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Two Takes on Radical Strategy in the Time of Trump [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on March 20, 2026.] by Matthew N Lyons Fourteen months into Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, the political situation in the United States of America looks both more horrifying and more hopeful than it did, say, last summer. Since returning to the White …

On the roots of America First foreign policy [ThreeWayFight]

[This post is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was originally posted on March 7, 2026.] by Matthew N Lyons Balancing war and peace has long been integral to Donald Trump’s popular image. Making America Great Again has always included making America militarily dominant and feared again, a longing that accords well …

Remembering Chip Berlet [ThreeWayFight]

[This post is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was originally posted 2026-02-15.] Three Way Fight mourns antifascist researcher, writer, and organizer Chip Berlet, who died on January 30th. For some fifty years, Chip was a dedicated opponent of both far right politics and state repression. As a paralegal with the …

The DOGE and the Neoreactionaries [ThreeWayFight.org]

[This article is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was posted on March 2, 2025.] By Matthew N. Lyons I anticipated a drive toward dictatorship, but I didn’t anticipate DOGE. When Donald Trump was reelected president, I (like many other people) knew he would make a grab for power beyond anything …

Insurgent Trajectory of Antifascist Genealogies: Review of Devin Z. Shaw’s latest book [Brotherwise Dispatch]

[This review was originally posted to The Brotherwise Dispatch on Dec. 1, 2024.] Devin Z. Shaw, Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique and the Three Way Fight, (Montreal, Canada: Kersplebedeb, 2024).   by A. Shahid Stover Devin Z. Shaw’s Genealogies of Antifascism insightfully works towards demarcating[1] a fundamental redefinition of fascism …

Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024 [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on October 27, 2024.] By Matthew N. Lyons In 2020 I described the US presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump as a choice not between a lesser evil and a greater evil, but between the abysmal and the catastrophic. This year, …

Anti-Fascism and the Three Way Fight in Québec [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 3, 2024.] by Dandy Andy In his “Afterword” to Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Michael Staudenmaier writes: “The three way fight is not an ideology or a fixed political line. It is a framework that can be used to …