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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

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.

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.

Crowd on Trans liberation protest placard reads biological essentialism ia not the same as feminism

The Supreme Court decision: when law becomes the means of oppression

The Supreme Court decision is a break with precedent and a concession to right wing pressure that harms all women.

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.

Minority Rule, Race and Class

What would a working class politics look like that takes account of racism?

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

A tent city protest in Minnesota

Why is homelessness spending not working?

Billions are wasted on landlord profits so what can be done different?

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.

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.

Rosa Luxemburg and cat

In defence of ‘childless cat ladies’

The reactionary right-wing attacks on women’s autonomy

Review | Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Around the world, the right are mobilising around “gender”. Colin Wilson reviews Judith Butler’s new intervention.

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 

Video | Fantasies of the new far right

Richard Seymour on the global far right, disaster nationalism, and fascist fantasies.

Whither Poland

Dan Davison analyses the new Polish government, the Polish left, and the rise of the far right.

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

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.

Review | White Riot

Novel celebrating anti-racist and anti-fascist struggles

Plantem Cara

Spanish elections: what next after fear trumps hate?

Luke Stobart analyses the Spanish election results.

A World to Win: rs21 All Member Assembly report

rs21 organised A World to Win as part of our All Member Assembly. We discussed the new right, climate breakdown and the strike wave.

Abortion Rights protest, London 17th June 2023

Review | Bodies Under Siege

Even traditional mainstream conservative parties are linked to proponents of reactionary ‘Great Replacement’ theories.

large number of people stand in a town square in Carlisle.

Anti-refugee demonstration in Carlisle – Nazis score a victory against divided opposition

Anti-fascists faced hurdles in mobilising against the first fascist demo to hit Carlisle in years.