Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
From a webinar organised by Focus on the Global South.
The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much social and economic life throughout the world, but it has not stopped political polarization. In the US, there has been a welcome push-back from the left as millions of people throughout the country (...)
Today’s far right is little more than an incoherent collection of provocations. But if it grows and attains more power, it will employ the consistent ideology and clear goals of traditional fascism. That’s the danger the Left has to combat today.
This is an excerpt from The New Authoritarians: (...)
The far right is on the rise in one country after another. It has unmistakably become a central factor in contemporary European and world politics. I have come to think that in the coming years the fight against the far right will be decisive for the radical and revolutionary left. So it is (...)
In the 1930s, capitalism needed a ‘Plan B’. Faced with mass disaffection after the financial crash of 1929, and a growing communist movement which threatened to nationalise property and expropriate profits, capital faced an unprecedented, existential crisis.
Fascism provided the escape route. (...)
The brutal face of hard right and fascist reaction has been vividly on display on the issues of women’ rights and the climate crisis in the past few weeks, writes Phil Hearse.
In Germany the AfD (Alliance for Germany) launched a vicious attack on inspirational teenage climate activist Greta (...)
In just eight years, 2010-2018, the world has seen the extreme right move from being outside the corridors of power to the center of power itself. The extreme right has captured popular frustration with globalization and the inadequacy of liberal democracy, skillfully packaging its reactionary (...)
The news of a devastating terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, is heartbreaking. The deaths of so many people, of all ages, simply engaging in practising their faith, is hard to comprehend.
Another set of lives, and families, destroyed by an ideology of visceral hatred. The depravity (...)
IIt’s no longer a luxury to understand the niche language of online radicalisation, but a necessity to prevent future attacks.
If you’re reading this, you probably know that one of the suspected Christchurch shooters uploaded a video of himself carrying out the attack that has injured 20 and (...)
Phil Hearse explores the worldwide allegiances which bind rising fascist movements across the world into a coordinated force.
A demonstration of the members of the English Defence League. Photo by Lewisham Dreamer (Flickr)
In June last year fascist and hard right forces staged their biggest (...)
The caliphate is besieged. But ISIS can take heart from global trends working in its favour.
Mosul’s impending fall and Raqqa’s ongoing siege highlight ISIS’s slow loss of control of the much-vaunted caliphate it declared exactly three years ago, on 29 July 2014. The costs to the movement have (...)
The question of whether Donald’s Trump victory marks a triumph for fascism in the US depends, as always, on which definition of fascism you use.
For most of the past fifty years, the principal way in which theorists of fascism have defined it is by drawing up a list of surface phenomena which (...)
Neil Faulkner opens a debate on the nature of the threat we face from the far right in the wake of the Trump victory. Then Phil Hearse continues the debate on Trump, Brexit and the dangers from the right. This is what modern fascism looks like
Marxists are divided on a question of vital (...)
Is Donald Trump a Fascist? – We asked Jacobin contributors for their thoughts. Last week, Donald Trump ratcheted up his nativist rhetoric by proposing a ban on Muslims entering the United States . Trump was widely condemned, but despite Ted Cruz’s new lead in Iowa, the candidate has only reached (...)
After the barbaric act by extremist militants against schoolchildren at the Army Public School in Peshawar and the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, the reaction and response by the respective governments and people of Pakistan and France were in the form of monotonic approaches. (...)
No to Netanyahu at Charlie rally!
All the Israeli right will be represented at the manifestation of solidarity with Charlie Hebdo. I can only repeat what I’ve already written: it is imperative to reject the united front of Charlie and to put borders, as airtight as possible, between our camp (...)
After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre in Paris, Support those Fighting the Religious-Right
After the massacre in Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, expressing indignation, as so many are doing, is not enough.
A quick look at the English-speaking media shows that whilst many condemn the (...)
Mathews N Lyons, an independent researcher and scholar on reactionary movements, has defined fascism as: “... a form of extreme right wing ideology that celebrates the nation or the race as an organic community transcending all other loyalties. It emphasises a myth of national or racial rebirth (...)
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