This excerpt is tellingly short: Rocker was very young when his father died, so he didn’t have a lot of memories of him. Still, much of Rocker’s later worldview seems to have been formed by growing up in a supportive extended family and in a city where, in his view…

I’m working on a book-length translation of Rudolf Rocker’s memoirs for PM Press. Rocker (1873–1958) was a labor organizer, orator, and leading early theorist of anarcho-syndicalism. The text below is the first draft excerpt that I’m publishing here. I intend to publish additional drafts at least once a week until…

In eight years of working together, the Antifa International collective has engaged in an astonishing range of projects. They’re the ones who organize the International Antifascist Defense Fund as well as the International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners, a T-Shirt of the Month project to support local groups around…

[The following essay was meant to be presented digitally at the 2021 International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (ComFaS) conference in Vienna. For technical reasons, I was unable to present it, so I’m posting it here for public consumption.] In their search for symbols that might be useful for recruiting…

By Nicholas Potter (This article was originally published in German by Belltower News. I produced the following English translation, which is also available on their website.) For the first time, German far-right fringe party Der III. Weg (The IIIrd Path) will be on the ballot in a federal election with…

Articles about far right groups’ creepy admiration for the Taliban have become sort of a cottage industry in recent weeks. It’s a worthy point unto itself, but I also think that discussion has been a bit reductive and tends to reinforce the (occasionally reasonable but often very misleading) impression that any one flavor of “extremism” is more or less equivalent to any other. At any rate, hopefully this is a useful contribution to that conversation.

The good people at EuropeNow have just published an essay I wrote. It’s about the August 29, 2020 attack on the Bundestag, but also about the ideological background that created the conditions for the events of that day. Above all, that means the Reichsbürger (“citizen(s) of the Reich”) movement, QAnon supporters, and COVID-19 deniers. All three are motivated by arcane conspiracy theories and all three have grown rapidly in recent years. The events in Berlin last August not only presaged what would happen a few months later at the US Capitol, but also made clear just how dangerous these conspiracy theorists are.

In the aftermath of the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 criminal investigations have left some national organizations like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia network largely hamstrung. As many on the left are all too well aware, it can be very difficult for a movement…

On February 12, the head of French far right organization Génération Identitaire received notice from France’s interior minister Gérald Darmanin that the group would be officially dissolved in two weeks’ time. The impending ban was prompted by a recent demonstration on the French-Spanish border, which Darmanin argues constituted the formation…