The surge of support for One Nation has shaken up Australian politics and blown apart the idea that we are immune to the advance of the far right. In this editorial Tom Bramble looks at how changes in Australian politics over decades has laid the basis for One Nation's rise.
In this important article, Mick Armstrong compares the rise of Pauline Hanson in the 1990s and the surge for One Nation today.
Priya De reviews a new book looking at the rampant conspiracism on the Australian far right.
Luca Tavan reviews a book tracing the alarming rise of Giorgia Meloni and the Fratelli d’Italia, an organisation with links to Mussolini’s fascists.
Vashti Fox explains how Stalinism enabled and at times collaborated with fascist movements and states during the 1930s and ’40s, while the Stalinised Communist Parties undermined revolutionary working-class anti-fascism – a history that has important lessons for fighting the far right today.
Panos Petrou examines the rise of the far right in Europe in its various forms, before discussing strategies to combat it.
The contemporary narrative of Jewish history is one of ghettos, pogroms, suffering, oppression – Jews as the eternal victims. In this study Janey Stone presents an alternative view which shows that Jews have repeatedly fought back against their oppression...
Tess Lee Ack analyses the phenomenon of Pauline Hanson in the 1990s: her support base, how media promotion boosted her profile, and how she was stopped the last time around.
Ben Reid offers a detailed study of where and why support for Pauline Hanson is strongest.
The rise of Islamophobia in the West needs a clear and principled response from the left. Mick Armstrong takes a critical look at the traditions of "secularism" and the failure of even some in the socialist left to oppose anti-Muslim racism.
Rather than a welcoming, multicultural society, Australia has a menacing history of serious fascist organisations involving figures treated with respect in our history books, as Louise O'Shea explains.
