Red Vienna, Sports, and Antifascist Organizing
At a time when the far right has become more visible and emboldened in the streets, what lessons can be drawn from the past for building a mass left politics against the right?\xa0 Radical writer and former professional soccer player Gabriel Kuhn discusses struggles against the far right in Europe, historically and today, and the role that sports has played in working class politics.\xa0 He talks about the history of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers\u2019 Party, or SDAP, their experiments in collective life, culture, and sports, and their antifascist workers\u2019 militias. Kuhn also reflects on the weakness of the left in Europe today.\nGabriel Kuhn (ed), Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture PM Press, 2017\nThe post Red Vienna, Sports, and Antifascist Organizing appeared first on KPFA.