Coalition forming in Detroit to resist rising fascist threat

 

”The MAGA movement wants to return to the days of legalized segregation, gender discrimination, the elimination of trade unions, civil rights organizations, and anyone in opposition to the fascist trajectory of the state.”

That was the urgent warning from political analyst and longtime Detroit activist Abayomi Azikiwe, delivered to a crowd of 60 residents, union members, and community leaders gathered at the Detroit Public Library on Saturday. The event, organized by the Detroit Anti-Fascist Organizing Committee, served as both a rallying cry and a dire alert about the growing threat of fascism in the U.S.

“The January 6 insurrection was not an aberration—it was a preview,” Azikiwe said.

Azikiwe connected today’s political climate—marked by Elon Musk’s fascistic flirtations, Trump’s attacks on immigrants and organized labor, and the erosion of federal workers’ rights—to the corporate-state mergers of fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini.

Azikiwe reminded the audience that between the 1880s and the 1930s, more than 5,000 Black Americans were lynched without federal intervention.

“There was never an anti-lynching law passed during this period in the U.S.,” Azikiwe noted, arguing that today’s scapegoating of oppressed communities follows the same reactionary logic.  (more...)

Coalition forming in Detroit to resist rising fascist threat