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Kieran Allen takes Michael McDowell to task for his latest efforts to draw a false equivalence between the far left and far right, arguing that McDowell’s own record leaves him much closer to the right than he would like to pretend. Some people like porridge for breakfast. It fills
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Adrienne Wallace looks at how the far-right weaponises the idea of protecting women in order to scapegoat migrant men. Since far right groups began their most recent period of agitation against refugees, they have followed a familiar playbook. They began with claims of false scarcity – “Ireland Is Full” and
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In the first part of our Rebel series on Fascism and the Far-Right, Kieran Allen explains what fascism is. We can date the start of fascism precisely. It began on Sunday March 23 1919 when Mussolini formed the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento. If we look at some key dates
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In the wake of recent attacks on migrants, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that we need to counter the far right on the streets in order to defeat it. The attack on a camp in Ashtown shows us the new dangers we are facing in the wake of recent racist agitation
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The recent Italian elections saw the far right Brothers of Italy, headed by Georgia Meloni, emerge victorious. Giulio di Basilio assesses Italy’s new far right coalition and how can the Left can confront it. Italy will soon have its first female prime minister. Ironically, it will be someone at