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Enzo Traverso: Post-fascism: a mutation still underway [https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/3130-post-fascism-a-mutation-still-underway]
Enzo Traverso: Post-fascism: a mutation still underway [https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/3130-post-fascism-a-mutation-still-underway]


Iida Käyhkö, The Feminist Anti-Fascist Assembly: Feminist movements are our best chance of defeating the Far Right [https://hopenothate.org.uk/2019/03/08/feminist-movements-best-chance-defeating-far-right/]
Judith Carreras, The new radical right and anti-feminism [https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6344]


Trotsky: What Is National Socialism? [https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1933/330610.htm]
Trotsky: What Is National-Socialism? [https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1933/330610.htm]

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First part

What are right-wing politics and ideology?

- What is ‘ideology’?


The dominance of right-wing ideology:

- The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class

- The ‘liberal split’ in bourgeois ideology

- ‘Instrumental reason’ in capitalism


How does right-wing ideology work?

- Religion, nationalism, patriarchy

- Imagined communities, havens in a heartless world


Second part

Fascism: what is it? (and does it matter what it is?)

- The causes of fascism

- Fascism as a mass-movement

- instrument of capital, a revolution against the revolution, or both?


The far-right today

- The idea of ‘post-fascism’

- Causes for the appeal of the far-right


Third part

Left-wing strategies against fascism

- Popular front or United front

- The struggle for democracy



Ernest Mandel: Trotsky's Theory of Fascism, part III [1]

Enzo Traverso: Post-fascism: a mutation still underway [2]

Judith Carreras, The new radical right and anti-feminism [3]

Trotsky: What Is National-Socialism? [4]