This month something different: a contribution towards understanding why the appeal of selfishness grips so many people so fiercely ~ Louis Further ~ Right-wing beliefs are ultimately attempts to rationalise and justify selfishness.
This summer, an emboldened far right is repackaging racist outrages as ‘local issues’—and the mainstream media is playing along ~ Blade Runner ~ Hundreds turned out to counter a fash protest in Epping Forest on Sunday 27 July, mobilised by Stand Up To Racism and local trade unions and joined by grassroots antifascists.
There is increasing evidence that the MAGA cult was always prepared to break the law when it suits them ~ Louis Further ~ Last weekend saw the first major loss of life whose severity was partially caused by the MAGA/Trump/DOGE cuts to public services: over 120 people died at a summer camp in Texas where
Even more predictable than the rise of fascism around the globe has been its sharp descent into infighting and bickering ~ Sourdough ~ The coalitions that had propelled the far right resurgence have begun to break down.
The Leeds crossbow shooter is not the only man to have become a target of the growing industry of organised fraudsters, but he’s a concerning example of its potential impact ~ Anon ~ Last month Owen Lawrence went to Otley Road in Leeds with arms full of weapons and, according to his Facebook (FB) profile,
Liberals continue to prove the willing, if snarky, foot-soldiers of fascism ~ Sourdough ~ Political reality is changing at ever-quickening speeds, it seems: the newly emboldened and ascendant fascists in the United States and abroad are making a continuing effort to produce one calamity and crisis after the next, creating a perpetual stream of never-ending
Grzegorz Piotrowski discusses far right power and its international networking and funding ~ Uri Gordon ~ The far right agenda has never been so powerful since the end of the second World War.
A fascist in the White House, and the ‘traffic lights’ go out in Germany ~ Jonathan Eibisch, Paradox-A ~ The promised turning point is clearly coming much louder than many would have expected.
Items discussed in this program: German antifascist arrests and deportations • Valencia square occupation for decent housing • Lisbon riots after police racist killing • Escalation in Chiapas • UK budget and Labour’s capitalist cult of growth • Tommy Robinson sentencing and the threat of fascist “victimhood”
Bound to capitalism and electoralism, the statist left has nothing to offer during a period of crisis and restructuring — leaving the field to the fascists ~ Blade Runner ~ Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed the resurgence of a familiar historical pattern, with segments of the working class and poorer communities increasingly turning to
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
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