September 10, 2025: As we noted earlier today, the fascist agitator Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the Utah Valley University campus. As we stated at the time, such an act “has nothing to do with any positive change, and certainly nothing to do with an emancipating transformation of society, which can only be brought about through a revolution, involving millions of people and aiming to sweep away this whole system and replace its relations and institutions of exploitation and oppression, and its putrid culture, with ones that are liberating and uplifting.”
After we released this statement, Donald Trump came out with his statement on this incident. Before anyone had been arrested or charged, Trump went on television to attack the “radical left” and the news media—and to specifically single out people and political forces simply for rightly condemning Trump and those in his camp for being Nazi-like fascists. Trump listed a number of fascists who have been attacked or killed and ignored any violence perpetrated by fascists—a number which is actually far greater. (See the box below.) Trump has been joined in this stance by a unified chorus coming out from the fascist ranks—with major fascist spokespeople like Steve Bannon, Fox News host Jesse Watters, and Alex Jones all calling this “war.” It is clear that, at this point, the assassination of Charlie Kirk is being seized on by the fascists to put all those who oppose them on the political defensive; to rally the MAGA-fascist troops to their banner; and to create the basis to do far worse highly repressive moves.
The fact that Trump and his fascist followers are cynically trying to turn the assassination of Charlie Kirk to their advantage and to launch threats and foment hatred against the whole scope of their political opponents is not only ominous, it must be called out and opposed. Right and wrong cannot be turned on their head. People must be on the alert, and ready to defend organizations and individuals who come under attack from the fascists. Nonviolent resistance against the actual violence being launched in major cities by Trump/MAGA must continue. Folding now in the face of threats and attacks will only feed more of the same; turn every attack into a stepping stone to expose the dire nature of the threat and build more support.
Finally, it is more important than ever to bring out the fascist character of this regime and to fight for millions to come to DC on November 5, and to bring down this fascist regime through massive, nonviolent resistance. If anything, the stakes are higher and the need is greater and more urgent than they were even 24 hours ago.
September 14, 2025 Update: Since we published the following list of violent crimes of the fascists, and the huge amount and horror of these crimes compared to those of “the left,” Trump has gone on FOX News to speak to this.
In response to a Fox & Friends host who asked, “How do we fix this country, how do we come back together?” Trump said: “I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t wanna see crime. ... The radicals on the left are the problem. And they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy, although they want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders.”
When you read the list that follows, ask yourself how any of the murders and assaults on that list can be construed as “people who don’t wanna see crime”? And then ask yourself how many can be explained by MAGA's sheer hatred of anyone who is not white, Christian fascist and/or fascist.
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In supposedly calling out political violence, Trump listed only Republican-fascist victims of violence, but conveniently omitted the far more numerous occurrences of fascist violence carried out by “right-wing extremists” and fascists. According to the Los Angeles Times, in 2022: “Right-wing extremists have killed more than 330 people in the U.S. over the last decade, according to statistics compiled by the Anti-Defamation League. That’s 75% of all the deaths caused by political violence in the U.S. Islamic extremists accounted for most of the rest. Left-wing or anarchist violence made up 4% of the deaths.”
Trump did not speak of the murders of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker, and her husband, as well the shooting of another Democratic lawmaker and his wife in June, by a man with a hit list of 45 elected officials—all Democrats. Trump did not talk about the attack on former Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, or the threats to “hang Mike Pence” by the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6. He did not talk about Joseph Rosenbaum or Anthony Huber, killed by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, WI in a nonviolent protest demanding an end to police murder. Nor did he speak of Heather Heyer, murdered by pro-Trump pro-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 (of whom Trump said “there were good people on both sides”), nor the 11 members of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh slain by a fascist lunatic who thought that they had aided immigrants, nor of the horrific slaughter of 23 people by an anti-immigrant fanatic in El Paso in 2019. He didn’t mention the 10 Black people killed by a white supremacist gunman at a supermarket in Buffalo in 2022, nor the nine people gunned down at a historic Black church in Charleston, North Carolina in 2015, by a gunman who wanted to start a “race war.” Trump also did not mention the 11 abortion doctors and others killed by Christian fascist gunmen or the thousands of acts of violence and blockades against abortion clinics and staff.
In sum, by selectively highlighting only acts of violence against fascists and ignoring the far greater number of violent acts against those who are targeted by the fascists, Trump gave a very dishonest picture. This dishonest picture is almost certain to further inflame fascist bloodlust.