Join Us On Boston Common Saturday August 19th –Built The Anti-Fascist United Front Against The White Nationalist Cabal

Join Us On Boston Common Saturday August 19^th –Built The Anti-Fascist United Front Against The White Nationalist Cabal   

Frank Jackman comment:

Recently in commenting on an article from a leftist group about the struggle against the Alt Right, White Nationalists, Nazis, KKK and their assorted hangers-on in high places and low I mentioned that on other occasions I usually have posted political material here that may be of interest to the liberal and radical milieu without comment. And without necessarily agreeing with the content. Occasionally, and given the developments in Charlottesville on Saturday August 12, 2017 when this white trash menaced our people and took one of our own I will make additional comment. I do so here in solidarity with the idea that we have to stop this para-military wing of the right in its tracks now.

A lot of what this site is about is presenting past history, past political history especially. More than once I have mentioned that we need to learn the lessons of history. On this question 1933 in Germany when Hitler and his storm troopers, the guys that the White Nationalists, et. al drool over today, were controlling the streets and ready to take power was too late  (essentially unopposed on those streets by the natural forces to oppose them, the socialist and the communists who had their heads in the sand). Over time I will add to the commentary above in addressing some issues that we should be clear about like the fascists’ right to free speech in a democracy, dependence on police to protect today’s counter-demonstrators, effective ways to stop the White Nationalist cabal in its tracks and other anti-fascist organizing questions. 

The reason I placed the question of the fascists’ right to free speech first was not fortuitous. On the day after the horrible events in Charlottesville, August 13, 2017, I responded to an ad hoc call to attend a rally on Boston Common to express solidarity with the anti-fascist counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville. A few hundred people showed up (I was somewhat disappointed by the turn-out given the pressing issue involved) representing many different liberal to leftist views. As usual on such occasions while the speakers were having their say I wound up talking to various participants to get a feel for why they were there and what they were thinking about strategically in order to stop the fascists in their tracks. As part of one conversation with a bright young man, a graduate student at one of the myriad colleges in the Boston, the seemingly inevitable question of the right of the fascist cabal to express their rights to free speech under the terms of the U.S. Constitution came up. While we were discussing the issue this bright young graduate student expressed concern that we, liberals and radicals alike, not trample of the sacred right to free speech. He took a position of absolute right somewhat reminiscent of the American Civil Liberties Union’s positon most notoriously expressed many years ago by their handling of the Skokie Nazi march case. He was adamant, stuck to his guns about it, in his defense of that right despite Charlottesville and despite history.            

No, a thousand times no, this whole recent “front” of the combined forces of the White Nationalists, Alt-Right, Nazis and KKK to express their deadly program as a free speech one is not at issue. Is not something frankly that we should lose one minute’s sleep over. The key words just expressed are “deadly program” because that is the nub of the matter. These para-military operations are not some run of the mill odd-ball parliamentary organizations who like the say Democrats and Republicans have policy disputes which no matter how far apart are worked though. In other words although on some days it seems a close thing there is a rational basis with seemingly reasonable rational arguments for their disputes.        

No so the fascists, not by history and not by the real programs of today’s crop. Race war, genocide, ethnic cleansing and the violent atomization and destruction of any political opposition are not something today’s counter-protesters should cover for by calling for, or supporting, the rights of free speech for these bastards. This is no game. This is no debating point. The fascists in their turn will respect our rights to free speech right into the concentration camps. Let’s be clear or get clear on that issue.     

We need to stop the White Nationalist, Nazis, KKK, Alt-right and their supporters in the egg. Every worker, every black person, every non-white ethnic minority come to think of it, every Jewish person, every leftist, every one with a non-heterosexual sexual preference or identity needs to incorporate this message now! The slogan of the hour, this hour when the long-standing cold civil war in America is turning hot-Build the Labor, Black, and other oppressed people United Front against the Fascists-Now!!!!       

Join us on Boston Common beginning around 10 AM Saturday August 19, 2017 to stop the White Nationalists and their ilk in their tracks.

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