The Politics of the Blockade

by Devin Zane Shaw Kersplebedeb Publishing 2020, staple-bound SKU: 9781989701027   This pamphlet contains two essays on antifascist theory and practice within settler-colonial societies, with a specific focus on Indigenous-settler solidarity praxis (written from an antifascist settler perspective) in what is presently called Canada. Both essays build on the premise that antifascist organizing is engaged in a three-way fight against the two pillars of settler-colonial hegemony: liberalism (bourgeois democracy) and the forces of white supremacy (today realized in insurgent far-right and fascist movements).  In the first essay, “We Settlers Face a Choice: Decolonization or White Supremacy,” Shaw examines the white supremacist aspects of settler-colonialism embedded in liberalism’s supposed “rule of law.” He concludes that antifascists should support Indigenous self-determination, for fascism in settler states cannot be defeated without overthrowing the conditions that make it possible: ca