Tag: Fascism
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What it means to say Trump will govern like a fascist
David Renton argues the answer to Trump’s potential election is not to minimize the risk posed by Trump but to insist that our organizing is the only protection against the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and worldwide.
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Perspectives on Russian imperialism
Ilya Budraitskis offers an update and perspective on the current political situation in Russia and its ongoing imperialist war in Ukraine.
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The United States’ home-grown fascist
Tempest member Hank Kennedy surveys the life and career of Catholic priest Charles Coughlin who was commonly known as Father Coughlin, a prominent and influential Nazi sympathizer who promoted antisemitic and pro-fascist views.
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Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy
Jonah ben Avraham responds to Charlie Post on how to understand the relationship between the electoral far right and fascist forces and what this means for threats to bourgeois democracy and the strategies for the Left.
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The far right today
Hard-right politicians and fascist street gangs pose growing threats to workers and the oppressed, argues Charlie Post, but they aren’t the same thing, and the Left needs different tactics to combat each one.
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Fascism in Italy today
Last September a fascist party descended from Mussolini’s movement won election in Italy—a milestone in the advance of the far right internationally. Thomas Hummel examines the Italian situation and argues that united struggle can turn the tide.
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DC’s friends of fascism
Hank Kennedy uncovers a domestic history of fascist supporters in the halls of powers and finds a line of continuity and important comparisons to this generation of Washington D.C. ultra-reactionaries.
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Confronting authoritarian neoliberalism: the challenges facing the Left
Warren Montag, in this interview with Dimitris Givisis, offers global perspectives for the current capitalist conjuncture.
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Italy: fascism for the 21st century?
Rich Matoušek analyses the Italian elections and the likelihood and character of a far right government.
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The shooter in Laguna Woods
Travis S explains that the recent shooting of six people at a Taiwanese church was motivated by hostilities within the diaspora—hostilities fueled by four decades of U.S.-backed dictatorship in Taiwan and the more-recent promotion of virulent ethnonationalism on the mainland.