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Shane Burley

https://www.shaneburley.net/
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Shane Burley is a writer and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and the editor of the forthcoming anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. His work is featured at places such as NBC News, The Daily Beast, The Independent, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, Haaretz, Tikkun, The Baffler,  Bandcamp Daily, Truthout, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. He is also the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Social Justice on “Antisemitism in the 21st Century.” He is currently working on two books, one on radical approaches to antisemitism and another on the history of antifascism and popular struggle.

Articles

  • Synagogue Safety Beyond Higher Walls and Militarized Police

    An Excerpt from Safety Through Solidarity
    A group of people standing in front of a synagogue with umbrellas open

    In this excerpt of the book Safety Through Solidarity, Ben Lorber and Shane Burley share insights on community organizing to build Jewish solidarity.

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  • Review: The Age of Insurrection

    People holding flags of various groups like 2 percenters and Trump flags.

    Shane Burley reviews David Neiwert’s 2023 book, The Age of Insurrection, where Neiwert explores how the January 6th 2021 insurrection was a culmination of hundreds of small insurrections. Neiwert breaks down the various Far Right groups…

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  • Review: We Are Proud Boys

    A Proud Boy with a neck warmer covering his mouth points mid-speech at the camera

    On August 17, 2019, the Proud Boys staged a rally against “domestic terrorism” in Portland, Oregon, allegedly in response to a prior scuffle between far-right media personality Andy Ngo and counter-demonstrators who were opposing the Proud Boys and…

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  • Can You Ever Trust a Former White Nationalist?

    Two white men with white outlines and a gradient behind them.

    After leaving behind her career on the Far Right, it only made sense for Katie McHugh to turn over emails from her former bosses, colleagues, and boyfriend. McHugh had been an Alt Right favorite, an editor at Breitbart News who helped funnel far-…

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  • White Borders

    Author Q&A with Reece Jones
    No One is Illegal painted on a wall

    Over the past 30 years, the U.S. Southern border has become an increasingly volatile political force. Trump built his political identity on demonizing immigrants and promoting spectacles of border fortification: the promise of a wall, expansive…

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  • Review: Blood in the Face

    A sign that says Fukkk Racism

    Coverage of the Far Right is often shortsighted, particularly in the U.S. When the Alt Right emerged into public view in 2015, there was a sense of shock as few understood how it had seemed to metastasize so quickly and without precedent. The Unite…

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  • A Field Guide to White Supremacy

    Author Q&A with Kathleen Belew
    A person wearing a mask at a protest holding a sign that reads "Dismantle White Supremacy"

    Over the past several years, as the mass media quickly tried to orient itself to a growing Far Right and rapidly accelerating news cycle, there’s been a tendency to reduce complex issues of oppression, historical inequalities, and the legacy of…

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  • The Israeli Far Right

    A Q&A with Scholar Cas Mudde
    Man holding microphone and smiling

    As the conflict over the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah escalated into a massive Israeli military action against Gaza this May, the role of the Settler Movement and the Israeli Far Right became a primary topic of conversation worldwide…

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  • The Great 2020 Antifa Scare

    A flyer on a pillar that reads: "This is a fascist free zone. Antifa"

    Over the last six years, the U.S. has seen a mass wave of nativism that has shifted the “Overton Window” of acceptable politics, making once-marginal aspects of anti-immigrant ideology a part of the mainstream GOP. This has changed the nature of…

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  • Global White Nationalism

    A Book Review
    A confederate flag with a "don't tread on me" symbol on it.

    In the years following World War II, far-right ideologues, led by figures like fascist philosopher Francis Parker Yockey, attempted to re-create fascism for the post-war era. Instead of European ethnic divisions and reliance on the politics of…

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  • Alt-Right Gangs

    A Q&A with Shannon Reid, co-author of Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White
    A group of men, in Proud Boys gear walking on a street.

    On Saturday, December 12, dozens of members of the far-right street gang the Proud Boys joined a pro-Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C. After listening for hours to speakers spreading conspiracy theories, as has happened at far-right rallies…

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  • No Fascist USA!

    A Q&A with Hilary Moore, co-author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements
    Two people at a protest. One is holding a flag, wearing a leather jacket. The other man is wearing a white t-shirt with anti-nazi writing.

    While the militant antifascist movement known as “Antifa” has prompted confused media coverage and plentiful consternation among conservatives, direct confrontation with the Far Right is not a new idea in the U.S. Beginning in 1977, a group of…

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  • Total Life Reform

    The Real Consequences of the Far Right’s Self-Help Grift
    An in-depth report on “Operation Werewolf,” an entrepreneurial lifestyle brand created by the co-founder of the far-right pagan group Wolves of Vinland, which uses a self-help model to radicalize men into White supremacist politics.

    Right from the start, the Werewolf Elite program is billed as your last chance. Not just to take control of your fitness, get your finances in order, or meet life goals, but for manhood, for “Total Life Reform” (TLR). The Werewolf Elite program is…

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  • “All You Have to Do Is Show Up”

    How White Nationalists Are Infiltrating the GOP
    People carrying Identity Evropa flags march in Charlottesville, August 16, 2017

    In recent years, the most adept attempts at entryism have come from those trying to embed in the Republican Party a far-right ideology that calls for a rebirth of a nation’s mythic past in order to create a populist movement founded on…

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  • Disunite the Right

    The Growing Divides in the Pepe Coalition

    The relationship between the Alt Right and the Alt Light, as well as “patriot” organizations like the Oath Keepers, has often been more pragmatic than comfortable. And maintaining this coalition has not been easy, requiring compromises on language…

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