FI leaders evaluate “The Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference in Porto Alegre: Great achievements, challenges and opportunities ”, Ugo Palheta discusses “Fascisation and strategy”, Ilya Budraitskis analyses “Putinism - a new form of fascism?”, Sonja Pietiläinen considers “The Gender(ed) Politics of Fascism: How Women Came to Lead the Contemporary Far-Right”, Stefanie Prezioso brings “Understanding Fascism with Clara Zetkin”, Jason Dawsey emphasizes “Honoring Anti-Fascist Resistance”, Eric Toussaint argues “For a different economic policy in response to the far right and Trump’s offensive ”.
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- 12 April – Fascism and Anti-Fascism
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Trump
Trump’s failure makes him more dangerous than ever
12 April, byHas Trump’s downfall begun? Or are we, on the contrary, on the eve of his leap into total dictatorship? It is too early to predict the outcome. But one thing seems certain: by unleashing his war against Iran with Netanyahu, by underestimating the adversary, by spitting on his imperialist and other allies with contempt (the crown prince of Saudi Arabia “didn’t think he’d be kissing my ass”), the would-be dictator has put himself in an extremely difficult situation, from which it is difficult to see how he can emerge without suffering a more or less humiliating defeat... Unless he “unleashes hell”, as he says... against the Iranian people he claimed to be liberating... and against popular mobilizations in the United States.
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Palestine:
Gaza flotillas - stand together, for as long as it takes
11 April, by ,On Saturday, 4 April, in Marseille’s Vieux-Port, at the foot of the Mucem museum, several hundred people crowded the pier to cheer the 19 humanitarian boats of the flotilla setting sail for Gaza.
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USA
Round Up on the 3rd No Kings Day
10 April, byEight million people took to the streets across the United States on 28 March, marching, rallying and picketing in over 3,300 sites. They came out to support their neighbors and coworkers who are threatened by masked and armed men. They opposed the authoritarianism of the Trump team with humor in their signs and costumes, but at the same time they can joke, they are willing to stand firm.
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France
Macron relaunches nuclear weapons
9 April, byBy announcing an “advanced deterrence” and a strengthening of the nuclear arsenal, French president Emannuel Macron is reviving the logic of an arms race and turning his back on disarmament policies. On 2 March, at the Île Longue operational base, in front of the last nuclear submarine, the Téméraire, Macron announced a decisive turning point in the doctrine of the use of nuclear weapons.
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Kanaky
Kanaky: the era of colonies must end
8 April, byThe Senate vote on the constitutional bill concerning New Caledonia marks a new stage in the erosion of the Kanak people’s right to self-determination. Behind an institutional veneer, the government is pursuing a strategy of strong-arming, which must be stopped by mobilization.
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Recently posted Features
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Women and Fascism
The Gender(ed) Politics of Fascism: How Women Came to Lead the Contemporary Far-Right
12 April, byread article...During the last decade, far-right women leaders have played an essential role in contributing to the growing acceptance of fascism. Although the globally thriving far-right is anti-feminist and male-dominated, it is increasingly led by women. Marine Le Pen (National Rally), Riikka Purra (Finns Party), Alice Weidel (Alternative for Germany), Giorgia Meloni (Brothers of Italy), Pia Kjærsgaard (Danish People’s Party), Siv Jensen (Progress Party), Beata Szydło (Law and Justice) are only a few of the latest examples of influential far-right women leaders.
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Anti-fascism and Anti-Imperialism
The Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference in Porto Alegre: Great achievements, challenges and opportunities
12 April, by , , , , , ,read article...“It is through all these events that the alliances necessary to counter fascism and imperialism are being forged. It is up to us to involve the trade unions, human rights organizations, feminist and LGBTQI+ movements, anti-racist organizations, those campaigning for Palestine, and those standing in solidarity with the Ukrainian and the Iranian people. It is in this way – and by defending our eco-socialist revolutionary perspectives – that we will build the movement needed to change the world.”
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Russia
Putinism - a new form of fascism?
12 April, byread article...The invasion of Ukraine has provoked debate on the nature of contemporary Russian society. It has been argued that Russia’s war on Ukraine is part of an attack on democracy taking place globally, that Putin’s Russia part of a growing authoritarianism.
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Far right/Fascism
Fascisation and strategy
12 April, byread article...“Defence also means political self-defence, and therefore the broadest and most unified mobilization possible around democratic slogans aimed at preserving the political gains of the working class and oppressed minorities, and maintaining forms of counter-power or what we might call the infrastructure of protest (unions, neighbourhood collectives, anti-war groups, etc.).”
