Why We Fight
Description
Why We Fight is a collection of essays written in the midst of the largest resurgence of the far-right in fifty years, and the explosion of antifascist, antiracist, and revolutionary organizing that has risen to fight it. The essays unpack the moment we live in, confronting the apocalyptic feelings brought on by nationalism, climate collapse, and the crisis of capitalism, but also delivering the clear message that a new world is possible through the struggles communities are leveraging today. Burley reminds us what we're fighting for not simply what we're fighting against.
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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
