During the 1967 Six-Day War and 1973 Yom Kippur War, leaders in America's democratic socialist movement, including Michael Harrington and Bayard Rustin, were staunch allies of Israel.

The text discusses the historical context of antifascist movements in America, focusing on the contributions of early antifas in the 1920s like Carlo Tresca, an Italian-American trade unionist who opposed Mussolini's fascism.