https://znetwork.org/category/fascism/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:47:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/fascism/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/launch-of-the-little-book-on-fascism-and-how-to-fight-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/launch-of-the-little-book-on-fascism-and-how-to-fight-it/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:47:10 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1298998 UTRECHT – Yesterday the Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation successfully launched the  compilation, the Little Book on Fascism and How to Fight It at BAK Basecamp for Tactical  Imaginaries, Pauwstraat 13a, Utrecht, to a lively online and in-person audience.  The program opened with Ka Julie de Lima, Jose Maria “Ka Joma” Sison’s life-long  comrade, collaborator, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/launch-of-the-little-book-on-fascism-and-how-to-fight-it/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/former-maga-influencer-tells-all/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/former-maga-influencer-tells-all/#respond Fri, 15 May 2026 17:00:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1298215 Ashley St. Clair, social media content creator and former MAGA firebrand now speaking out against the movement, joins us to discuss coordinated right-wing “marching orders” and pay-for-play schemes.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/former-maga-influencer-tells-all/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-falls-upon-the-left-to-defeat-fascism-once-again/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-falls-upon-the-left-to-defeat-fascism-once-again/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 16:24:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1298044 The world is at a precipice, facing existential threats while fascism is on the rise. Yet we lack the proper governance structures to address global challenges, and it also seems that it falls upon the left to defeat fascism once again. So argues political scientist/political economist, author and journalist C. J. Polychroniou in the interview that follows [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-falls-upon-the-left-to-defeat-fascism-once-again/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fault-lines-in-a-new-epoch-of-crisis-imperial-rivalry-authoritarianism-and-resistance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fault-lines-in-a-new-epoch-of-crisis-imperial-rivalry-authoritarianism-and-resistance/#respond Mon, 11 May 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297994 We have entered a new epoch of global capitalism. It is characterized by crisis, imperial rivalry, authoritarian nationalism, and episodic, explosive resistance from below. The Trump administration’s brief year of misrule has brought all these to a head, particularly with its war on Iran. That war has put a definitive end to Washington’s imperial order [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fault-lines-in-a-new-epoch-of-crisis-imperial-rivalry-authoritarianism-and-resistance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-billionaire-is-calling-taxes-soviet-oppression/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-billionaire-is-calling-taxes-soviet-oppression/#respond Mon, 11 May 2026 16:27:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1298005 Google cofounder Sergey Brin says he knows what socialism looks like. He was born in Moscow in 1973 and left the Soviet Union with his family at the age of six, an experience he recently invoked to attack California’s proposed tax on billionaires. “I fled socialism with my family in 1979,” he said, warning that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-billionaire-is-calling-taxes-soviet-oppression/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-watching-the-rise-of-democratic-fascism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-watching-the-rise-of-democratic-fascism/#comments Mon, 04 May 2026 14:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297721 “American fascism would . . . be correspondingly democratic in the American fashion.” — Bertolt Brecht, Journals At the end of last year, Donald Trump deployed more than two thousand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Minneapolis and St Paul, essentially occupying the Twin Cities and making his previous deployments of the National Guard to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-watching-the-rise-of-democratic-fascism/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-gangster-capitalism-becomes-government/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-gangster-capitalism-becomes-government/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297513 Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What remains is whether people will answer it. Trump has given gangster capitalism a legitimacy once confined to crime films and mafia mythology. He wages war at home and abroad, funnels public money into detention camps and punitive institutions, and treats [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-gangster-capitalism-becomes-government/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-explicit-manifesto-of-digital-fascism-palantir-and-the-alliance-of-monopoly-capital-with-the-far-right/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-explicit-manifesto-of-digital-fascism-palantir-and-the-alliance-of-monopoly-capital-with-the-far-right/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:55:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297217 The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealing its full ideological face. Palantir is not [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-explicit-manifesto-of-digital-fascism-palantir-and-the-alliance-of-monopoly-capital-with-the-far-right/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-more-universities-agree-to-immigration-enforcement-on-campus-students-are-fighting-back/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-more-universities-agree-to-immigration-enforcement-on-campus-students-are-fighting-back/#respond Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:13:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297055 She was beginning her spring semester as a second-year law student and paralegal when she received the news: The immigration clinic where she volunteered would have to stop all work, a demand directly from the Trump administration. The White House issued a stop-work order on Feb. 18, 2025, cutting off aid to federally funded unaccompanied [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-more-universities-agree-to-immigration-enforcement-on-campus-students-are-fighting-back/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-fascism-and-the-antichrist/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-fascism-and-the-antichrist/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:15:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296824 One of the most influential interpretations of 20th-century fascism is that fascism was a rebellion against the secularism of the modern era, which proposed a transcendent society both on a practical level (progress) and on a theoretical level (the possibility of transcending all limits). This rebellion led to the return of political religion (religion as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-fascism-and-the-antichrist/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-imperialism-in-an-age-of-rising-fascism-solidarity-beyond-competing-powers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-imperialism-in-an-age-of-rising-fascism-solidarity-beyond-competing-powers/#respond Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:24:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296778 Speech delivered by Sushovan Dhar from CADTM India at the 5th Plenary Session of the Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference held in Porto Alegre. The intervention addressed the growing convergence between imperialism and far-right politics, critiqued the limits of emerging multipolarity, and emphasised the need for renewed international solidarity among peoples. The current global moment is marked [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-imperialism-in-an-age-of-rising-fascism-solidarity-beyond-competing-powers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-going-to-get-a-lot-worse/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-going-to-get-a-lot-worse/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296596 Last August, in a piece published on ZNet, I argued that Trump is a fascist, but more specifically, borrowing from the language of Sheldon Wolin, he is an “inverted fascist.” Inverted fascism, like the fascist regimes in Italy and Germany, is animated by a totalitarian drive, but puts corporate interests above those of the nation [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-going-to-get-a-lot-worse/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/porto-alegre-declaration-unity-against-fascism-and-the-sovereignty-of-peoples/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/porto-alegre-declaration-unity-against-fascism-and-the-sovereignty-of-peoples/#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296360 Gathered in Porto Alegre — a city that symbolizes international struggles and holds important democratic traditions and aspirations — thousands of activists from more than forty countries across five continents celebrate our unity in diversity, seeking to advance organization for resistance and the struggle against the various forms of fascism, the far right, and imperialism [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/porto-alegre-declaration-unity-against-fascism-and-the-sovereignty-of-peoples/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sordid-history-of-state-collusion-with-the-far-right/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sordid-history-of-state-collusion-with-the-far-right/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296323 The protest taunt “Cops and Klan, hand in hand” emerged from an observable phenomenon: far-right vigilantes have long been either disproportionately represented in law enforcement agencies or allied with them. During the 1960s, Southern sheriffs fought civil rights advocates by day while Klansmen took over at night — and they were often the same people. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sordid-history-of-state-collusion-with-the-far-right/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-is-sanctioning-critics-of-israel-and-militarism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-is-sanctioning-critics-of-israel-and-militarism/#respond Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:56:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296030 Imagine you’re at the supermarket one day, but weirdly your card doesn’t work. You try to check your account online, and it doesn’t let you log in. You call the bank, but it tells you that it’s unable to disclose any information about why this is happening. At home, you try to find out what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-is-sanctioning-critics-of-israel-and-militarism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-crusade-christian-nationalism-and-the-making-of-a-holy-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-crusade-christian-nationalism-and-the-making-of-a-holy-war/#respond Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:39:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296016 “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a conflict framed by both leaders through a stark and self-serving moral binary. In the words of Benjamin Netanyahu, it is cast as a “necessary fight between good and evil.” For Donald Trump, the illegality of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-crusade-christian-nationalism-and-the-making-of-a-holy-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomerangs-of-empire-latin-america-as-colonial-laboratory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomerangs-of-empire-latin-america-as-colonial-laboratory/#respond Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:51:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296006 Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor disappeared. A young man is arrested at his job and secretly transported to a terrorism confinement prison in another country. These stories are not from Cold War Latin [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomerangs-of-empire-latin-america-as-colonial-laboratory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-capital-complex-pax-silica-and-the-embryonic-fascist-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-capital-complex-pax-silica-and-the-embryonic-fascist-state/#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:26:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295964 The U.S. attack on Iran is but the latest in a dizzying array of global upheavals – ranging from geopolitical conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East to the Myanmar and Sudanese civil wars, tariff disputes, the spread of fascism, the U.S. assault on Venezuela, Washington’s Greenland grab, and ICE terror in U.S. cities, among [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-capital-complex-pax-silica-and-the-embryonic-fascist-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-foundations-of-a-dangerous-new-maga-iteration/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-foundations-of-a-dangerous-new-maga-iteration/#respond Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:23:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295803 One of the curious phenomena of Israel’s genocidal slaughter in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 is that  it has moved prominent right wing figures otherwise known for reactionary sadism to express horror at it. Anti-immigrant, white nationalist and conspiracist demagogues like Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and Florida Republican [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-foundations-of-a-dangerous-new-maga-iteration/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-neoliberalism-gave-us-trumps-neofascism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-neoliberalism-gave-us-trumps-neofascism/#respond Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295656 With Donald Trump’s war in Iran heating up, the times can feel uniquely dark. But crisis is not new. And resistance, including spirituality, has always led the way out into the light. In this episode of The Jacobin Show with David Griscom, Cornel West reflects on our political moment defined by deep crisis and equally [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-neoliberalism-gave-us-trumps-neofascism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/everyone-in-this-country-has-gone-insane/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/everyone-in-this-country-has-gone-insane/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:46:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295598 Israel, 2026: Not a single voice of reason to be found among the pundits, politicians and general public, who all run to the shelters on an hourly basis but smile when they emerge, praising the Iran war and the blessings it brings. It almost makes you miss 1967 Where was it determined that wartime is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/everyone-in-this-country-has-gone-insane/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/florida-has-deemed-all-existing-intro-to-sociology-textbooks-illegal-and-produced-its-own/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/florida-has-deemed-all-existing-intro-to-sociology-textbooks-illegal-and-produced-its-own/#respond Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:48:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295564 Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between men and women in the United States. You check the guidance you just received from your dean, who received instructions via email from the executive vice chancellor of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/florida-has-deemed-all-existing-intro-to-sociology-textbooks-illegal-and-produced-its-own/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:01:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295280 For weeks, allegations of sleaze, nepotism, and corruption inside the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have dominated local media in Germany. Nepotism within the AfD has occurred at both state and federal level. The neo-fascist AfD is not known for being a political party free of infighting. Unsurprisingly, what triggered the emergence of widespread nepotism was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:50:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295275 ICE is terrorizing this country and threatening its long term survival. Yet still, many Americans don’t understand the magnitude of this existential threat and just how precarious the current moment is. Dominick Conidi is a recent graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a contributor at ZNetwork.org. He has organized previously with the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reforms-plans-to-import-trumps-authoritarian-project-2025-blueprint-to-the-uk/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reforms-plans-to-import-trumps-authoritarian-project-2025-blueprint-to-the-uk/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295192 Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints – and cash – from a global network of American hardliners. “It’s not enough actually to win an election; you also need to completely rewire the system.” Those are the words of Matt Goodwin – Reform UK’s parliamentary candidate in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reforms-plans-to-import-trumps-authoritarian-project-2025-blueprint-to-the-uk/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-tripled-its-reliance-on-microsoft-in-last-six-months-leaked-files-reveal/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-tripled-its-reliance-on-microsoft-in-last-six-months-leaked-files-reveal/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:59:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294994 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has relied extensively on Microsoft’s cloud storage and artificial intelligence products while escalating its campaign of mass arrests and deportations in recent months, files obtained by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian reveal. ICE more than tripled the amount of data it holds on Microsoft servers between July [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-tripled-its-reliance-on-microsoft-in-last-six-months-leaked-files-reveal/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/do-workers-in-germany-vote-neo-nazi/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/do-workers-in-germany-vote-neo-nazi/#respond Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294968 In Germany’s recent election – held in February 2025 – the AfD managed to become the second-strongest political force, winning 21%. Four years earlier, the neo-fascist party’s share had been 10.4%. In East Germany, it even reached 32%. The AfD thus succeeded in doubling its share of the vote. Worse, this is not because fewer [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/do-workers-in-germany-vote-neo-nazi/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-cruelty-of-aesthetics-in-the-age-of-maga-politics/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-cruelty-of-aesthetics-in-the-age-of-maga-politics/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294914 In the MAGA aesthetic, cruelty appears in multiple registers, most visibly in the “Mar-a-Lago face”: plastic smiles, exaggerated cosmetic enhancement, and beauty-pageant nostalgia staged against prisons, detention centers, and armed authority. The doctrine from which the concentration camps were born was very simple, and for that very reason very dangerous: every foreigner is an enemy, and every [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-cruelty-of-aesthetics-in-the-age-of-maga-politics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mohammad-deepak-the-vanguard-the-republic-needs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mohammad-deepak-the-vanguard-the-republic-needs/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:58:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294785 On January 26, the day we celebrate the birth of the Republic, a Hindu gym owner in Kotdwar, Uttarakhand, stepped up to confront a Bajrang Dal posse who were ordering Vakil Ahmed, owner of the Baba Cloth Shop, to remove the appellation “Baba” from his shop name. It was their contention that Baba is a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mohammad-deepak-the-vanguard-the-republic-needs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fight-to-keep-ice-from-reopening-a-notorious-prison/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fight-to-keep-ice-from-reopening-a-notorious-prison/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:19:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294737 On March 1, 2025, Kendra Drysdale stood before a crowd of about 500 people at a street protest to rally the Dublin, California community against the potential reopening of a local federal prison as an immigrant detention center. She warned them of the harm and trauma that the reopening could cause — which she knew [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fight-to-keep-ice-from-reopening-a-notorious-prison/feed/ 2