Today in Labor History May 2, 1933: In one of his first acts after coming to power, Adolf Hitler abolished all labor unions. Storm troopers occupied union offices across Germany. Union leaders were arrested, beaten, tortured and imprisoned, or sent to concentration camps. In the coming months, thousands more communists, anarchists and labor activists were arrested and murdered.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #communism #anarchism #nazis #massacre #ConcentrationCamp #hitler #fascism #prison #torture

“UCLA now finds itself in a far more vulnerable place. The attack last night was pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement.”
#acab #fascism #gazaprotests

https://forward.com/opinion/608479/ucla-violence-campus-protests/

I'm a UCLA professor. Our leaders could have prevented violence – The Forward

Last night's violence at UCLA was something the university's administrators could and should have anticipated.

^{The Forward}

#Nazis attacked 2 friends of mine in #Stockholm: with fists, & with fire. I‘m scared and furious.

This is what #fascism is: it is violence, always, & everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2QeyQa7lW8

#Nazi violence in #Stockholm

#Nazis attacked 2 friends of mine in #Stockholm: with fists, & with fire. I‘m scared and furious.This is what #fascism is: it is violence, always, & everywhere.

^YouTube

“I have been reporting on political dissent and violent policing for 15 years, particularly in New York City. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place.”

#fascism #acab #gazaprotests

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.

When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.

^{Natasha Lennard (The Intercept)}

Columbia Anti-Viet Nam War Protest leader:

"They’re pretty much the same as we were. The basic impetus of the students, I think it’s not that complicated. It’s that they see a moral tragedy and moral crime going on, and they want to try to do something to stop it,” Rudd told the Daily Beast.

“They don't have the violent rhetoric we had, like calling the cops pigs and ‘Up against the wall, motherfucker,’ that kind of craziness. I think they’re a lot more careful. I think they’re smarter."

https://buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich/archive/history-repeats-itself-at-columbia/

#Columbia #Gaza #Fascism #Injustice #Genocide

History Repeats Itself at Columbia

By David Swanson Columbia’s Low Memorial Library in 1968, and in 2024 Last night, as a group of activists took over Hamilton Hall just hours after Columbia...

^{The Sword And the Sandwich}

Content warning: UK Politics Reveal/hide

#UnitedStates #fascism #media #propaganda #China #Russia #Venezuela

https://nitter.privacytools.io/s_m_marandi/status/1783750048460796146

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Our horrible guy is still better than their terrible guy.

– Democrats, 2024

#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #studentProtests #policeBrutality #USA #UnitedStates #Biden #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #fascism #policeState #zionism

Alito turned the whole idea of deterrence on its head, arguing that giving a #POTUS immunity for attempting a coup will make future coups less likely.

Hard to overstate how utterly bonkers this is.

#trump #fascism #scotus

A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein, 2020

"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."––Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#fascism

Interview

Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Shut Down Palestinian Conference

Germany's crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices continued with the conference stormed by police.

Germany’s Interior Ministry had also banned some conference speakers from entering the country.

"This is not about protecting Jews from antisemitism. It’s all about protecting the right of Israel to commit any war crime of its choice,” said Varoufakis

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine

#Germany #Fascism ..

Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference

As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that was forcibly shut down by police.

^{Democracy Now!}

Nothing says "freedom" quite like armed agents of the state abusing citizens with impunity.

#florida #desantis #fascism #acab

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/12/desantis-signs-controversial-bill-banning-civilian-boards-from-investigating-police-misconduct/

DeSantis signs controversial bill banning civilian boards from investigating police misconduct

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill Friday stripping citizen oversight boards of their power to investigate police misconduct. 

^{Shira Moolten (Sun Sentinel)}

#Elections2024--how to defeat #MAGA #fascism in the #US (and elsewhere)

(2/2) #PoliticsGirl

...not just ok to be a #Republican who votes for a #Democrat this cycle, if you truly believe in the values of freedom, liberty and justice, then it's absolutely essential you vote for a Democrat this cycle. [Or at least not for the #MAGA candidate.]

This is a great conversation and absolutely worth your time!"

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Essential video for #Elections2024--how to defeat #MAGA #fascism in the #US (and elsewhere)

(1/2) #PoliticsGirl

"Former 👉#RNC Chairman #MichaelSteele👈 reaches out to his party to remind them to 👉vote R for Rights
not [R for] Republican. He tells us that #Republican values are still here, they just can't breathe under this current top down, one person
centric, wanna-be dictator. We talk about how the once great party has been co-oped, so it's...

https://youtu.be/7uRrBhxM1jY

RNC? More like the TNC: A Conversation with former RNC Chair Michael Steele

Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele reaches out to his party to remind them to vote R for Rights not Republican. He tells us that Republican values are still ...

^YouTube

Secretive #Christofascist fraternal order looking to franchise #Fascism.

This should shock us all into action, but how do we fight it?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/far-right-fraternal-order-sacr

#SACR #Antifa #Antifascist #AntifaAF #ArtFED #TVAC #RedStateInsurgents

#Ugandan #court #upholds #antiLGBTQ #law but says some #rights #infringed.

“The #judges are supposed to ... #protect #vulnerable #groups, but they have rather #sided with #majority to #punish #minority #groups,” Mugisha told #reuters

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Uganda #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ChristianDarkMoney #ExportingHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/africa/2024-04-03-ugandan-court-upholds-anti-lgbtq-law-but-says-some-rights-infringed/

Ugandan court upholds anti-LGBTQ law but says some rights infringed

Uganda's constitutional court on Wednesday refused to annul or suspend an anti-LGBTQ law that includes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but voided some provisions it said are inconsistent with fundamental human rights.

^{Reuters (SowetanLIVE)}