Alexander M. Dunphy

A flier that says: 2025 Labor Big Book Forum; Friday Oct 17 2-4 ET ; Register Today! with the link: go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025 ; and has a picture of the book "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" which features four sets of raised fists, alternating between red and blue.

We are excited to announce Labor's Big Book Forum for 2025! Scheduled for Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET via Zoom, this year we feature Rudi Batzell's (@rbatzell.bsky.social) new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social)

Our new issue, Vol. 22, No. 2, is now available online!

read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...

To mark VE day, I am posting an old folder of anti-fascist posters from the Spanish Civil War.

I originally started collecting these to try and choose an image for my book cover, and kept going because they're objectively awesome. Lost many in the last laptop migration, but the best remain...

Our new issue (22.1) is out! And it’s the first issue to feature our brand new, fully redesigned layout.
The full-color cover features art work by heretofore unknown 1930s labor artist Phillip Tipperman.

YouTube video by Haymarket Books Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism

If you missed our conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine about Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDJ...

Classic poster ‘Les milicies us necessiten!’ (‘The militias need you!’). 3 flags (Catalan, Anarchist, Communist) are flying in the autumn of 1936 calling for anti-fascist unity. Artist Cristobal Arteche based woman on Marlene Dietrich, encouraging / shaming men to join up.

Scheel, The FIGHT Against War and Fascism, October, 1936.

Scheel, The FIGHT Against War and Fascism, November, 1936.

Scheel, The FIGHT Against War and Fascism, April, 1936.

At the Phillips Museum in DC is a terrific exhibit of William Gropper’s antifascist cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s. He was a visual artist blacklisted in the 1950s.

Merry Christmas to all

"A Christmas card from Hitler," by Theodore Scheel, FIGHT: Against War and Fascism, Dec. 1935

So if you’re looking to watch some bad acting by war criminals in some really awkward and bizarre low-budget films about dogs, these are the videos for you!

It’s funny how bad these are, but it’s also pretty infuriating. While the Bush administration was killing a million Iraqis, dismantling our system of civil liberties, letting hundreds die in New Orleans, etc, they were wasting time with this corny bullshit.

It's kind of impressive the insane amount of ghouls from the Bush admin they roped into these videos, including: Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, Andy Card, Henry Paulson, 3 different press secretaries, the secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture, Education, Interior, and HUD, and the whole Bush family.

YouTube video by US National Archives A Red White and Blue Christmas, 2008

The last one “A Red White and Blue Christmas, 2008,” Barney is decorating the White House for Christmas “America-themed” but it's also about the Summer Olympics? There’s a weird dream sequence in which Barney competes in the Olympics and Michael Phelps shows up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg11...

YouTube video by US National Archives Holiday in the National Parks, 2007

“Holiday in the National Parks, 2007” is A weird convoluted plot about Barney and Miss Beazley becoming park rangers. The magic was definitely spent by this time. But it is notable for featuring cameos from country singer Alan Jackson and UK PM Tony Blair.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-rq...

YouTube video by US National Archives Barney's Holiday Extravaganza, 2006

In “Barney's Holiday Extravaganza, 2006” it is revealed that Barney is the one who makes the yearly BarneyCams and he’s scrambling last minute to put on a show. Special appearances by Dolly Parton and running back/2006 Dancing with the Stars winner Emmett Smith
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjwE...

YouTube video by US National Archives A Very Beazley Christmas, 2005

Next year was “A Very Beazley Christmas, 2005” where everyone is obsessed with the new dog, Miss Beazley, and Barney is jealous. But then they make up, somehow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3iY...

YouTube video by US National Archives Where in the White House is Miss Beazley?, 2004

Then was “Where in the White House is Miss Beazley?, 2004.” Barney is sad he got turned down for all major cabinet positions but then gets the job of taking care of Bush’s new dog Miss Beazley. But then he loses her. But then it turns out she hasn’t even arrived yet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gi_...

YouTube video by US National Archives Barney Reloaded, 2003

This first real entry is “Barney Reloaded, 2003.” This is where they start to have plots and get wacky with it. Barney is supposed to be helping to decorate the white house but he’s fucking around instead. But after a pep talk from Bush he gets it together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f_-...

YouTube video by US National Archives Happy Holidays from Barney and Spotty, 2002

The first film “Happy Holidays from Barney and Spotty, 2002” is pretty lame. Just a camera following Barney around the white house during Christmas time. You can skip this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFUo...

A few years back I discovered that the George W. Bush administration made a series of Christmas videos featuring the Bush Family’s two Scottish Terriers. And they are weird as hell.
www.georgewbushlibrary.gov/bush-family/...

I'm not 100% sure, but I think"Mackey" refers to John Mackey, a cartoonist who produced this comic for Ken magazine in 1938, which, unlike the preceding work, looks pretty good and is kind of funny. Guess he just wasn't bringing his A game to FIGHT.

The artist "Hoff" was Syd Hoff (1912-2004), who went on to illustrate popular syndicated comic strips and children's books. He also contributed to Communist publications in the 30s under the name A. Redfield
Out of all the art in FIGHT, imo Hoff's had the best combo of style and being sort of funny.

"Attaboy, be a fence-sitter!" by Hoff in FIGHT: Against War and Fascism May, 1935.

Mackey, “General D'Sorder #3” The FIGHT Against War and Fascism, July, 1936.

Mackey, “General D'Sorder #2” The FIGHT Against War and Fascism, May, 1936.

Unlike "Strength Through Joy," which was pretty good, in 1936 FIGHT ran a short-lived anti-war comic called “General D’Sorder” by Mackey, which was not funny and kind of looked like shit.

Mackey, “General D'Sorder #1” The FIGHT Against War and Fascism, April, 1936.