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.
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…
UPDATE: Tbilisi united against homophobia of state, church and far right thugs
TV cameraman Aleksandre (Lekso) Lashkarava, who was violently assaulted by far right thugs outside the headquarters of Tbilisi Pride, was found dead in his home last night by his mother. Now new pro-LGBT+ protests are planned
FRANCE: fascist RN fails to take region in election second round
There’s good news for antifascists as Marine Le Pen’s fascist Rassemblement National has failed to take its target region with the majority of votes now counted in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) region.
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.