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Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth August 18, 2024 affordable housing, blog, budget, CA4, California, capitalism, carceral state, Civil Rights, cruelty, Democratic Party, Dystopia, executive order, FA1, fascism, Gavin Newsom, Grants Pass v Johnson, homeless encampments, homeless sweeps, housing crisis, human rights, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, photo op, police state, Politics, SCOTUS, Unhoused

Nina-Bytes: California Über Alles

As the California governor threatens to defund counties that won’t do encampment sweeps, it’s time to call Newsom’s war on unhoused people what it is: fascism.

Image of graffiti saying "No Cop City" on a concrete lane divider, covered in slightly overgrown forest plants and grasses. Image is posterized.

Activism Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth September 11, 2023September 10, 2023 1985 MOVE Bombing, 2020 Uprising, abolition, activism, anarchism, Bill Barr, Chris Carr, Civil Rights, COINTELPRO, Defund the Police, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, George Floyd, Haymarket bombing, IWW, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Justice, labor organization, McCarthyism, Michael Reinoehl, Occupy Wall Street, Police, police state, RICO Act, Social Justice, ST2, Stop Cop City, The War on Sharing, Theory, Tortuguita

Mini-Theory Blog: the War on Sharing Escalates in Georgia

Nina talks about why attempts to criminalize protest itself and anarchist ideology in Georgia, are part of America’s long war on sharing and the left.

Blog Capitalism Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 9, 2022 Alexis de Tocqueville, anticapitalism, blog, CA4, can't separate liberalism from capitalism, capitalism, civics, Civil Rights, class war, contradictions of capitalism, Democracy, Democracy in America, democratic rights, Freedom, human rights, ideology, liberal ideology, liberalism, liberalism is a capitalist ideology, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, political economy, Political Theory, Politics, practice of liberalism, ST2, the Enlightenment, Theory, theory and praxis, wage slavery, why liberalism fails the exploited

Mini-Theory Blog: Practical Realities

What happens when the ideals of liberalism contradict with the reality that it’s subordinate to capital accumulation? There’s no need to ask; you’re living it.

Essays Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 1964 Civil Rights Act, 303 Creative LLC v Elenis, abolish SCOTUS, American theocracy, Amerikan Musik, Amy Coney Barrett, Andrew Jackson, anti-trans pogrom, Brett Kavanaugh, christian fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, Civil Rights, Clarence Thomas, colonialism, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, cultural genocide, decolonization, Democrats, Essays, expand SCOTUS, FA1, fascism, GOP, GOP is a fascist party, Haaland v Brackeen, independent state legislature doctrine, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty, JA5, Joe Manchin, John Roberts, judicial fascism, Justice, Kyrsten Sinema, law, Moore v Harper, MP6, Neil Gorsuch, Nina Illingworth, Paul Starr, Politics, Pork Reich, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, religious Right, Republican Party, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stanley Cohen, Supreme Court, The American Prospect, Thom Hartmann, US Congress, US Judiciary branch, US politics, voting rights, Weimar America, white nationalism, white supremacy

Recommended Reading: Bench Warfare

As a fascist SCOTUS hears cases that will destroy US democratic life Nina lays bare the cynical inversion of principles that are leading us into the Pork Reich.

Blog Fascism Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth November 16, 2022November 16, 2022 anarchism, anarchist theory, antifascism, become ungovernable, blog, Civil Rights, collaborators, Democracy, FA1, fascism, instagram, left wing theory, legal fascism, Little Eichmanns, Mini Theory Blog, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, police state, Politics, resist fascism, rigged oligarchy, SCOTUS, Social Justice, social media, Socialism, ST2, Theory, top down fascism, US Midterm Elections, US politics

Mini-Theory Blog: Primary Front

Today’s Instagram Mini-Theory Blog features a few words on why democracy can lose at the ballot box, but that’s not where fascism wins.

Blog Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 10, 2022November 17, 2022 antifascism, blog, Civil Rights, Democracy, Democratic Party, democratic rights, FA1, fascism, gerrymandering, GOP, House of Representatives, Mark Stern, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Politics, protect voting rights, racialized voter suppression, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican Party, rigged election, SCOTUS, SCOTUS coup, Slate, US Midterm Elections, voting rights, Voting Rights Act, VRA

Recommended Reading: Spoils of Culture War

Nina shares and analyzes one of the few insightful post-midterm election articles in mainstream media to ask, “wait why did the GOP take the House exactly?”

Blog Fascism Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Adolf Eichmann, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, blog, chicken coup, Civil Rights, Democratic Party, democratic rights, electoral politics, FA1, fascism, fascist coup, fascist creep, GOP, instagram, January 6th 2021, left wing theory, legal fascism, Little Eichmanns, Mini Theory Blog, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, pogroms, Politics, Pork Reich, Republicans, smash fascism, social media, Socialism, ST2, Theory, Trumpism, US midterms

Mini-Theory Blog: Eichmann Shrugged

In today’s edition of our Instagram Mini-Theory Blog we’re talking about what it does, and doesn’t mean, if and when fascists seize power through elections.

Blog Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2022November 17, 2022 Amerikan Musik, anti-trans pogrom, antifascism, antisemitism, blog, Chuck Idelson, Civil Rights, conspiracy theories, Crime, Democratic Party, democratic rights, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, GOP, Great Replacement Theory, homophobia, Jim Crow fascism, Justice, Media, MP6, National Nurses United, Nina Illingworth, NNU, police state, political violence, Politics, Pork Reich, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republicans, SCOTUS, Social Justice, stochastic terrorism, The Big Lie, trans rights, Trumpism, US midterms, voter intimidation, voter suppression, Voting, warning, Weimar America, white nationalist

Recommended Reading: Stakes on the Ground

In today’s Recommended Reading we debunk GOP-friendly political gaslighting about American fascism; the threat is real and everybody knows it.

Labor Social Justice Social Media socialism

NinaIllingworth April 4, 2022November 5, 2022 ALU, Amazon, Amazon union, anticapitalism, Bernie Sanders, blog, Brett Wilkins, CA4, Can't You Read, child labor, Chris Smalls, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Clarence Darrow, class war, Common Dreams, democratic socialism, George Floyd Protests, instagram, Jacobin, Jeff Bezos, labor, labor class organizing, labor organization, labor rights, Media Madness, minimum wage, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, organizing a revolution, organizing against captalism, Pinko Postcard, police violence, Quickshot Quotations, revolution, right to organize, Shuvu Bhattarai, Social Justice, social media, Socialism, ST2, Starbucks union, Starbucks Workers United, the Mini-Skinny, TMS, Tumblr, union busting, Wagner Act

TMS: Organizing to Win the Impossible Fight

Fresh off the most stunning labor victory in a generation, Nina takes a look at why the fight against corporate power can help us win a revolution.

Books Can't You Read Fascism Reviews War

NinaIllingworth October 18, 2021November 5, 2022 9/11, Afghanistan War, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Barack Obama, Bill Barr, Black Lives Matter, Book Blog, book review, Bookish Bits, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, Civil Rights, colonialism, Democracy, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, forever war, George W Bush, GOP, Imperialism, Iraq War, Islamophobia, January 6th coup attempt, Michael Reinoehl, National Security State, nativism, neoliberalism breeds fascism, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patriot Act, police state, Racism, reign of terror, Republican, Reviews, Richard Spencer, Security Industrial Complex, Spencer Ackerman, ST2, Tom Cotton, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, war, War on Terror, WD7, white supremacy

Barbarism Starts at Home on Can’t You Read

Nina reviews Spencer Ackerman’s “Reign of Terror” and finds a good book, that could have been so much more. Check out the new Bookish Bits on Can’t You Read.

Fascism Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos

NinaIllingworth December 6, 2020November 5, 2022 American fascism will outlive Trump, American fascists, American history, Amerikan Musik, blog, capitalism, capitalism and racism, capitalism and white supremacy, Civil Rights, Civil Rights movement, Cody Johnston, Donald Trump, FA1, fake leftist, fascism, film sessions, George Floyd Protests, JA5, Jim Crow, left wing Youtube, Media Madness, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Pork Reich, racialized violence, Racism, segregation, Social Justice, Some More News, ST2, the end of the white supermajority, the KKK, the politics of white supremacy, Trump is a white supremacist President, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, Video, white lash, white supremacy, whiteness, Youtube

Film Sessions: The Wellspring and the Current with Some More News

A December 2020 Film Session featuring Some More News about why America has always been intimate with the fascist backlash against racial and social progress.

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