Houston Anarchist bookfair being attacked by Nazi's

[Ele'ill]

19792

They've been unable to enter and are marching around chanting blood and soil. Another reason secure spaces and the ability to defend are crucial. The days of having unprotected events never truly existed but now expect this to be a given. I think even those planning community events who don't see themselves as being explicitly anarchist/communist, or do but don't see the event as being explicitly anarchist/communist/anitfa in nature, should consider the possibility of violence from these piss heads. They don't want an organized community, they don't want communities capable of communicating and organizing even for the smallest of things, all of that is a threat to the genocide that they want whether it's through brute force in the streets, through economic policy/privilege, or both. Expect it, plan accordingly.

[Homo Songun]

19792

They've been unable to enter and are marching around chanting blood and soil. Another reason secure spaces and the ability to defend are crucial. The days of having unprotected events never truly existed but now expect this to be a given. I think even those planning community events who don't see themselves as being explicitly anarchist/communist, or do but don't see the event as being explicitly anarchist/communist/anitfa in nature, should consider the possibility of violence from these piss heads. They don't want an organized community, they don't want communities capable of communicating and organizing even for the smallest of things, all of that is a threat to the genocide that they want whether it's through brute force in the streets, through economic policy/privilege, or both. Expect it, plan accordingly.

Is it normal for Nazis to have "Tom of Finland" style iconography on their propaganda materials? Are they consciously emulating Ernst Rohm or something?

[willowtooth]

There's almost nothing about it any news source. There's a few leftist posts on social media about it and the nazis themselves are bragging about it and of course denying it ever happened and calling it a false flag. Other than that nothing not even a salon or mother jones article

this is all I could find

http://blackrosefed.org/proud-boy-storm-houston-book-fair/

[Ele'ill]

IGD picked it up on their twitter

[Jimmie Higgins]

I think they've momentarily given up on (been successfully demoralized about) public demonstration with the dual aim of increasing their support and intimidating everyone else after Charlottesville and Boston. Their "free speech" week fizzled at UC Berkeley (despite Bay Area liberal politicians and the media helping them in the same way as Trump was deservedly attacked for... and actually the mayor of Berkeley might be to the right of Trump on this!)

So instead the right-wingers have been walking around campus all week harassing liberal and left-wing groups. I'm not a fan of the RCP, but their bookstore has also been targeted: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/09/27/right-wingers-target-berkeleys-revolution-books/

It looks like this will be their new strategy for the immediate future. They've been temporarily blocked but they won't be stopped that easily because political polarization and radicalization on *ahem* "both sides" is a larger trend. So we need to continue to push and help build the radicalization on our "side".

[Homo Songun]

I think they've momentarily given up on (been successfully demoralized about) public demonstration with the dual aim of increasing their support and intimidating everyone else after Charlottesville and Boston. Their "free speech" week fizzled at UC Berkeley (despite Bay Area liberal politicians and the media helping them in the same way as Trump was deservedly attacked for... and actually the mayor of Berkeley might be to the right of Trump on this!)

I'll bite. Why is the mayor of Berkeley maybe to the right of Trump on this?

[Jimmie Higgins]

I'll bite. Why is the mayor of Berkeley maybe to the right of Trump on this?

About a week or so after Trump's C'ville comments, the liberal mayor basically allowed the police to declare Marshall law on "both sides" when the right held an anti-Marxism demonstration. After that he said that Antifa should be classified as a gang and gang injunctions used against them.

In effect the same position as Trump ideologically (maybe with different rhetoric) but is more directly involved in organizing the police effort.

[TomLeftist]

I think that the USA left, including the ultra-left, the marxist, leninist, trotskist, anarchist, maoist, stalinist left and the social-democrat left (Green Party, Bernie Sanders, Chris Hedges, Kucinich, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Amy Goodman Luis Gutierrez, Jessy Jackson) and the hard left (Larry Holmes, Jerry White, Caleb Maupin of Workers World Party, Cornell West, Kshama Sawant, Sunsara Tayl,or, Carl Dix need to get together into a single leftist front and with a lot of will to power, will to be the ruling powerful class force socialism, force communism against the will of millions of poor US citizens who even if they are very poor, they might not accept communism by their own will. Because US workers, US oppressed are too far to the right-wing, for many reasons, and too pacific, too weak, too cold. Being too patient is not good, if a person is very fat and weighs 400 lbs. and that person is too patient and not too obsessive about losing weight, that person might never lose weight. And I think communism is like that. If we all know that capitalism has never worked in any nation of the world. That the majority of USA people have been poor since 4th of July of 1776, and that the USA has been just like a third world country since 4th of July of 1776. (or even a lot worse than many poor countries, because many poor countries have free colleges and free doctors and not USA) which is a hell on earth worse than many countries of Africa. But if poor people are aware that USA is a hell on earth, that life in USA is one of the most painful lives of the whole world, but at the same time, if they are not desperat e, crazy, obsessive violent about destroying capitalism and replacing with communism with a workers-dictatorship. We might never see then a worker-dictatorship. I think that Lenin, and the bolsheviks of 1917 were crazy, and desperate about change. We have to become crazy, desperate violent and push things


We cannot wait for the poor people, for the workers of Mcdonalds and Walmarts to become marxist readers and be ready to destroy the dictatorship of the capitalist right-wing class to replace it with a government of the leftists, of the communists, of the working class and poor peasants




19792

They've been unable to enter and are marching around chanting blood and soil. Another reason secure spaces and the ability to defend are crucial. The days of having unprotected events never truly existed but now expect this to be a given. I think even those planning community events who don't see themselves as being explicitly anarchist/communist, or do but don't see the event as being explicitly anarchist/communist/anitfa in nature, should consider the possibility of violence from these piss heads. They don't want an organized community, they don't want communities capable of communicating and organizing even for the smallest of things, all of that is a threat to the genocide that they want whether it's through brute force in the streets, through economic policy/privilege, or both. Expect it, plan accordingly.

[TomLeftist]

One of my theories on why there has been a rise of the right-wing, people, poor people, regular income people, shifting toward the right-wing and toward the far-right wing, is that because most countries have a right-wing political system (capitalism, privatized businesses and services). It does not require a lot of fighting, violence and anger and reage to support right-wing options and far-right options. While leftist options since they are anti-capitalism (which is the political system of the whole society and status quo) requires a lot more fighting attitude, a lot more will to fight, will to combat, to protect yourself if you are a leftist activist against the right-wing system, the right-wing traditions and the right-wing philosophy of life.

And since most humans are scared of every thing, weak paranoid, it is a lot easier to support political commentators that present themselves as revolutionaries like Alex Jones, Michael Rivero, Michael Savage, David Duke etc. who at the endof the day are not really radicals and revolutionaries, because those political talking heads are pro-capitalism. And being pro-capitalism in a country governed by capitalist parties is not revolutionary and does not require any fighting, any warrior attitude at all. While being pro-communism in countries ruled by capitalist parties rerequires a lot more fighting, against the majority who are anti-communism and pro-capitalism. And I think that's maybe why there is a rise in the right-wing political options. Maybe humans are weaker, the warrior instincts of people have been maimed and destroyed by the excess of technology, schools, religion etc. And also, the whole left of the whole world is not doing their job like they are supposed to. The left is a pretty bad shape right now. And it is the task of leftist activists who hate capitalism to be like heroes, saviours of the left of the whole world



I think they've momentarily given up on (been successfully demoralized about) public demonstration with the dual aim of increasing their support and intimidating everyone else after Charlottesville and Boston. Their "free speech" week fizzled at UC Berkeley (despite Bay Area liberal politicians and the media helping them in the same way as Trump was deservedly attacked for... and actually the mayor of Berkeley might be to the right of Trump on this!)

So instead the right-wingers have been walking around campus all week harassing liberal and left-wing groups. I'm not a fan of the RCP, but their bookstore has also been targeted: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/09/27/right-wingers-target-berkeleys-revolution-books/

It looks like this will be their new strategy for the immediate future. They've been temporarily blocked but they won't be stopped that easily because political polarization and radicalization on *ahem* "both sides" is a larger trend. So we need to continue to push and help build the radicalization on our "side".