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Socialist register 2016 : the politics of the right / edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Socialist registerPublication details: London : The Merlin Press, 2015Description: 381 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781583675748
  • 0850367131
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HX 15 S678 2015
Contents:
Neoliberalism and popular racism: the shifting shape of the European right / Liz Fekete -- Ukip and the crisis of Britain / Richard Seymour -- The far right in France: the Front National in European perspective / Michael Löwry, Francis Sitel -- Europe at the crossroads: right populism and reactionary rebellion / Walter Baier -- Fascism then and now / Geoff Eley -- Ethnicism after nationalism: the roots of the new European right / G.M. Tamá́s -- Capitialism and the politics of the far right / Richard Saull -- Russian and Ukraine: oligarchic capitalism, conservative statism and right nationalism / Alexander Buzgalin, Andrey Kolganov -- India: liberal democracy and the extreme right / Aijaz Ahmad -- An arc of authoritarianism in Africa: toward the end of a liberal democratic dream? / David Moore -- Brazil: the failure of the PT and the rise of the new right / Alfredo Saad-Filho -- Chauvinist nationalism in Japan's schizophrenic state / Gavan McCormack -- Israel's hegemonic right / Avishai Ehrlich -- The American right: from margins to mainstream / Doug Henwood -- 'Stars and Bars' : understanding right-wing populism in the USA / Bill Fletcher Jr. -- The times and spaces of right populism: from Paris to Toronto / Stefan Kipfer, Parastou Saberi -- Policing with impunity / Lesley Wood -- The surveillance state / Reg Whitaker -- The dilemmas and potentials of the left: learning from Syriza / Andreas Kartizis.
Summary: Today the left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of these forces. It addresses pivotal questions on the reordering of the new right. These essays - very broad in terms of themes and places - speak to the global challenges the new right poses for the left at this historical moment. What is the nature of the right's populism, nationalism and militarism? What is the social base and organizational strength and range of far-right political forces? To what extent are they influencing mainstream parties and opinion? How have they penetrated state institutions? What role do state security services and police forces play? Does our political situation today require comparison with 1930s fascism? How should the left respond to defend democratic and human rights?
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Neoliberalism and popular racism: the shifting shape of the European right / Liz Fekete -- Ukip and the crisis of Britain / Richard Seymour -- The far right in France: the Front National in European perspective / Michael Löwry, Francis Sitel -- Europe at the crossroads: right populism and reactionary rebellion / Walter Baier -- Fascism then and now / Geoff Eley -- Ethnicism after nationalism: the roots of the new European right / G.M. Tamá́s -- Capitialism and the politics of the far right / Richard Saull -- Russian and Ukraine: oligarchic capitalism, conservative statism and right nationalism / Alexander Buzgalin, Andrey Kolganov -- India: liberal democracy and the extreme right / Aijaz Ahmad -- An arc of authoritarianism in Africa: toward the end of a liberal democratic dream? / David Moore -- Brazil: the failure of the PT and the rise of the new right / Alfredo Saad-Filho -- Chauvinist nationalism in Japan's schizophrenic state / Gavan McCormack -- Israel's hegemonic right / Avishai Ehrlich -- The American right: from margins to mainstream / Doug Henwood -- 'Stars and Bars' : understanding right-wing populism in the USA / Bill Fletcher Jr. -- The times and spaces of right populism: from Paris to Toronto / Stefan Kipfer, Parastou Saberi -- Policing with impunity / Lesley Wood -- The surveillance state / Reg Whitaker -- The dilemmas and potentials of the left: learning from Syriza / Andreas Kartizis.

Today the left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of these forces. It addresses pivotal questions on the reordering of the new right. These essays - very broad in terms of themes and places - speak to the global challenges the new right poses for the left at this historical moment. What is the nature of the right's populism, nationalism and militarism? What is the social base and organizational strength and range of far-right political forces? To what extent are they influencing mainstream parties and opinion? How have they penetrated state institutions? What role do state security services and police forces play? Does our political situation today require comparison with 1930s fascism? How should the left respond to defend democratic and human rights?

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