"Combating the Christian Fascists", New York City, Dec. 8, 2004

"Combating the Christian Fascists:

Who Are They, Are They Really That Serious and How Can They Be Defeated?"

7 PM, Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Revolution Books, 9 W. 19th St., New York City

With: Debra Sweet from Refuse & Resist! and

Osage Bell, writer for the Revolutionary Worker newspaper

Phone: 212-691-3345

Please join us in a conversation Wednesday night to discuss the urgent moment confronting us all.Many of us woke up Nov. 3 to the realization of just how sharply polarized this country is. Some of us have known for years about the fundamentalist Christian movement that has claimed Bush as their leader. And now all of us are in great need of coming to grips with just how deadly serious they are, and finding the ways to defeat them. They are in position now, with the mandate Bush has declared, to ram through a very scary program very quickly. There are many dimensions to this program — from their onslaught against science and abstract thought and reason, to their violent and “subtle” moves against women’s reproductive freedom and basic roles in society, to promoting a heartless and immoral vision of sexuality, love, marriage, and what it means to be human in these times.

This Christian fascism is a very magnetic pole in society. We are determined to not allow them to be the only pole. We want to shift the terms of debate, and bring about a very different dynamic, indeed, a very different world.  As Chairman Avakian said in a talk last summer:  “We have to start seeing this as a whole process of their dynamic versus the dynamic that we have to set in motion — not constantly fitting within the political dynamic that they want to unleash, but bringing forward a different dynamic which isn’t limited and constrained and suffocated by the political terms that they want to say are the only possible political terms. We have to see ourselves, especially in these days, as locked in acute, ongoing struggle with them and their dynamic, to disrupt it and take it in a different direction. And it isn’t going to be settled with one or a few battles. This is an ongoing and acute struggle, and we have to develop the orientation that’s appropriate to that, if we really care about the things we in fact care about.“

How do we do this? How can we defeat them? How do we get out of all this horror?

Please join us as we dig into these questions and start a very needed ongoing dialogue about bringing into being a world we would all want to live in.