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White Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and the Ongoing Threat to Native Sovereignty

An Issue of the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook Newsletter

If you’re serious about fighting white nationalism and authoritarianism, you need to understand how they’re built on the foundations of settler colonialism. Native genocide, tribal termination, and constant attacks on treaty rights aren’t just…

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Authoritarianism, Criminalization, and Reproductive Injustice

A Roundtable Discussion

In this roundtable discussion, seasoned practitioners who work on the front lines of healthcare, reproductive justice, and criminal law join to share insights drawn from their experiences of navigating repression.

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Three Way Fight

Author Q&A with Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons

Ben Lorber interviews authors Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons about their book Three Way Fight, a collection of essays designed to serve as a guide to antifascism and revolution.

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Stacking the Courts against Mifepristone

Conservative groups are reshaping judicial outcomes in their favor using forum shopping and dark money, as seen in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA case on access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

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Barstool Politics

Sports Media and Fratriarchy

Barstool Sports, a Boston sports publication turned national sports multimedia company, has become a decentralized platform for the dissemination of misogynistic and racist attitudes.

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Leading in Resistance: Three Decades of Fighting Authoritarian and Supremacist Forces, A Conversation with Tarso Luís Ramos

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 10

PRA’s former Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos about the ways that the terrain of contestation between Left and Right has shifted over three decades, and where he looks to for inspiration in an era of growing authoritarianism.

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Calling In

Author Q&A with Loretta Ross

PRA talks to Loretta Ross about her journey through activism and her framework for addressing conflict within and beyond social justice movements.

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The Moral Conservatism Behind Global Resistance to LGBTI Rights

An excerpt from The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights explores the global coordination of movements around Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) rights.

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Right-Wing Grievances in Progressive Clothing: Canada's Far Right, with Mariel Cooksey and Amy Mack

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 9

Koki speaks with researchers Mariel Cooksey and Amy Mack about the Far Right in Canada today. They discuss the evolution of the Far Right and its disparate movements and the current rise to prominence of the Far Right in provincial politics.

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Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

A Conversation with Deon Haywood, Laura McTighe, and Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

A discussion with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and the authors of Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South about Black feminist liberatory praxis and resistance strategies to White supremacy.

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How Solidarity Provides the Path of Resistance: A Conversation with Naomi Washington-Leapheart

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 8

In this episode, Naomi Washington-Leapheart explores the role of community and solidarity in creating responsive and durable strategies of contestation—of resistance—in our contemporary political moment.

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Strategizing for the 2025 Trump Regime Change with Steven Gardiner

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 7

PRA Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner provides astute analysis on what has led us to this moment in history—when Donald Trump and the Republican Party have so decisively won the presidency and both houses of congress.

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Review: Commune or Nothing!

Lessons for Building Grassroots Power Toward Liberation and Democracy

Hialy Gutierrez reviews Chris Gilbert’s book Commune or Nothing!, a story of Venezuela’s communes as a model for liberatory organizing.

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The Education Wars

Author Q&A with Jennifer C. Berkshire

Jennifer C. Berkshire’s interview with PRA about her and Jack Schneider’s new book, The Education Wars, provides a road map for defending public education.

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Art of Activism: Dio Cramer

An interview with artist Dio Cramer on resistance, art, and inspiration.

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What Is Movement Infrastructure?

How Movements Sustain Us Amid Rising Authoritarianism

Cloee Cooper speaks with three movement leaders—Alex Tom, Meena Jagannath, and Vince Warren—about rising authoritarianism, successful resistance strategies, and the future of Left organizing.

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Rising Against Authoritarianism

Amplifying Voices for Immigrant Justice

Cloee Cooper interviews Greisa Martínez Rosas, Executive Director of United We Dream, about her work in the immigrant justice space and our current political moment of rising authoritarianism and anti-immigrant policy and sentiment.

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Review: Reverberations of October 7

Mobilization Against Genocide Undeterred by Peak Anti-Palestinian Repression by Palestine Legal

Palestine Legal’s report on anti-Palestinian repression in months after October 7, 2023 details the enormous wave of institutional backlash against pro-Palestine protesters.

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From the Archives: From Palestine to Atlanta, The Institutional Policing of Dissent by Habiba Farh

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 6

In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “From Palestine to Atlanta, Outside and Foreign: The Institutional Policing of Dissent” by Habiba Farh, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read…

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Three Way Fight

Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism

This excerpt from Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism explores a radical framework that can inform sharper and more effective strategies for organizing for human liberation.

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