Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
The rise of the far right 80 years after fascism's defeat
TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today
Far-right goons outside Liverpool Crown Court, January 20, 2025, where Axel Rudakubana, 18, is charged with three counts of murder, 10 attempted murders and possession of a knife, after a stabbing attack on a Taylor Swift-themed children's holiday club cl
This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
MAY 8 2025 is a day when many people in Britain will be celebrating. Most, understandably, will celebrate their Britishness or Englishness without understanding the significance of Victory in Europe Day and its oft-forgotten sister Victory over Japan Day, officially commemorated in Britain on August 15.
For anti-fascists these are the days when fascism was defeated militarily and when the Soviet Union became a significant world power. It was a day when those countries which had seen the emergence of fascist power took stock and agreed to put a cordon around the far right.
If we look across nations now, that cordon sanitaire has been breached in a whole host of nations. The far right are in power in Italy and Hungary. Japan lifted its militarisation restrictions in December 2022. Milei in Argentina is clearly anti-communist and and anti-socialist. Within the EU the Prague Declaration equated communism and fascism, shifting the bloc on a more overtly right-wing path.
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