A surge in votes for the far-right Alternative for Germany and significant gains for the Left Party in the German national elections highlights the growing political polarisation in the country.
The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.
Capitalism’s new era of brutality found no greater expression last week than in the world’s richest man, Elon Musk—a supporter of European fascist organisations—openly and emphatically invoking the most reactionary of political doctrines.
The left’s victory in France’s parliamentary election shows that the country’s most important political actors—urban workers and young people—want to fight against both fascism and neoliberalism.
According to Britain’s Economist magazine, a weekly diary of establishment opinion, the “political centre has been dented but it still holds”. Yet parties of the centre lost to the far right in the continent’s biggest countries.
