Fascism

Hassan Mahamdallie is worried about fascist rhetoric, ideology, and organisations re-entering the mainstream, Donny Gluckstein ask what is fascism, Louis Ordish examines the roots of the far right in Europe, Judith Orr highlights the role of women in far-right movements, Tahir Abbas detects a connection between fascism and Islamophobia, Marko Attila Hoare recounts the Chetnik genocide of 1941–1945 in East Bosnia, Sufyan Hatia exposes the fascist worldview of Hindutva, Ghazal Tipu dissects the psychology of English Defence League (EDL), Sean Goodman argues that the far right is not our friend, Boyd Tonkin reveals the fascistic tendencies of Ernst Junger, Martin Smith excavates the Warsaw Ghetto and the death camp at Treblinka, Robin Yassin-Kassab returns to Syria to see if it can recover from fascism, Marjorie Allthorpe Guyton traces the history of Guernica, Hilman Fikri Azman laments the tarnishing of an India lost to history, and Scott Jordan’s list of ten farcical fascists.

In this issue

  • Chaplin as The Great Dictator
    Art

    C Scott Jordan's Ten Farcical Fascists

    Fascism has delivered some of the greatest evil humanity has ever had to experience and endure. The horror’s wrought are nigh incomprehensible. The…

    C Scott Jordan
  • La Guernica
    Art

    Guernica: Things to Come

    On 24 June 1937, a mass meeting was convened by the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief in aid of refugee Basque children at the Albert Hall…

    Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
  • Fundamentally Book Cover
    Fiction

    Muslim Chick-Lit

    Literature, in both its historical and contemporary forms, serves as a record of the values and beliefs of the time in which it was created. This…

    Alev Adil
  • Mussolini & Hitler
    Politics

    What is Fascism?

    The global growth of the far right should alarm anyone who believes in freedom, equality, and social justice. Its political leaders detest all three…

    Donny Gluckstein
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