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Shane Burley

Shane Burley is a writer and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on A form of far-right populist ultra-nationalism that celebrates the nation or the race as transcending all other loyalties. Learn more , Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and the editor of the forthcoming anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. His work is featured at places such as NBC News, The Daily Beast, The Independent, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, Haaretz, Tikkun, The Baffler,  Bandcamp Daily, Truthout, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. He is also the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Social Justice on “Antisemitism in the 21st Century.” He is currently working on two books, one on radical approaches to A form of oppression targeting Jews and those perceived to be Jewish, including bigoted speech, violent acts, and discriminatory policy. Learn more and another on the history of antifascism and popular struggle.

Articles

Public Eye
As former White nationalists try to reframe their identities, questions on whether to trust them, and what accountability for their actions look like, are still to be answered.
Article
Political Research Associates
Author Q&A with Reece Jones
A Q&A with Reece Jones on his book White Borders, and the close relationship between White supremacy and the anti-immigration movement.
Q&A
Political Research Associates
Shane Burley reviews James Ridgeway’s updated and re-released book Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture.
Book Review