This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Mark Bray [Bluesky]. Mark is an historian and the author of The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain & France (Cornell, 2022) and Antifa: The Anti-fascist Handbook (Melville House 2017). We spoke to Mark about The Anarchist Inquisition in April 2022, but in September 2025 we thought it would be a good idea to talk about anti-fascism/’antifa’ — and why it makes Donald Trump cry.
See also : Going after ‘antifa’: Donald Trump’s plans to crush his political foes, Dafydd Townley, The Conversation, September 23, 2025 /// Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression, How to Respond to Donald Trump’s Threats, CrimethInc, September 18, 2025 /// The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund /// Fighting Fascism – Session 1 | Criminalization & the Deep Structure of US Fascism, Center for Political Education (w Rachel Herzing and Robin D.G. Kelley), September 12, 2025.
4.30pm, September 25, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus
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I know you rarely engage with dissenting views, but whether one identifies as a Social Democrat or a Communist, it’s clear that in-group preference is condemned as criminal, by leftists, only when practiced by white people of European descent. Any rebuttals to this statement?
Leaving aside the frequency with which I respond to dissenting views and not knowing why you invoke Social Democrats and Communists, in brief, I don’t agree that ‘in-group preference is condemned as criminal by leftists …’ etc.. Rather, as I see it, most leftists worthy of the name base their political perspectives on the kind that first gave rise to the appellation: liberty, equality and solidarity. This transcends racial categorisations such as ‘white people of European descent’, which emerged alongside of the ‘race sciences’ of the 18th and 19th centuries and which served as an ideological foundation for and justification of various European imperialisms.
(And I dunno what your comment has to do with the interview with Mark Bray.)
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