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If Kiwifarms has taught me anything, it's that stereotypes are true. With this disclaimer, I present to you: Stalinist worth hundreds of millions.
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Young. Communist. Gun-owner. Multimillionaire. Pro-Palestine. Pro-Hamas. Berkshire landowner. Meet James 'Fergie' Chambers
ALFORD — He thinks the political left should get as comfortable with guns as the right.
James “Fergie” Chambers’ also thinks the left should get as familiar with guns as he is.
It isn't just this that's frightening people in Berkshire County.
It’s Chambers’ social media posts that read like a threat to anyone who supports Israel. Or anyone who supports capitalism, for that matter. (He maintains the posts aren’t attempts to foment violence.)
It is, somewhat, that he is a founder of Berkshire Communists, a group he headquartered off East Road in Alford (population, 486), one of the county’s sleepiest — and wealthiest — towns with no local police department of its own. (Chambers says he rarely spends time in Alford.)
It is his money. Chambers, an heir to the Cox Media empire, says he has hundreds of millions of dollars. (He has estranged himself from the family. All but one.)
It is the open secret that law enforcement has its eyes on him.
It is that he’s bankrolling an array of what he calls “truly radical movements” here and elsewhere.
It is that his statements and his presence here has rattled people reeling from Hamas’ massacre in Israel last month, the continued carnage in Gaza and an explosion of antisemitic racism in the U.S.
He keeps the few guns he owns, he said, in New Hampshire. He moved to the Granite State for “tax reasons” and to build a new and “different” revolutionary organization — one that will support related activities across the United States and, according to his social media, fuse the Palestinian struggle with American social justice movements. Chambers also operates a People’s Gym in New Hampshire.
“I don’t have a ton of guns,” Chambers said. “I live on a mountain in New Hampshire and have shotguns, you know, like everybody else.”
Chambers, 38, brushes away suggestions that he is heavily armed. Although, he deleted an Instagram post on Tuesday of one of his guns after being asked about it — a photo of his KelTec SUB2000 carbine rifle, a .40-caliber semiautomatic, foldable model. In that post, which the New York Post linked to in a story about Chambers this summer, Chambers called his guns “my buddies.”
He said he bought the SUB2000 about 10 years ago in Georgia, that it’s legal in New Hampshire and that it’s the only “AR-style” gun he owns.
The weapon’s maker says the rifle “comes with more pistol magazine options than a cat has lives.”
“Folded, it tucks away nicely in situations where space is limited,” KelTec states on its product page, “but it’s quick to deploy in situations where time is of the essence.”
The political left should not be so squeamish about guns, Chambers said.
The reasoning is this. Learning to shoot is a way to get on equal footing with right-wing groups and law enforcement agencies who are working for
The Eagle asked Chambers about the social media posts that are prompting people to call the cops.
In particular, one post on X, formerly known as Twitter — in response to a post about Israel’s bombing of a hospital in Gaza — was not a call for violence, he answered.
It was a call, rather, for “direct action against what is an ongoing genocide right now and the most horrific thing that we have seen in a generation or two,” Chambers said.
This is what his post said: “We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public. We need to make all of wyt america” — as in, white America — “afraid that everything they have stolen is going to be burned to the ground. That’s what makes them listen.”
What Chambers said he meant by instilling fear in white Americans and those who support Israel, he later wrote in a text message, is that people who are defending Israel and its occupation should be afraid to lose jobs and friends and “should be made into pariahs.”
Institutions and businesses, likewise, should suffer, Chambers said. “I am not advocating for any form of violence, in any way. My messaging is incredibly consistent.”
Chambers was more cryptic about an Instagram story posted to his profile over the weekend.
In it, Chambers conflated any of Great Barrington’s Israel supporters — "professional Hasbara gaslighters" — with those who have “economically edged out” the county’s low-wage workers. Those workers, he wrote, “are coming for you one day soon,” and “there won’t ever be enough cops to call.” (The loose definition of "Hasbara" from the Hebrew is, "explaining.")
What did he mean by “coming for you one day soon”?
“Coming for them as the people of the world see fit,” he told The Eagle.
And on Wednesday, he pointed The Eagle to new Instagram stories. One shows the paper’s logo with a red arrow pointing down at it (he told the paper this is a “joke” taken from Palestinian resistance memes that point such arrows at “occupier targets.” It’s basically a symbol, he said, of giving the bird to organizations believed to be pro-Zionist.)
In another story, he complained about the paper’s following up on questions about his guns, saying they deflect from the important issues at hand. (“But for the sake of my comrades and the struggle in MA, I’ll make it real [expletive] clear.”
The post goes on to say that “no one is raising a militia in Alford.” He speaks to accusations of antisemitism: “We have Jewish members and Jewish residents, who despise Zionism, even its liberal shades, more than anyone.”
And then he gives the Berkshires a walloping. Including its food co-ops.
“We are anti-weekender, anti-Zionist, anti-landlord, anti-racist, anti-Railroad Street, anti-Theory Wellness, anti-fake [food] ‘coops,’ anti-General Dynamics, Anti-Williams College, anti-Mass MoCA, anti-local being stuck in wage slavery and housing hell, anti-Amerikkka.”
In another IG story he says what he and his comrades are for. This includes “Mahican sovereignty,” socializing medicine and ownership of infrastructure “and the means of production."
“Housing for all, reformation of the zoning laws to favor the working masses, the mountains and forests and rivers, an arts community unhindered by economic clout...”
Also, “reappropriation of hoarded farmland for common local food security, self-defense training, people’s retreat centers for urban comrades who need it …”
And lastly, “the death of the US empire.”
Residents up and down the county have sent screenshots of his posts to newsrooms. They’ve sent them to the very cops Chambers would like to defund.
The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office is paying attention. DA Timothy Shugrue told the State Police Detective Unit that’s assigned to his office to “continue to keep him abreast of the situation,” according to spokesperson Julia Sabourin.
In response to the public concern, Shugrue responded with a statement that “strongly condemned those who spew hate rhetoric in our community.”
The statement said, “Those who attempt to intimidate our neighbors, regardless of how they identify — it is unacceptable. These actions are inconsistent with basic civility, inclusivity and respect. They are purely hateful. The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office will take all efforts to ensure the safety of all citizens of the county. We will vigorously prosecute any and all hate crimes against any citizens of our county. ”
The police chief in Great Barrington said the agency is on alert.
“We are aware of people's heightened fears in light of world events and we’re working hard to make sure everybody in our community is safe,” said Police Chief Paul Storti.
Berkshire Jews aren’t the only ones worried about what Chambers has been saying. But Jews — whether they support or hate Israel — are feeling like it’s 1939 in Europe all over again.
“He is a small fringe voice of hate and he’s been spewing this hate for many many years, he has hate for his family and hate for democracy," said Dara Kaufman, executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires. “He wants us to be scared.”
When asked if what Chambers is writing are truly threats, and not simply his moral outrage about Israel’s continued bombing blitz, Kaufman said that Chambers knows how to push — up to a point.
“There's a fine line,” she said, “and he likes to get right up to the edge of that line.”
Chambers, whose X profile includes “#StopCopCity” next to a Palestinian and Russian flag, used to live in Atlanta. He is using his inheritance of family money to back the Cop City opposition.
One of the movement’s new initiatives is called the Babochki Collective.
“I sat on a pile of resources — and our movements need those resources — and we’re trying to figure out the most strategic way to move with them,” Chambers said. “Whether that’s projects in the Berkshires or up there in Boston — right now, a lot of us are in Atlanta for the mobilization against the cops.”
Chambers has many tattoos, including the letters “ACAB” (short for All Cops Are Bastards’) inked at the base of his neck.
In July, Chambers said he extracted as much of his money as he could from the Cox trust before cutting away from the family. He is estranged from nearly all of them, including his father, NBA team Atlanta Hawks co-owner James Cox Chambers, according to Los Angeles Magazine. The elder Chambers is president of Bard College’s board of trustees and owns Honey Dog Farm over the border from Great Barrington and Alford in nearby Hillsdale, N.Y.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index places James Cox Chambers’ wealth at just under $6 billion.
James “Fergie” Chambers, his son, is now worth “multiple hundreds of millions of dollars, and I will continue to have a considerable income for the decade or so to come,” he wrote in a July 1 post on X.
National media outlets have published plenty of stories about Chambers. He also authors articles on his own Substack account, “Combat Liberalism,” after the pamphlet of the same name written in 1937 by People’s Republic of China founder Mao Zedong.
Chambers is in the “by any means necessary” camp when it comes to Hamas. In X posts, he says the methods used by Hamas during Oct. 7 massacres were justified as resistance. “Good morning to Hamas and not to anyone who condemns them,” he posted to X on Nov. 9. He also wrote that he doesn’t believe Israel when it reports that Hamas terrorists raped women and girls on Oct. 7 because it’s against their religion.
In the U.S., Chambers is promoting a fusion of the Islamic intifada and other American movements. He includes the Cop City struggle in this, as “they are intimately connected, in far more concrete ways,” he said in an X post this week while he was there for the protests.
“It is absolutely necessary that the most advanced, committed contingents of those movements combine their struggles, nationalize that effort, and force multiply our capacity to disrupt everything, everywhere,” he wrote.
Chambers said the organization has been active in the county for several years, also promoting its People’s Gym to residents.
“Free martial arts classes available to the community as long as they sort of tolerated our politics,” Chambers said, “whether they agree with them or not.”
Chambers’ real estate LLCs, Cloud Kingdom and Cloud Kingdom 2020, have spent more than $5.3 million for six properties in Alford totaling 36 acres, according to the Southern Berkshire Registry of Deeds.
Chambers said the organization chose Alford, in part, due to its proximity to major cities. It could serve as a retreat, and there was the appeal of being able to grow food, as well as be a resource center with the hope of connecting with local worker-solidarity groups in South County — something that he said didn’t happen so readily given the housing costs that have driven people away.
With Chambers’ new setup in New Hampshire growing more central to the organization, the Alford headquarters will likely be more of an “auxiliary center to movements that are going on in nearby cities,” he said. “A lot of my comrades have remained in Alford,” he added, noting that they are largely running things off East Road.
It is unclear how many members belong to these organizations, as well as how many people are living on the Alford properties.
Most are off East Road — one is off West Road. Some of the land is abutting. One 3-acre parcel, purchased for $1.65 million in 2020, features a “classic eyebrow colonial” that was renovated into a “modern delight — chic home for now, guesthouse later on. The interior lines are elegant and clean, the transitions to the outdoors simple and harmonious,” according to a Zillow profile.
That’s the description of the property when it went back on the market in 2021 for $1.7 million, and then was removed from real estate listings last year after two price drops that stopped at $1.35 million.
The gym, the Berkshire Communists’ website says, is “always free for working-class people and permanently closed to cops, active military, landlords, and capitalists.”
One advertisement by the group also says it prohibits “chauvinism of any variety, and jock culture.”
But now there could be permitting trouble. Building Inspector Matthew Kollmer told the Select Board on Monday night that he’s about to send a second notice to Chambers’ lawyer in North Carolina, since the building is not permitted for commercial use — only agricultural and storage.
“We need to go in and take a good look,” board Chair Charles Ketchen said in response to Kollmer’s update. Ketchen said a police officer or state trooper would tag along with Kollmer and a passel of other officials when they go inspect the building and property.
“It’s not commercial, lol,” Chambers wrote in a text message in response.
Training centers are nothing new in the U.S. for so-called “anti-fascist” groups — sometimes known as "antifa," and other related movements.
Shooting clubs around the U.S. — like John Brown Gun Club and Socialist Rifle Association chapters — provide a politically left-oriented camaraderie and training, Chambers said.
The martial arts, he added, are both for health and self defense as well as “building community and having a place where people can explore political ideas while they practice something together.”
Chambers elaborated.
“We would say that the formation of a very educated and very organized vanguard revolutionary party is what’s necessary to advance the movements in this country to the next level, that we’ve gotten to the point of outright political crisis in the world and in the U.S. and in the U.S. empire,” he said.
Chambers applauds the revolutions in Soviet Russia, Mao’s China and Castro’s Cuba — all of which, he says, defeated fascism and pulled the masses out of poverty. The exception is Cuba, he said, due to U.S. sanctions. Criticism of these governments is Western capitalist propaganda, he added.
When asked what he thinks about violence against civilians during revolutions, Chambers said it is “self defense against a system entirely predicated on domination and violence.”
He said it is naive to assume revolutionaries could appeal to people “without using some degree of force” to achieve “liberation.”
This is where Chambers swung back to his social media agitprop.
“I know it comes off in sort-of harsh tones,” he said of posts referencing mounting Palestinian deaths and devastation in Gaza. “But this is not a polite conversation. This is not a ‘call your congressman’ type of moment. You know, this is the most despicable thing we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes.”
Chambers says that there is no plan by him or the organization to harm anyone in the Berkshires or in Massachusetts.
“We’re not arming the militia to mount some attack against, you know, the state or the local public,” he said. “Because that’s just insane and it’s the kind of thing that people that are being disingenuous [are using] to undercut the very valid parts of our agenda.”
In the since-removed Instagram post showing a photo of the foldable Kel-Tec .40 caliber SUB2000, he assured “any feds or liberals out there stalking” that there is “no cache of weapons, lol.”
James “Fergie” Chambers’ also thinks the left should get as familiar with guns as he is.
It isn't just this that's frightening people in Berkshire County.
It’s Chambers’ social media posts that read like a threat to anyone who supports Israel. Or anyone who supports capitalism, for that matter. (He maintains the posts aren’t attempts to foment violence.)
It is, somewhat, that he is a founder of Berkshire Communists, a group he headquartered off East Road in Alford (population, 486), one of the county’s sleepiest — and wealthiest — towns with no local police department of its own. (Chambers says he rarely spends time in Alford.)
It is his money. Chambers, an heir to the Cox Media empire, says he has hundreds of millions of dollars. (He has estranged himself from the family. All but one.)
It is the open secret that law enforcement has its eyes on him.
It is that he’s bankrolling an array of what he calls “truly radical movements” here and elsewhere.
It is that his statements and his presence here has rattled people reeling from Hamas’ massacre in Israel last month, the continued carnage in Gaza and an explosion of antisemitic racism in the U.S.
'The most horrific thing'
In an Eagle interview, Chambers said he personally is not keeping his guns at his Alford properties or at Berkshire Communists’ Berkshire People’s Gym training center on East Road. (He said in an Instagram post on Wednesday that “there aren’t any [expletive] guns there past a shotgun or two owned by people permitted to own them who live on a mountain with wild animals.”)He keeps the few guns he owns, he said, in New Hampshire. He moved to the Granite State for “tax reasons” and to build a new and “different” revolutionary organization — one that will support related activities across the United States and, according to his social media, fuse the Palestinian struggle with American social justice movements. Chambers also operates a People’s Gym in New Hampshire.
“I don’t have a ton of guns,” Chambers said. “I live on a mountain in New Hampshire and have shotguns, you know, like everybody else.”
Chambers, 38, brushes away suggestions that he is heavily armed. Although, he deleted an Instagram post on Tuesday of one of his guns after being asked about it — a photo of his KelTec SUB2000 carbine rifle, a .40-caliber semiautomatic, foldable model. In that post, which the New York Post linked to in a story about Chambers this summer, Chambers called his guns “my buddies.”
He said he bought the SUB2000 about 10 years ago in Georgia, that it’s legal in New Hampshire and that it’s the only “AR-style” gun he owns.
The weapon’s maker says the rifle “comes with more pistol magazine options than a cat has lives.”
“Folded, it tucks away nicely in situations where space is limited,” KelTec states on its product page, “but it’s quick to deploy in situations where time is of the essence.”
The political left should not be so squeamish about guns, Chambers said.
The reasoning is this. Learning to shoot is a way to get on equal footing with right-wing groups and law enforcement agencies who are working for
The Eagle asked Chambers about the social media posts that are prompting people to call the cops.
In particular, one post on X, formerly known as Twitter — in response to a post about Israel’s bombing of a hospital in Gaza — was not a call for violence, he answered.
It was a call, rather, for “direct action against what is an ongoing genocide right now and the most horrific thing that we have seen in a generation or two,” Chambers said.
This is what his post said: “We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public. We need to make all of wyt america” — as in, white America — “afraid that everything they have stolen is going to be burned to the ground. That’s what makes them listen.”
What Chambers said he meant by instilling fear in white Americans and those who support Israel, he later wrote in a text message, is that people who are defending Israel and its occupation should be afraid to lose jobs and friends and “should be made into pariahs.”
Institutions and businesses, likewise, should suffer, Chambers said. “I am not advocating for any form of violence, in any way. My messaging is incredibly consistent.”
Chambers was more cryptic about an Instagram story posted to his profile over the weekend.
In it, Chambers conflated any of Great Barrington’s Israel supporters — "professional Hasbara gaslighters" — with those who have “economically edged out” the county’s low-wage workers. Those workers, he wrote, “are coming for you one day soon,” and “there won’t ever be enough cops to call.” (The loose definition of "Hasbara" from the Hebrew is, "explaining.")
What did he mean by “coming for you one day soon”?
“Coming for them as the people of the world see fit,” he told The Eagle.
And on Wednesday, he pointed The Eagle to new Instagram stories. One shows the paper’s logo with a red arrow pointing down at it (he told the paper this is a “joke” taken from Palestinian resistance memes that point such arrows at “occupier targets.” It’s basically a symbol, he said, of giving the bird to organizations believed to be pro-Zionist.)
In another story, he complained about the paper’s following up on questions about his guns, saying they deflect from the important issues at hand. (“But for the sake of my comrades and the struggle in MA, I’ll make it real [expletive] clear.”
The post goes on to say that “no one is raising a militia in Alford.” He speaks to accusations of antisemitism: “We have Jewish members and Jewish residents, who despise Zionism, even its liberal shades, more than anyone.”
And then he gives the Berkshires a walloping. Including its food co-ops.
“We are anti-weekender, anti-Zionist, anti-landlord, anti-racist, anti-Railroad Street, anti-Theory Wellness, anti-fake [food] ‘coops,’ anti-General Dynamics, Anti-Williams College, anti-Mass MoCA, anti-local being stuck in wage slavery and housing hell, anti-Amerikkka.”
In another IG story he says what he and his comrades are for. This includes “Mahican sovereignty,” socializing medicine and ownership of infrastructure “and the means of production."
“Housing for all, reformation of the zoning laws to favor the working masses, the mountains and forests and rivers, an arts community unhindered by economic clout...”
Also, “reappropriation of hoarded farmland for common local food security, self-defense training, people’s retreat centers for urban comrades who need it …”
And lastly, “the death of the US empire.”
Edging up to the 'fine line'
It’s a political strategy at work. And people in the Berkshires have found it troubling.Residents up and down the county have sent screenshots of his posts to newsrooms. They’ve sent them to the very cops Chambers would like to defund.
The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office is paying attention. DA Timothy Shugrue told the State Police Detective Unit that’s assigned to his office to “continue to keep him abreast of the situation,” according to spokesperson Julia Sabourin.
In response to the public concern, Shugrue responded with a statement that “strongly condemned those who spew hate rhetoric in our community.”
The statement said, “Those who attempt to intimidate our neighbors, regardless of how they identify — it is unacceptable. These actions are inconsistent with basic civility, inclusivity and respect. They are purely hateful. The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office will take all efforts to ensure the safety of all citizens of the county. We will vigorously prosecute any and all hate crimes against any citizens of our county. ”
The police chief in Great Barrington said the agency is on alert.
“We are aware of people's heightened fears in light of world events and we’re working hard to make sure everybody in our community is safe,” said Police Chief Paul Storti.
Berkshire Jews aren’t the only ones worried about what Chambers has been saying. But Jews — whether they support or hate Israel — are feeling like it’s 1939 in Europe all over again.
“He is a small fringe voice of hate and he’s been spewing this hate for many many years, he has hate for his family and hate for democracy," said Dara Kaufman, executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires. “He wants us to be scared.”
When asked if what Chambers is writing are truly threats, and not simply his moral outrage about Israel’s continued bombing blitz, Kaufman said that Chambers knows how to push — up to a point.
“There's a fine line,” she said, “and he likes to get right up to the edge of that line.”
‘Multiple hundreds of millions’
This summer, Chambers cut ties with his family, the billionaire heirs of the Cox Media fortune, over their support of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center — better known as “Cop City” — where Chambers and other protesters trying to stop its construction clashed again with police this week.Chambers, whose X profile includes “#StopCopCity” next to a Palestinian and Russian flag, used to live in Atlanta. He is using his inheritance of family money to back the Cop City opposition.
One of the movement’s new initiatives is called the Babochki Collective.
“I sat on a pile of resources — and our movements need those resources — and we’re trying to figure out the most strategic way to move with them,” Chambers said. “Whether that’s projects in the Berkshires or up there in Boston — right now, a lot of us are in Atlanta for the mobilization against the cops.”
Chambers has many tattoos, including the letters “ACAB” (short for All Cops Are Bastards’) inked at the base of his neck.
In July, Chambers said he extracted as much of his money as he could from the Cox trust before cutting away from the family. He is estranged from nearly all of them, including his father, NBA team Atlanta Hawks co-owner James Cox Chambers, according to Los Angeles Magazine. The elder Chambers is president of Bard College’s board of trustees and owns Honey Dog Farm over the border from Great Barrington and Alford in nearby Hillsdale, N.Y.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index places James Cox Chambers’ wealth at just under $6 billion.
James “Fergie” Chambers, his son, is now worth “multiple hundreds of millions of dollars, and I will continue to have a considerable income for the decade or so to come,” he wrote in a July 1 post on X.
National media outlets have published plenty of stories about Chambers. He also authors articles on his own Substack account, “Combat Liberalism,” after the pamphlet of the same name written in 1937 by People’s Republic of China founder Mao Zedong.
Chambers is in the “by any means necessary” camp when it comes to Hamas. In X posts, he says the methods used by Hamas during Oct. 7 massacres were justified as resistance. “Good morning to Hamas and not to anyone who condemns them,” he posted to X on Nov. 9. He also wrote that he doesn’t believe Israel when it reports that Hamas terrorists raped women and girls on Oct. 7 because it’s against their religion.
In the U.S., Chambers is promoting a fusion of the Islamic intifada and other American movements. He includes the Cop City struggle in this, as “they are intimately connected, in far more concrete ways,” he said in an X post this week while he was there for the protests.
“It is absolutely necessary that the most advanced, committed contingents of those movements combine their struggles, nationalize that effort, and force multiply our capacity to disrupt everything, everywhere,” he wrote.
Cloud Kingdom
Most of the Berkshires were clueless about Chambers or Berkshire Communists until its first pro-Palestine rally since the war started. The group also co-organized another rally outside General Dynamics last month to protest the company’s weapons systems, and later held a third rally in Great Barrington co-organized by a group of Bard College at Simon’s Rock students.Chambers said the organization has been active in the county for several years, also promoting its People’s Gym to residents.
“Free martial arts classes available to the community as long as they sort of tolerated our politics,” Chambers said, “whether they agree with them or not.”
Chambers’ real estate LLCs, Cloud Kingdom and Cloud Kingdom 2020, have spent more than $5.3 million for six properties in Alford totaling 36 acres, according to the Southern Berkshire Registry of Deeds.
Chambers said the organization chose Alford, in part, due to its proximity to major cities. It could serve as a retreat, and there was the appeal of being able to grow food, as well as be a resource center with the hope of connecting with local worker-solidarity groups in South County — something that he said didn’t happen so readily given the housing costs that have driven people away.
With Chambers’ new setup in New Hampshire growing more central to the organization, the Alford headquarters will likely be more of an “auxiliary center to movements that are going on in nearby cities,” he said. “A lot of my comrades have remained in Alford,” he added, noting that they are largely running things off East Road.
It is unclear how many members belong to these organizations, as well as how many people are living on the Alford properties.
Most are off East Road — one is off West Road. Some of the land is abutting. One 3-acre parcel, purchased for $1.65 million in 2020, features a “classic eyebrow colonial” that was renovated into a “modern delight — chic home for now, guesthouse later on. The interior lines are elegant and clean, the transitions to the outdoors simple and harmonious,” according to a Zillow profile.
That’s the description of the property when it went back on the market in 2021 for $1.7 million, and then was removed from real estate listings last year after two price drops that stopped at $1.35 million.
'Not commercial'
The People’s Gym sits on one of the East Road properties. It’s a “liberatory” training center that offers free lessons in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai and boxing.The gym, the Berkshire Communists’ website says, is “always free for working-class people and permanently closed to cops, active military, landlords, and capitalists.”
One advertisement by the group also says it prohibits “chauvinism of any variety, and jock culture.”
But now there could be permitting trouble. Building Inspector Matthew Kollmer told the Select Board on Monday night that he’s about to send a second notice to Chambers’ lawyer in North Carolina, since the building is not permitted for commercial use — only agricultural and storage.
“We need to go in and take a good look,” board Chair Charles Ketchen said in response to Kollmer’s update. Ketchen said a police officer or state trooper would tag along with Kollmer and a passel of other officials when they go inspect the building and property.
“It’s not commercial, lol,” Chambers wrote in a text message in response.
Training centers are nothing new in the U.S. for so-called “anti-fascist” groups — sometimes known as "antifa," and other related movements.
Shooting clubs around the U.S. — like John Brown Gun Club and Socialist Rifle Association chapters — provide a politically left-oriented camaraderie and training, Chambers said.
The martial arts, he added, are both for health and self defense as well as “building community and having a place where people can explore political ideas while they practice something together.”
‘Some degree of force’
Fresh from the bank, the inheritance, he said, would be used to build a communist/socialist infrastructure.Chambers elaborated.
“We would say that the formation of a very educated and very organized vanguard revolutionary party is what’s necessary to advance the movements in this country to the next level, that we’ve gotten to the point of outright political crisis in the world and in the U.S. and in the U.S. empire,” he said.
Chambers applauds the revolutions in Soviet Russia, Mao’s China and Castro’s Cuba — all of which, he says, defeated fascism and pulled the masses out of poverty. The exception is Cuba, he said, due to U.S. sanctions. Criticism of these governments is Western capitalist propaganda, he added.
When asked what he thinks about violence against civilians during revolutions, Chambers said it is “self defense against a system entirely predicated on domination and violence.”
He said it is naive to assume revolutionaries could appeal to people “without using some degree of force” to achieve “liberation.”
This is where Chambers swung back to his social media agitprop.
“I know it comes off in sort-of harsh tones,” he said of posts referencing mounting Palestinian deaths and devastation in Gaza. “But this is not a polite conversation. This is not a ‘call your congressman’ type of moment. You know, this is the most despicable thing we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes.”
Chambers says that there is no plan by him or the organization to harm anyone in the Berkshires or in Massachusetts.
“We’re not arming the militia to mount some attack against, you know, the state or the local public,” he said. “Because that’s just insane and it’s the kind of thing that people that are being disingenuous [are using] to undercut the very valid parts of our agenda.”
In the since-removed Instagram post showing a photo of the foldable Kel-Tec .40 caliber SUB2000, he assured “any feds or liberals out there stalking” that there is “no cache of weapons, lol.”
Photo from the Berkshirecommunists.com
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- Dec 28, 2014
As much as I hate Communism, I find it hard to get all helicopter-happy about commies who actually did work all their lives for nothing and are pissed about it.
A guy like this, though? Drop him from ALL the helicopters into ALL the spiked pits. Pretty much the same for all the trust fund commies. Actual criminals (as in plain old street criminals not terrorists) are less enemies of the people.
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Yeah I mean, I have nothing but respect for the working man, my dad was a butcher, I have had it drilled into my brain from young age that "he who does not work, does not eat". An average klansman/wignat probably makes commies jealous with his blue collar credentials while this guy is pretty much goy Soros and hasn't lifted his pinky to feed himself in his entire life.
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I've never understood why they chose the nigger route in this.
We know they're not white, they know they're not white, but did they REALLY think low iq niggers, city or dune variety, would spend the time to tell the difference?
Now thanks to them and their "mass migration" efforts, the people that hate them are now EVERYWHERE. It genuinely baffles me that they didn't think this through. Did they think they could control them? Niggers are animals. Animals are nature. Man cannot control nature. And now, "gods chosen people" are gonna learn that the hard way. And inevitably make us have to help clean it up.
Hopefully when clean-up day finally arrives, whoever in charge does it with the condition that all of them leave this country and live in their precious "holy land".
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RX-78
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Yeah not happening, not when inconvenient facts regarding the holohoax, the uss liberty, and building 7 are are all compiled into normalfag friendly videos. They also can't rely on antifa as foot soldiers as every single member of the pozz hivemind openly despises israle and are just retarded enough to think that kikes are White like the various shitskins do.
One does not get to make an enemy do anything when one is compromised on every level.
Super-Chevy454
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I presume then some of them knew who brings the slaves to America? I have the feeling that clip will get lots of mileage.
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Well we certainly can't leave raging negros rampaging through the towns forever. Whether we help them or not, that has to go. Preferably soon.
RX-78
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Wiping out the sons of yakuub while allowing the people that Jesus despised to suffer the consequences of their hubris are not mutually exclusive.
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Ohhhhhhh, ho, hohohoho. This fucking faggot. He's got a history of this kind of shit, and there's nowhere better than the Farms to chronicle it. I'm going to have to put together a bit of an effortpost -- stay tuned.
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We have an annual nationalist march on independence day (yesterday), and without fail antifas provide comedy to the otherwise solemn event. I will translate a shortened dissection of the event:
The Finnish far-left's comments on Wednesday's Helsinki Without Nazis (HIN) demonstration show that this year's Independence Day "anti-fascist" event is considered a historic flop within the movement's own ranks. As Partisaani reported earlier, this year the extreme left tried to provoke an open violent confrontation with the nationalists in advance. In the end, however, the only confrontation was the internal skirmish of the extreme left.
Iltalehti, which followed the day's events closely, wrote in its news that "the internal scuffle of the Helsinki without Nazis demonstration remained the only confrontation" this year. In the fight, the opponents were Maoist communists and anarchists who support a more liberal cultural Marxism.
"The Helsinki without Nazis event is backed by a coalition consisting of the anarchists' A-group, Crow network, Helsinki's left-wing youth, Pinkblack Helsinki and the Emilia group. They say they are against racism and fascism. At the beginning of the gathering, we saw the internal clash of the Helsinki without Nazis demonstration," writes Iltalehti.
"Organizers interviewed by Iltalehti told that Helsinki without nazis-demonstrations organizers tried to kick out the hammer and sickle flag wielding "authoritarian communists"
Activists of the Left Alliance have also taken part, who have even threatened to kill anarchists because they are boycotting the parliamentary elections and thus sabotaging Li Andersson political career. This year, a civil war between troons and traditional feminists started, when Emilia Männynväli , one of the founders of the Crow Network, was smoked out of an anarchist book event after she spoke about biological femininity.
Years of threats finally came true on Independence Day 2023, when the communists marched there again with their hammer and sickle flags. The anarchists attacked the communists in front of the film crews, but the results were poor. Some communists lost their flags, while others managed to hold on to them. In the end, the anarchists did not have enough power to completely evict the communists from the demonstration.
With its activities, HIN tried to prevent the gathering of the patriotic 612 torch procession at Töölöntori. In the previous two years, HIN was directed to a side street in Töölö, where the extreme leftists were left to freeze, while 612 marched along Mannerheimintie, the main street of Helsinki, to their destination. Afterwards, the extreme left tried to turn the chain of events into victories and claim that it was actually a successful "street takeover" with which 612 was "forced to change their route".
In fact, the extreme left has not considered the final results of previous years as victories, which is why it was decided to change the strategy this year. HIN wanted to take over the entire square despite the police bans, so that 612 could not gather at all. However, the extreme left did not have the physical resources to challenge the police, which is why the riot larp quickly turned into a jail trip.
The Finnish far-left's comments on Wednesday's Helsinki Without Nazis (HIN) demonstration show that this year's Independence Day "anti-fascist" event is considered a historic flop within the movement's own ranks. As Partisaani reported earlier, this year the extreme left tried to provoke an open violent confrontation with the nationalists in advance. In the end, however, the only confrontation was the internal skirmish of the extreme left.
Iltalehti, which followed the day's events closely, wrote in its news that "the internal scuffle of the Helsinki without Nazis demonstration remained the only confrontation" this year. In the fight, the opponents were Maoist communists and anarchists who support a more liberal cultural Marxism.
"The Helsinki without Nazis event is backed by a coalition consisting of the anarchists' A-group, Crow network, Helsinki's left-wing youth, Pinkblack Helsinki and the Emilia group. They say they are against racism and fascism. At the beginning of the gathering, we saw the internal clash of the Helsinki without Nazis demonstration," writes Iltalehti.
"Organizers interviewed by Iltalehti told that Helsinki without nazis-demonstrations organizers tried to kick out the hammer and sickle flag wielding "authoritarian communists"
"Class traitors", Trotskyites, Maoists, trans people and friends of Li Andersson
The anarchists who are responsible for the organizing at the HIN demonstration have been waging a semi-open war against the communists on social media for years. The anarchists have threatened to beat the communists if they carry Soviet flags. The communists have responded to the threats by promising to beat the anarchists. Some of the communists who support violence represent the Maoists, while others represent the Trotskyist school. The communists are also in a civil war with each other due to doctrinal conflicts. All parties call their enemies class traitors.Activists of the Left Alliance have also taken part, who have even threatened to kill anarchists because they are boycotting the parliamentary elections and thus sabotaging Li Andersson political career. This year, a civil war between troons and traditional feminists started, when Emilia Männynväli , one of the founders of the Crow Network, was smoked out of an anarchist book event after she spoke about biological femininity.
Years of threats finally came true on Independence Day 2023, when the communists marched there again with their hammer and sickle flags. The anarchists attacked the communists in front of the film crews, but the results were poor. Some communists lost their flags, while others managed to hold on to them. In the end, the anarchists did not have enough power to completely evict the communists from the demonstration.
The radical line failed
Along with the embarrassing skirmish, the extreme left has shown a discouraged attitude because the new "more radical" line of the HIN demonstration did not work. Open hostility towards the police eventually led to 54 far-leftists being arrested and fined for resisting arrest. In addition, the organizer of the demonstration is suspected of an assembly violation.With its activities, HIN tried to prevent the gathering of the patriotic 612 torch procession at Töölöntori. In the previous two years, HIN was directed to a side street in Töölö, where the extreme leftists were left to freeze, while 612 marched along Mannerheimintie, the main street of Helsinki, to their destination. Afterwards, the extreme left tried to turn the chain of events into victories and claim that it was actually a successful "street takeover" with which 612 was "forced to change their route".
In fact, the extreme left has not considered the final results of previous years as victories, which is why it was decided to change the strategy this year. HIN wanted to take over the entire square despite the police bans, so that 612 could not gather at all. However, the extreme left did not have the physical resources to challenge the police, which is why the riot larp quickly turned into a jail trip.
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That's so far left. They actually try to provoke Nazis but when none show up they show they'd rather punch each other than Nazis anyway.
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Fucking hell leave some vowels and diaeresis for the rest of us Finland satana perkele
Also hilarious to see that it's been 100 years since they lost their chance to be a SSR and 80 since the Finnish BTFO of Stalin, but Finland remains free and undefeated. Good on you.
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German Antifa is just taking their Ideology to its inevitable conclusion. American antifa still has to pretend they care about arabs or they lose their "anti racist" status.
Super-Chevy454
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It would have been fun to see German antifas and American antifas meeting and having a chat about Israel who'll turn into a big fight.
ConcernedEducatee
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These socialist far-leftists have terrorized MIT students with their pro-Palestine protests. They barged into the office for MIT Israel internships to disrupt. https://twitter.com/RetsefL/status/1721415263105515646
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I'd be betting on the Germans. It seems that for some reason commies and fascists in the most cucked European countries take their violence pretty seriously.It would have been fun to see German antifas and American antifas meeting and having a chat about Israel who'll turn into a big fight.
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Elderly Homosexual Negro
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I have often found myself pondering this. I keep finding myself coming back to the theory that jews back in the day wanted to bring in as many different races/ethnic groups as possible (the more violent and draining the better) because it took the heat off them.
If you only had white christians and jews in a nation, as history has shown us many times before there will inevitably be conflict. However, if you have roving hordes of niggers killing everyone and shine the light on them, it allows you to stay in the shadows.. never mind all the spics, arabs, fags, brainwashed whites etc which also act as human buffer zones.
Unity and identity really is their weakness.