ARA Las Vegas, after aninitial and understandable period of regrouping, hascontinued to organize anti-fascist youth in Las Vegas. However, when we have two of our activists killed inan execution style double murder we will hold the copsand courts accountable and insist they do theirfucking jobs for a change. Especially when the city ofLas Vegas, whose economy relies heavily on tourism,would rather sweep the murders under the rug thanadmit that Las Vegas has a big problem with organizedand violent fascists. This still has not happend with at least 3 knownfascists invovled in the murders remaining uncharged. That stated, let's move on to the rest of thearticle's premise.
Fascists fight back.
Few understand better than ARA that there's a veryreal physical risk in doing effective, street level,anti-fascist work. While the murders of Dan and Spitwere certainly the most extreme example of Fascistviolence against ARA it was far from the first andwill definitely not be the last. It is an tremendous credit to anti-fascists involvedwith ARA that when push has come to shove and wesuffer injuries or deaths that we don't back down anddisband chapters but rather step up to the challengeand continue to organize and fight back. Largely this is because when an ARAer gets arrestedthey have tremendous support from their community andthe ARA network. ARA has mounted some of most successful high profile legal defense campaigns for militant direct action inNorth America.