A new era of fascism? Understanding the far-right threat - Robert Narai - Marxism 2025

The far right is on the march everywhere. Donald Trump and his MAGA coterie now command the world’s most powerful and violent state. Across Europe, parties with historical links to 1930s fascist parties are surging in France and Germany, are on the verge of taking power in Austria, and currently rule Italy and several other Central European countries. Pogromist violence directed at migrants erupted in the United Kingdom last year and Nigel Farage’s Reform party is now surging in the polls. Narendra Modi’s BJP party both commands the Indian state and a paramilitary organisation of millions. Are we witnessing the birth of a new era of fascism? This session will draw on the revolutionary Marxist tradition and the historical experience of fascisms past in order to understand the unique and terrifying threat the far-right poses in our present—and what we can do today to fight and ultimately defeat them. Recommended Reading: *‘No-one saves us but ourselves’: we have to resist the far right in Red Flag* *The many faces of fascism by Ruby Healer in Red Flag* *For revolutionaries, the period must be defined by the international fight against the far right by Thomas Hummel in Tempest Magazine* *Disaster Nationalism Is The New Fascism by Richard Seymour in Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung* *Living in ‘Late Fascism’: an interview with Alberto Toscano in The Majority Report* *The Authoritarian Disposition: Capitalism, Liberalism, Fascism by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R Webber in Spectre Journal* *Post-Fascism: Fascism as Trans-Historical Concept by Enzo Traverso in Crisis and Critique* *Neoliberal capitalism implodes: global catastrophe and the far right today by Alex Callinicos in International Socialism Journal* Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.