WWP Lesson Plan – Fascism: What It Is & How to Fight It
This template was created to help people planning and teaching Workers World Party classes to make those interactive, interesting and consistent. Some of the classes are part of the curriculum for WWP candidates—and all are posted here online for personal and collective revolutionary communist development. Adapt and enhance the class as needed for your particular location and group!
*Teacher Preparations and
*Consider accessibility and accommodation needs: Everyone will not necessarily have access to a computer. Class leader should print out a few copies of the class materials being used to circulate for read-aloud. Also have some recent copies of WW newspaper on hand for the discussion on organizing.
*Essential Understandings
*Before teaching, identify the most important lessons people should learn on this topic: The capitalist state: What is its purpose? What is the relation of fascism to that state?
Overview of Class
A power point presentation with a series of questions and excerpts to be read aloud and discussed.
Motivating Question
Give an ice-breaker question relevant to this class: For example, “What is an example of state fascism in history? What are the characteristics that made that state a fascist state?”
Readings, Materials, Links
Powerpoint: Fascism: What it is & how to fight It https://www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/PPT_Fascism_WhatI tIsHowToFightIt.pdf “Answer to the fascist threat—Working class struggle!” Workers World, Oct. 14, 2020 https://www.workers.org/2020/10/51864/ Conversation on Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.facebook.com/teddyredder/posts/ 10164154731810526 Supplemental readings: Engels, On the Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State Lenin, The State and Revolution Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It Marcy, The Klan and the Government: Foes Or Allies? Abu-Jamal, Ignoring History to Our Detriment