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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2024August 26, 2024 2024 US Election, analysis, asylum seekers, BLM, blog, CA4, capitalism, carceral state, CC3, Climate Crisis, colonialism, Democratic Party, deportations, DNC, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Gaza, genocide, Imperialism, Iran, Israel, JA5, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Overton Window, pogroms, Police, police state, Politics, POTUS, progressive politics, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, trans rights, Uncommitted Movement, WD7

Falling Backwards Into History

While Democrats celebrated the “unity” on offer at the DNC, informed observers who read the 2024 platform saw a party shifting to the right to appease fascism.

FotB Social Justice socialism Walker

NinaIllingworth June 2, 2021November 5, 2022 1776 Report, activism, Alex Ingram, Amy Donofrio, anti-blackness, Black Lives Matter, BLM, CA4, capitalism and racism, capitalism and white supremacy, Chris Walker, Confederacy, Confederate iconography, Confederate symbols, critical race theory, cultural hegemony, Deyona Burton, direct action, DSA, FA1, fascism, Florida, George Floyd, George Floyd Protests, IWW, Jacksonville, Jim Crow, Klu Klux Klan, MP6, Nathan B. Forrest, Racism, revolution, revolutionary praxis, Riverside High School, Robert E Lee, Robert E Lee High School, Ron DeSantis, social inequality, Social Justice, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, Teen Vogue, Temitope Oriola, trauma, Walker, Wayne Flynt, white nationalism, white supremacist terrorism, white supremacy, whiteness

A Heritage, of Hate by Chris Walker

IWW organizer Chris Walker returns to talk about how the fight to change school names in Florida is a continuation of our larger battle against white supremacy.

Can't You Read Essays Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth April 26, 2021November 17, 2022 abolish the police, ACAB, anti protest laws, Black Lives Matter, BLM, CA4, Can't You Read, Chauvin trial, crimes by police, Defund the Police, Democrats, Derek Chauvin, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascist cops, fascist police state, fire em all, George Floyd, George Floyd Protests, George Floyd was murdered, guilty, JA5, Joe Biden, Little Eichmanns, Marxist analysis of policing, murderpigs, murders by police, neoliberal authoritarianism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig, Police, police reform, police state, police violence and capitalism, policing and capitalism, racial justice, racism and capitalism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, Social Justice, ST2, state sponsored murder, Temitope Oriola, the GOP is fascist

No Justice, No Peace on Can’t You Read

A Recommended Reading essay on CYR that talks about why police reform is dead even after the Chauvin verdict because you can’t reform capitalist exploitation.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics War

NinaIllingworth January 23, 2021November 5, 2022 "dog faced pony solider", "you ain't Black", anarchists, antifascists, Antony Blinken, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Biden death primary, Biden inauguration, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, Camelot, Captain Trips, Civil Rights movement, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid checks, DC riots, Defund the Police, Dem Voltron Primary, Democratic Party, far right violence, fascism, fascist coup, foreign policy, forever war, GOP is fascist, hagiography, Imperialism, informal writing, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Joe Biden lies, Journals, Kamala Harris, Mastodon, MIC, Military Industrial Complex, militias, MP6, Nelson Mandela, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no Camelot, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Protesters, Proud Boys, Republican Party, social media, Strom Thurmond, Tara Reade, The Skinny, unity, Wall Street, war, word games

The Skinny: Biden His Time Edition

A collection of informal journal posts about the new (and yet so uninspiring) Biden era, on my free to read Patreon Blog.

Can't You Read Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 24, 2020November 5, 2022 analysis, anti-racism, antifa, Assata Shakur, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Can't You Read, class, class war, coalition building, critical race theory, democratic socialism, Denise DaSilva, diverse coalitions, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Emma Goldman, Essays, FA1, identity politics, JA5, James Baldwin, labor class, leftism, Malcolm X, marginalized leftists, Michelle Alexander, MLK, MP6, Nell Irvin Painter, neofeudalism, neoliberal identity politics, neoliberal multiculturalism, neoliberalism, non white leftists, Offsite Writing, Op-Ed, Opinion, organizing, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, The Black Panthers, the Invention of the White Race, the labor class left, the Sanders left, Theodore Allen, Theory, WD7, weaponized identity politics, WEB Du Bois, whiteness

Essay: On Whiteness, Identity Politics & the Pig Empire Left (Link)

A longer, heavily sourced essay about why vast portions of the labor class left need to get over their reactionary ideas about what identity politics actually means; before history and shifting demographics leave them behind.

Fascism media Media Madness Police State

NinaIllingworth September 11, 2020November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, anti Trump protests, antifa, antifascism, Bill Barr, Bill Barr is a fundie fascist, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, Chad Wolf, Christian White Nationalism, Christina Carrega, civil rights violations, CNN, COINTELPRO, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Fox News, JA5, Kyle Rittenhouse, Media, Media Madness, Michael Reinoehl, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, police state, police violence, political assassination, Portland, Proud Boys, Racism, revenge killing, ST2, state sanctioned murder, the Trump administration is fascist, Trump assassinated a guy, Trump is a fascist, Tucker Carlson, U.S. Marshals Service, white nationalism

Media Madness: Law and (the Fascist) Order

A two part essay looking at stories about the Trump Regime’s open fascism that weren’t properly covered by the mainstream American media.

Blog Fascism Personal Site Updates War

NinaIllingworth November 27, 2017January 2, 2021 activism, Alt Right, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, boiling frog, Bush, Cheney, consequences, corporate media, Democrats, Donald Trump, Europe, Evil, fascism, foreign policy, Giant Russia Theory, GOP, government lies, Imperialism, informal writing, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq war propaganda, KSA, letter to my readers, liberals, lies that sold the Iraq War, mainstream media, Middle East, millions of dead, neoliberalism, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, patriotism, Pentagon, personal, Pokemon Go, Propaganda, Putin, racial violence, Racism, Republican, Russia, Russiagate, Saudi Arabia, Site Updates, Social Justice, swine emperor Trump, Syria, the rise of American fascism, The West, Trump is a Nazi, United States, US, US adventurism, USA, war, war in Iran, war in Syria, war with Russia, warmonger, white nationalism, white supremacists

A Brief Note Explaining My Absence During the Late Fall of 2017 to my Readers & Patrons

How I got run down fighting fascism & imperialism at the same time; and why I’m back to fight again

Essays media Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth January 17, 2017November 5, 2022 1955, 1963, 1968, activism, Alabama, America hero, anti-inequity, anti-injustice, anti-poverty, anticapitalism, arrested 29 times, assasination of MLK, assassinated, Bigotry, Black Lives Matter, Black Pride, BLM, Bloody Sunday, Chicago, Civil Rights, coporatism, corporate media, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Essays, establishment narrative, GOP, hero, historical revisionism, holiday, housing discrimination, housing laws, I have a Dream, JA5, Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King Jr, Media, MLK, MLK Day, Montgomery bus boycott, negative peace, Nina Illingworth, non-violent resistance, Op-Ed, Opinion, pacifism, Poor People's Campaign, Racism, Rants, Republican Party, resistance, respectability politics, SCLC, Selma to Montgomery marches, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, the South, Theory, think piece, Vietnam War, voting rights, white supremacy

A Brief Message to My Fellow White People About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Nina takes a brief look at the ongoing de-radicalization of a great American hero on MLK day

Essays Fascism Politics Take Downs

NinaIllingworth April 2, 2016November 5, 2022 2016 Presidential Election, activism, anarchism, Anderson Cooper, antifascism, April Fool, bad predictions, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Chris Matthews, Cleveland, CNN, Contested Convention, Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Gonzo Lite, GOP, Hillary Clinton, hot takes, Jeb Bush, Jen Rubin, John Kasich, July 18th, Michelle Fields, MP6, MSNBC, Nomination, Opinion, Paul Ryan, Political Theory, Politics, Primary, Protest, Republican, Republican National Convention, TADMZ, Take Downs, Tales from the American DMZ, Ted Cruz

April Fool: How Donald Trump Has Thrown Away The GOP Nomination

Nina checks in with an essay about the impending political disintegration of America’s most famous fascist, bloviating billionaire – Donald Trump. Warning, some adult language.