Democracy & State > Fascism
Crisis and creeping despair
26 Apr 2012
From the killing spree by a lucid yet paranoid Anders Breivik to the increase in private and public suicides in austerity Europe Paul Demarty asks, what is capitalism doing to our minds?
Dim end of the wedge
24 Jun 2021
The buffoonery of GB News’s first weeks should not be confused with failure, warns Paul Demarty
Fascism needs definition
17 Jun 2021
Marxism strives for clarity and telling the truth. Jack Conrad replies to Hasan Keser and Daniel Lazare
Texas and the F-word
10 Jun 2021
Can fascism be established in the absence of a working class threat? Daniel Lazare believes it is possible
Misusing the F-word
27 May 2021
To effectively combat today’s far right we must begin by rejecting lazy analogies. Jack Conrad calls for clear historical thinking
Theatre of revolution
20 May 2021
While the March on Rome was significant, writes David Broder, the active collaboration of the Italian ruling class with the fascists was central
Royalty and the Reich
08 Apr 2021
Eddie Ford reviews Channel 4's 'Queen Elizabeth and the spy in the palace', directed by Andy Webb
We light fires
18 Feb 2021
One half of the Labour Campaign for Free Speech does not believe in free speech. They want a ‘free speech, but ...’ campaign. Jack Conrad explains why the left should champion the unrestricted right to organise, strike, assemble and speak
Bigger than January 6
11 Feb 2021
Donald Trump is now on trial before the Senate charged with inciting insurrection. Jack Conrad says the attempted self-coup began long before the January 6 storming of the Capitol
End of internet anarchy
14 Jan 2021
Fallout from the Capitol invasion shows that pacification of social media is well underway, says Paul Demarty
A guide for the perplexed
17 Dec 2020
The country faces a systemic crisis. Daniel Lazare argues that ‘Repocratic’ politics inevitably leads to chaos
What might have been
25 Jun 2020
Nathaniel Flakin spoke to the June 14 Online Communist Forum about Martin Monath, an inspiring example of revolutionary internationalism. As a Jewish Berliner, living in occupied France, he attempted to recruit German soldiers to fight against Nazism
Brandishing old ghosts
12 Dec 2019
Jack Conrad argues that in order to effectively combat today’s far right we must begin by rejecting false historical analogies.
Pretend language of democracy
06 Dec 2019
Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms see the ugly old face of classic fascism behind the new social media veneer.
What the critics are missing
28 Nov 2019
Paul Demarty looks at the fallout from Roger Hallam’s invocation of the holocaust.
Foul residue of colonialism
21 Mar 2019
Rex Dunn examines how the culture and politics of New Zealand and Australia contributed to the Christchurch massacre