DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ItsGoingDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ItsGoingDown</span></a> - This Week in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> #139: Communities Hit Back Against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazis</span></a> As <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Comes to Power; Thousands Protest Against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> & in Solidarity with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransPeople</span></a></p><p>February 13, 2025<br> <br>"The second Trump administration has officially begun and less than a month in, we are already in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalCrisis</span></a>. As the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trumpian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpian</span></a> state embraces the threat of ignoring court orders, it also risks pushing the US into an all out <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechnoDictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoDictatorship</span></a>. But as the line between the State and the far-Right becomes increasingly blurred – the question must be asked, what does the antifascist struggle mean when an oligarch like Trump is in power? We don’t have any easy answers, but antifascists have a lot of skills that we can bring to the table: both in terms of analysis, understanding the players in the unfolding terrain, and skills that we can share with people.</p><p>"More importantly, we have movement memory of battles fought and lessons learned: from the working-class kids who formed the backbone of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiRacistAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiRacistAction</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARA</span></a>) and took on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KKK</span></a> and neo-Nazi skinheads, to the fight against the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AltRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltRight</span></a> during Trump’s first term, which saw tens of thousands of people hitting the streets against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteSupremacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacists</span></a>. These past struggles can inspire and inform what is happening today.</p><p>"And there’s a lot to do. With the pardoning of the January 6th rioters, Trump has signaled that far-Right loyalists will receive a pass from the State to engage in violence against enemies of the regime. This is a reality that only amplifies what we saw during the first Trump administration, when Chad Wolf’s DHS pushed for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifascists</span></a> to be targeted by law enforcement and for the state to downplay the threat from the far-Right. This move lead to federal forces descending on Portland, OR during the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeFloydUprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeFloydUprising</span></a>, and the outright assassination of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MichealReinoehl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichealReinoehl</span></a>. The more we can build public opposition to this new reality and encourage widespread <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> to Trump’s policies, the safer we all will be."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-139/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-</span><span class="invisible">fascism-139/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a></p>