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Jan 11, 2025 | 
haymarketbooks.org | James Ridgeway |Clara Zetkin |David Renton |Toni Gilpin
In 1990, BLOOD IN THE FACE: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, andthe Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far-right movement. It told their story from the insideout, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons, rants, sermons, threats, policereports, and more.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
vientosur.info | David Renton |Extrema derecha |Ee Uu
La guerra de Israel contra Gaza ya ha facilitado la victoria de Donald Trump en la elección presidencial de EE UU. Lo más probable es que le dejará las manos libres para poner en práctica sus proyectos en mayor medida que lo que consiguió en su anterior mandato. Trump se parece y no se parece a los fascistas de la década de 1930. Es perezoso, cascarrabias, incapaz de construir un consenso entre las instituciones estadounidenses. No quiere o no lo necesita.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | David Renton
At the end of October, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, began an eighteen-month jail sentence, following contempt proceedings for breach of an injunction. This is the fifth time Robinson has been sentenced to prison since he began to play a leading role in the far right including – the moment that brought him to worldwide attention – his imprisonment for ten months in 2018 for breaching reporting restrictions on a trial in Leeds.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | David Renton
The journalist Dave Widgery was to British socialists what Hunter S. Thompson was to US radicals. His writing expressed, with greater brilliance than any of his contemporaries, the sense of hope that millions felt in the epoch of the Beatles, Bernadette Devlin, and the Miss World protests.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
newpol.org | David Renton |Shannon Ikebe
Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting AntisemitismBy: Shane Burley and Ben LorberMelville House, 2024Shane Burley and Ben Lorber’s lively new book is an attempt to write a mass-market account of the phenomenon of antisemitism and of the organizing strategies that are needed to prevent it. They use the adjective “radical” in their subtitle, as a short-hand to convey certain features of their argument.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
rs21.org.uk | David Renton
Author and activist Dave Renton reviews a week in which mass anti-racist and anti-fascist protests started to push back The week of the racist riots in Southport and elsewhere wasn’t quite the worst this country has ever seen. That dubious honour belongs to the riots in Cardiff and in seafaring communities across Britain in 1919.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
progressivehub.net | David Renton
The left coalition won after its constituent parties agreed to ally against the threat of an RN victory. The Socialists, Communists, Greens and France Unbowed signed on to a joint program including recognition of Palestine, control of food prices and bold environmental policies. The New Popular Front has grown during the election campaign — with new members joining its constituent parties, and vast crowds attending anti-RN rallies.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
truthout.org | David Renton
The overwhelming mood in France, following Sunday’s election, was one of relief. In the Place de la République in Paris, a crowd of New Popular Front or Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) voters — young, clutching Palestinians flags — cheered in delight at the unexpected news.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
truthout.org | David Renton
Two weeks after Emmanuel Macron called parliamentary elections in France, one likely trajectory of those elections is increasingly clear: increasing representation for the far right and for the left, combined with the collapse of the center vote. The high vote totals secured by several far right parties in European Union elections between June 6 and 9 was widely predicted. The European Parliament is weak, having few powers and no meaningful ability to make law.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
truthout.org | David Renton
Amid widespread British support for ceasefire, the Conservative government declared civil society groups “extremist.” By David Renton , Truthout Published March 30, 2024 Supporters of London for a Free Palestine occupy the foyer of the Department of Business and Trade in protest over the granting of export licenses to arms companies supplying the Israeli military on March 28, 2024, in London, England.Guy Smallman / Getty Images This month the beleaguered Conservative government in Britain...
