Why We Fight
Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse
Will be published approx. on 5. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-84935-406-6 (ISBN)
Description
- While traditional media struggles to keep up with the rapidly evolving world of fascists, white nationalists, and the far-right, journalist Shane Burley has stayed ahead of the curve, updating his readers' understanding of our political situation. Shane has also always been a purveyor of the "moral clarity" reporters are now touting as the answer to journalism's, and society's, woes.
- Since Fascism Today was published, Shane has become an even more prolific journalist and sought-after interviewee for the progressive and mainstream media, including PBS, NBC News, the Guardian, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, and more. His readership had expanded greatly and he maintains a constant public presence.
- While antifascism remains at the center of this collection, the essays tackle such themes as popular music, climate crisis, free speech, violence, blackface controversies, professional sports, and more.
- Given the continued prominence of violent far-right groups in this country, and with the recent news that Trump's department of justice is investigating "antifa" (the shortened form of "antifascist"), Shane's work-and his public presence as a voice of reason on the left-will remain popular.
- However the election turns out in November, the movements that have exploded over the past four years didn't come out of nowhere, nor will they be going aways anytime soon. Our society will still need thinkers like Shane to show the way.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
418 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84935-406-6 (9781849354066)
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E-Book
04/2021
AK Press
€18.49
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Person
Shane Burley is a writer and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. His essays, criticism and journalism has been featured in places like Jacobin, Al Jazeera, NBC News, Truthout, In These Times, Bandcamp, Salvage, Commune, The Baffler, Upping the Anti, Full Stop, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. He is the author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017) and has contributed to a number of anthologies and journals. His commentary on the far-right has been featured in places such as The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, PBS, and many others.
Content
Introduction: A Home At the End of the World
- Alt Right 2.0
- Disunite the Right
- Lawsuits are Not Enough
- The Fall of the Alt Right Came from Antifascism
- The Wild Hunt
- The Kult of Kek
- Soccer's United Front
- The "Free Speech" Cheat
- We're Being Played
- Campus Antifascism
- Wolf Age
- A History of Violence
- There Will Be Indictments
- Alt Right 3.0
- How White Racists Dream
- Introduction to Armageddon
- Twenty-Five Theses on Fascism
- Blackface is the Story of White Identity
- Because of Their Violence
- Resistance in the Ruins of Empire
- Living Your Life in a State of War
- The Continuing Appeal of Antisemitism
- Spin the Black Sun