The 2024 U.S. national elections have come and gone, and the results have left many of us devastated, angry, and scared. The outcome of the MAGA movement’s electoral victory—the Right’s capture of all three branches of government—is deeply troubling.
As we turn to each other to process what’s happened, we can share and find strength in our collective struggles for justice—and importantly, learn from them. Realizing the world we need and deserve will require organizing with radical insight, creativity, and care, in active solidarity with people targeted by the next administration.
In planning this Fall 2024 issue of The Public Eye, we couldn’t predict the election’s outcome, but we knew the authoritarian Right wouldn’t be going away. That’s why this issue departs from ourusual format to feature short articles by PRA staff and comrades on strategies for resisting right-wing authoritarianism and fascism.
We begin with PRA’s election statement, which reflects on the conditions we face and reminds us that opposing authoritarian forces “requires us to be open to different strategies.”
As we organize, how should we think about the relationship between far-right politics, the capitalist state, and the Left? In an excerpt from Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Matthew N. Lyons and Xtn Alexander outline a radical framework that can “inform sharper and more effective strategies for organizing for human liberation.”
The leaders of four movement organizations speak with Cloee Cooper on how movement infrastructure can sustain us, and the unique insights that many Black and immigrant communities have in resisting authoritarian regimes.
How can we build community safety without relying on racist policing or the security state? Naomi Washington-Leapheart speaks with Scot Nakagawa and Hardy Merriman about Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence (HOPE-PV), a new guide and training project; and Ben Lorber and Shane Burley report on how activists are fighting antisemitism with intersectional solidarity in an article drawn from their book, Safety Through Solidarity.
As far-right forces behind the next administration continue to wage campaigns against public schools, True North Research’s Alyssa Bowen interviews Jennifer C. Berkshire about The Education Wars, a citizen’s guide for defending public education.
To build a principled front against fascism, we must remember that our lives and struggles are connected. In her review of Commune or Nothing!, Hialy Gutierrez considers what lessons Venezuela’s communal movement can offer to U.S. Leftists. And to mark the return of Reports in Review, Habiba Farh reviews Reverberations of October 7, Palestine Legal’s report on anti-Palestinian state repression.
Online, Fred Clarkson reports on the electoral strategy of the NAR—the theocratic Christian Right’s cutting-edge—and editor Jack Gieseking speaks with the authors of The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights.
In The Art of Activism, cover artist Dio Cramer speaks with PRA about the concept behind their artwork and how organizing and nature inspire their artistic practice.
We must fight until we’re all free,because “we will all rise or fall together,” as PRA said in a 2018 statement aligning with Muslim and immigrant justice movements during the first Trump administration. As we band together to survive the next few years, The Public Eye will continue to publish the strategic analysis that frontline organizers and movements need to fight the authoritarian Right, defend one another, and rise together. Visit us at politicalresearch.org and religiondispatches.org, between issues, to inform your resistance.
