It is with happiness that we bring you the news of a new chapter of the Anti-Racist Action Network being formed, Hub City ARA. Based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the group recently affiliated with the ARA Network, which is known for its combat against fascist and racist groups for over 20 years.

ARA has been an extremely influential organization that started in the skinhead and punk subcultures in the late 1980′s and since then has organized in hundreds of cities worldwide. They are known for their effective tactics that drive right-wing organizations off of the streets and for their comprehensive theory on fascism.

ARA has been involved in numerous campaigns throughout the years, fighting the National Alliance, the NSM, and generally helping to dismantle most open neo-Nazi groups that have come to the forefront of the white power scene. They also regularly combat homophobic and anti-woman groups using tactics that include mass marches, home demonstrations, and physically defending abortion clinics from Christian fundamentalists.

The formation of Hub City ARA builds our power as an anti-fascist movement in the Mid-Atlantic and increases our capacity to combat groups such as the Keystone State “Skinheads” and Maryland “Skinheads”. While we fight these groups we must not forget that our energy should also be used to combat the police, capitalism, and all systems of domination in place in our society that are re-inforced by these organizations. Below is the announcement from Hub City. If you like what they are about and what we are about, try and get in contact with anti-fascists and anti-authoritarians near you! A good place to start is Anti-Racist Action. That website has a listing of all of their chapters and contact information. You can also keep an eye out on this blog, or other sites like Infoshop News or Anarchist News.

We’ll see you in the streets!!
-On The Prowl

THIS IS HUB CITY ANTI-RACIST ACTION
WE EXPOSE active racist, fascist, anti-gay, and anti-woman individuals and groups in Central NJ and the surrounding area. We won’t allow our enemies to plan their war on us in secret.

WE OPPOSE their events, meetings, fundraising measures, and media outlets. Fascism must be smashed every time it rears its head. They have a political agenda that must be combated politically.

WE CONFRONT nazis, fundamentalist reactionaries, sexists, and all manner of fascists. This is our community and we will defend it from incursion by divisive, violent bigots. They have a physical agenda that must be met physically.

WE EDUCATE our communities and ourselves by spreading a positive anti-racist, pro-queer, pro-woman, pro-migrant youth culture. Liberation is a beautiful thing.

Hub City ARA, affiliate of the Anti-Racist Action Network (www.antiracistaction.com)
Hub City ARA supports the Four Points of Unity:
1) We go where they go: Whenever fascists are organizing or active in public, we’re there. We don’t believe in ignoring them or staying away from them. Never let the Nazis have the street!

2) We don’t rely on the cops or courts to do our work for us: This doesn’t mean we never go to court. But we must rely on ourselves to protect ourselves and stop the fascists.

3) Non-Sectarian defense of other Anti-Fascists: In ARA, we have lots of different groups and individuals. We don’t agree about everything and we have a right to differ openly. But in this movement an attack on one is an attack on us all. We stand behind each other.

4) We support abortion rights and reproductive freedom. ARA intends to do the hard work necessary to build a broad, strong movement against racism, sexism, Antisemitism, homophobia, discrimination against the disabled, the oldest, the youngest and the most oppressed people. We want a free classless society. WE INTEND TO WIN!

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