When All Your Friends Are Fascists
The first-person perspective on the spread of fascism provided in “Rhinoceros” is valuable because it shows how disorienting it is for non-fascists. The playwright Eugene Ionesco spent most of his…
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August 2020
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Disunity within the Ranks? Party Expulsions in the European Radical Right: 2000–2020
Drawing on an original database of party expulsions of radical right parties in Europe across twenty countries from 2000-2020, Felix Wiebrecht, James F. Downes, Edward Chan and Anna Kam devise…
In Greece, a new far right movement is taking the stage
‘Greeks for the Fatherland’ seems to be here to fill the gap left by the legal troubles of Golden Dawn. The emergence of a new party was announced by Elias…
Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online
Over the past decade and a half, counter-narratives – defined as ‘messages that…[demystify], deconstruct or delegitimise extremist narratives’ (Tuck and Silverman 2016: 65) – have become a key part of…
The Transnationalization of White Supremacist Discourse: The Hundred-Handers and the It’s Okay To Be White Campaign
The terrorist attacks perpetrated by white supremacists in the United States, New Zealand, Germany, and other western countries in the past two years illustrate the transnationalization of the extreme-right.[1] This…
Radical-Right Voters and Democratic Support
Introduction The rise of radical-right parties is considered by many to be one of the largest modern threats to liberal democracy. There is a strong pattern of populist and radical…
The Radical Right in the Cultic Milieu
Why a 1972 concept from the sociology of religion could be more important than ever for the study of the contemporary radical right. In 1972, British sociologist Colin Campbell introduced…
Alternative epistemologies of the radical right: how grand narratives and the quest for truth offer recognition and a sense of belonging
In early 2019, during ethnographic fieldwork on radical right movements in Australia, I attended a far-right rally against allegedly “African gang crimes” in Melbourne. I spoke to a young man…
The Dark Money That Fuels Radical Right Ideology
Financial support for political parties and interests within democracies is not of itself unlawful, and indeed is commonplace across the political spectrum. However, given the radical-right’s objectives and policies that…
We need to talk about what is driving the Radical Right
Over the last two months we have seen an increase in the scale and frequency of street protests across Britain. Those that have taken place under the banner of the…