FRANCE – RN surges to huge new election records: Le Pen, fascism and the working class
Marine Le Pen and the fascist RN have won massive and unprecedented gains in the French parliamentary elections. We look at how it is building in the polls and on the streets – and among the working class.
HUNGARY: Orban crushes opposition as nazi OHM wins first seats in parliament
Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian far right Fidesz-led coalition stormed back to power in Hungary’s elections, with 53.10% of the vote, while the hardcore fascist Our Homeland Movement entered parliament for the first time. This result was worse than anyone predicted.
ANALYSIS: far right’s new turn via pop culture figures and politically diverse antivaxx movement
Fascists and Holocaust deniers are gaining a new, diverse audience from the antivaxx movement, reaching out with popular cultural figures and left-tinged rhetoric. It presents a more complex problems for antifascists than traditional fascist parties…
REVEALED: a secret diary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
“Quiet until 12 o’clock. “Alarm”, the Germans are in our building, luckily it passes and we sleep on…” So begins the diary of an unknown woman, written in one of the secret bunkers established by the Jewish fighters during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising….
ANALYSIS: why are LGBT+ people a key target of the far right in eastern Europe?
A look at why and how fascist and far right organisations – in and out of government – in central and eastern Europe are using homophobia to mobilise support, and the resistance against them.
How the Trump years have transformed the US far right
As thousands Donald Trump supporters storm the US Capitol building in Washington DC we look at how Trump’s term has transformed the far right, fascist and white supremacist movements in the US.