June 10
GUEST: Luma Nichol, writer, LGBTQI activist and Co-founder of the United Front Against Fascism (UFAF) that was organized to counter White Aryan Resistance, the Populist Party, and Aryan Nations in the Northwest, talks about today's anarchist movement.
Are today’s anarchists movement builders?
What if when the fascists come, there is nobody in the streets to fight back? That is not a question that you will find in our neoliberal media, which never wants our activism to go beyond the safe confines of our voting booths. Let the two party system and our Constitution deal with the far right when it raises its ugly head.
Of course, history is full of examples of what happens when countries leave the protection of democracy up to their corrupt politicians and far right military. The January 6 assault on Congress is a case in point. The assault was planned and promoted by Trump and the Republican Party. And all efforts to protect the Congress were delayed by some top generals at the Pentagon. It was a dry run of an American coupe, only nobody in our media will describe it that way.
Most lacking was any response in the streets by a unified antifascist movement, determined to protect our democracy from being overrun. Luma and I talked about how right wing racists were defeated in the Northwest. The Nazis and the Aryan Nation were met by even larger crowds of antiracist protesters, and their drive to organize in this region of the country was finally defeated.
After orchestrating any number of coups in foreign countries, the US seems to be completely ignorant about how democracies get overthrown. Had key members of Congress been captured, Trump would have declared martial law and called on the US military to restore order. The vote count would never have been completed, and we would still be getting imbecilic tweets from the most dangerous man in the world.
