Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy that counters fascism and fascist viewpoints and promotes content or organisations that are engaged in activism for a better world.
When is it possible to declare that a society has moved from liberal democracy, however imperfectly realised, to authoritarian rule? Is there…
Antifascism can be served with a pot of overcooked pasta. On July 25, 1943, after twenty-one years of dictatorship, Benito Mussolini was…
On Sunday, June 21, Colombian voters went to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. That same…
The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is…
While most of Germanyās corporate leaders strongly supported Adolf Hitlerās Nazis, this changed in post-Nazi Germany after 1945. Today, German capitalism is…
The announcement of the US/Iran Memorandum of Understanding allegedly ending the war between Iran and the USA/Israeli axis has brought forth more…
āThe Left,ā in the singular, is a simplified expression of the diversity of leftist movements[1]. By āthe Left,ā I mean all organized…
The deeper we explore humanityās past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the modern…
In recent weeks, the misnamed US Department of Justice has indicted twenty-three activists on serious charges related to their organizing against institutional…
āDefining Trumpism, defeating Trumpā is based on talks given by Paul Le Blanc in Potsdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Mannheim, during a May…
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