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Gender: the far right’s new political battleground

Posted on 4th July 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk (Routledge, 2021), £120 The need to understand how and why the populist far right has been so successful has never been more urgent. The victories for… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Fascism, the far right, transgender liberation, women's liberation

France: a country divided

Posted on 11th June 2022 by Richard Donnelly

The results of the French presidential elections in April 2022 show a level of polarisation in France not seen since the 1930s. Fascist Marine Le Pen of the Rassemblement National (National Rally; NR) party, previously known as the Front National… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Fascism, France, the far right

A race to the right: Éric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen and France’s presidential election

Posted on 2nd April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

The war in Ukraine has reshaped the French presidential election, the first round of which is set to take place on 10 April. President Emmanuel Macron has used the opportunity to portray himself as a global statesman who can bring… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Fascism, France, the far right

Polarisation, repression and resistance in Modi’s India

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

The World Trade Organisation has stated that the Covid-19 pandemic could provoke the deepest economic downturn of our lifetime.1 As with any deep crisis, the effects will weigh heaviest on the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly in the Global South.… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, India, Islamophobia, populism, the far right

The Christian right, the Republican Party and Donald Trump

Posted on 10th January 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Donald Trump was elected to the United States presidency in 2016 by the votes of the Christian right. Some 81 percent of evangelical Christians, who made up a third of the total electorate, voted for him. Not only did a… Continue Reading →

Article Donald Trump, Religion, the far right, The United States, United States

Uncontrolled predatory capitalism: the core of Bolsonaro’s government

Posted on 14th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

On 8 August 2019 the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, hailed a former torturer—Brilhante Ustra—as a “national hero”.1 This gesture may be very enlightening, explaining who Bolsonaro is: a genealogy of his own roots in the Brazilian Army would connect him… Continue Reading →

Article Brazil, Latin America, the far right

Women and the far right

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

The far right is on the rise across the globe and the gains made by women since the 1960s are in their sights. The leader of the world’s most powerful nation is a proud misogynist, boasts about the sexual harassment… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, the far right, women's liberation

The French quagmire

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

Lazy clichés run through the liberal media’s depiction of the so-called ­“ungovernability of France, popular resistance to the advance of neoliberalism that seems so inexorable elsewhere” and the country’s “rigid labour market and work rules that supposedly stand in the… Continue Reading →

Article France, Gilets Jaunes, the far right

Brexit blues

Posted on 13th December 2018 by Camilla

The British political elite, grappling with the process of leaving the European Union, face two fundamental contradictions. The first arises from the balance of power between the remaining EU-27 and Britain. Since British capitalism is so heavily dependent on access… Continue Reading →

Analysis Brexit, European Union, the far right

Legends of the fall

Posted on 11th October 2018 by Camilla

The tenth anniversary of the collapse of the Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2018 has attracted enormous coverage.1 The focus has less been on the actual event itself—indeed Albert Edwards of Société Générale argues that its… Continue Reading →

Analysis Jeremy Corbyn, The Economic Crisis, the far right

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