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With each passing day and at an accelerating pace in recent years, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale, similar to the era of the rise of fascist forces between the two world wars of the twentieth century.
With each (…)
During the 2010s, many states across the global South turned decisively to the right. Foreshadowed by the rise of Recep Erdogan in Turkey in the early 2000s, a wave of authoritarian populism swept political figures like Mahinda Rajapaksa, Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte, and Narendra Modi into (…)
A detailed look at Barbara Walter and Paul Mason’s latest works
Having tangled with fascists in the streets and studied them, progressive journalist Paul Mason, author of How to Stop Fascism, thinks he has a thing or two to say about them. To him, the January 6 attack on the US capitol was no (…)
The wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the US
Standing in front of the partial ruins of Rome’s Colosseum, Boris Johnson explained that a motive to tackle the climate crisis could be (…)
Western extremists heralded the Islamic militants’ military success as part of their own fight against liberal values.
The Taliban have some unlikely cheerleaders: the far right in Europe and the United States.
White supremacists, QAnon followers and others in extremist online communities (…)
In an interview with Lucion Nanni, historian Enzo Traverso looks at the current rise of Islamophobia and fascism in Europe today.
In this interview, Enzo Traverso, a historian specialising in totalitarianism and fascism, discusses the intensification of the Islamophobic offensive and questions (…)
The overall psychological improvement was outpacing the material advantage. Richard Grunberg, A Social History of the Third Reich
If individuals behaved like groups, they would be classified as mad. Hannah Segal
I. Disaster nationalism is the kairos theory of the new right. (…)
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 (…)
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 more (…)
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 (…)
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.
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This is what modern fascism looks like
Marxists are divided on (…)
Is Donald Trump a Fascist? – We asked Jacobin contributors for their thoughts.
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Last week, Donald Trump ratcheted up his nativist rhetoric by proposing a ban on Muslims entering the United States .
Many on the Left have looked worryingly at Trump’s rise and have been (…)
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