Fascism’s New Face is Still The Same!
Anti-fascism rally in the U.S., 2025. X/ @RefuseFascism
By: Earl Bousquet
July 4, 2025 Hour: 10:34 am
If Fascism is about dehumanizing a people, then today’s genocide against Palestinians is one of many reflections of its new face.
On July 3, the Meeting of Promoting Teams of the Antifascist International is taking place at a right time. The stated objective is “to update and strengthen our shared agenda in a critical moment of regional and global tension amid the escalation of imperial violence.”
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We will also “collectively analyze the Venezuelan electoral context leading up to the July 27 elections, as an expression of participatory democracy and popular resistance, and advance international coordination for the Peoples’ Summit for Peace and Against War, to be held on July 25 in Caracas.” But the ultimate aim is “strengthening the political and communications offensive of our peoples.”
Fertile Imagination
My fertile imagination and deep interested in the long history of media and communications in political struggles often asks me to ask others to consider what the world or could would have been like today, if access to the infinite range of instant messaging possibilities we now enjoy were available to the likes of Russia’s V.I. Lenin and Josef Stalin, Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar, Cuba’s Jose Marti, Nicaragua’s Augustino Sandino, Haiti’s Toussaint L’Ouverture and Henri Christophe, Jamaica’s Marcus Garvey, Trinidad & Tobago’s Uriah Butler, C.L.R. James and Dr Eric Williams, Guyana’s Dr Cheddi Jagan and Dr Walter Rodney — and Grenada’s Maurice Bishop.
Mastering Messaging
The possibilities would have been as infinite as our wildest thoughts or dreams, but it’s worth wondering why, even without ever dreaming of what we enjoy hundreds of years or scores of decades later, each of the mentioned global leaders and thinkers influenced Humanity’s course in significant ways, as Masters of the Art of Messaging.
Unfortunately, today our infinite access to the highest levels of information technology have allowed too-many to limit our imagination to ‘following’, ‘liking’ or ‘sharing’ information online, without sufficiently understanding that as messengers, we also have to utilize the most effective communications strategies and should not rule out, dismiss or dump traditional offline means that have worked well.
In Bolivar and Marti’s time, political messaging was by couriers on foot, riders on horseback, or trained pigeons flying over vast distances. In Lenin’s time, the newspaper was regarded by the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) as the ‘scaffolding’ that built its foundation and rooted it with the masses around the vast inherited Russian Empire.
Garvey, under constant state surveillance, had limited access to early radio and wireless means and he messaged through the ‘Negro World’ newspaper in the USA — at a time when filming was rare.
In each case, however, it was a combination of the mastering of the art of verbal communication with effective use of available tools of communications. In each case too, the masters of the art were able to wrap the message in communications packages that linked the past with the present and offered images people could relate to in their homes and communities and across nations, as the world around them continued changing.
New Faces of Fascism
The global anti-fascist movement today needs messengers to adapt and adopt similar strategies of ensuring popular education about how and why Fascism is rooted as-much in the New Faces as in the old, and the need to forever remember the examples and lessons from the past.
Fascism before and during World War II left images that galvanized Russians and Soviet citizens into levels of pride and heroism from their sacrifices of over-27 million lives to save Europe from Germany’s Hitlerite Nazi terror.
It’s good today that every year, despite being politically barred from participating the European celebrations of a war it won for Europe, Russia (like the USSR before it) never allowed the world to forget the May 9 ‘Victory Over Fascism’, annually hosting national and international memorial rallies that always highlight the readiness of today’s ‘Red Army’ to remind and assure the world it can still resist, confront and defeat fascism in any quarter, near or far.
But if Fascism is about systematic dehumanizing and erasing of a people from Humanity, then today’s genocide against Palestinians is one of many reflections of its new face, where politics remains the dominant factor, but the system is applied in non-violent ways like all the acts of economic warfare or naked military aggression that result in loss of lives and subject millions, in scores of nations, people suffering from manufactured health crises and economic meltdowns that only profit Big Business.
More and Better Messaging
Israel’s genocide against Occupied Palestine continues to be daily headline stuff the world has been forced to witness through live telecasts, including its latest actions against Iran – and before that against Yemen, Lebanon and Syria (under Assad).
But not only is genocide televised into the world’s living rooms, as nuclear powers increasingly and more frequently bring the world to brinks of nuclear war, only to back down only after mass destruction and death.
The fascist policies of some of the world’s most-powerful politicians on all continents have historically and continue to result in creating political and ethnic divisions that lead to wars that continue to benefit the modern Military Industrial Complex that supplies the weapons and ammunition used to implement fascism through naked Televised Genocide in Gaza.
Palestinian resistance to fascism today provides more instant messages about what fascism is today. The Nazi links in Ukraine were cited after the launch of Russia’s Special Military Operation and nakedly exposed in the early stage of the war, but are less referred to now, since the related Ukrainian battalions were early overcome by Russia.
But their political leadership prevails and many of that influence continue to operate in various areas globally, engaging in systematic efforts to prevent peace in conflict zones.
Nazism in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Nazi presence in Latin America and the Caribbean — before and during World War II — must also not be allowed to slide into just a slide-show shot of history.
Instead, the links between what happened 80 years ago in Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean must be drawn and explained to people across the region as having been less-different and more-similar, only felt and seen in different ways and places.
The messaging today must include identifying and explaining the fascist threads that link the similar and different experiences in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, later experiences of the Condor Plan and fascist dictatorships in Bolivia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru and other nations on the South American continent, including Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay and other countries in the 20th Century.
But just as those experiences in Latin America are not widely known and understood in the English-speaking former European colonies that now comprise the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), there are links that can and should be included in our messaging today.
These include linking the history of fascism in Latin America with the first acknowledged act of terrorism by fascist-minded elements against Barbados in 1976 – the bombing of a Cuban airline in Barbados that took the innocent lives of 57 Cubans, Guyanese and North Koreans.
It also includes the little-known activities of Nazi German submarines in the English-speaking Caribbean during World War II, when, thanks to the alliance between France and Germany, German U-Boats operating out of Martinique torpedoed British Royal Navy and allied ships in neighbouring Saint Lucia and other Caribbean islands.
It also includes more-modern fascist alliances between Latin America and the Caribbean, like the axis of evil between Augusto Pinochet’s Chile and Grenada under tropical dictator Eric Gairy, that eventually led to the Grenada Revolution in 1979.
Likewise, we must revisit the efforts to impose a fascist dictatorship in the island of Dominica under then Prime Minister Patrick John and the occupation and Kangaroo Trials in Grenada after the revolution committed suicide in October 1983.
Also to be considered, are the fascist responses of successive French administrations to suppression of national liberation of independence tendencies, or popular protests of any kind in its Caribbean ‘Overseas Territories’ (Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique).
Likewise, the protracted campaign to brand the 1980 Surinam Revolution as a blot on the Dutch colonial record in the Caribbean, until the recent death – over four decades later of Commander Desi Bouterse, hypocritically posthumously praised by his lifelong arch enemies as one who positively changed the former Dutch colony’s history – for the better.
Fascist Thinking
It’s the same fascist type of thinking that will defy constitutional laws and legal regulations to capture and detain citizens of other nations and ship them to third countries through a system of outsourcing imprisonment, which is also implemented in Europe and Africa by G4S, a transnational private security companies contracted to run state prisons.
If fascism is about mechanical extinction of a people or race, Germany’s long history in Namibia can and should be linked to the ethnic cleansing efforts in Gaza and the new trade wars that will only hurt the world’s poorest most.
For the first time in the history of modern US presidential races, the words ‘fascism’ and ‘fascist’ were used in 2024 to describe a leading candidate who openly advocated policies that would increase support for Genocide in Gaza, even though both major parties equally and strongly support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Never Forget…
We must never forget and not allow the term ‘Fascism’ to only be a memorial today of its ugliest manifestations in the first half of the 20th Century.
Instead, we must ensure our messaging reflects the new realities that show and reflect the new faces of fascism around the world, as seen through policies of powerful nations, that deliberately result in deaths by a thousand different means — whether manufactured diseases, engineered wars of creation of humanitarian disasters through weaponization of food, water and foreign aid.
Similar but Different…
The attacks against Cuba since its declaration of the socialist nature of the revolution that resulted in the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) mercenary invasion in 1961 and against Venezuela since Hugo Chavez’s arrival in 1998, are also replete with similar but different elements of fascist violence and related activities that need to be chronicled and shared by today’s messengers.
Fascist ideas are systematically buried in the minds of many leaders today who quietly or openly yield power over nations and economies, or billionaires who dominate transnational business interests and decide how the world turns, to keep their wheels of fortune turning.
South Africa is suffering a fascist-baiting backlash for opposing the genocide in Gaza and joining the global march for justice, with those who still harbour racist, fascist and apartheid ideas being baited to move to America, where unelected South Africans who’ve never opposed fascism anywhere and instead support pro-fascist politicians in Europe and elsewhere, now have unrivalled power.
United by Invisible Threads
Today, fascists with political and economic power feel free to publicly make Nazi salutes and later try to explain they were not meant to be; and those bent on pursuing undisguised ethnic cleansing in Gaza are united by visible threads. Messengers must now be able to trace and expose those links in ways that will better teach more today, than yesteryear.
The declared war on Venezuela’s ability to sell its energy to care for its people through imposition of a thousand sanctions and outlawing its legal trade with other nations and international oil concerns through implementation of tariffs that will strangle an entire nation into political and economic submission, is nothing but Fascism and Nazism without swastikas, bullets and gas chambers.
Likewise, the decades of efforts to kill Cuba’s Fidel Castro and overthrow Cuba’s revolutionary government must be linked to the current efforts to criminalize and outlaw the outstanding Cuban medical assistance program that has touched and saved the lives of millions in over 160 nations– including in the fights against AIDS in the 1980s and in the last 20 years in fights against Ebola and COVID-19, natural disasters and other humanitarian crises.
Exposing Fascism
Messengers of this anti-fascist movement of the 21st Century must today expose fascism in all its faces, old and new, near and far.
• How else than ‘Fascist’ to describe a nation that would, for purely political reasons, reject 1,568 Cuban doctors and medical professional ready to fly fully-equipped overnight, to help stranded victims of a hurricane – as with the case with the Henry Reeve Brigade created to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005? Did it also have to do with the fact that a significant part of the New Orleans population is of African descent?
• How else but ‘Fascist’ to describe a government that, over several years and across administrations led by the two major parties in the US, moved to ensure it sabotaged the PetroCaribe program out of existence, eradicating its contribution to free trade between like-minded nations, through mutual agreements, in a zone of peace, thereby depriving millions of better energy prices, to force them to return to relying more on US energy?
• How else to describe a government whose policies include preventing Trinidad & Tobago from continuing its healthy exploration and cooperation with neighbouring Venezuela, in shared waters, by imposing tariffs that will deter such continuing cooperation between neighbouring Caribbean oil-producing states, simply for political reasons?
• How else to describe a government that tries to deprive Caribbean, Latin American, African, Arab, Asian and Pacific people access to free and bilaterally-agreed health services offered by Cuba, under false pretences of describing it’s internationally-praised and respected health assistance programs as a ‘people-smuggling scheme’?
• How else to describe a government that will collude with Big Oil and enemies of Venezuela to dismantle and distribute ownership of Venezuela’s PDVSA subsidiary company in the USA, CITCO, after it provided much-needed support to millions of poor Americans unable to pay heating costs during winter?
• How else to describe the actions of European and American governments and banking institutions to seize billions of dollars’ worth of Venezuelan Gold in the Bank of England and financial assets in the USA and prevent access by their legitimate owners, while implementing the most-hurtful sanctions on the government in Caracas, to actually prevent it from being able to choose its path and continue to meet its people’s needs, with its own income from its own resources?
• How else to describe a government that will seek to punish any other government, company or entity that engages in legitimate trade and business activity with Venezuela — and continues to ensure that Cuba cannot earn money or engage in global trade, thanks to 63 years of cruel and crippling sanctions, embargoes and blockades, amounting to accumulated loss of the equivalent of loss of hundreds of billions of US dollars over six decades?
• How else to describe a government led by Presidents who, over more than a decade, have openly, brazenly and unapologetically collaborated with, adopted and financed unelected so-called ‘presidents’ of Venezuela who never won elections — and instead ended-up using over a billion dollars of US aid money for purposes other than the supposed ‘health and humanitarian’ causes it was designated for?
• How else to describe a government that will invoke a 300-year law to outlaw any Venezuelan with a tattoo, in the name of a supposed invasion by armed mercenaries sent by Caracas — and will even threaten to punish judges who dare tell the president he is not above the law?
• How else to describe a government that, under different administrations of both major parties, will undertake a pattern of divide-and-rule among Caribbean leaders to mechanise isolation of Venezuela from its regional neighbours, resulting in the disastrous but costly Lima Group experiment and Venezuela’s eventual decision to join Cuba and Nicaragua and withdraw from the OAS, once aptly described by legendary Cuban foreign affairs minister Raul Roa as ‘the US Ministry of Colonies’?
Primary Characteristics
A primary characteristic of fascist thinking is the extent of its effects on engineering of plots and plans to exact most harm possible on minorities or designated ethnic groups and nationalities declared ‘enemies of the state’.
Another characteristic feature is the willingness to exact revenge against governments by targeting innocent civilians — whether by Blitzkrieg or by Atom Bomb, or seeking to exterminate entire people by bombing them into nothingness and reducing entire cities to rubble, taking over 50,000 lives in Gaza, with 11,000 more unaccounted for and including mainly women and children, also among those buried under the rubble of their own homes.
The US attitude to Cuba and Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, Honduras and Mexico, Brazil and Colombia today is fashioned by Washington’s historical characteristic addiction to the 200+ year-old Monroe Doctrine that guides such actions today as against Panama for its canal, in the name of fighting China and ensuring Nicaragua never has a possible rival canal.
Aid vs War…
China’s assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean continues with its latest recent assistance to address Cuba’s energy crises and increasing the pace of Asia-Pacific trade with The Americas and the Atlantic through the Chancay ‘Smart Port’ in Peru, alongside increasing Chinese assistance to and investments in The Americas and The Caribbean.
These are being seen and treated as against US national and security interests, never mind the positive benefits to the region from the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), the new Maritime Silk Road and bilateral agreements.
Reducing Aid
While China is offering development aid, the US and European powers are reducing foreign aid to increase their military spending and both the UK and US administration’s current policies are also taking aid from disabled people through removal of benefits earlier enjoyed billions of US dollars in overseas military aid to Israel and Ukraine continue to disappear into thin air, but those who’ve been stealing the war money want it to continue, to further fatten pockets – and stay out of jail.
In both Israel and Ukraine, the respective eaders also face allegations of corruption that can land them in jail – much of a certainty in the case of Israel’s Prime Minister.
Venezuela not alone…
However, Venezuela is not alone. China and Russia strongly-opposed the US decision to impose a 25% tariff on trade on countries purchasing oil and gas from Venezuela. Beijing also calls for an end to Washington’s interference in Venezuela’s internal matters; and for removal of what it describes as “illegal” unilateral sanctions.
BRICS nations and developing countries worldwide also support Venezuela’s right to self-determination and oppose the increasing efforts by Washington to force Caracas to yield to its pressures.
Interestingly, President Donald Trump’s executive order on March 24 also extended the deadline for Chevron to exit Venezuela. Washington now claims the sanctions stem from its claims that three-times-re-elected President Nicolas Maduro and his PSUV administration have ‘failed to make progress on electoral reforms and migrant returns.’
Forced return of captured Venezuelans has also been accompanied by increasingly frequent right-wing attacks on important infrastructure and installations and bands of armed mercenaries have been intercepted from time to time.
Unredacted CIA-led fascism
But none of that is new. Recently-declassified documents have revealed a Cold War-era plot by the CIA that sought to sabotage Cuban sugar destined for the Soviet Union in 1962, when CIA agents contaminated hundreds of bags of sugar destined for Moscow.
The objective was to undermine Cuban-Soviet relations and sow discord between Cuban and Russian authorities, but the operation was halted by President John F. Kennedy, who ordered the ship to return its cargo.
The CIA’s confession had remained redacted until March 2025. However, it offers another a clear example of the kind of covert tactics such governments employ, that fit into a broader pattern of CIA activities aimed at destabilizing governments, economies and international relations, often through criminal means.
Thought Patterns
The never-ending question to messengers is: How to best describe a government that, irrespective of which party is in office, pursues such tactics that deprive entire nations and peoples of their right to exist and to freely-choose their forms of existence?
But this is what fascism and fascist thought patterns create: ways and means of hurting and crippling entire nations and people, anywhere and everywhere.
Such thoughts encourage elected presidents to act as imperial emperors, punishing those who voted for them just as those they consider and declare new and old ‘enemies of state’ and tearing-up the law whenever judges dare to disagree with state or imperial policy.
Predictably Unpredictable
The world is mistakenly trying to read the mind of a predictably unpredictable leader who cares not about nothing than making his nation the greatest in the world through threats and actions that defy democracy and diplomacy in pursuit of imperial goals and ambitions.
Call him ‘Trump 2.0’ or ‘King Donald II’, the current US president is hell-bent on writing his own Ten Commandment for the rest of the world, according to his invisible playbook buried in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, now being implemented by chapter and verse after the then candidate for presidency told the public he knew absolutely nothing about it.
Different Brushes…
Venezuela and Chevron will be treated with different brushes by a President whose first Secretary of State in his first presidency was the head of one of the biggest US multinational oil companies, Exxon-Mobil’s Rex Tillerson.
The transactional president in King Donald can be expected to change his mind and follow the Biden administration’s policy of allowing a US multinational company to continue extracting Venezuelan oil for US energy interests, but the undependable ally in the US president today can’t be counted on to so do.
Never Forgotten or Forgiven…
Washington has never favoured or forgiven the English-speaking Caribbean for breaking the US diplomatic embargo against Cuba in 1972 when Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago jointly recognized the Cuban government.
Today, in pursuit of ongoing selfish energy policies manifested anew, the US seeks to decide which countries can trade in oil and gas with Venezuela and the wider Caribbean.
Washington and Port of Spain are torpedoing Trinidad & Tobago’s joint energy cooperation with Venezuela, while also keeping an eye on Grenada’s efforts to become the next Caribbean oil producer, with African and Russian assistance.
The US has succeeded in getting India’s Reliance to stop its imports from Venezuela, while imposing another 25% tariff on China if it continues importing from Venezuela.
But Venezuela and Cuba, Latin America and the Caribbean are not alone in their global scope, as the new imperial masters and mistresses in Washington have also upended ties with Europe.
The new czars in Washington are tearing post-war cross-Atlantic cooperation to bits, while telling NATO to pay for its own defence – and Ukraine’s too — if they dare not follow the new imperial emperor’s executive decrees, signed into law daily on TV, for the world to see.
Mistaken assessments
Those who point to President Trump’s actions and statements in his first two months of office as proof he’s probably insane, or couldn’t care less about the world after him, mistakenly pay attention to medical and psychiatric assessments of his ever-changing character.
But instead of presuming that King Donald may be a new emperor parading the world stage without clothes, it would be better for observers to accept that most of what he’s said and done are aimed at reiterating the age-old imperial policy of a minority oppressing the majority in ways that hurt-most and best-achieve their objectives of erasing other minorities less-privileged and considered ‘unable to do anything’ about their situation.
Such are the fascist tendencies that also always give rise to revolutions and like when French Empress Josephine Bonaparte suggested poor French citizens should “eat cakes if they have no bread” helped accelerate the arrival of the French Revolution of 1789, it would be better to assess the extent to which President Trump’s acceleration of the contradictions of capitalism, with an imperial mindset, can contribute to acceleration of unforeseen changes in American politics in the thee years and ten months left of President Trump’s presidency
Imperial Diktat
King Donald II will not await a third assassination attempt, or chiselling-away of his presidency by losing his slim majority on Capitol Hill.
Instead, he’ll quicker move to do what all like-minded leaders before him have done: seek to ensure permanency by his imperial diktat.
Not only is this president bent on adding his statue to those atMount Rushmore, but he’s also likely to change how voters vote, even which voters vote.
It’s also very likely that he’ll be well-advised to argue that his two terms ‘were not consecutive’ and he’ll therefore be able to legally run again for the residency – and thereafter do-away with the two-term presidency law.
Venezuela, Cuba and the anti-fascist movement needs to get accustomed to having to deal with the multiple characters in the mind and body of Donald Trump, who returned to office with a plan and is delivering exactly the supposedly ‘ridiculous’ things he promised on the campaign trail, including mass deportation of immigrants. Cutting federal jobs, reversing positive legislation protecting minorities, declaring war on those who choose different forms of life — and doing-away with the Department of Education.
Again, the question stands: how to describe a president and a government that sees nothing wrong in closing-down an entire education department to impose a new curriculum that goes back to the past for the future?
Venezuelans and ‘Latinos for Trump’ and ‘Blacks for Trump’ in the USA have also come to learn what to call a party and government that hundreds of thousands supported and voted for, only to have the same government they anxiously elected erase their protected immigration status and treat and describe them as unwanted, undocumented and illegal immigrants who’ve overstayed their time.
This is just one of the new lessons from the new times of the many worth messaging by the modern anti-fascist movement: early feelings of treachery in the trump base, including those who’ve lost jobs through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) while he efficiently sealed more billion-dollar deals for Space X and his global IT platform Star Link.
21st Century imperial diktat is the new norm, the new brand of imperialism and neo-colonialism dressed in exclusive ‘exceptional’ clothing, walking naked and daring anyone to see or tell.
Those who dare to not agree with the new masters and mistresses in Washington are marked and targeted for loss of visas and other punishments by the new global overlords that have pulled out of every international entity that does not meet its approval.
Some Caribbean leaders have spoken out loudly before and after the March 26, 2025 exchange between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CARICOM leaders in Jamaica.
But as with President Trump’s first administration, leaders were also met separately by Rubio, with no public statements on what each agreed to, Rubio only saying Jamaica was not on the US target list for unhealthy treatment for accommodating Cuba’s health assistance program.
Secretary Rubio’s second trip to the region in two months also included visits to Guyana and Surinam – and it again reaffirmed Washington’s blind allegiance to the Monroe Doctrine of offering carrots and sticks to be chosen by defenceless victims of its usual power plays in a region it considers it has the imperial right to rule over, for ever and ever.
Ongoing Public Education
However, developments since our last meeting hosted by the Venezuela Ambassador in Saint Vincent & The Grenadines have again underlined the need for starting an ongoing public education and information process about fascism’s face and place in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Hitler’s Nazi machinery was more present in Latin America that has been traditionally admitted or exposed – and likewise in the Eastern Caribbean, where only those who can recall stories from relatives who sailed the Caribbean seas during World War II are aware that Nazi U-Boats (submarines) terrorised merchant shipping and torpedoed ships in harbours and at sea across the region, from their base in Martinique.
There are related stories across Latin America and the Caribbean and we must find the ways to link and relate them to Fascism Now – in Century 21 – as being seen in Ukraine and also against Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Palestinians.
Fascism remans unchanged in its ways, only now with absolutely more impunity and immunity, as with Israel that considers it has a forever right to always attack any Arab state or movement that disagrees with its genocide against Palestinians, occupation of the West Bank and ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
Likewise, Europe and NATO insist on keeping the Ukraine war going, not only to continue fabulously enriching the military industrial complexes, but to continue a losing war with Russia while the US keeps aiming at China.
Everything since our last meeting shows Venezuela, Latin America and the Caribbean, through CARICOM and CELAC, ALBA and other regional political entities committed to protecting the region’s sovereignty, will have to hope for the best, but also plan for the worst, as the 1st anniversary of the July 28, 2024 Venezuela election approaches.
Washington’s hardening political and hostile stances on Cuba and Venezuela, it’s continuing war on migrants and President Trump’s demonstrated will to go to any lengths to promote war and talk peace, all make it necessary for Latin America and the Caribbean’s response to take all recent manifestations of 21st Century Fascism into consideration as part of the teaching and learning process necessary to arm our people with the knowledge needed to join those everywhere else also already rising to defy fascist and genocidal tendencies.
Constant Vigilance…
Anniversaries are important to winners and losers and it’s always wise for victors to be mindful of the actions and intents of the vanquished when such anniversaries approach.
As Che Guevara warned in his time, his eternal maxim of ‘Constant vigilance and mistrust’ must continue to guide the ant-fascist movement today and tomorrow – and for as long as fascism continues to change face without changing causes and effects.
We cannot trust those who don’t trust us, or care for us, but only care about resurrecting their dwindling empires.
We have to link more than just sharing ‘likes’ and do and say more at home, online, on air, and on-the-ground, to share old and new experiences of the ever-changing face of fascism with those who still cannot relate to the term and its historical relevance to their everyday struggles.
In an age where war and peace are being declared online, we must still link old and new experiences, to show fascism’s common threads over time and history, so that our people will better understand 21st Century neo-fascism, not as a sophisticated form of ‘smart’ oppression in these new times, but continuation of an old order in constantly-changing times.
Author: Earl Bousquet
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