Analysis: The Far Right is Using the Ukraine Crisis to Cement Its Power
by Volodya Vagner
As Russia sends troops into eastern Ukraine, the militant ethnonationalist Azov movement has spotted an opportunity. Volodya Vagner reports.
Tag: the west
Long Read: The West is Dying – of Narcissism
by Arun Kundnani
Conservatives often frame demographic change as western cultures 'committing suicide'. The left must challenge this, writes Arun Kundnani, because as individuals and as peoples, we can only grow through our encounters with others; in pursuing a purification of the west, conservatives foster the very cultural death they claim to fear.
The Bastani Factor: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Is a Far Right Conspiracy Theory
Cultural Marxism, increasingly mentioned by right-wing politicians, pundits and terrorists, is a conspiracy theory. But where does it come from, what does it mean and what is its political function for those who deploy it? Aaron Bastani traces the roots of the term from 1930s Germany through the fantasist ravings of Lyndon Larouche to its […]
On Foreign Policy, the Independent Group Will Offer Nothing But the Elite Consensus
by David Wearing
Last week the leading opposition parties issued a joint demand for the suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the context of the war in Yemen. The absence of the Independent Group from the list of signatories, however, signals that the self-styled party of ‘change’ will offer nothing but conformity to the status quo on foreign policy, argues David Wearing.