The Secret Origins of the Patriot Movement

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Zeskind on the History & Threat of the Revolutionary Right



In this podcast, we talk with Leonard about the history of white nationalism, and what made it grow from small sets of cadres into a mass, insurrectionary movement that also helped birth the modern militias. We discuss how in the 1980s and 1990s, the white nationalist movement operated out of a variety of Christian Identity camps and bible study retreats, radio stations, and organized heavily armed homesteads that ran paramilitary training centers, while also rubbing elbows at times with the Christian Right and the Republican Party.

https://itsgoingdown.org/zeskind-histor ... ary-right/

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The Obscure Neo-Nazi Forum Linked to a Wave of Terror


In 1980, Mason began publishing a newsletter called SIEGE, which advocated armed struggle and terrorism, and celebrated serial killers and mass-murderers. Publication ended in 1986 and Mason disappeared from public view, but his ideas did not.

The SIEGE newsletters were published in a book, also called SIEGE, which was discovered by Ironmarch users and quickly became one of the key texts the forum encouraged its users to read. Ironmarch described finding the book as "something of an 'ah ha!' moment for us", and has even published its own edition, which it says has been dowloaded more than 16,000 times.

In July of 2017, members of the Atomwaffen Division – the neo-Nazi paramilitary group launched by Ironmarch users in the US – used the forum to announce they had met with Mason and were going to help him resume publishing SIEGE. A banner appeared on the site announcing "JAMES MASON IS BACK!", which linked to a thread containing an interview with Mason. A user called "Rape" said of his meeting with the neo-Nazi: "My road trip was worth the thousand miles." Another user said Mason had "100 percent endorsed" Ironmarch and Atomwaffen. Since encouraging Mason to return to active neo-Nazi politics, Ironmarch users have started a website for him and produced a number of videos promoting him and his views.


About two years after Ironmarch users discovered Mason’s writings, some began to act on the ideas they promoted.

In early 2017, four members of Atomwaffen were living together in a shared property in Tampa, Florida. One of them, Devon Arthurs (known as TheWeissewolfe on Ironmarch), converted to Islam and killed two of the other members, later telling police they had insulted his religion. The surviving member of the group, Brandon Russell (known as Odin on Ironmarch), was arrested by police when they turned up at the property and discovered the group had been stockpiling illegal weapons and materials they could use to make bombs. Arthurs told police that Russell had been planning to throw explosives into a nuclear power plant, and he was sentenced to five years in jail in January of 2018 for possessing bomb-making materials.

In February of 2015, a Columbine-obsessed American goth called Lindsay Souvannarath flew to Canada to visit two friends she had met on tumblr. The three were planning to head to a mall in Halifax on Valentine's Day to kill as many people as they could, using a rifle, a shotgun and gas bombs. When Souvrannarath arrived in Canada she was detained by police, and later pled guilty to conspiracy to commit murder. The court heard that "Souvannarath had a pre-existing interest in school shootings and Nazism".

Souvrannarath's Ironmarch username was With Hate As My Sword. One of the founders of Ironmarch is a Russian fascist who uses the screen name Alexander Slavros. Souvrannarath was one of Slavros' online girlfriends.



At the start of 2018, it was reported that a 17-year-old neo-Nazi had been charged with killing his girlfriend's parents just before Christmas, after they told her to break up with him. The Huffington Post revealed alleged killer Nicholas Giampa's links to Atomwaffen and his love of SIEGE.

In January, the body of Blaze Bernstein, a gay Jew, was found in California, having been stabbed over 20 times. The suspected killer attended a three-day training camp organised by Atomwaffen and was an avowed member of the group. This brings the total number of murders linked to Atomwaffen to at least five.


Meanwhile, other Ironmarch members were expressing their support for a number of violent neo-Nazi groups around Europe, including Golden Dawn, whose supporters killed left-wing rapper Pavlos Fyssas and have been linked to more than 100 racist attacks; the paramilitary Azov Battalion, which has been fighting in eastern Ukraine; and the Nordic Resistance Movement, a member of which murdered anti-fascist Jimi Karttunen in Helsinki in September of 2016.

A number of other neo-Nazi and fascist groups around the world can also be linked to Ironmarch.

More: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/437p ... -of-terror

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“Bring the War Home”: A Timely Investigation of the White Power Movement


Oath Keepers patrol Emancipation Park during the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" Rally on August 12, 2017.

“Part I: Formation” covers the Vietnam War origins of the modern white power movement’s leaders in the wake of the downfall of the civil rights era KKK [Ku Klux Klan]. Here, she clearly illustrates how the military experiences of reactionary veterans, both from Vietnam and mercenary work in Central America and Rhodesia, formed the core of their organizing and rhetoric. This is the period when The Turner Diaries, a work with enduring influence on the white power movement to the present day, was written and around which veteran-trained white power paramilitaries were organized on a platform of anti-communist action. The Turner Diaries is critical as it both is used as a tract for dispensing ideology and serving as a stealth how-to manual for waging race war. As Belew notes, it is one of the most popular texts for the American far right.

“Part II: The War Comes Home” is when Belew demonstrates a sharp break that has shaped the US far right to the present day. In this segment, which covers actions throughout the 1980s, she shows how the white power movement shifted from being agents of the conservative status quo to declaring war on the US government in the name of the white race. Belew shows how this period inspired influential KKK paramilitary organizer Louis Beam to develop his system of “leaderless resistance.” This approach was modelled on The Turner Diaries. Under leaderless resistance, above-ground groups engaged in open political work while below-ground cells of paramilitaries engaged in acts of terrorism. Organizers could freely incite hate crimes while retaining a degree of plausible deniability, allowing them to escape legal consequences and remain active. This model was meant to preserve the movement while carrying out their goals by other means. Belew also shows how white power advocates actively recruited soldiers, stole military equipment and worked to infiltrate the armed forces.

“Part III: Apocalypse” is the climax of the work, culminating in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. Here, Belew shows how the previous work of the white power movement led to this moment, along with how it began branching out into other elements of the US right through the militia movement and evangelical Christianity. She also shows how the shift to these subcultures was part of a strategy to remain relevant in a post-Cold War world, reinforcing the white power movement’s opportunism and their close ties to the broader US right. In Belew’s analysis, the shift from anti-communism to anti-government activity was made possible by the broader rhetoric of US conservatism.

Bring the War Home provides clear examples of how the far right has adapted and developed, and the relevance of the events of the ’70s and ’80s to understanding the present day “alt-right.” Belew shows the strategies of the white right of the ’70s and ’80s are at work in the present day. The combination of above-ground agitators and recruiters, referred to as “legals” in The Turner Diaries, and underground militants engaging in violent action remains true today. Current examples of above-ground agitators include Joey Gibson and Patriot Prayer, Counter Currents Publishing, Gavin McInnes, Richard Spencer and Augustus Invictus. Underground elements, ranging from lone actors like Dylann Roof to violent groups like the Atomwaffen Division, the Proud Boys and the Rise Above Movement, are increasingly active, focusing on implementing white power through bloody violence.

The white right also laid the groundwork for using “code-switching,” appropriating elements of conservative and left-wing discourse and developing dog-whistle tactics during this period. Belew points to examples during the ’80s and ’90s in which the white right actively infiltrated the militia movement and grassroots conservatism through co-opting the language of smaller government, anti-immigration, gun rights and defending “traditional values.” Similar inroads were also made to co-opt elements of the left, including the antiwar movement, environmentalism through overpopulation, globalization and weaving veiled anti-Semitic language into critiques of international capitalism. All of these acts of discursive infiltration were achieved using coded language which, on its surface, did not appear bigoted while opening space for white power politics.

https://truthout.org/articles/bring-the ... -movement/

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'Dark municipalism' - the dangers of local politics



The Five Star Movement in Italy has been campaigning on a platform of direct democracy and environmentalism. This March, they won the largest percent of the vote and the most seats in Parliament. Sounds good, right?

Except that Beppe Grillo and Luigi Di Maio - the two foremost leaders of the party - have called for expelling all migrants from Italy and ending the flow of migrants to Europe. They entered into a coalition with the Lega Nord following the 2018 election, a party advocating full regional autonomy - and protecting the 'Christian identity' of Italy.

Direct democracy

Even as anti-authoritarian, anti-racist movements all over the world are working to take power where they live, self-described localist movements have also won elections with racist, and frankly fascist, platforms. New right movements like the Lega Nord have even adopted the more typically leftist, anti-authoritarian language of 'autonomy' and 'direct democracy'.

Continuing our discussion of the potential pitfalls of radical municipalism, we want to address this toxic strain of localism - what we’ve termed dark municipalism - and why it is so dangerous.

If a diverse, egalitarian, and ecological local politics is to be successful, it must develop strategies for addressing and combating these tendencies.

Racism and Localism

The Nazis showed the world that it’s entirely possible to be both a back-to-the-lander and a genocidal racist. American militia movements have long fused struggle for local autonomy against the federal government with anti-immigrant hatred and white nationalism.

In the Pacific Northwest, fascist groups like the Northwest Front and the Wolves of Vinland have attempted to co-opt the vision of an independent Cascadia for the ends of white racial separatism.

Britta Lokting argues in The Baffler that there is a greater commonality between this white nationalist fringe and the other tendencies within Cascadian bioregionalism than we’d like to admit. “Ecologists, liberal hipsters, and the alt-right in the Pacific Northwest [all] resist some sort of outside taint.”

Movements for local control can easily slip towards racist and fascist politics by positioning a given community in opposition to outside threats. Oftentimes, savvy segregationists use the language of local control to mask the racial and class motivations behind their political projects.

Several European political parties like the Lega Nord have even begun to distort the term “direct democracy” to argue for “the people” (selectively defined) controlling national immigration policy as a means of achieving the authoritarian ethnonationalist system they envision.

Not all examples of reactionary localism are as extreme as Nazis and anti-government militias, however. It is also, for many people, very close to home, being central to the history of most American suburbs.

Continues: https://theecologist.org/2018/jun/26/da ... l-politics

Title: The Fallacy of “Neither Left nor Right”: Militia Fever
Authors: Janet Biehl
Date: 1995
Source: Retrieved on 21 September 2010 from http://www.social-ecology.org

Janet Biehl

The Fallacy of “Neither Left nor Right”: Militia Fever

At a time when the political sands have shifted massively to the right nearly everywhere, when the right is riding high while the left languishes in debris, it is increasingly common to hear the cry “Neither left nor right!” Few right-wingers issue this cry — but then, why should they? Their political label is the toast of several continents today. The fact is that the strongest political winds are blowing many leftists, like the rest of the society, toward conservatism and a glorification of the market.

Although the cry has become more common since the collapse of the Soviet system, it did not originate in this era. Realo Greens were known to define their party as “neither left nor right” in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Much earlier in this century, in the interwar years, European fascists who intended to reject both capitalism and communism used a related concept to find their supposed “third way.” During the Spanish Civil War, the Falangists thought of themselves as “neither of the left nor right nor centre,” according to one farmer:

We were a movement with our own spirit, out not to defend the rich but also not to put the poor above the rich. In many points we agreed with the socialists. But they were materialist revolutionaries and we were spiritual ones. What differentiated us most was that we lacked the hatred of capitalism which they exhibited. The marxists declared war on anyone with wealth; our idea was that the right must give up a part in order to allow others to live better.[1]

In recent months the insurgent militia movement has occasioned still more rejections of the left-right dichotomy. In the leftist Nation, Alexander *censored*burn describes a “Patriot” rally in Michigan as “amiable.”[2] The Boston Globe advises its readers that the “Freemen” movement of Montana, with its ties to the militias and to apocalyptic religiosity, is “so far off the generally accepted political scale that terms like ‘left’ and ‘right’ do not apply” (3/30/96). Jason McQuinn, formerly editor of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed and currently editor of Alternative Press Review, denounces left and right as two sides of the same problem:

Left and right have both proved their bankruptcy throughout this century. And neither can lay legitimate claim to our loyalties. It’s way past time that both traditions received the scathing critiques they deserve, so that we can take what is best from them and discard what is worthless. It may be true that the left has often added far more of value to the defense of community and international solidarity than the right has ever been able to conceive. But both left and right have ultimately colluded in their support for the two “opposing” sides of capitalist development.[3]

Meanwhile libertarian author and publisher Adam Parfrey objects to leftists who would uphold distinctions between left and right, who “stump for the division of anti-establishment rightists and leftists,” since they are ultimately serving the interests of the ruling system.[4] In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, he argues, the militias have lamentably “become a scapegoat, a justification for intelligence agencies’ headlong rush into technocratic dystopia, where every financial transaction is instantly monitored by computers operated by the Fortune 500 and its omnipotent police force.” Those who criticize the militia movement, like the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Political Research Associates, ultimately serve the conspiracy itself. Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates demands “ideological purification” that “creates divisions between individuals,” while Holly Sklar, in her book on the Trilateral Commission, advances a “crypto-Socialist theology.” So runs Parfrey’s argument.

That Parfrey’s neither-left-nor-right approach has found a congenial home in the pages of McQuinn’s Alternative Press Review reflects the drift of a major American anarchist editor away from the movement’s leftist roots. Meanwhile, some militia members themselves are happy to meet Parfrey and Quinn halfway in their rightward lurch. Bob Fletcher, chief propagandist for the Militia of Montana, is reassuring: “We don’t want to hear about left and right, conservative and liberal, all these bullshit labels. Let’s get back to the idea of good guys and bad guys, righteous governments — the honest, fair, proper, American government that all of us have been fooled into believing was being maintained.”[5]

To some extent, Americans of all political stripes have received a libertarian education. The United States was born in a revolution, and some of its most revered Founding Fathers extolled the right to make one. A too-obvious betrayal of the main pillar of the American promise — the ideal of democracy — could potentially inspire rebellion, even at a time when capitalism is deeply embedded in American social life. Antidemocratic forces that serve the interests of a privileged few rather than the people as a whole find that they must either mask their activities entirely or else stupefy the population by using the mass media. Still, suspicion of government persists, even intensifies today, as the institutions of the American republic are ever more palpably hocked to capitalist masters. Distrust of capitalism has not kept pace with distrust of government, even though corporate rapacity has at times been so extreme as to beget movements like the Populists of the 1890s that cast capitalism’s “creative destructiveness” as a betrayal of the American promise.

It was a year ago this month that the militia movement came to national attention, denouncing “the tyranny of a run-away, out of control government.”[6] In the wake of bungled government attacks on a militant separatist at Ruby Ridge (where an FBI sniper killed two people) and on an apocalyptic preacher and his followers at Waco (in which more than seventy people died), sentiment ran high that the government was out to divest ordinary Americans of their rights as citizens. In particular, the right to bear arms seemed under threat by the passage of the Brady bill, which authorized the beginnings of gun control. These smoldering resentments were intensified by real grievances among working-class people in the American heartland, where global and domestic restructuring was bringing downsizing, declining real wages, and permanent layoffs. Resentments burst into flames, and militia groups were established in at least forty states.

This movement swore to uphold American sovereignty against an array of international forces that seemed intent on diminishing it: the “new world order.” The Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Federal Reserve, international trade treaties like NAFTA and GATT, and the United Nations had all at one time or another been castigated by the left; now the militias saw these institutions as components of a “new world order” subverting American sovereignty. They perceived, and still do perceive, a global conspiracy in which unseen but powerful hands are manipulating the American government and economy.

Conspiratorialism has a long history, as Michael Kelly recently wrote in The New Yorker, one that dates back to the late eighteenth century, when some began to believe that conspirators have been at it for more than two thousand years, perpetuating their plots through a succession of secret and semisecret societies arcing across time and cultures from the early-Christian-era Gnostics and the Jewish Cabalists, and on to the Knights Templars of the twelfth century, the Rosicrucians of the fifteenth, the Bavarian Illuminati of the eighteenth, and from there, through the Freemasons, to the schemers of the twentieth — the Council of Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers, and the Trilateral Commission. Along the way, step by step toward one-worldism, the plotters have caused everything from the French and Russian Revolutions to the creation of the Federal Reserve, the United Nations, and the Gulf War.[7]

In the nascent militia ideology, black helicopters, the Hong Kong police, microchips inserted under the skin, and programs to change the weather all become parts of the world-conspiratorial plot. An army representing the “new world order,” composed of United Nations troops and inner-city gangs, was soon going to occupy America and reduce its citizens to slaves. The Militia of Montana, one of the earliest and most influential of the militia groups, warns that “the Conspirators to form a socialist one world government under the United Nations are ... at work treasonously subverting the Constitution in order to enslave the Citizens of the State of Montana, The United States of America, and the world in a socialist union.”[8]

The remnant left objects with equal ardor to the ongoing globalization and centralization of social, political, and economic forces, but its warrant is not that these forces are threatening American sovereignty; it makes no appeal to patriotism. Nor would the old leftist analysis perceive a sinister conspiracy manipulating the course of events. Rather, it rightfully argued, a specific social force is siphoning off people’s control over their lives and pulverizing their communities, commodifying social life and despoiling the biosphere, enervating convivial relationships and reducing people to wage slaves when they are at work and to mindless consumers the rest of the time. That system is capitalism.

To be sure, elite planning bodies do exist, according to Holly Sklar, author of Trilateralism, but they are not conspiracies:

Going back to the early 20th century, there are organizations that have placed fundamental role — not conspiracies but elite planning bodies, there’s a fundamental difference — in planning not just U.S. policy but global policy. I want to distinguish how I see the Trilateral Commission from a conspiracy theory. It’s not a conspiracy that pulls puppet strings and controls everything and everybody. It is the single most important international planning and consensus building organization among people from Western Europe, Japan, the U.S. and Canada who represent the interests of global corporations and banks — corporations like Exxon, General Motors, Sony, Toyota, Siemens, etc... Too many think there’s either a grand conspiracy that controls everything all the time, or there are no important institutions whose motives and goals we need to understand. Too many people look at the Trilateral Commission that way. Either it’s a conspiracy or it’s a joke. That’s completely absurd.[9]

Some leftists have apparently suspended this rational understanding of social and economic forces to find a certain sympathy with the militias. The siren song of conspiratorialism, with its facile explanations and its occasional relish for dystopia, makes it all too easy to forget the overwhelmingly structural social forces that have produced misery in the world today. “This is the terrain,” as Philip Smith puts it, “where the Liberty Lobby meets the left, where the Trilateral Commission runs the world, and one-time Vietnam War protesters join militias to fend off the New World Order.” Distinctions between left and right can fall by the wayside, on the “climb toward the speculative heights where Communism and Capitalism are merely facets of the one great conspiracy.”[10] Avowed anarchist McQuinn maintains that while we must always remember our social analysis, we should not shut our minds to conspiracies: he would investigate and expose “the workings of the real world, whether this leads down the road to conspiratorial or structural explanations, or both.” Meanwhile Parfrey, a true conspiratorialist, defends the militias as kindred albeit misinformed spirits, since “the militia man with his Manichean conspiracies and apocalyptic dreams” presents a challenge to the “interlocking network” of government, private corporations, foundations, universities, and media.

Continues at: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ ... itia-fever

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Neither left nor right..

Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art - Breton/ Trotsky (1938)

We can say without exaggeration that never before has civilization been menaced so seriously as today. The Vandals, with instruments which were barbarous, and so comparatively ineffective, blotted out the culture of antiquity in one corner of Europe. But today we see world civilization, united in its historic destiny, reeling under the blows of reactionary forces armed with the entire arsenal of modern technology. We are by no means thinking only of the world war that draws near. Even in times of “peace,” the position of art and science has become absolutely intolerable.

Insofar as it originates with an individual, insofar as it brings into play subjective talents to create something which brings about an objective enriching of culture, any philosophical, sociological, scientific, or artistic discovery seems to be the fruit of a precious chance, that is to say, the manifestation, more or less spontaneous, of necessity. Such creations cannot be slighted, whether from the standpoint of general knowledge (which interprets the existing world), or of revolutionary knowledge (which, to change the world for the better, requires an exact analysis of the laws which govern its movement). Specifically, we cannot remain indifferent to the intellectual conditions under which creative activity take place, nor should we fail to pay all respect to those particular laws which govern intellectual creation.

In the contemporary world we must recognize the ever more widespread destruction of those conditions under which intellectual creation is possible. From this follows of necessity an increasingly manifest degradation not only of the work of art but also of the specifically “artistic” personality. The regime of Hitler, now that it has rid Germany of all those artists whose work expressed the slightest sympathy for liberty, however superficial, has reduced those who still consent to take up pen or brush to the statues of domestic servants of the regime, whose task it is to glorify it on order, according to the worst possible aesthetic conventions. If reports may be believed, it is the same in the Soviet Union, where Thermidorean reaction is now reaching its climax.

It goes without saying that we do not identify ourselves with the currently fashionable catchword: “Neither fascism nor communism!” a shibboleth which suits the temperament of the Philistine, conservative and frightened, clinging to the tattered remnants of the “democratic” past. True art, which is not content to play variations on ready-made models but rather insists on expressing the inner needs of man and mankind in its time--true art is unable not to be revolutionary, not to aspire to a complete and radical reconstruction of society. This it must do, were it only to deliver intellectual creation from the chains which bind it, and to allow all mankind to raise itself to those heights which only isolated geniuses have achieved in the past. We recognize that only the social revolution can sweep clear the path for a new culture. If, however, we reject all solidarity with the bureaucracy now in control of the Soviet Union, it is precisely because, in our eyes, it represents not communism but its most treacherous and dangerous enemy.

The totalitarian regime of the U.S.S.R., working through the so-called “cultural” organizations it controls in other countries, has spread over the entire world a deep twilight hostile to ever sort of spiritual value. A twilight of filth and blood in which, disguised as intellectuals and artists, those men steep themselves who have made servility a career, of lying for pay a custom, and of the palliation of crime a source of pleasure. The official art of Stalinism mirrors with a blatancy unexampled in history their efforts to put a good face on their mercenary profession.

The repugnance which this shameful negation of the principles of art inspires in the artistic world--a negation which even slave states have never dared carry so far--should give rise to an active, uncompromising condemnation. The opposition of writers and artists is one of the forces which can usefully contribute to the discrediting and overthrow of regimes which are destroying, along with the right of the proletariat to aspire to a better world, every sentiment of nobility and even human dignity.

The communist revolution is not afraid of art. It realizes that the role of the artist in a decadent capitalist society is determined by the conflict between the individual and various social forms which are hostile to him. This fact alone, insofar as he is conscious of it, makes the artist the natural ally of revolution. The process of sublimation, which here comes into play, and which psychoanalysis has analyzed, tries to restore the broken equilibrium between the integral “ego” and the outside elements it rejects. This restoration works to the advantage of the “ideal of self,” which marshals against the unbearable present reality all those powers of the interior world, of the “self,” which are common to all men and which are constantly flowering and developing. The need for emancipation felt by the individual spirit has only to follow its natural course to be led to mingle its stream with this primeval necessity: the need for the emancipation of man.

The conception of the writer’s function which the young Marx worked out is worth recalling. “The writer,” he declared, “naturally must take money in order to live and write, but he should not under any circumstances live and write in order to make money. The writer by no means looks at his work as a means. It is an end in itself and so little a means in the eyes of himself and of others that if necessary he sacrifices his existence to the existence of his work....The first condition of the freedom of the press is that it is not a business activity.” It is more than ever fitting to use this statement against those who would regiment intellectual activity in the direction of end foreign to itself, and prescribe, in the guise of so-called “reasons of State,” the themes of art. The free choice of these themes and the absence of all restrictions on the range of his explorations--these are possessions which the artist has a right to claim as inalienable. In the realm of artistic creation, the imagination must escape from all constraint and must, under no pretext, allow itself to be placed under bonds. To those who would urge us, whether for today or for tomorrow, to consent that art should submit to a discipline which we hold to be radically incompatible with its nature, we give a flat refusal, and we repeat our deliberate intention of standing by the formula: complete freedom for art.

We recognize, of course, that the revolutionary State has the right to defend itself against the counterattack of the bourgeoisie, even when this drapes itself in the flag of science or art. But there is an abyss between these enforced and temporary measures of revolutionary self-defense and the pretension to lay commands on intellectual creation. If, for the better development of the forces of material production, the revolution must build a socialist regime with centralized control, to develop intellectual creation an anarchist regime of individual liberty should from the first be established. No authority, no dictation, not the least trace of orders from above! Only on a base of friendly cooperation, without the constraint from the outside, will it be possible for scholars and artists to carry out their tasks, which will be more far-reaching than ever before in history.

It should be clear by now that in defending freedom of thought we have no intention of justifying political indifference, and that it is far from our wish to revive a so-called “pure” art which generally serves the extremely impure ends of reaction. No, our conception of the role of art is too high to refuse it an influence on the fate of society. We believe that the supreme task of art in our epoch is to take part actively and consciously in the preparation of the revolution. But the artist cannot serve the struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates its social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.

In the present period of the death agony of capitalism, democratic as well as fascist, the artist sees himself threatened with the loss of his right to live and continue working. He sees all avenues of communication choked with the debris of capitalist collapse. Only naturally, he turns to the Stalinist organizations, which hold out the possibility of escaping from his isolation. But if he is to avoid complete demoralization, he cannot remain there, because of the impossibility of delivering his own message and the degrading servility which these organizations exact from him in exchange for certain material advantages. He must understand that his place is elsewhere, not among those who betray the cause of the revolution and of mankind, but among those who with unshaken fidelity bear witness to this revolution, among those who, for this reason, are alone able to bring it to fruition, and along with it the ultimate free expression of all forms of human genius.

The aim of this appeal is to find a common ground on which may be reunited all revolutionary writers and artists, the better to serve the revolution by their art and to defend the liberty of that art itself against the usurpers of the revolution. We believe that aesthetic, philosophical, and political tendencies of the most varied sort can find here a common ground. Marxists can march here hand in hand with anarchists, provided both parties uncompromisingly reject the reactionary police-patrol spirit represented by Joseph Stalin and by his henchman, Garcia Oliver.

We know very well that thousands of isolated thinkers and artists are today scattered throughout the world, their voices drowned out by the loud choruses of well-disciplined liars. Hundreds of small local magazines are trying to gather youthful forces about them, seeking new paths and not subsidies. Every progressive tendency in art is destroyed by fascism as “degenerate.” Every free creation is called “fascist” by the Stalinists. Independent revolutionary art must now gather its forces for the struggle against reactionary persecution. It must proclaim aloud its right to exist. Such a union of forces is the aim of the International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Art which we believe it is now necessary to form.

We by no means insist on every idea put forth in this manifesto, which we ourselves consider only a first step in the new direction. We urge every friend and defender of art, who cannot but realize the necessity for this appeal, to make himself heard at once. We address the same appeal to all those publications of the left-wing which are ready to participate in the creation of the International Federation and to consider its task and methods of action.
When a preliminary international contract has been established through the press and by correspondence, we will proceed to the organization of local and national congresses on a modest scale. the final step will be the assembling of a world congress which will officially mark the foundation of the International Federation.

Our aims: The independence of art--for the revolution;
The revolution--for the complete liberation of art!

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Great stuff! I've started a new thread in order to go deeper down that rabbit hole...

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III% Increasing Threats



Right now III% members in a number of provinces are writing about lynching individuals acquitted in criminal trials whom they think should have been convicted as well as the judges who ruled in those cases. They are writing about finding the man currently out on bail and making him disappear. They are writing about extrajudicial killings ideological opponents and assassinations of politicians. Much of this has already been documented on this blog already.

https://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/ ... reats.html

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Member of a Neo-Nazi Terror Group Appears To Be Former Canadian Soldier

Using sources and hidden chat networks, VICE has traced the code name of an Atomwaffen member to Brandon Cameron, a former Nova Scotia soldier.

Atomwaffen has been linked to hate crimes, an attempted bombing, and racially motivated killings in the US. In hidden chat networks viewed by ProPublica, Atomwaffen celebrated one of its members for targeting and killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein, who was gay and Jewish.

Former Atomwaffen leader turned whistleblower Michael Lloyd Hubsky of Nevada, who goes by the online moniker “Komissar”, told VICE he believes Alba is the most active Canadian member of the group, but works primarily online.

After the murder of Bernstein—who was found with over 20 stab wounds—Komissar told VICE that he remembers Alba being excited and saying they needed more actions like this. Komisar said that Alba expressed that Atomwaffen needed to “take real, violent action against the Jews” because, “this is how the apocalypse starts.”

Komissar believes Brendan Cameron is Alba and can identify him from the various Atomwaffen Skype meetings and expansive online dealings he had with the Canadian. VICE corresponded with Hubsky under his pseudonym, but verified his identity independently. After the initial cold call to Cameron, he cut off all communication with VICE and didn’t answer calls to both his cell and home phone numbers. Komissar verified Cameron’s voice was the same as Alba’s after VICE provided him an audio sample of the former soldier’s voice.

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ALT-RIGHT AND US WHITE NATIONALISM ARE A CIA SPAWNED AND CONTROLLED MOVEMENT

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Alleged Mosque Bombers Got Orders From Militia ‘Higher-Ups,’ Members Say

Three members of a fringe militia are charged with bombing a Minnesota mosque. They say they were part of a larger network.

KELLY WEILL
08.07.18 5:01 AM ET

A series of attacks on a mosque, an abortion clinic, and a railroad line looked like the work of a three-man militia, but newly unsealed court documents suggest the alleged bombers might have been following orders from “higher ups” in a network of extremist groups.

In March, feds arrested Michael Hari, Michael McWhorter, and Joe Morris for allegedly bombing a Minnesota mosque, attempting to bomb a women’s health clinic, attempting to ransom a stretch of Illinois railroad, owning a machine gun, and carrying out a series of robberies. The trio appeared to be the principal members of a tiny right-wing group calling itself the “Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters 3% Militia” or the “White Rabbits.” The group was a small-time anti-government militia that dabbled in a number of extreme causes, from “armed rebellion” against Illinois to encouraging neighbors to buy into “White Rabbit Money,” a fake currency.

But the White Rabbits might not have been as isolated as their separatist platform made them appear.

Hari, the suspected ringleader, was in communication with other militia groups, and took orders for “missions” from “higher-ups,” according to a May search warrant, the unsealing of which was first reported by Champaign, Illinois’ News-Gazette.

Shortly after the trio’s arrest in March, McWhorter and Morris turned on Hari, offering investigators information on Hari’s communications, according to a search warrant for the contents of an email account with Protonmail, an encrypted email service.

McWhorter “told agents that Hari talked about ‘higher ups’ and identified two people Hari identified as ‘Ben Lewis’ and ‘Congo Joe,’” according to an affidavit in support of the search warrant.

Morris told investigators that Hari used the ProtonMail account to communicate with those “higher ups,” as well as approximately 13 other similar militia groups. The White Rabbits’ “higher ups” gave them orders for “missions,” McWhorter and Morris said.

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Patrick Little Is Touring The Country On A Fred Phelps-Style Hate Campaign

ON AUGUST 21, 2018 BY EYES ON THE RIGHTIN ALT-RIGHT, ANTI-SEMITISM, EMILY YOUCIS, HOLOCAUST DENIAL, ILLEGAL ARYAN, PATRICK LITTLE, RACISM



Ever since his crushing defeat in California’s “jungle primary” in June, Neo-Nazi Patrick Little has steadily gotten worse and worse.

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Oath Keepers announce national ‘Spartan’ training program aimed at ‘violent left’

August 23, 2018 David Neiwert



A far-right strategy takes shape as militiamen organize to use ‘lethal force’ for violence-prone events in liberal urban centers.

Claiming that the “violent left” is preparing an insurrection designed to grab “illegitimate power,” the Oath Keepers’ president and founder Stewart Rhodes this week announced on their website that his group is organizing training sessions around the United States aimed at helping militiamen and “Patriots” prepare for “lethal force” at far-right events in cities targeted for right-wing protests.

Appearing on Infowars with host Owen Shroyer on Monday, Rhodes explained that Oath Keepers is organizing “Spartan Training Groups” in every state with the aim of bolstering efforts to combat “antifa and the far left.” He spun the effort as part of a larger vision of becoming a national militia that could be called into action by President Trump:

We’re going to have our most experienced law enforcement and military veterans, as well as firefighters, EMTs, Search and Rescue — guys that we’ve vetted that are qualified to teach, to go and train average Americans in how to organize their own neighborhood watch, their own security teams, their own event security, and walk them up the ladder in proficiency, so that they are available for the sheriff as a posse, under a Constitutional governor to be a state militia, or if it was called out by the President of the United States to serve as a militia of the United States to secure the schools, protect our borders, or whatever else he asks them to do to execute our laws, repel invasions, and to suppress insurrections, which we’re seeing from the left right now.

So we want to see a militia, basically, reestablished in this country and trained up. So we’re calling them training groups, we’re not calling them militia, because we believe that we want them to be a pool of people that can be utilized by the governor, by the sheriff, or by the president of the United States.

Although Rhodes has deployed paramilitary “Community Preparedness Teams” before, his latest announcement meshes neatly with a broadly emerging strategy on the radical right — namely, to create confrontations in liberal urban centers with heavily armed gangs of men from rural and suburban areas, mostly under the guise of “free speech” events at which right-wing extremists spew hateful rhetoric against immigrants, Muslims and “the left.”

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A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Secret Origins of the Patriot Movement Part IV



By Gale's own admission, as noted above, Sovereign Order of Saint John members General Pedro del Valle and Colonel Benjamin von Stahl were among the individuals who suggested the founding of the Posse. As noted in part one of this series, Gale was also a close friend of Sovereign Order of Saint John member Bonner Fellers, who also seems to have shaped his ideology. Given that del Valle and Fellers were both involved with the Defenders of the American Constitution it would certainly seem both had an interest in establishing a paramilitary network even before they met Gale.

Then there's SOSJ member Charles Willoughby, who would have been Gale's commanding officer during World War II. Russell seems to strongly indicate that Willoughby himself was also actively engaged in this bid by former military officers to create an underground force, a most ominous sign. As noted in the third installment of this series, Willoughby had run a highly effective terror campaign in postwar Japan that so thoroughly crushed dissidents that the party he and MacArthur backed, the Liberal Democratic Party, has remained the ruling party almost exclusively since 1955.



Conventional histories would have you believe that Willoughby was incompetent and a buffoon. Few have seriously considered the possibility that the intelligence network he created has had an effect on the course of America's contemporary history. But as we shall examine in future series, there is indeed compelling evidence that several of the holy grails of conspiracy culture bear the traces of Willoughby and the SOSJ crowd. Stay tuned.

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Der Spiegel: The German media outlet examines the violent, murderous American neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen.

The first murder is on May 19, 2017. Devon Arthurs, 18, shoots his two roommates, Andrew Oneschuk, 18, and Jeremy Himmelman, 22, all three members of the Nuclear Weapons Division. As a motive Arthurs later states that the two men had not respected his beliefs. Arthurs gradually estranged himself from the group's far-right ideology, converted to Islam, and sympathized with the "Islamic state."


Murderer Arthur (left), victim Oneschuk and Himmelman (right)

The leader of the troupe also lived in the apartment: Brandon Russell. In the garage, the police find firearms, ammunition and bomb-making equipment. Russell had previously announced in internal chats to blow up a power plant. He is sentenced to five years' imprisonment.

The killing continues

On December 22, 2017, 17-year-old Nicholas Giampa shoots his girlfriend's parents in Reston, Virginia. They had forbidden the daughter to deal with him because they rejected his right-wing approach. Giampa is an avowed James Mason fan and nuclear weapons division member. Even at the scene he directs the weapon against himself and pushes off, but survives.


Killer Giampa

Not even a month later, the latest murder occurs. The investigation in the case is still ongoing. The SPIEGEL was able to talk to police authorities and the mother of the victim on site as well as private chat messages between the murdered and friends. Thus, the case can be reconstructed in detail. What happened in Lake Forest, California?

A ls out the remaining "nuclear weapons" -members that Woodward was arrested for the murder of a gay Jews, celebrate the fact. They call him a "one-man rioting force for gay Jews." At the start of the process, they create T-shirts with Woodward's portrait, with a swastika on the forehead.

"Atomwaffen Division" are not Internet trolls spreading disparaging graphics across the web. Their propaganda is shared by members in their own social media bubble and secret communication forums. The SPIEGEL has received exclusive insight into internal chats of the group.


"Nuclear weapons" internally

W as it quickly becomes clear: "nuclear weapons" rush not only against Jews, homosexuals and blacks. They glorify extreme-right terrorists and mass murderers like Timothy McVeigh, Dylann Roof and the Norwegian Anders Breivik.


Letter from Theodore Kaczynski

They are in contact with Theodore Kaczynski, the detained Unabomber. They have set up a chat channel where they discuss with each other what questions they will ask next to the threefold murderer.

Between discussions about their idols, Nazism and first-person shooters, however, are also phrases like: "bombed your local refugee center," "bombing police stations is a form of artistic expression" or "I want to blow up a government building".


Instructions for bomb construction

It is difficult to assess how far some internet pretzels are from concrete acts: Members share links to archives with hundreds of documents preparing for armed struggle and terrorist attacks. Among them are manuals that describe in detail how to make attacks on power plants, power grids and highway bridges. There are dozens of instructions for the self-construction of pipe, car and nail bombs. Explanations on how to make high-potency explosives from household chemicals or build time-fuses are just off the mark.

More than just right

"Atomwaffen" not only glorify right-wing terror, their chat messages convey a confused picture. The members post photos of beheaded or murdered people. They share execution videos of the Islamic State and extremist interpretations of Koran verses. School bombings, such as those at Columbine High School, call her a "perfect act of revolt."

The group is also extremely misogynist. The members refer to women as "selfish sociopaths without value", as "sluts" and "property." Any sexual abuse is "justified," writes one. "I would not even call it rape," another. Also pedophilia is not a taboo. "If she bleeds, she can give birth" and "birth is consent" are just some of many examples of quotations.

From National Socialism to child abuse to IS: How does it all fit together?

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