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Anti-fascism and the far right

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 need to work out how to facilitate the flourishing of forms of culture and identity conducive to new coalitions, new common-senses and a mass socialist politics of “freedom dreams”

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.

The significance of the far-right win in Thuringia

Merilyn Moos discusses the historical significance of results in the regional elections in Germany

On Gaza and the struggle to restrain Trump

rs21 member David Renton uses the idea of ‘permanent revolution’ to understand the prospect of global counter-revolution we face today.

A group of protesters holding signs and a large banner that reads "No to Tommy Robinson, No to Fascism

The riots, Tommy Robinson, and the left we need to build

How to mobilise against racism and fascism

Glasgow against fascism: a report on 7th September and thoughts on next steps

Tactical considerations for the antifascist movement in Glasgow.

Working class unity means anti-racist unity: no compromise with racist state power

rs21 members make the case for an anti-racist politics that combats all forms of oppression and exploitation

Ireland today: interview with Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann

Pat Stack talks to Derry based socialists Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann

Four theses on fascism, pogroms and liberation

Reflections on fascism, crisis and class politics, as the left responds to far-right mobilisations.

After the 7th August – building networks across the country

TK Adisa argues that we should celebrate 7 August but build and strengthen networks of resistance

After the horror, the hope

Author and activist Dave Renton reviews a week in which mass anti-racist and anti-fascist protests started to push back 

The storm and the street – racist riots and how to fight back

rs21 statement on the far right protests and how to fight back

Southport murders and fascism

A local perspective on events in Southport and the need for clarity about the threat of fascism.

The French far right pushed back – for now

Ian Birchall assesses the results of the second round of France’s parliamentary elections, celebrating a defeat for the far right and assessing the problems and opportunities ahead.

The Popular Front then and now – France and the elections

Ian Birchall looks back at the history of the original Popular Front and outlines what’s at stake in France’s general election.

Setback for Modi in India’s elections

Narendra Modi’s right-wing government suffered a severe setback in the recent elections in India. Tanroop Sandhu looks at the reasons for this reverse, in an edited version of a talk delivered to East London rs21.

Remembering the Portuguese Revolution

Marxist historian Raquel Varela remembers the Portuguese revolution of April 25 1974 and its aftermath

Rishi Sunak grinning at a baby, and on right, Sunak at a conservative party conference stage.

The Tories’ pro-natalism agenda

Colin Wilson unpacks the right-wing agendas behind the new Tory childcare policy.

Sun sets over arid landscape

Climate denial and far right populism

Pete Cannell explores the way in which far right populist parties are using climate denial as a key part of their agenda. 

What it means to say Trump will govern like a fascist

Many Democrats argue that Trump is a fascist and demand that the Left subordinate everything to the call to resist him, but we have to organise against the rise of authoritarianism.

Revolutionary Reflections | The Battle of Cable Street

Anti-fascists of all stripes can learn from the success story of 1930s East London organising.

What’s behind India’s embrace of Israel?

JS Titus on the roots of the deepening economic and military cooperation between India and Israel

About the Dublin riots: some explanations and responses

Juliana Sassi, a member of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU), looks beyond simplistic explanations of the recent riots in Dublin to deeper causes, and explains how anti-racists and community campaigners have responded.

Into the abyss: On the Argentinian elections.

As Argentina lurches to the right, Adam Fabry analyses the rise of Javier Milei

Exposing the far-right conspiracy theorists

Pat Stack on the rise of the far right conspiracy theorist The Light newspaper

Australia: anti-Indigenous racism and the Voice referendum

An Australian socialist explains why a ‘Yes’ vote is important in the Voice referendum.

Protesters shout and point angrily.

‘Our Bodies, Our Lives’: Hundreds protest against anti-abortion demonstration in London

rs21 member Colin Wilson reports from ‘Our Bodies, Our Lives’,  the counter-protest to this weekend’s anti-abortion march in central London.

Rishi Sunak looks at the phone of Georgia Meloni, Italian Prime Minister, at the G7 Leaders Summit in May 2023.

Review | Mussolini’s Grandchildren

Italy’s far-right government has roots stretching back a century. Colin Wilson reviews Broder’s book.