Tag: fascism

• Italy’s far right weaponises culture in the interests of nationalism

  September 25, 2022

  Brothers of Italy, the hard-right populist party led by Giorgia Meloni, outlined her plans to “transform” Italy’s arts sector ahead of the country’s general election on 25 September. Brothers of… more ›

• Trial of 12 men accused of planning far-right terror attacks opens in Stuttgart

  April 13, 2021

  The trial of 12 men accused of planning a series of far-right terror attacks on asylum seekers, Muslims, Jews and politicians in an attempt to overthrow German democracy has opened… more ›

• Far right seizing COVID-19 ‘opportunity’ to expand: Study

  November 20, 2020

  Far-right individuals in Europe and the United States are increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a study commissioned by… more ›

• America’s far right is energised by covid-19 lockdowns

  May 19, 2020

  Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it,… more ›

• The Cruelty Is the Point

  October 27, 2019

  The Museum of African-American History and Culture is in part a catalog of cruelty. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/ more ›

• Far-Right Extremists Have Been Using Ukraine’s War as a Training Ground. They’re Returning Home.

  August 17, 2019

  Five years on, Mikael Skillt still doesn’t know exactly what made him leave his construction job and his girlfriend to fight in the war in Ukraine. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb95ma/far-right-extremists-have-been-using-ukraines-civil-war-as-a-training-ground-theyre-returning-home more ›