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Gaza and Global Neofascism

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-09-17T09:30:02Z

“The benefit Israel derives from this extreme right-wing international alliance is that these forces have become the most ardent defenders of the Zionist state in general and the Netanyahu government in particular.”

- IVP608 - September 2025 / United States (USA), Britain, Israel, Fascism

“For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”

Gilbert Achcar , Ilya Budraitskis — 2025-08-07T11:27:27Z

Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia's war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture

- Features / Russia, Ukraine, Fascism

Authoritarianism and Democracy in the 21st Century

Enzo Traverso, Martín Mosquera — 2025-08-07T11:27:15Z

Enzo Traverso updates his analysis of post-fascism in light of the events of recent years. Reflecting on the rise of the new right and the global crisis of the left, he offers a diagnosis of contemporary challenges and the dangers facing emancipatory struggles in an increasingly complex world.
In a global context marked by the resurgence of far-right forces, historian Enzo Traverso offers in this interview an updated reflection on the concept of post-fascism, which he has been developing (…)

- Features / Fascism

Neofascism, Imperialism, War, and Revolution in the Middle East

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-08-07T10:19:41Z

This interview was conducted online on March 30, 2025, by Rodrigo Utrera, a student of sociology at the University of Chile. (Email: rodrigo.utrera@ug.uchile.cl.) He is a member of the Editorial Committee of Actuel Marx Intervenciones in Chile. The interview was first published in Spanish in that journal (no. 35, August 2025), in an issue dedicated to examining war and its mutations in the twenty-first century.

- Features / Palestine, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iran, Fascism

Support the Russian-Ukrainian resistance against accelerating fascism worldwide

Gin Vola, Elias Vola — 2025-06-22T08:27:14Z

Already in bad shape after 22 years of Putin's repression, ranging from the criminalization of any critical action by the government to the imprisonment and assassination of opponents, the Russian opposition has had to face increased violence since the invasion of Ukraine.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Russia, Ukraine, Fascism

The imperial engine of fascism

Antoine Dubiau — 2025-06-18T11:36:45Z

The far right is on the rise all over the world. Faced with this dynamic, the left is particularly at loggerheads over the right way to describe it: some fringes use the term fascism, while others consider that such a characterisation lacks lucidity. In a number of countries, the far right is now installed in government – at its head or in a coalition. When it has not formally acceded to power, its ideological hegemony over public debate pulls (even more) to the right a ruling class radicalized by the generalized crisis of capitalism. On the left, a lively debate has then opened up concerning the right way to characterise this dynamic: is it relevant to speak of fascisation, or even fascism?

- Features / Far Right, Fascism

Trump-Musk Coup Leads to Resistance in the Courts and in the Streets

Dan La Botz — 2025-02-10T13:31:07Z

President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have been on a rampage, closing government agencies, firing thousands of workers, and pressuring two million federal employees to resign, actions that threaten the well-being of millions of Americans—children, the elderly, the disabled, federal workers, and others who depend on the federal government. Their actions constitute an on-going technocratic coup from the top and from within the government itself, what in Latin America is called an auto-golpe (a coup against one's own government) as Musk's techies, mostly young men employed by him, effectively take control by commandeering the state's computer systems. Trump's assault has left the country in a state of shock and confusion.

- IVP601- February 2025 / Migration, LGBT, Racism and Islamophobia, Fascism

The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-02-05T15:40:26Z

With each passing day and at an accelerating pace in recent years, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale, similar to the era of the rise of fascist forces between the two world wars of the twentieth century. The label “neofascism” has been used to designate the contemporary far right, which adapted to our time, out of its awareness that repeating the same fascist pattern witnessed in the past century was no longer possible, in the sense that it was no longer acceptable to the majority of people.

- IVP601- February 2025 / Far Right, Anti-racism and Islamophobia, Fascism

The vile beast is not dead!

NPA-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A) — 2025-01-07T18:45:19Z

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former longtime leader of the French far-right Front National was announced on 7 January 2025. Spontaneous celebrations took place in several cities - for example in Paris, Place de la République.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / France, Far Right, Fascism

Anti-Fascism and the Fall of Atlanticist Liberalism

Gilbert Achcar — 2024-08-26T04:03:31Z

The French historian François Furet, a communist in his youth turned anti-communist, is the author of a famous explanation for the popularity of communism after World War II, especially among intellectuals, attributing it to anti-fascism as highlighted by the major role played by the Soviet Union in defeating Nazism during the war.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Palestine, Fascism