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A new era of fascism? Understanding the far-right threat

4:15pm Fri 18 Apr
melbourne

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The far right is on the march everywhere. Donald Trump and his MAGA coterie now command the world’s most powerful and violent state. Across Europe, parties with historical links to 1930s fascist parties are surging in France and Germany, are on the verge of taking power in Austria, and currently rule Italy and several other Central European countries. Pogromist violence directed at migrants erupted in the United Kingdom last year and Nigel Farage’s Reform party is now surging in the polls. Narendra Modi’s BJP party both commands the Indian state and a paramilitary organisation of millions. Are we witnessing the birth of a new era of fascism? This session will draw on the revolutionary Marxist tradition and the historical experience of fascisms past in order to understand the unique and terrifying threat the far-right poses in our present—and what we can do today to fight and ultimately defeat them.

Recommended Reading

‘No-one saves us but ourselves’: we have to resist the far right in Red Flag
The many faces of fascismby Ruby Healerin Red Flag
Disaster Nationalism Is The New Fascismby Richard Seymourin Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
The Authoritarian Disposition: Capitalism, Liberalism, Fascismby Todd Gordon and Jeffery R Webberin Spectre
Post-Fascism: Fascism as Trans-Historical Conceptby Enzo Traversoin Crisis and Critique
Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today by Alex Callinicosin International Socialism Journal
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