Description How a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, and how it laid the groundwork for today's anti-fascist/anti-racist movements.
Smash fascism Read this book --Tom MorelloStudying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of deconstructing the weapon of white supremacy from the inside out.
Thank you Hilary and James for the precision of this analysis, and the true north of this star.
--adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy In June 1977, a group of white anti-racist activists received an alarming letter from an inmate at a New York state prison calling for help to fight the Ku Klux Klan's efforts to recruit prison staff and influence prisoners.
In response, the activists founded the first chapter of what would eventually become a nationwide grassroots network, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, dedicated to countering the rise of the KKK and other far-right white nationalist groups, and to building support for movements fighting for self-determination.
No Fascist USA tells the story of that network and how its members emerged from the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s to combat racism and state repression throughout the 1980s.
Featuring dozens of graphics, posters, and materials from the time, the book follows the group's trajectory through its political actions, engagement with punk rock youth culture, and involvement with underground splinter groups, concluding with an exploration of what tactical lessons their efforts offer to those dedicated to fighting white supremacy today.
Praise for No Fascist USA No Fascist USA is not only timely, but also essential in the present period of accelerated white supremacist activity and anti-racist organizing to combat it.
In telling the story of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, the authors, without romanticizing or condemning, draw important lessons from the fifte.
City Lights Books No fascist usa!: the john brown anti-klan committee and lessons for today's movements, paperback/hilary moore
