A month ago, on the 3rd of August, fascist Patrick Crusius drove to the US-Mexican border town of El Paso only to kill 22 people at a Walmart in what he called the “response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas”. In the face of this murder, many US politicians such as Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick not even paid lip service to antifascism (before, of course, stating that this can only be done in the most toothless way imaginable to, in the next breath, denounce real, combative antifascism) but went directly on the offensive, warning all antifascists to “Stay out of El Paso” and the state of Texas in general. Also Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, was quick to turn the table, announcing at the funeral celebration of the victims of the mass shooting to create a new Task Force against Domestic Terrorism - whose target however will not be to stop fascists or planned massacres against people perceived as Mexicans immigrants but to combat “Hate crime and extremism” in Texas. One must not think very hard who the principle target of such an organization will be - the revolutionary forces in Texas – it is enough to remember, that in the aftermath of the shooting and in the face of anarchist protests the very same Dan Patrick also called for classifying “antifascists” to be “terrorists”. This was a question directly picked up by Trump.
In the face of this outburst of fascist violence and the constant double-talk so to legitimize the increasing fascistization of the state, Maoist activists have recently developed a mayor campaign to raise the issue of antifascism by means of a number of wall paintings put up in Austin.
