I’m just back from France, where my direct experience of riots and looting was non-existent, although I had walked past a Montpellier branch of Swarkowski the day before it ceased to be. My indirect experience was quite extensive though, since I watched the talking heads on French TV project their instant analysis onto the unfolding […]
Racism
Byline Times investigates a small but vocal "anti-anti fascist" group that is increasingly targeting the left.
Attention conservation notice 1 – a long read about a simple idea. When reading trolls, focus on the anodyne-seeming starting assumptions rather than the obnoxious conclusions. Attention conservation notice 2 – This is also available via my Substack newsletter, Programmable Mutter. I’ll still be writing on CT, but I have a book with Abe Newman […]
Liberal leader Peter Dutton used his budget reply speech to drum up racist scaremongering in a desperate bid to try and boost the Coalition’s plummeting support.
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Why the climate crisis and the global rise of fascism are inextricable. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th June 2023 Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach. As the extreme right gains power, climate programmes are […]
Miko Peled explores the controversy surrounding the Biden administration's plan to use the ADL to silence Palestinian voices under the guise of combating antisemitism.
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Low-paid migrant workers, including cleaners at the Department for Education, are taking coordinated strike action in London
Fizza Qureshi, CEO of the Migrants' Rights Network, explains why her charity did not want to apply for funding from the Mayor of London to tackle hate crime and extremism
An odyssey through South African apartheid.
Jon Bloomfield examines the similarities between the 1905 Aliens Bill and the current Illegal Migration Bill and inflammatory rhetoric around refugees