The Selective Iconoclasm Of The Far-Right
On May 25th, a great part of the world was shaken after watching how the 46-year-old US citizen George Floyd was killed at the hands of four local police agents while he…
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“The media censorship”, free speech and the radical right: The case of Spain’s VOX party
Introduction The word “infodemic” was coined by the Word Health Organization (WHO) to describe the excess of information, usually false, on a particular problem, used to hinder the process of…
Spain’s radical right party might need some recovery from the coronavirus
Neither widespread popular disaffection with the government nor equally widespread disenchantment with thhave helped Vox advance in the polls. Spain is among the western European countries hardest hit by the…
The squatters’ movement in the extreme right: the case of Hogar Social Madrid (I)
In this article I intend to combine two concepts: the extreme right and the squatters’ movement. Initially, they both seem like incompatible concepts since we might think that squatters are…
The Spanish radical right, COVID-19 and the “socio-communism”
Introduction On March 8 2020, thousands of Spaniards were summoned to join two radically different mass gatherings in Madrid: a demonstration to celebrate International Women’s Day, and a VOX meeting…
The Tale of the Two Spains
In Spain, two sides have emerged: traitors vs. patriots. This division is the last thing the country needs right now. The arrival of Podemos and VOX on the Spanish political…
“A past still present?”: Lokomotive Leipzig and its fan scene
“Police confirms: Mallorca thugs are Leipzig hooligans“: This headline – caused by two henchmen of the extreme right hooligan scene of the Leipzig-based club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (Lok Leipzig)…
In Spain, A Perversion Of Textbooks To Fit Political Objectives
Education is being used as a dividing instrument as various political coalitions seek to distort curriculums to fit their agendas. Last 5th September, on the eve of the beginning of…
VOX and the rhetoric of gender violence
English Defence League members staging a demonstration in support of Dutch MP Geert Wilders in March 2010 in London. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images On the 3rd of September, 2019 a…
The end of Spanish exceptionalism
Last Sunday’s elections saw far-right party Vox doubling its seats to become the third largest political force in the Spanish parliament, in line with other European far-right parties. Catalonia, immigration…