Campus Antifascist Network

The Campus Antifascist Network stands in solidarity with the Mercy Junction Six who have been arrested and charged for protesting the appearance of Neo-Nazi Wayne Heimbach at the University of Tennessee. The arrests took place February 19th during a non-violent protest against Heimbach’s invited lecture on the UT campus. The Traditional Worker Party is a white supremacist, anti-semitic organization. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2013, Heimbach praised neo-Nazi David Duke and joined a cross and swastika lighting…

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The Campus Antifascist Network Steering Committee endorses the International Women’s Strike (U.S.) call to strike on March 8th against gender violence, the men who commit it, and the social system that protects them. In our fight against fascist misogyny we join IWS in recognizing that misogynist vitriol lashes out in with particular violence against black and brown women as well as Muslim, Indigenous, Immigrant women, and women subject to U.S. empire. We agree that the #metoo movement, with its reverberations…

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The Campus Antifascist Network (CAN) was formed last year to oppose fascism and address the spike in recruitment activity and violent intimidation from fascist groups on college campuses across the United States. Since November, 2016, more than 200 episodes of white supremacist, Nazi and neo-Nazi activity have occurred on U.S. college campuses. As has been widely observed, a falsely absolute notion of “free speech” has so far provided the protective sanctuary for much of the new fascist mobilization to grow…

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