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Anti-fascism and the far right

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Not a rupture, but the next step: fascism is here

With the intensification of ultranationalism, racism, and authoritarian state practice, has a novel form of fascism has emerged?

Image of UKIP British flags at UKIP march Knightsbridge, west London 25th October 2025. Courtesy of Steve Eason

Fighting the far right: against the ideology of nationhood

A critical examination of how the concept of ‘the nation’ helps to advance reactionary agendas

Dense cold of protesters Rainbow banner and Black Lives Matter placards

Interview | Black Lives Matter UK

BLM UK’s approach to electoral politics, anti-racist and anti-racist organising and the struggle for a free Palestine

Red and Green Flag of the situationist international

The case for abolishing mass media

Far-right movements are driven not just by ideology but by the media itself

Interview | Race and Class in Crisis

Continuing the discussion on race and class in Britain today

Trans+ Youth banner leads the huge march

We fight for the oppressed

Why the fight against oppression is at the heart of revolutionary politics

Race against time: how do we challenge the new far right?

Report on Saturday’s huge far right march in London, its roots and how the left can challenge and defeat them

Far-right marchers take to the streets to demonise refugees

Responding to the racist moral panic

The nature of the threats from racism and fascism has changed in the last few years. Strategies to oppose them need to change too

End of the rainbow: sex, empire, and the new right

Liberal narratives that once instrumentalised LGBTQ+ rights have given way to a resurgent right-wing politics.

Hundreds of people join the anti-fascist march.

Antifascism in Epping: turning the tide?

Fascists were outnumbered in Epping – mobilising from an outside an area can get us short-term wins. But as the far right sink roots we need mass community organising.

UVF mural in Belfast

From Ballymena to Coolock – anti-immigrant protests in Ireland

Racism has always been part of unionism – now racist protests are gaining a foothold in the South.

A picture of Keir Starmer at the World Economic Forum.

Labour and immigration

Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech

Protests by university students in front of Beyazıt Square in Istanbul

A letter from Istanbul: Reflections on the recent protests

Protests against the increasingly repressive Turkish government have now continued for months.

Large fire burning on the street

The battle of Los Angeles: the first weekend

American socialists report from the streets of California.

Corey Blake with CTU comrades

Chicago teachers – winning against the US right

Chicago teachers have won a new contract which improves pay and conditions but also defends school communities including migrants and LGBTQ+ people.

Staff and aides defend parliament against troops during the attempted coup

South Korea: a right-wing coup defeated, but deeper issues unresolved

South Korea goes to the polls in ten days.

Keir Starmer unveiled a new Immigration White Paper

Labour’s immigration White Paper: a brief explainer 

Here is what the Immigration White Paper means policy-wise

Palestinians on a demo in Hebron

Review | Louis Theroux’s Settlers

A review of Louis Theroux’s The Settlers

Rebuilding the left as Germany turns right

A Marx21 interview by Tempest’s Sean Larson

Nigel Farage speaks at a Reform UK event

As Reform grows, we urgently need a left electoral alternative

As two-party politics collapses and Reform UK rise, we need an alternative at the polls.

Trump, Fascism and the authoritarian turn

Is Trump’s rule fascist, or becoming fascist? How can resistance be built? This in-depth analysis draws on history to understand the current crisis.

Post-apocalypse London: Houses of Parliament in ruins, Thames run dry

‘There is no escape for European capitalism’

Trotsky argued in 1924 that “the USA that rules the capitalist world”. Trump wants it to stay that way, even if it means ditching Europe.

Graffiti - word "No!" with letter O resembling Hitler's face

German election: far right surges, chances for the radical left

A big step forward for the AfD, a surprise success for Die Linke

Review | Disaster Nationalism

Richard Seymour’s recent book Disaster Nationalism can help us understand what’s happening as Trump’s second term accelerates the growth of the far right internationally.

Video | How can we build a mass socialist politics of ‘freedom dreams’

In response to the threat of Farage’s Reform Party the left needs to build laboratories of hope.

The reactionary evil of Trump’s oligarch courtiers 

Resisting the ambitions of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel requires more than critique—it demands direct confrontation

Trump’s second term: fascism in the US?

Continuing the discussion of what we can expect from Trump’s second term, highlighting the risks and the opportunities for resistance.

Farage with Union Jack in the European parliament

Be concerned – Reform is coming

We have some catching up to do. On building new coalitions and mass socialist politics.

Video | Trump, the US elections, fascism

Will Trump rule as a fascist? A video discussion of the outcomes of the US election.

Review | Become Ungovernable

HLT Quan’s manifesto for ungovernability contributes to strategies for resisting state violence.