Be More Of Us: Antifascist Organizing by Paul O’Banion
Afterword by Michael Staudenmaier
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index