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…
Poland: resistance explodes on streets after abortion rights attack
Protests have erupted again onto the streets of Poland in rage at the implementation of an almost total ban on abortion – just months after the far right PiS government was forced to back down on the issue.
Belarus: art, football and revolution in Vitebsk
You won’t have missed the huge protests in Belarus against the repressive regime – but you might have missed the beautiful new football kit worn by FC Vitebsk
Analysis: far right racist DFLA hits disaster in the age of Black Lives Matter
Saturday 13 June was disastrous for the far right. We look at how the racists’ Westminster demo – ostensibly to “defend” war memorials from Black Lives Matter protestors – went wrong, despite its size
All fall down: what lies behind the toppling of the statues?
“As a true picture of British history, with its imperial connections stretching back hundreds of years, this country’s statuary is beyond inadequate – it’s downright offensive…”