CUNY’s ‘Global Antifa’ Course Encourages Students To Aid Antifa– thefederalist.com

CUNY’s ‘Global Antifa’ Course Encourages Students To Aid Antifa– thefederalist.com
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The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate Center has an English course called “Global Antifa” that is “oriented towards militant co-research” developing “research projects that contribute to the work of global movements fighting fascism.”

Militant research, according to a paper from Newcastle University, “prioritises political struggle over the academic pursuit of knowledge” where the “researcher must become an active participant in a political movement, while still doing research – it essentially means devoting lots of time to working as an activist or as an organiser.”

In other words, that method would have students be active members of Antifa, not just embedding with them, but potentially participating in violence and destruction with them. It “seeks different ways to generate knowledge, with a particular focus on processes and methods, and it offers a blurring of the boundaries between activism/organising and research, between researcher and researched, and between theory and practice.”

According to the course syllabus, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by Defending Education, the class “surveys and draws on these antifascist traditions, linking them to a deep engagement with racial justice, anti-imperialist movements, intersectional feminism, and an analysis of the changing character and contradictions of capitalism” and “begins from the premise that racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing, challenging, and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule over the last century.”