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Table of Contents
1. Intro (2025)
2. Quotes (1676-1976)
3. Stories and analysis (1798-2025)
4. The 2025 LA resistance (and beyond), stories and analysis
5. The 2026 Minneapolis resistance (and beyond), stories and analysis
6. Appendix on American history
Intro
With democracy currently in retreat and totalitarianism, racism and war on the rise, the question of fascism becomes topical once more. Racialized groups placed into (overlapping) categories such as migrant, Indigenous and non-white citizen are increasingly being scapegoated and targeted for violence and repression, but this is not without precedent.
Fascism is a particular form of totalitarianism (both ideology and structure) originating in Europe and born from democratic colonialism, militarism and the Great War for colonies, World War I. Fascism did not invent oppression, and not all forms of oppression are fascist, rather fascism is one particular oppressive tendency that grew out of others and influences them in turn. Fascism didn’t invent concentration camps or ethnic cleansing, it picked up where others had left off and ran with it.
Long before fascism took the stage, the North American settler colonies of the United States and Canada, and their European parent colonial empires, those of France and Britain, had been born from and then maintained by the totalitarian oppression of non-white peoples around the world. Democracy and imperialism, like their child, fascism, have always been based on the exclusion, exploitation and extermination of non-citizens (and even de jure citizens who do not belong to the dominant ethnicity).
The 20th century Italian and German fascists, late bloomers that they were, took inspiration from their colonial predecessors in both Europe and North America, and were given material support by the democratic powers as they set about regaining and expanding colonies of their own in Africa and Eastern Europe.
Fascist Italy, upon taking power in 1922, inherited a modest pre-existing colonial empire from (monarchical) democratic Italy, consisting primarily of Eritrea, Somalia and Libya; and the fascists looked forward to enlarging it. They felt they had been cheated out of promised territory in WWI, calling it the “mutilated victory.”
The Nazis were bitter about Germany’s loss in the First World War, including the loss of their African colonies, where Germany had committed the first genocide of the 20th century against the Herero and Nama peoples.
The militarism and colonialism of WWI was a breeding ground for more of the same or even worse versions of the same. The rise of fascism, in its time, was seen by some in North America and Europe as a development of the racial oppression within the democratic regimes, rather than a sharp break from it.
“The Italian fascisti provoked parallels to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as early as 1922, even before Mussolini became the Fascist head of the Italian state,” notes Anna F. Duensing, regarding the response of the Black American press to the rise of fascism, as outlined in her chapter of the 2023 book, ‘Fascism in America.’
Before Aimé Césaire wrote of the “colonial blowback” (AKA the “imperial boomerang”) in 1950, indeed before World War II had broken out, other writers such as Nguyen Nam and George Padmore had already pointed to the colonialist origins of fascism.
Throughout the 1930s, the democracies, being capitalists and colonizers themselves, capitulated to fascist maneuvers such as Italy’s genocidal occupation of Libya and invasions of Ethiopia and Albania; the fascist coup in Spain; Nazi Germany’s annexation of part of Czechoslovakia; and Japan’s invasion of China; all of which took place before the Second World War broke out. The totalitarian Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed a non-aggression pact with fascist Italy and continued to supply it with oil while it committed genocide against Libya and invaded Ethiopia and Albania.
Italian and German fascism re-inspired, re-invigorated and profited the already racist democrats and totalitarians of the Americas, Europe and Asia, regardless of the fact that it all eventually led to the conflagration of WWII. The result of that war did not spell the end for colonialism, nor did it preclude the reintegration of certain German and Japanese fascists into the democratic realm of America and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
However, it’s important to remember that fascism is not the domain of state actors alone. Like settler colonialism, it involves the rabble, whose autonomous actions serve their own purposes, while simultaneously being of potential benefit to the State. The rabble can be deputized for the State’s purposes when useful, including acceptance or defence of their violent activity, be it autonomous or otherwise. At the other times, the rabble can come into conflict with liberal or even conservative elements of the State.
Democratic colonialism, the father of fascism, has repeatedly proven unwilling or unable to properly discipline its wayward child, rekindling the question of the possibility of a third kind of society, neither democratic nor totalitarian, instead based on mutuality and freedom for all oppressed peoples.
-Ed., Jun-Dec. 2025
Quotes (1676-1976)
“Another main article of our Giult is our Design not only to ruin and extirpate all Indians in General but all Manner of Trade and Commerce with them…”
Member of the Virginia Governor’s Council Nathaniel Bacon, Manifesto Concerning the Present Troubles in Virginia (1676)
“Hence the Prince that acquires new Territory, if he finds it vacant, or removes the Natives to give his own People Room; the Legislator that makes effectual Laws for promoting of Trade… may be properly called Fathers of their Nation…”
Pennsylvania Assembly Member Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, Etc. (1751)
“We conceive that the ONLY THING in a Cherokee way, that will [have] any effect to bring those savages to a firm and lasting peace, is, to destroy as many of their people as we can, and when an opportunity offers so to do, to miss it by no means, which, we fear, has been too much the case in the late expedition and defensive action…”
South Carolina Commons House of Assembly member Christopher Gadsden, Some Observations on the Two Campaigns Against the Cherokee Indians (1762)
“There are thousands, and tens of thousands, who would think it glorious to expel from the continent, that barbarous and hellish power [Britain], which hath stirred up the Indians and Negroes to destroy us, the cruelty hath a double guilt, it is dealing brutally by us, and treacherously by them.”
Founding Father Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
“The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their [the Haudenosaunee‘s] settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.”
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army George Washington to Major General John Sullivan (1779)
“In this way our settlements will gradually circumscribe and approach the Indians, and they will in time either incorporate with us as citizens of the United States or remove beyond the Missisipi. The former is certainly the termination of their history most happy for themselves. But in the whole course of this, it is essential to cultivate their love. As to their fear, we presume that our strength and their weakness is now so visible that they must see we have only to shut our hand to crush them, and that all our liberalities to them proceed from motives of pure humanity only.”
President Thomas Jefferson to Governor of the Indiana Territory William Henry Harrison (1803)
“They have their republic, but the native peoples are reduced to desperate straits and hunted down like wild animals… What am I saying? In America, as in Rome and in Greece before her, we have seen that the republic is compatible with slavery!”
Errico Malatesta, The Republic of the Boys and that of the Bearded Men (1884)
“Democracy is not a bulwark against dictatorship. Its spinelessness, its incapacity, its regime of corruption, of rot, constitute rather the pretext and justification of a fascism that says it’s called to ‘purify’ the world.”
Pierre Besnard, Fascism or Democracy? Statist Communism or Libertarian Federalism!, Le Combat Syndicaliste (1930)
“The Ku Klux Klan is American fascism, much limited fascism, since, lacking vision on foreign and economic policy, it was limited to puritanical terrorism, to religious and social persecution.”
Charles B. Vibbert, translated from the article, La Génération Présente Aux États-Unis (1930)
“I am going down there to fight the battle of 14 million colored Americans, and I am going down there to fight for my people because Hitlerism in Germany is Hitlerism in the South only by a different name.”
Samuel Leibowitz, quoted in the article, ‘25,000 in N.Y. out to Greet Leibowitz,’ Baltimore Afro-American (1933)
“The first attempt to limit the freedom of opinion was made in 1798 with the ‘Alien Act‘, so-called, which was sustained by its promoters on the ground of the international complications of those warlike times. But it was furiously fought by a host of liberty-loving people all over the country with such an enthusiasm and consistency that it had to be repealed soon after. […] No such resistance has been opposed to the following attempts, and they were fully successful.”
Raffaele Schiavina, American Inquisition (1933)
Schiavina’s account is partly inaccurate, since, of the four Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the Naturalization Act was repealed, and the Alien Friends Act and Sedition Act were allowed to expire (the latter in part due to the protests Schiavina mentions), whereas the Alien Enemies Act was allowed to remain in effect. -Ed.
“Habits once formed are difficult to get rid of. That is why we maintain that the Colonies are the breeding-ground for the type of fascist mentality which is being let loose in Europe today… The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the right of all colonial peoples and subject races to Self-Determination.”
George Padmore, How Britain Rules Africa (1936)
“For us, the military is an integral part of fascism. The army is the characteristic instrument of authoritarianism.”
Frente Libertario, organ of the CNT-FAI militias in the Madrid sector (1936)
“Fascism, that is, a politico-economic state where the ruling class of each country behaves towards its own people as for several centuries it has behaved to the colonial peoples under its heel…”
Bart de Ligt, The Conquest of Violence (1937)
“Imperialism is older than fascism; and though fascism has had far more books, and pamphlets written about its twenty years’ existence than have been written about the centuries of imperialism; there is little to choose between the two in foulness and beastliness, except that imperialism is probably rather more hypocritical.”
Reginald Reynolds, “Bombing the daylight out of them”, Spain and the World (1938)
“In the twentieth century many Americans have come to think of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union of Stalin as prototypes of the all-embracing state, but Hitler and the Stalinists might well have been imitating the system of coercive cultural change used earlier by the United States.”
Jack D. Forbes, The Indian in America’s Past (1964)
“All the ingredients for a fascist state were already present: racism, the morbid traditional fear of Blacks, Indians, Mexicans; the desire to inflict pain on them when they began to compete in industrial sectors.”
George Jackson, Blood in My Eye (1972)
“Many of the techniques used would be intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far beyond that.”
US Senate “Church” Committee, Final Report (1976)
Stories and Analysis (1798-2026)
“Since 2019, the Neighbors Not Enemies Act has been introduced each year in Congress to repeal the AEA in an effort to prevent its use against immigrants based on their nationality. The bill has never made it out of committee.”
The Alien Enemies Act: Annotated, by Liz Tracey (1798/2025)
“It will relieve the whole State of Mississippi and the western part of Alabama of Indian occupancy, and enable those States to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power.”
Andrew Jackson’s Speech on the Indian Removal Act – Annotated, by Liz Tracey (1830/2024)
“We pronounce it the most bloody and heaven-daring arrangement ever made by men for the continuance and protection of a system of the most atrocious villainy ever exhibited on earth.”
On the Constitution and the Union, by William Lloyd Garrison (1832)
“Whilst they were packing up to go to Virginia, I was packing to go, I didn’t know where; for I knew that if I went back to Virginia, I should never get my liberty.”
Interviews with Ona Judge Staines (1845-46)
“It removed access to the most basic of American constitutional rights, that of habeas corpus, from the enslaved (despite that same Constitution guaranteeing it, with the only exceptions made in ‘cases of rebellion or invasion [when] the public safety may require it’).”
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Annotated, by Liz Tracey (1850/2025)
“I’m on my way to Canada,
That cold and dreary land;
The dire effects of Slavery
I can no longer stand.”
Away to Canada!, from Voice of the Fugitive (1851)
“…think not that you are safe and out of danger while you are under the wings of the flesh-devouring eagle of America, which protects the liberties of fugitives from Southern bondage as the wolf protects the lamb.”
A Warning Voice, from Voice of the Fugitive (1851)
“The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, and a Ladies’ Society at Toronto, provide these Refugees with food, clothing, tools, or whatever they require, until they procure employment and can support themselves.”
Fugitive Slaves in Canada, from The Provincial Freeman (1854)
“…we would consent to eat at no other…”
Negrophobia on Canadian Steamboats. from The Provincial Freeman (1854)
“The insurrection of Harper’s Ferry has passed like a flash. The clouds are dark once again, but they contain electricity. After your flashes the thunderbolt will erupt, oh Liberty!”
The Servile War, by Joseph Déjacque (1859)
“Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit; so let it be done”
Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court (1859)
“Let’s get to work! We’re counting on all those who struggle for right against might, on all those who don’t live egotistically for themselves or their families alone, and who understand the beauty of sacrifice.”
John Brown, by Élisée Reclus (1867)
“It was here the rights of property triumphed, and the rights of man were lost sight of.”
A Piece of History, by Lucy E. Parsons (1895)
“Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.”
Lynch Law in America, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1900)
“Civilization? Who, then, represents it just now? […] Is it the French State, with its Biribi, its bloody conquests in Tonkin, Madagascar, Morocco, and its compulsory enlistment of black troops?”
Anti-War Manifesto, by the Anarchist International (1915)
“Nearly every human empire that has arisen in the world, material and spiritual, has found some of its greatest crises on this continent of Africa, from Greece to Great Britain.”
The African Roots of War, by W. E. B. DuBois (1915)
“The destruction by Germany of a hundred odd American citizens who were packed around a cargo of ammunition, is less atrocious than the atrocities which the United States perpetrates upon its own peaceful Indians.”
Concerning Atrocities, by James Peter Warbasse (1915)
“Six masked ruffians dragged him from the bed where he reposed, and while the population slept, his life was snuffed out.”
In Free America!!, by Ricardo Flores Magón (1917)
“It seems that what has been chosen to be called Fate has a taste for being ironic and sarcastic. The first number drawn by Baker, according to ‘The Times’ of this city, designating the first ‘lucky one’ to go to defend ‘his’ country, corresponds to a mexican, Alejandro Duarte.”
The Roundup, by Enrique Flores Magón (1917)
“Liberty is dead, and white terror on top dominates the country. Free speech is a thing of the past.”
“What is more, the United States has always had a sort of private police in the service of the capitalists, acting in cahoots with the official police, but independently of government, in troubled times and during strikes.”
The Preventive Counter-Revolution: Essay by an Anarchist on Fascism, by Luigi Fabbri (1922)
“The Fascisti have provided a means of existence, even though it is gained by the murder and terrorism of their class brothers and sisters, to masses of destitute demobilised soldiers. ”
“The bourgeoisie, threatened by the rising proletarian tide, incapable of solving the problems made urgent by the war, powerless to defend itself with the traditional methods of legal repression, saw itself lost and would have greeted with joy any soldier who declared himself dictator and drowned in blood every uprising attempt.”
Mussolini in Power, by Errico Malatesta (1922)
“Fascism, which synthesizes all the reaction and calls back to life all the sleeping atavistic ferocity, won because it had the financial support of the rich bourgeoisie and the material help of the various governments that wanted to use it against the pressing proletarian threat…”
Why Fascism Won, by Errico Malatesta (1923)
“Our comrades are daily killed; many take the road of the exile; many are chained; others are at the forests; all are menaced with the want of bread.”
Fascism, by Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1923)
“The revolution will have to be carried out in the name of justice, freedom and human solidarity and proceed with methods inspired by justice, freedom and solidarity. Otherwise, one will only fall from one tyranny into another.”
Communists and Fascists, by Errico Malatesta (1924)
“We are going to stick,” asserted Pease. “and if the Klan starts anything, the I.W.W. will finish it.”
K.K.K. And I.W.W. Wage Drawn Battle in Greenville, from the Portland Press Herald (1924)
“Curious inquiries elicited the information that there would be a parade of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From remarks passed among the crowds it appeared to be no secret that the purpose of this parade was intimidation of the Industrial Workers of the World, who were growing stronger, in spite of every form of persecution.”
“I was always at odds with the socialists, because they said we shouldn’t rush things, we should let time do its work for the Revolution…”
The Truth About Fascism on the March, by Errico Malatesta (1926)
“I looked for sanity in the United States to come from a democratic appeal to the Middle West. And yet, there in Akron, in the land of Joshua R. Giddings, in the Western Reserve, I found the Klan calmly and openly in the saddle.”
The Shape of Fear, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (1926)
“Because fascism in Tunisia is a prelude to the fascist movement that our bourgeoisie will unleash against all workers, metropolitans included.”
Attention! Fascism Installed in Tunisia, by Nguyen Nam (1933)
“Everyone who dared raise his voice to stem the tide of the war-mania was shouted down and maltreated as an enemy, an anarchist and public menace.”
Woman Without a Country, by Emma Goldman (1933)
“The whole Italian situation has led up to the dictatorship, has determined the different phases of Fascism. To believe that all that has been the product of the will and the intelligence of one man is infantile.”
Mussolini: The Great Actor, by Camillo Berneri (1934)
“The race delirium is not a product of Hitlerism: it predated and largely generated the latter.”
Against the Racist Delirium, by Camillo Berneri (1935)
“Teachers in schools, professors in colleges and students alike are being ousted from the ‘temples of learning’. Legislative bodies in State after State are enacting ordinances which doom any expression of free thought to total extinction.”
Rampant Fascism in America, by Marcus Graham (1935)
“It is no exaggeration to assert that never in our modern history has such perfidy and sheer brutal audacity been displayed by the various government officials of the world as in this Ethiopia-Italy conflict.”
Mussolini’s War Upon East Africa, by Marcus Graham (1935)
“The struggle against fascism, which at this time has a clear international character, must advise us to try with all our means to foment a healthy atmosphere of rebellion in the communities of the Riff”
The Right of Peoples to Determine Themselves, by Solidaridad Obrera (1936)
“For us, the military is an integral part of fascism. The army is the characteristic instrument of authoritarianism.”
Militians, Yes! But Soldiers, Never!, by some Spanish anarchist militias (1936)
“We are going to crush Fascism! We have promised it and we will keep our promise, as we have always done.”
Fascism Should Not Be Discussed, But Destroyed, by Buenaventura Durruti (1936)
“International fascism is determined to win the battle and we have to be determined not to lose it.”
You don’t argue with fascism, you destroy it, by Buenaventura Durruti (1936)
“The operational base of the fascist army is Morocco. We must intensify our propaganda in favour of Moroccan autonomy throughout the pan-Islamic area of influence.”
What Can We Do?, by Camillo Berneri (1936)
“The chief characteristic of fascism is that of organizing the petty capitalist and middle class with their narrow-minded spirit of private business into a mass organization, strong enough to check and beat the proletarian organizations.”
The Role of Fascism, by Anton Pannekoek (1936)
“What gave it power was the brutality of its methods. Its reckless violence could have no regard for the opinions of others just because it had none of its own. What the state still lacked of being a perfect prison the fascist dictatorship has given it in abundance.”
Nationalism — A Political Religion, by Rudolf Rocker (1937)
“However, apart from once more exposing Mussolini as the opportunist par excellence, the events in Palestine once more shows that all Imperialisms, whether they be democratic or totalitarian are ruthless.”
Terrorism In Palestine: “Democracy” at Work, by Vernon Richards (1937)
“First it should be understood that fascism is not just political dictatorship, not just militant reaction, not just the abridgement of civil liberties, not just the old rough and ready way of trampling on labor, and not just a process of Jew-baiting either. We have had all these things with us before.”
The Economics of Fascism, from One Big Union Monthly (1937)
“Fascism and National Socialism and all the frightfulness they imply are the direct legacy of the last war.”
The Black Spectre of War, by Emma Goldman (1938)
“For the Government is inaugurating a policy which savours of Colonial Fascism, and which, if not challenged immediately, is bound to deprive the workers of their most elementary civil rights, such as freedom of the press, speech and assembly.”
Fascism in the Colonies, by George Padmore (1938)
“Similarly, the colonial peoples living under the yoke of British, French, and American Imperialisms must forego their struggle for self-determination and line up in defence of ‘democracy,’ something they have never known.”
Hands off the Colonies!, by George Padmore (1938)
“It is not the politically backward Moors who should be blamed for being used by the forces of reaction against the Spanish workers and peasants, but the leaders of the Popular Front, who, in attempting to continue the policy of Spanish Imperialism, made it possible for Franco to exploit the natives in the service of Fascism.”
Why Moors help Franco, by George Padmore (1938)
“The recent bloody repressions in Jamaica […] the continual cleaning-up operations in India […] the savage repression of the Arabs in Palestine… all these are symbolic of British Imperialism.”
Anti-Fascism: Capitalist or Socialist?, by Vernon Richards (1938)
“There are still people who believe that a so-called democratic government will wage a war against fascism.”
Reaction in Canada, by Walter Brooks (1939)
“In the colonies of the British Empire fascism is already established.”
Manifesto of the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1939)
“…the fact remains that such conditions existed in Germany six years ago, and then, far from exposing these crimes, the British Government was eagerly helping the Nazi regime to get on its feet with loans and raw materials.”
This Is Not A War For Freedom!, by War Commentary (1939)
“Imperialistic urges and fascist proclivities are not confined, however, to Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese militarists.”
British Imperialists Treat the Negro Masses Like Nazis Treat the Jews, by George Padmore (1941)
“When hypocritical tears were shed over democratic China by our Government and the Labour Party, we were not impressed. We pointed out that the conflict was only made possible with British and American collaboration.”
The Axis Versus “Democracy”, by Marie Louise Berneri and John Hewetson (1941)
“Their reputation of being a ‘great democracy’ has never failed; not even when Tom Mooney was kept in prison nor when Sacco and Vanzetti were led to the electric chair.”
Our New Ally, by Marie Louise Berneri (1942)
“Fascism is the natural child of bourgeois ‘democracy.’”
Manifesto of the Anarchist Federation on War (1943)
“The government began to imprison working class militants while fascist hooligans could act with complete impunity. Mussolini began an organized struggle against working-class organizations, their offices were burned, their centers destroyed, their members murdered.”
Italy After 1918, by Marie Louise Berneri (1943)
“The government began to imprison working class militants while fascist hooligans could act with complete impunity. Mussolini began an organized struggle against working-class organizations, their offices were burned, their centers destroyed, their members murdered.”
The Rise of Fascism in Italy, by Marie Louise Berneri (1943)
“The role played by the financial interests and the governments of the ‘democracies’ in enthroning and keeping in power the Italian fascist régime is common knowledge”
What Made Fascism Possible?, by Marcus Graham (1943)
“During those pre-war years when our ruling class was friendly towards the Fascist powers and coldly sacrificed the smaller states, as they successively fell victims to Fascist aggression, the workers were solidly anti-fascist.”
War and Fascism, by Marie Louise Berneri and John Hewetson (1943)
“The capitalist system is to be saved at all costs. The nazis and fascists of all sorts will be tolerated, but subdued and controlled by the democratic powers.”
American Imperialism Exposed, by Marcus Graham (1943)
“The ink of the Peace terms, which were supposed to put an end to totalitarianism, was not yet dry when American, British, French and Dutch imperialisms hurried to take over the whip with which the Japanese Government held the Indonesian and Indo-Chinese under subjection.”
British Army of Oppression Crushes Eastern Freedom, by Marie Louise Berneri (1945)
“Yet, as the record shows, neither the United States, nor the British Government made any effort to expose the criminal acts of the Nazi régime. On the contrary, diplomatic as well as commercial relationships were kept up intact.”
Mankind and the State, by Marcus Graham (1946)
“But Democracy is not freedom. Just as Mussolini did not ask for approval of his African adventures, merely endeavouring to work up support by atrocity tales, so in a democracy the elected government does not need to obtain support for its foreign policy.”
‘Why not give it up?’, by Albert Meltzer (1947)
“As the earliest Anarchist criticisms of Zionism said — a new nationalism could only create a State and this would become more reactionary, as witness the decline of Italian nationalism into fascism.”
Middle East Notes: Civil War, from Freedom (1948)
“Spectacular and futile condemnations of race prejudice. In reality, a colonial country is a racist country.”
Racism and Culture, by Frantz Fanon (1956)
“The principles upon which the strategy of extermination was based were first enunciated by fascist military theorists, notably General Douhet, who believed, like our own Major Seversky, that a small air force could take the place of a large army by confining its efforts to mass attacks on civilians and undermining the national will to resist.”
“The Anti-Fascist League, poor and ‘un-influential’ had, by its devotion and courage, proved that Fascism can be fought and defeated.
Newcastle fights the fascists, by Albert Meltzer and Tom Brown (1962)
“Colonial expansion did not come about because of the need for markets for surplus production. On the contrary, surplus production came about as a result of colonial expansion.”
Capitalism, the Final Stage of Exploitation, by Lee Carter [AKA Maracle] (1970)
“But, now, to make my point very clear, a real opposition party did come into existence. The BPP, Black Panther Party. What happened? What happened — they reverted back to the second stage, back to the second dimension. They were kicking doors in and killing people.”
Analyzing the Correct Method in Combating American Fascism, by George Jackson (1971)
“The longest war that the United States government has ever waged has been against the American Indians. The war has never ceased.”
Wounded Knee: The Longest War 1890-1973, from Black Flag (1974)
“When World War II broke out, Greenland came under the ‘protection’ of the USA, which constructed military airbases in south, west, and north Greenland. In return for the ‘protection,’ the US got cryolite, a resource vital to the military industry.”
The Inuit of Greenland: A Brief History, by Malik (1975)
“This violent state repression consisted of dozens of murders and assaults, including an assault on a non-Native legal defence team.”
Chronology of Oppression at Pine Ridge, from Victims of Progress (1977)
“For the bourgeoisie and the petit bourgeoisie, fascism was an abnormal phenomenon, a degradation of democratic values explicable only by recourse to psychological explanations”
Fascism / Antifascism, by Gilles Dauvé (1979/1982)
“Of course, saying that a country is democratic is not to say that it lacks aggression against others, or is a free society, least of all that it lacks police repression: all these things exist in Israel as in other democracies.”
Alternatives to Suicide, by Albert Meltzer (1981)
“My relative’s contempt was my first experience with racism, which gave this relative an affinity with the Pogromists she had fled from; her narrow escape from them did not make her a critic of Pogromists; the experience probably contributed nothing to her personality, not even her identification with the Conquistador, since this was shared by Europeans who did not share my relative’s experience of narrowly escaping from a concentration camp.”
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom, by Fredy Perlman (1983)
“After the war, many reasonable people would speak of the aims of the Axis as irrational and of Hitler as a lunatic. Yet the same reasonable people would consider men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson sane and rational, even though these men envisioned and began to enact the conquest of a vast continent, the deportation and extermination of the continent’s population, at a time when such a project was much less feasible than the project of the Axis.”
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism, by Fredy Perlman (1984)
“Between the surrender of Sitting Bull in 1883 and the massacre at Wounded Knee seven years later occurred the last great Indian uprising: the valiant campaign of the Chiricahua Apaches in the Southwest, led by Geronimo”
Anarchists and the Wild West, by Franklin Rosemont (1986)
“The first half of this article is a brief introduction to the historical development of imperialism, including the rise to dominance of US capital in the global economic order. The second half discusses national liberation struggles, their contradictions & limitations, & an anarchist perspective to these struggles.”
Against Imperialism: International Solidarity and Resistance, by Endless Struggle (1990)
“A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected a claim of U.S. citizenship by people born in the Philippines before the islands gained independence in 1946.”
Court Rejects Filipinos’ Bid for U.S. Citizenship, by the Associated Press (1994)
“This situation led the Virginia Supreme Court to remark in an 1871 case, Ruffin v. Commonwealth, that prisoners were ‘slaves of the state.’ All that has changed since then is that the state is less honest about its slave holding practices.”
Slaves of the State, by Paul Wright (1994)
“If you ever want to measure a historian’s imbecility, get him to reason on things that are in the making rather than on the past. It will be a mind-opener.”
What can we do with anti-fascism?, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1994)
“Why, after killing an Indian, was an avowed political racist charged with manslaughter instead of murder and sentenced to a short prison term?”
The Killing of Leo LaChance, by Ron Bourgeault (1994)
“Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years.”
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, by William Blum (1995/2004)
“First, its recasting of the history of Western Civilization helps us locate the origins of fascism within colonialism itself; hence, within the very traditions of humanism, critics believed fascism threatened.”
A Poetics of Anticolonialism, by Robin D.G. Kelley (1999)
“Democracy is not dictatorship, but democracy does prepare dictatorship, and prepares itself for dictatorship.”
When Insurrections Die, by Gilles Dauvé (1999)
“Hundreds of Cornwallis’s soldiers and their families were captured by their former owners, including five of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves and two women owned by George Washington. Those who escaped raced to make it behind British lines before the slave catchers caught up with them.”
Goodbye, Columbus, by Jill Lepore (2006)
“Land is life—or, at least, land is necessary for life. Thus contests for land can be—indeed, often are—contests for life.”
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native, by Patrick Wolfe (2006)
“Documents reveal Italian dictator got start in politics in 1917 with help of £100 weekly wage from MI5.”
Recruited by MI5: The Name’s Mussolini. Benito Mussolini, by Tom Kington (2009)
“Thus, the President and Congress authorized the removal and incarceration of over 110,000 people based solely on race without evidence of wrongdoing, charges or hearings. More than two-thirds of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens.”
“This casting out within the nation-state is not new or unique; it is evident in the experiences of segregation, internment of Japanese Canadians and Japanese Americans, the War on Drugs, and reserve system.”
What Is Border Imperialism?, by Harsha Walia (2013)
“In Japan, the U.S. played an equally key role in concealing information about the biological warfare experiments and securing immunity from prosecution for the perpetrators.”
“… the texts either ignore or gloss over the fact that for almost a decade, during the earliest fascist invasions of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Western democracies encouraged rather than fought Hitler and Mussolini, and sometimes gave them material aid.”
The Forgotten Fight Against Fascism, by William Loren Katz (2014)
“Although the Indian Removal Act was aimed mainly at the Indian nations in the South, it was also used to negotiate removal treaties with the Shawnee, Sauk and Fox, Potawatomie, Ottawa, Omaha, Miami and other smaller tribes.”
The Indian Removal Act of 1830, by The Native History Association (2014)
“‘Personally, I’m a Nazi,’ said ‘Phantom’, a 23-year-old former lawyer at the ceremony wearing camouflage and holding a Kalashnikov.”
Ukraine crisis: the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists, by Tom Parfitt (2014)
“There is no simple binary between countries that produce refugees, and those that care for them.”
Little Bear’s Cree and Canada’s Uncomfortable History of Refugee Creation, by Bejamin Hoy (2015)
“Among those enslaved people making a break for freedom were eight belonging to Peyton Randolph, speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and several belonging to patriot orator Patrick Henry who apparently took his famous words—’Give me liberty, or give me death!’—to heart and fled to British custody.”
How Enslaved Men Who Fought for the British Were Promised Freedom, by Christopher Klein (2016)
“As the war came to a close, the U.S. government was itching to get ahold of the German wartime technology.”
Why the U.S. Government Brought Nazi Scientists to America After World War II, by Danny Lewis (2016)
“The term riot is contentious, because it assumes that black people started the violence, as they were accused of doing by whites,” Franklin says. “We increasingly use the term massacre, or I use the European term, pogrom.”
“Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Tejanos were murdered in the hot, dry borderlands by Texas law enforcement and white vigilantes.”
The Chaparral Insurgents of South Texas, by Aaron Miguel Cantú (2016)
“Aleuts were kept in camps as late as 1945—two full years after Japanese troops left the Aleutian Islands. Those who survived the war went home to find their villages burned and destroyed.”
The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II, by Erin Blakemore (2017)
“A larger group made up of Native Americans from the county and the surrounding area descended on the gathering and confronted the Klan. Outnumbered, the Klan members fled from the field. After that night, the Klan never held another public gathering in Robeson County.”
“Alabama governor David Bibb Graves was Grand Cyclops of the Montgomery chapter. He served two terms, starting in 1927. Alabama’s neighbor, Georgia, also had a Klan governor in Clifford Mitchell Walker, who served from 1923 to 1927.”
The History of the KKK in American Politics, by Tara McAndrew (2017)
“Because of this, Nazis were more interested in how the U.S. had designated Native Americans, Filipinos and other groups as non-citizens even though they lived in the U.S. or its territories.”
How the Nazis Were Inspired by Jim Crow, by Becky Little (2017)
“For generations of German imperialists, and for Hitler himself, the exemplary land empire was the United States of America.”
Hitler’s American Dream, by Timothy Snyder (2017)
“Ms. Freeland has never acknowledged that her grandfather was a Nazi collaborator and suggested on Monday that the allegation was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
Freeland knew her grandfather was editor of Nazi newspaper, by Robert Fife (2017)
“Attitudes surrounding Japanese internment reflect current sentiments towards refugees and immigrants: curator”
“A lot of times people point to aspects of fascism like hyper-nationalism, leadership and party dictatorship, corporatism, or racism. Well, the thing is many countries have these features and they are not fascist regimes.”
“…Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the concurrent antifa movements that have worked fastidiously to topple it.”
The Antifa Comic Book, by Gord Hill (2018)
“And what you may not know is that the federal policy of Indian removal, which ranged far beyond the Trail of Tears and the Cherokee, was not simply the vindictive scheme of Andrew Jackson, but rather a popularly endorsed, congressionally sanctioned campaign spanning the administrations of nine separate presidents.”
How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative, by Ryan P. Smith (2018)
“In the midst of the legislative battle over the equal rights bill, Alberta Schenck, a seventeen-year old with a white father and a native mother, was arrested for sitting in the ‘whites only’ section of Nome’s movie theater in March 1944. (This was eleven years before Rosa Parks’s famous refusal to sit in the back of a Montgomery bus.)”
Alaska’s Unique Civil Rights Struggle, by Matthew Wills (2018)
“As many as 1.3 million people may have been swept up in the Eisenhower-era campaign with a racist name, which was designed to root out undocumented Mexicans from American society.”
The Largest Mass Deportation in American History, by Erin Blakemore (2018)
“While imperialism may have economic motivations, it is always conditioned and propelled by a plurality of other, often contradictory, forces. This is why imperialist policies often seem so incoherent.”
The Specificity of Imperialism, by Salar Mohandesi (2018)
“Nikitin [AKA Kapustin, AKA White Rex] is a feared Russian neo-Nazi, hooligan, MMA fighter, entrepreneur, and the kingpin of Europe’s extreme-right MMA scene, which analysts say is one of the most dangerous currents in the continent’s rising right-wing movement.”
“It also recalls an earlier time in U.S. history, nearly 90 years ago, when Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants were ousted from the country in enormous numbers.”
“During the 1880s, the earliest enforced immigration laws drew upon these values to bar legal entry to categories of persons considered unsuitable for citizenship, starting with Chinese as a race, the poor (LPC [Likely to become a Public Charge]), and contract workers.”
US Immigration History Timeline, by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (2019)
“But bisected by the line, Crees became asylum-seekers on their own lands 150 years ago. Though some were granted political refugee status, Crees were still denied basic rights. Instead, many were killed, ignored and deported on both sides of the border.”
Ignored and deported, Cree ‘refugees’ echo the crises of today, by Brenden Rensink (2019)
“Now, close to eighty years later, one of the lesser known moments in anarchist history, the efforts to suppress Man!—including the several-year legal persecution and deportation trials of the editor, Marcus Graham, and his associates Vincenzo Ferrero and Domenic Sallitto—provide an important window into mechanisms of State control by serving as a powerful example of the connections between border politics, immigration policy, and political repression.”
“Bacon’s Rebellion was triggered when a grab for Native American lands was denied.”
Why America’s First Colonial Rebels Burned Jamestown to the Ground, by Erin Blakemore (2019)
“In North America, far-right movements emerge in relation to broader ideological and material forms of settler-colonialism (which includes—meaning that capital accumulation is imbricated in—elements of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and Indigenous dispossession).”
Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight, by Devin Zane Shaw (2020)
“We must lean on this momentum and not stop until we are all liberated.”
Making Juneteenth a National Holiday Would Be Just Another Symbolic Gesture, by Kandist Mallett (2020)
“But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.”
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism, by Alberto Toscano (2020)
“The [American] group’s leader, Robert Rundo, has said his idea for RAM [Rise Above Movement] came from Ukraine’s far-right scene. ‘This is always my whole inspiration for everything,’ he told a right-wing podcast in September 2017, referring to Azov as ‘the future.'”
“Washington directed that these runaways be rounded up and entrusted to guards at two fortified positions on either side of the York River. There they would be held until arrangements could be made to return them to their enslavers. Thus, with the stroke of a pen, Washington converted his faithful Continentals—the men credited with winning American independence—into an army of slave catchers.”
The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington’s Slave Roundup, by Gregory J. W. Urwin (2021)
“Nor did it pursue alternative paths that might have made success more likely, such as arming the Black community.”
“In knowing the history of how AAPI [Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders] were treated in this country, we can better understand how we arrived at this point in history.”
“Since its creation in 1924, the U.S. Border Patrol has been steeped in institutional racism and has committed violent acts with near impunity. The racial animus of U.S. immigration policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century formed the foundation for the agency.”
The Legacy of Racism within the U.S. Border Patrol, by Katy Murdza and Walter Ewing (2021)
“Despite Kearney’s threats, he and his mob did not actually invade the mansions, which would have resulted in the full power of the authorities coming down on them. It was safer to beat up Chinese people.”
S.F. had its own demagogue who capitalized on racist grievances, by Gary Kamiya (2021)
“…how the fascism analogy may help reveal what fascism always owed to Americanness and to empire.”
Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present, by Priya Satia (2021)
“C.L.R. James (1901-1989) called for mass resistance to Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935.”
“Between 1980 and 1982, U.S. military aid to El Salvador increased from $6 million to $82 million. A Vietnam War-style scorched earth campaign, which spurred a mass slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in the first few years of the conflict, was almost exclusively carried out by three elite U.S.-created and trained Salvadoran battalions.”
“El Salvador’s right-wing president is doing everything in his expanding power to shield the U.S.-backed officers responsible for the deaths of nearly 1,000 civilians in December 1981.”
40 Years Later, El Mozote Massacre Victims Vow to ‘Keep Demanding Justice, by Brett Wilkins (2021)
“In its plans for the conquest of Eastern Europe, the Third Reich looked to the example set in Africa by Fascist Italy.”
Mussolini’s Colonial Inspiration, by Matthew Wills (2022)
“Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.”
“Some Filipinos took advantage of the new law. Others didn’t. They instead continued to live in the U.S. without becoming U.S. citizens. Sometimes legal complications ensued. A few cases stand out.”
What Happened to Filipinos in the U.S. after Independence?, by Puerto Rico Report (2023)
“Before Russia invaded Ukraine, these fighters were neo-Nazis. They still are.”
The Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion, by Lev Golinkin (2023)
“Harry Washington fought for his enslaver’s enemy during the American Revolution. Later, he migrated to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.”
“Native people are incarcerated in state and federal prisons at a rate of 763 per 100,000 people. This is double the national rate (350 per 100,000) and more than four times higher than the state and federal prison incarceration rate of white people (181 per 100,000).”
Native incarceration in the U.S., by the Prison Policy Initiative (2023)
“On September 2, 1776, George Washington wrote to the Continental Congress, seeking permission to burn New York City to the ground.”
Did George Washington Order Rebels to Burn New York City in 1776?, by Erik Ofgang (2023)
“Yaroslav Hunka, the Waffen SS veteran honoured by the Canadian Parliament as a ‘hero’ last September, was recently awarded a medal named after a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator.”
“On 13 January, the day after the German announcement, the president of Namibia, Hage Geingob (who died on 4 February), rebuked Germany, arguing that it ‘cannot morally express commitment to the UN Convention on Genocide … while supporting the equivalent of a holocaust and genocide in Gaza’. He added that ‘the German government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil.’”
Three Genocides, by Eyal Weizman (2024)
“Settler colonialism, and class collaboration more generally, have been the motor of the roots of fascism in the United States; once a culture based upon genocide against the Indigenous was established alongside a culture of slavery based upon expropriation of certain ‘racialized’ groups, then it could, and does, continue to serve as a kind of political precondition; it serves as an exemplar of what can be done with full-throated, full-blooded fascism.”
What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like, by Gerald Horne & Anthony Ballas (2024)
“Mykhailo Chomiak, Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather, spent the war working for German military intelligence as the editor of an influential Ukrainian newspaper celebrating Hitler and promoting a virulent form of antisemitism.”
“In fact, Obama oversaw more deportations than any other U.S. president in history”
Comparative data on the last three American deportation regimes, by Alicja Hagopian (2024)
“The expansion of Anglo-American settlement into the Trans-Appalachian west led to the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, forcing all eastern tribal nations to move to new homelands west of the Mississippi River in the Indian Territory.”
Removal of Tribal Nations to Oklahoma, by the Oklahoma Historical Society (2024)
“Seeking safety, stability, or opportunities is not a ‘shortcut’—it is a fundamental human right, enshrined in international and Canadian law.”
6 ways Justin Trudeau is misleading Canadians about immigration, by The Breach (2024)
“One Navajo Nation official said that ‘many fear for the threat of being deported.'”
Over 15 Navajo Nation Members Swept Up in Immigration Raids, by
“While Black people make up less than 14% of the U.S. population, they account for 42% of people who are incarcerated; unsurprisingly, Black people are also overrepresented among people with an incarcerated family member”
“I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.”
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana, by Mahmoud Khalil (2025)
“Until the Civil War, US Army officers relied on enslaved servants even while serving in ‘free states.'”
The US Army as a Slaveholding Institution, by Matthew Wills (2025)
“But it has also renewed focus on the network of remote immigration detention centres that stretch between Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, known as ‘Detention Alley’ – where 14 of the country’s 20 largest detention centres are clustered. And now where other students have since been sent after being arrested thousands of miles away.”
“Since my abduction on March 8, the intimidation and kidnapping of international students who stand for Palestine has only accelerated”
A Letter to Columbia, by Mahmoud Khalil (2025)
“They are trying to silence anyone who dares to speak out against the atrocities happening in Palestine. But they will fail.”
Letter to My Husband Mahmoud Khalil, by Dr. Noor Abdalla (2025)
“My lawyers have mentioned that a case called Endo might bear on my own. Days later, in my research at a law library, I uncovered the human story behind the legal abstraction”
What does my detention by ICE say about America?, by Mahmoud Khalil (2025)
“The high court acted in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.”
“The written testimonies were made public for the first time in filings to the U.S. District Court in New Jersey on Thursday, with professors also showing their support for the green card holder, who remains in custody in Louisiana.”
Jewish Student Says Mahmoud Khalil Protected Them More Than Columbia, by Dan Gooding (2025)
“A federal judge in west Texas joined other courts in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act.”
“Our nation has seen times like this before, especially during the Red Scare and Palmer Raids of 1919-1920 that led to the deportation of hundreds of people suspected of anarchist or communist views,” Crawford wrote in his order.
Activist Mohsen Mahdawi Freed From Prison After Judge Orders His Release, by Sharon Zhang (2025)
“In January of 1943, the Custodian’s mission was officially revised: now it was supposed to sell all the real estate and personal belongs of Japanese Canadians.”
Disinheritance: The Internment of Japanese Canadians, by Matthew Wills (2025)
“Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations”
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction, by Mahmoud Khalil (2025)
“Biden’s actual FY 2024 record of 272,000 removals was over twice DHS’s claimed number of 135,000 removals during its first 100 days.”
Immigration Enforcement: Rhetoric vs Reality, by TRAC (2025)
“The Supreme Court said the government didn’t give people at a detention center in Texas enough time to argue against their deportations.”
“James Mast, a Cree Sixties Scoop survivor, says he was making his way to Oklahoma so he could care for his ailing adoptive father when tribal police on the U.S. side of the Akwesasne reservation arrested him and turned him over to U.S. Border Patrol.”
“The Kumeyaay people once moved freely across the mountainous and coastal regions of what is now northern Baja California (Baja California Norte), in Mexico, and parts of California and Arizona, in the United States.”
“We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people”
SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles (2025)
“A second day of protests and unrest took place on Saturday as residents of a predominantly Latino district of Los Angeles clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) federal agents.”
Federal agents use tear gas, flash grenades to disperse LA protesters, by BBC News (2025)
“This weekend, there was backlash in Los Angeles. ICE targeted places with large numbers of immigrant workers, including the garment district and a Home Depot in the city of Paramount.”
The ICE Policy That Set Off Chaos in LA, by Julianne McShane (2025)
“Security forces and protesters faced off against each other in clashes that at times turned violent on Sunday.”
National Guard on LA streets as unrest erupts, by BBC News (2025)
“San Francisco police arrested 154 people Sunday night after a downtown protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly escalated with the arrival of law enforcement in riot gear.”
San Francisco police arrest more anti-ICE protesters than Los Angeles, by Ida Mojadad (2025)
“In the last few weeks, Department of Homeland Security personnel abducted 118 people across Los Angeles, and now people were registering their anger.”
Smoke and Teargas Choke LA’s Streets as Anti-ICE Protests Erupt, by Kandist Mallet (2025)
“Our communities are composed of people who traversed borderlands with nothing more than a backpack, successfully fleeing civil wars, political persecution, dictatorships, state violence, and their own futures—and we are their children.”
“We demand the release of all people unjustly detained, and an end to the raids.”
SEIU President April Verrett on David Huerta’s Release from Federal Custody (2025)
“Many of those workers formed part of a close-knit community, with ties to the same indigenous Zapotec town in Veracruz, Mexico.”
After ICE raids in LA, families of those detained are desperate for answers, by Vanessa Romo (2025)
“San Francisco Immigration Court canceled the rest of its hearings on Tuesday afternoon and closed the courthouse because of the protests…”
“A look at some recent protests and reactions across the country.”
“Liberals use ‘fascism’ to identify uniquely authoritarian politicians – exceptions to the status quo neoliberal order. In contrast, these books highlight how fascism is a consistent feature of capitalist liberal nation-states.”
Understanding fascism: a reading list, by Harsha Walia (2025)
“Mahmoud Khalil will remain in federal custody after a federal judge accepted the government’s shifting explanations for why it is detaining him at an immigration facility in rural Louisiana.”
Mahmoud Khalil had hoped to walk free today. A federal judge said no, by Adrian Florido (2025)
“Four detainees broke through a wall and managed to escape from a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, amid reports of disorder breaking out there, according to Sen. Andy Kim and the Department of Homeland Security.”
“A feeling of communal sharing, solidarity and joy.”
Fuck I.C.E. City-Wide: Los Angeles Goes Up, by ediciones inéditas (2025)
“There is at least something to the underlying claim that there is an effort to use the immigration charge here to punish Mr. Khalil,” Farbiarz said in ordering Khalil’s release. “And of course that would be unconstitutional.”
Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil released on bail, by Adrian Florido (2025)
“They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”
“Des saluts nazis, des croix gammées, des emblèmes de la SS… La cellule d’enquête vidéo du Monde en a identifié plusieurs centaines, arborés par des soldats ukrainiens sur les réseaux sociaux.”
“The complete erasure of Black immigrants, migrants, and refugees is being aided by ICE incursions against disproportionately targeted communities.”
Another way out: What Black America’s migrant history tells us now, by William C. Anderson (2025)
“It wasn’t clear why the authorities threw the canisters or if they released chemicals like tear gas.”
Protesters and federal agents clash during raid at Southern California farm, by Amy Taxin (2025)
“Leo Costello, chair of Rice University’s art history department, said the painting is a visual representation of the idea of Manifest Destiny, which held it was the divine purpose and right of European-descended settlers to spread across North American for the progress of civilizations as they saw it.”
“The tribe, whose territory is adjacent to the immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades, joined a lawsuit against the state and federal governments on July 14.”
“Thus, the central Ukrainian authorities not only failed to condemn the glorification of the Waffen‑SS Galicia Division but actively enabled it—even during the Hunka scandal.”
How Nazi Collaborators Are Celebrated in Wartime Ukraine, by Marta Havryshko (2025)
“Incident is the latest alleged case of right-wing extremism to rock the military.”
Five Canadian soldiers suspended after Nazi salute video emerges, by Murray Brewster (2025)
“The Everglades is meant for our tribes, it protects life, it shields it. It’s not meant to detain life,” Troy Sanders says.
“A Hatewatch review of DHS social media posts and web content found that the federal agency utilizes white nationalist and anti-immigrant images and slogans in recruitment materials”
“The call to rescind those medals is not about erasing history, but about refusing to let lies and conquest define it.”
With Wounded Knee Medals, Admin Suggests There’s Valor in Genocide, by Johnnie Jae (2025)
“Kordia, a Palestinian who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, was one of the first arrested in the government’s campaign against protesters, many of them prominent activists. All the others have gained release.”
The only protester still locked up…, by Jake Offenhartz and Adam Geller (2025)
“When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.”
“Jefferson wrote ‘Delenda est Norfolk’—Latin for ‘Norfolk must be destroyed,’ a pointed reference to ancient Rome’s obliteration of its rival Carthage on the North African coast.”
“Indigenous people have been subjected to forced removal and mistreatment within government-funded facilities for generations. ICE detainments are not isolated incidents; they are part of a long and painful continuum of racially targeted government actions.”
“The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities,” said Tribal Chair E.K. Choke in the statement
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrant, by Nina Shapiro (2025)
“I kept trying to explain to them that I’m Native American,” she said
‘We can’t have this happen again’: Salt River Pima citizen nearly deported, by Amelia Schafer (2025)
“WHEREAS, in times of war and similar emergencies, Indian lands are targeted for government use, just as the Gila River Indian Community, Ward Lake near Ketchikan, Alaska, and Colorado River Indian Tribes were forced to play host to Japanese Internment Camps; and…”
“Miles alleges that a similar thing has happened to her son and uncle – they have previously been detained and later released by ICE officers who would not initially accept their tribal identification.”
“Carney’s immigration law C-12 is a new chapter in an old Canadian playbook of scapegoating migrants while serving the corporate elite.”
“I clicked on the article. It barely mentioned my community. Instead, it analyzed which letters the tweet had capitalized and how those letters corresponded to neo-Nazi slogans.”
Erasure is how anti-Indigenous racism works, by Rebecca Nagle (2025)
“Federal figures from the CBSA show Canada removed more than 18,000 people in the 2024-25 fiscal year. The majority of which were asylum seekers spending about $78 million in the process, many of those refugee claims were rejected.”
Canada sees dramatic rise in deportations, asylum seekers among majority, by Tessa Bennett (2025)
“The Oneida Business Committee condemns OESC’s action to enter a contract for ICE facilities and we believe such actions hinder teaching our values to the next seven generations if its employees, representatives, or corporations do not abide by those values today.”
“Hundreds of community members showed up in protest and many were met with chemical weapons deployed by federal agents, including one person who was shot directly in the face.”
“I hold a position which requires me to work with government and find solutions. I will not be found sitting anywhere with ICE at the table.”
Statement by the President of the Ho-Chunk Nation (2026)
“Oneida Engineering Science Construction Group (OESC), a Limited Liability Company (LLC) of the Oneida Nation, is taking action to terminate two contracts it has with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide engineering services to at least 34 ICE facilities.”
Oneida Nation LLC takes action to terminate contracts with ICE, by Frank Zufall (2026)
“But behind that light was a well of deep values that Macklin Good lived by, including a conviction that every person — regardless of ‘where you come from or what you look like’ — deserves compassion and kindness.”
Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness, by Cari Spencer and MPR News Staff (2026)
“US immigration agents have now shot 11 civilians in cars in four months.”
“At least five Native American men have been detained and an unknown number questioned by immigration officers across the Minneapolis area in the midst of what a top official called the ‘largest immigration raid ever.'”
Five Native Americans detained by ICE during ongoing raids in Minneapolis, by Amelia Schafer (2026)
“We, as well as many Indigenous Nations and organizations across the United States have been monitoring this issue and the reprehensible actions of ICE agents, especially those that now appear to be targeting indigenous peoples”
“The crackdown is roundly condemned by local and state community leaders. We’ll talk to some of those caught up in the action and what more might be in store elsewhere.”
Native Americans caught up in federal crackdown in Minneapolis, by Native America Calling (2026)
“The Spirit Lake Nation and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate in a joint statement with the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe said ICE’s activities in Minnesota have ’caused fear and uncertainty’ among their citizens. The joint statement also condemned the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent on Wednesday.”
Native leaders in North Dakota urge use of tribal IDs, denounce ICE tactics, by Mary Steurer (2026)
“Senior staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund, Jacqueline De León, said federal immigration agents racial profiling Native Americans is one of the consequences of recent decisions by the Supreme Court around the use of ethnicity in immigration steps.”
‘A deep irony’: Native American legal expert weighs in on racial profiling, by Melissa Olson (2026)
“Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota, and some school leaders in the region are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism with families fearing being caught up in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.”
“The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars.”
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody, by Amelia Schafer (2026)
“The Whipple Federal Building used by ICE as a detention center is the site of the military fort once used to imprison hundreds of Dakota during and after the U.S.-Dakota War in 1862.”
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands the release of Lakota men detained by ICE, by Melissa Olson (2026)
“In recent weeks, heightened tensions have emerged as U.S. ICE agents have stopped and detained tribal members and tribal descendants, raising urgent concerns about dignity, safety, and respect for Native American citizens,” wrote Bay Mills Indian Community President Whitney Gravelle.
Michigan Native American tribes warn about ICE. What they’re telling members, by Dan Basso (2026)
“No one should feel unsafe in their neighborhood, workplace, or homeland because of how they look, the language they speak, or the country they were born in.”
“On Jan. 10, the Choctaw Nation Tribal Council unanimously passed a resolution objecting to the possible use of the former distribution center as an ICE detention facility.”
City of Durant, Choctaw Nation take action against rumored ICE facility, by Derrick James (2026)
“Johnson’s statement says Tribal Members were accosted by officers using unconstitutional racial profiling techniques, and also says there is no reasonable basis, suspicion, or probable cause to restrict the liberties of Native Americans based on skin color, hair color, eye color or a lack of identification.”
“The Tribe wants to be clear: we do not support or cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Our priority is the safety, dignity, and protection of our Tribal members.”
Statement by the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians (2026)
“In response to Native Americans being stopped by ICE, several Wisconsin tribes issued statements voicing concern over the stops and also offering advice to their members.”
Wisconsin tribes react after ICE detains Native Americans in Twin Cities, by Frank Zufall (2026)
“The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians issued a warning to tribal members Thursday about ICE enforcement, stating that federal ‘racial profiling practices’ have included Native Americans as a class subject to stops ‘based on perceived ethnicity, language, or occupation.'”
Grand Traverse Band Issues Warning to Tribal Members About ICE Enforcement, by Beth Milligan (2026)
“Immediately after the incident, neighbors and community members flooded the scene, chasing off the agents involved and uncovering sensitive operational details left behind by the agency.”
ICE Shoots Second Person in Minneapolis, Community Responds, by Unicorn Riot (2026)
“This act of violence was completely unacceptable and inhumane. In addition, we are now seeing federal immigration enforcement activity extend onto tribal lands, where tribal members are being stopped, questioned, and harassed across Indian Country.”
Statement from the Office of the Principal Chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma (2026)
“We stand with our neighbors—whatever their country of birth—who are getting ripped away from their families or violently apprehended for their lawful efforts to protect their communities.”
NARF statement on unlawful ICE activity (2026)
“He said he told them ‘I have bills and I have kids’… That’s when one of the officers or agents responded with ‘we’re going to get them, too.'”
ICE agents detain Navajo man in Peoria, ignoring US, tribal IDs, by Arlyssa D. Becenti (2026)
@savageest.1991 Replying to @Indigenous Adzáá Tábaahá #fy #fyp #foryoupage #iceagentscomingforus #nativetiktok
Appendix on American History
Recommended Reading
Deconstructing Settler Socialism: Anarchism and the Internationals in the Wild West, by Gia Vogerl (2025)
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