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With the recent surprise win for the left in the French elections, some may be tempted to think fascism is on the back foot. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Let’s take a look at the state of rising fascism in Europe.
Is Europe Turning Fascist? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Definitions of fascism
https://web.archive.org/web/20160319123249/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
https://bigthink.com/thinking/fascism-definition-stanley/
https://books.google.com/books?id=JU3th4LnKvsC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
https://books.google.com/books?id=QS9TAQAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
Votes 2024 French legislatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_French_legislative_election
Votes 2024 EU elections
https://results.elections.europa.eu/fr/france/
https://apnews.com/article/eu-election-results-european-parliament-acd0ceef91d198cf5e9ee695f394b28c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_European_Parliament_election
Centrist in the EU copy the far-right
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-backs-tough-new-migration-rules
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/06/eu-group-european-peoples-party-von-der-leyen-migration-reforms
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-election-right-wing-parliament-would-mean-for-eu-policy/
Immigrant statistics
https://www.nber.org/papers/w32389
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_notes/note151.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find
https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime
Far-right parties inspire hate crimes
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240619-rights-safety-lgbtq-people-danger-risk-far-right-win-french-parliamentary-elections-bardella-le-pen-macron
Fascism and worsening conditions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323695290_Fascism_and_social_inequality
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/andreas-malm-interview/
https://www.ft.com/content/c18f4306-3c37-4a10-b728-74646e0ea525
A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199283262.001.0001
Macron’s far-right echoes and neoliberal drive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/07/nazi-collaborator-phillipe-petain-world-war-stirs-anger
https://dial.uclouvain.be/memoire/ucl/fr/object/thesis%3A43580
https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/economie/plus-de-9-millions-de-personnes-pauvres-en-france-emmanuel-macron-na-rien-fait-pour-arranger-les-choses-regrettent-les-senateurs
https://www.challenges.fr/economie/la-politique-de-macron-plus-favorable-aux-menages-aises-selon-l-insee_836304
https://books.google.com/books?id=QtwfEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
The rise of the far-right
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/05/24/des-electeurs-ordinaires-a-la-decouverte-de-la-vision-racialisee-du-monde-des-electeurs-rn_6235245_3232.html
UK Riots
Far-right rioters yell ‘p***’ as they drag Asian man out of his car
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/rioters-try-to-torch-rotherham-asylum-seeker-hotel-amid-far-right-violence
https://abcnews.go.com/International/uk-police-clash-rioters-wake-deadly-knife-attack/story?id=112564079
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-starmer-cobra-security-far-right-riots-protests-spread-migration-rcna165116
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/riots-uk-muslim-asians-rotherham-manvers-hotel-b2591159.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-riot-locations-protests-map-far-right-b2591157.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-islamophobia-farright-riots-b2590693.html
https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/what-is-going-on-in-the-uk-as-asylum-seeker-hotels-attacked-by-far-right-mobs-13800911.html
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/3-girls-killed-in-stabbing-at-taylor-swift-themed-uk-dance-class-singer-in-shock-13798940.html
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uk-prime-minister-convenes-emergency-panel-end-days-112570138
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