Subjects Archives: Fascism

The penal prosecution against the Golden Dawn was done through the Article 187 of the Greek Penal Codes, the article for forming a criminal organisation. The Golden Dawn leadership was accused of directing a criminal organisation.

On the domestic front, the U.S. propaganda machine mostly works instead to position China as this great, menacing oriental Other. We’ve seen this during the COVID-19 pandemic in Trump’s rhetoric about the “China virus” and in Biden’s attempts at one-upmanship.

Despite the fact that the election was overseen by 1,500 international observers, U.S. pols and media pundits alike labeled it a sham before it even took place.

Farmers and agricultural workers from northern India marched along various national highways toward India’s capital of New Delhi as part of the general strike on 26 November.

Sidney Powell’s conspiracy theories went too far for Trump’s legal team after her outlandish claims went viral online.

President Donald Trump’s categorical refusal to accept what seems like an inevitable and increasingly crushing election loss has many in media rightly worried about the political repercussions of such a move, with some sounding the alarm over a potential coup d’etat in the U.S. (e.g., Salon, 11/11/20; Washington Post, 11/12/20; Guardian, 11/13/20; New Republic, 11/13/20).

Smith’s book demonstrates that the far-right has always played the victim card when it comes to free-speech, writes Houman Barekat.

What Robinson identified as “the rewhitening of America” a century ago is what we’re seeing play out today.

Rice has been intimately involved in covering up the deaths of more than six million Congolese, and has cultivated close relations with every U.S.-backed tyrant on the continent.

On the right, identity politics is leveraged to deliberately divide and fracture workers, pitting them against each other, most frequently on the basis of race, gender, religion, or nationality.

Recent debates have centered on whether it’s appropriate to compare Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

Steve Ellner argues that average Venezuelans understand that U.S. sanctions hurt them—and should be resisted.

China’s rise reflects a bourgeoning global movement away from U.S. imperialism and toward self-determination.

Here are seven counterinsurgency features of policing and the inequities in the criminal justice system.

Like in Bolivia, the strength of public opinion in Chile was so immense that the government, led by Chile’s richest man Sebastian Piñera, immediately conceded.

The week of hearings has heard evidence that exposes the charges against Assange as trumped-up and even ridiculous.

KEN LIVINGSTONE looks in-depth at the story of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela.

New curriculum guidance will limit critical thinking and cement a neoliberal capitalist consensus. It should be setting off alarm bells, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury

Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right’s Council which accuses Venezuela’s government of “crimes against humanity”. Transcript below.

Trump’s shift from demonizing immigrants to targeting leftists is straight out of the fascist playbook.