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Why the right is on the rise in Denmark
A splintered right wing might become a mass movement with significant working-class support by harnessing farmers’ discontent and longstanding opposition to the EU, the Danish Communist Party's KAREN SUNDS tells Morten Larsen
Women opponents of the Trump regime fear his misogynist, racist and anti-immigrant views are taking hold in Britain, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, as protests against his visit hit London’s streets
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
MISH RAHMAN introduces the platform of a new organisation within Your Party, which will campaign for the highest level of democracy, accountability and participation, having learned from the mistakes of Labour in the 2015-19 era
ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand
In Britain we may have election fever but Europe is going to the polls too — with the far right predicted to do well across the continent in elections to the European Parliament from June 6-9.
With our sister papers Junge Welt of Germany and Arbejderen of Denmark, we compiled a series of articles looking at the nature of the far-right threat across different European countries, of which this is the fourth. We would like to thank Junge Welt for organising the series and translation.
IF THERE isn’t a broad, cross-party opposition movement to the EU to organise the fight against the social spending cuts from Brussels and gather the people’s anger and frustration, “then it will be the right who will organise the resistance.”
Karen Sunds, chair of the Danish Communist Party’s (KP) EU committee is convinced of this, she warns Danish daily Arbejderen.
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