This year, the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American settler colonial project. Against the backdrop of deepening economic crisis, climate catastrophe, multiple genocidal wars, voter disenfranchisement, fascist migrant crackdowns, censorship, growing technofascist surveillance, and discrimination against the QTBIPOC community, the government and its false “mass culture” expect us all to participate in this so-called “celebration.” But the “recent” fascist turn associated with the Trump era ain’t the only cause for suspended celebration. The administration’s overtly fascist year-long line-up of celebratory events, including the proposed “Patriot Games,” and recent UFC Freedom 250 fights at the White House, give many who oppose the regime cause to boycott this year’s “Independence” Day festivities, but the bloody history of the United States argues otherwise. In other words, given the history of slavery, settler colonial violence, and genocidal conquest that sustains the US Empire, nobody should ever celebrate the Fourth of July. As an abolitionist publication in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, queer, and all oppressed people of the world who have for generations suffered under the boot of US Empire we say, Fuck the Fourth of July. Today on our site, we have compiled a list of Scalawag’s most relevant publishing on the hypocrisy of an “American patriotism.” In them, readers will find anti-colonial and anti-fascist analysis that indict the prison industrial complex, indigenous genocide, imperial extraction, gendered oppression, environmental degradation, and racial terrorism that continue to make the United States possible. Until the Revolution comes, we bid you happy reading and happy resistance! Words By @teastroutman Art By @azairelovejunt and @amtahnaazim