We talk with Dave Renton, author of The New Authoritarians, about his theory of convergence on the right. Blurb for the book: All across the world, right-wing politics is shifting, with conservative and hard-right proponents allying. From Donald...
The 3rd and the 24th August 2019 saw the return of the Free Tommy movement to London – much bedraggled, smaller than before, and with anti-fascists turning out to stop them. In this episode, we sit down with organisers from the London Anti...
We return for part 2 of our investigation into ecofascism. Ecofascism exists at the moment as a collection of memes and disperate thoughts, but it had the potential to be an important part of the future far right. We discuss how to fight it, and how...
As Tommy Robinson was sent to prison for the second time for commiting contempt of court he wore a shirt enblazoned with the words ‘Convicted of Journalism’. His career as a fake journalist fits into a wider trend of far right and...
What are the basic emotions that the far right draws on? How does the internet produce Nazis? What happened to the cat memes? We talk to Emerican Johnson of the youtube channel Non-compete to find out. In this episode, we discuss online...
At the end of June the ‘western chauvinist’ far right fraternity the Proud Boys, demonstrated in Portland and antifascists mobilised to oppse them. Andy Ngo, a ‘journalist’ who has consistently sided with the far right, was...
Ecofascism is an essential part of how the far right is going to change over the next few decades. It’s the cynical belief that the coming climate breakdown can be used by the far right to harden borders, further police migration, and blame...
The Brexit Party are the breakout party of the European elections. Unlike rival upstarts Change UK, Farage’s ragtag grouping surged to first place and are set to agitate for Brexit within the European Parliament. We discuss the Brexit...
Mark Bray is a political organizer and historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe. He’s also the author of the excellent ‘Antifa’ from 2017, and he came into the studio to talk about it and...
The National Front was the most prominent group on the UK far right in the 1970s. We discuss their history and politics through the 70s and chart their transformations, from their rejection of street politics to their later marches, and from their...