A Blaze Ansuz: Antifascist Neofolk

A blog covering antifascist neofolk, including band profiles, interviews, show reviews, and a growing playlist of leftist and antifacist bands and artists!

[A Blaze Ansuz: Antifascist Neofolk @a_ansuz]

A deep dive into antifascist neofolk, the scene of music we have had a modest role in trying to build. This article profiles a dozen bands and talks about how they can fight back against fascism in neofolk. #antifascistneofolk https://t.co/4zcUs3wcul

[Spectre Journal @JournalSpectre]

ICYMI: @shane_burley1 's interview with @jamesstout is still live on our website.

[Shane Burley בד @shane_burley1]

New from me at @JournalSpectre: I talk with @jamesstout about his new book from @AKPressDistro looking at the liberatory possibilities in revolutionary Spain, Rojava and Myanmar, even amidst armed struggle. https://t.co/s34Xc9DWtm

[Jacobin @jacobin]

D. K. Renton’s new book tackles the thorny subject of revolutionary forgiveness.

Few can accept preemptive forgiveness of their persecutors: we have to have some faith in the future, that there will be a little less pain when we build the world to come. https://t.co/zcBzaRdUPa

[Shane Burley בד @shane_burley1]

I review Dave Renton’s new book that asks the question, what type of transformation is required for forgiveness to become possible?
The answer comes from the Jewish conception of Teshuva.

[Shane Burley בד @shane_burley1]

New from me: Talked with @letsgomathias about his new book, To Catch a Fascists, about the importance of antifascist research and it's role journalism in the era of Trump and the alt-right.

https://t.co/jFa0UdAuYZ

[Shane Burley בד @shane_burley1]

My latest: The right is rapidly abandoning its previous commitment to Christian Zionism, replacing it with a conspiratorial and nativist nationalism that has little need for the "Judeo-Christian" Cold War coalition. This doesn't mean the wars will end.

https://t.co/8eKkBv683C

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

“For the first time we’re beginning to see that we are inside of the house.”

In this 1988 piece, Salim Muwakkil looked at Jesse Jackson’s campaign, the Democratic Party and the uneasy work of turning movements into power.

https://t.co/01fpZNSEi4

[Shane Burley בד @shane_burley1]

New from me: Christian Zionism is dying, and will be replaced from a new, equally violent, ideology for American conservatism.

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

From tenant unions and labor organizing to antiwar protests and insurgent campaigns, a new Left is moving in the vacuum left by Democratic fecklessness.

@MilesKLassin on the rupture taking shape across U.S. politics.

https://t.co/Q78uURgJbT

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

In one of our current top reads, @shane_burley1 looks at how Christian Zionism — long dominant on the right — now finds itself on the defensive as the Iran war alienates more and more conservatives and the MAGA-verse grows more critical of Israel. https://t.co/nzht0sYuaN

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

May Day is not a metaphor. It is the day the people who make the world run step into the street and remember each other.

@hamiltonnolan on the workers, the protests, the boycotts and the glorious team we are all already on.

https://t.co/enXpnMXDO6

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

For decades, Christian Zionism fused theology with pro-Israel politics. Now, a more inward-looking, nationalist right is beginning to challenge its dominance. https://t.co/nzht0sYuaN

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

Artist and journalist @mollycrabapple’s new book traces the history of the Jewish Labor Bund — a secular, socialist, anti-Zionist movement rooted in Jewish culture, labor organizing and solidarity across difference.

https://t.co/5OFo2CcF02

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

“Their politics were about fighting for dignity and rights where they were, rather than imagining liberation somewhere else, at someone else’s expense.”

@mollycrabapple discusses the legacy of the Jewish Labor Bund with @shane_burley1.

https://t.co/5OFo2CcF02

[Shane Burley בד @shane_burley1]

New from me: A conversation about what the Jewish Socialist Bund can show us about what’s possible amongst Jewish communities and how the only self-defense that’s viable is built on solidarity across difference.

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

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[Shane Burley בד @shane_burley1]

New from me at @inthesetimesmag: I talked with @mollycrabapple about her book on the Jewish Socialist Bund, its critique of Zionism, and its model of Jewish identity. The record sales of this book show American Jews are asking the same questions. https://t.co/1sgWn0lNAk

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

“What’s happening now in this part of the world is wealthy people are trying to buy up large swaths of land and turn them into exclusive resorts."

Joseph Bullington reports from Yellowstone.

https://t.co/zeiMIGlTuH

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

"Neoliberalism makes us miserable by creating a society designed solely for buyers and sellers."

In 2018, @johannhari101 reported on how capitalist culture is making us sick.

https://t.co/8ecjm28uap

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

Alongside protests against raids and deportations, small actions of absurdist disruption can also prove to expose the raw violence of those in power.

@leftiecowboy presents the magic of guerrilla theater in the streets.

https://t.co/7QZrQo2ol0