According to Google Trends, the term ‘decolonial’ peaked in popularity in France around the summer of 2016 due to initiatives, questionable to say the least,
Tag: The Far Right in Europe
From political martyrology to the “nationalist international”, the European far right constructs narratives that don’t always add up, as four journalists gathered at the Internazionale
Three Uses of the Concept of Generic Fascism for Understanding Russia’s War Against Ukraine For already two decades and initially unnoted among the wider public,
Given the seemingly endless string of AfD successes across Germany – particularly in the East – there is a very real possibility of the neo-fascist
Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women and LGBTQ+ people: we have some of the highest rates of femicide
Il Manifesto: What do you think of the migrant detention centres built by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni government in Albania? Lea Ypi: I think it is
Though often declared dead, the discourse around ‘Asian values’ has had many lives. Authoritarian regimes have deployed culturalist arguments against liberal democracy since the 1990s,
Presentation at a Left Renewal network webinar on confusionism. 1 – Introduction I would like to introduce the concept of confusionism, which I formulated for
The political shift to the right—towards authoritarianism, nationalism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people—is global and dates back to the 2008 crisis. Its main political
Nationalists, Eurosceptics, anti-NATO, MAGA caps, Trump (but not Putin) supporters, and Călin Georgescu. What is on the minds of the voters supporting Romania’s far-right and
This interview is based on Charlène Calderaro’s article Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France published in Politics & Gender (2025). For readers less familiar with
In this period of escalating outrage, and proving right the old adage ‘birds of a feather flock together’, we have learned that Amichai Shikli, Israeli
For the past few weeks, and even more so in recent days, a state of paralysis seems to have gripped the European political landscape. Yet,
In this interview, Ukrainian historian and activist Hanna Perekhoda looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of
This weekend, some of Europe’s most powerful politicians, many of whom lead the single largest parties in their respective countries, will gather in Madrid as
In our view, Sina Arnold and Juliane Karakayali make a compelling argument that research on antisemitism and racism need to be interconnected. We agree with
Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a
From New Lines Magazine. Western groups find in Muslim communities what they believe is a prototype for a social contract free of wokeism and women’s
From +972 Magazine The Israeli right’s embrace of Viktor Orbán typifies its convergence with a global far right espousing what scholar Jelena Subotić calls ‘pro-Israel
At the end of 1965, the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Ukraine received an outrageous samizdat – in Ukrainian: samvydav – entitled “Internationalism or
What the Halle Shooting Tells Us About the European Far Right Today, by Ben Gidley – 24 October 2019
We recorded the sixth episode of the Talking Europe vlog series in October 2019. A week before, during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, a gunman, heavily armed