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Notes on the historic rise of the far right in Britain

Thierry Labica — 2025-11-22T09:31:03Z

“In Britain, the various shades of the far right can continue to content themselves with continuing and prospering the work of political formations that have long been hegemonic and are now both in the grip of a crisis of legitimacy of unprecedented gravity. ”

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Britain, Far Right

Trump, Europe and outraged virtue: malaise in imperial supremacism

Thierry Labica — 2025-01-25T20:42:24Z

Newly elected United States President Donald Trump has set the tone with some startling foreign policy statements: annexation of the Panama Canal, outright colonisation of Greenland and, for Canada, publication on his social network of a map of North America entirely covered in the Star-Spangled Banner. As if inspired by Netanyahu brandishing the map of a single great Israel before the UN General Assembly, here is Trump, season 2.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), Canada, European Union, Greenland

Looking back at the American election: the oligarchic consensus and its contradictions

Thierry Labica — 2025-01-11T19:22:26Z

It would be easy to analyse Trump's victory as the result of a slow and inevitable progression of ultra-reactionary and fascist ideas among American voters. We must also analyse Harris's defeat, which ultimately results from the fear of running a campaign in defence of workers.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), Far Right

The British "Rwanda plan": a government caught in its own racist trap

Thierry Labica — 2023-12-14T17:43:00Z

“In trying to put into practice the anti-immigration rhetoric heard since the 2016 referendum campaign, the Tory government is now torn between its extreme right, which is determined to push ever more violent measures, and its pro-business wing, which is aware of the imperative need for the British labour market to welcome the workforce that is in short supply in entire sectors of the economy.”

- IV587 - December 2023 / Britain, Migration

Macron, Charles III: from one monarch to another, under the BP sun

Thierry Labica — 2023-10-01T20:10:19Z

France and Great Britain stand side by side, beyond the throes of Brexit. The King may plant an oak tree at Versailles, but the complicity of the two heads of state lies elsewhere...

- IV585 - October 2023 / Britain, France

Gary Lineker and the tweet that made the BBC tremble

Thierry Labica — 2023-03-25T10:20:57Z

A look back at a controversy surrounding the British government's anti-migrant policies.

- IV578 - March 2023 / Britain

“The world situation is that of a new cold war”

Gilbert Achcar , Thierry Labica — 2023-03-19T14:52:43Z

“The current upsurge of the far right is not, therefore, a roadblock to communism (or anything that might resemble it) as it was in the 1930s, and capital is not looking for an antileft discourse to replace the Cold War one. Rather, it is primarily a quarrel within capitalism itself against a background of crisis. We are obviously concerned as leftists because they are mortal enemies for us. But we are in another historical configuration. ”

- IV578 - March 2023 / United States (USA), Russia, China

Broadening of strike movements in Britain

Thierry Labica — 2022-11-26T19:46:34Z

“Far from what we might have feared […] the struggles of the working class have not only resumed, but have spread and increased.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Britain, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Trade union struggles and disaster capitalism in Tory Britain

Thierry Labica — 2022-08-03T17:38:34Z

“For the Conservatives, in power for twelve years, the question of how to pursue this same policy has a particular urgency now that there is a genuine class opposition with a revival of trade union struggles not only of exceptional magnitude, but also supported by a majority of public opinion.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Britain, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Context and challenges of Sinn Féin's unprecedented electoral victory in the Assembly elections

Thierry Labica — 2022-05-28T19:58:40Z

Sinn Féin's victory in the elections on 5 May is a new step in the crisis that the United Kingdom is experiencing after Brexit.

- IV568 - May 2022 / Britain, Ireland