We talk all about the influential nazi book The Turner Diaries with Fritz and Boris of the podcast The Empire Never Ended. We discuss the author, William Luther Pierce, the unremitting bleakness of the book, the representation of women and much more.

You can support them here: https://www.patreon.com/tenepod

Today we are joined by Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi, authors of the upcoming book Race to the Bottom, to discuss anti-racism from below, it's co-option and repression, the deficiencies of anti-racism from above and how we rebuild new grassroots movements.

You can pre order the book via Pluto Press, the book comes out later in June!

We are joined by author Aurelien Mondon to discuss the recent election in France in the context of his co authored book Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy

We discuss the dynamics of the Polish far right and the Polish government with Dywizjon 161.

We discuss the ruling Law and Justice Party, the 2010 plane crash subject to far right conspiracies, the shifting positions on migration in the context of war in Ukraine, far right cooption of the independence day march and more!

https://twitter.com/Dywizjon161

We are joined by author and activist Zack to discuss his article 'Building to Confront Fascism' and the problem of building robust antifascist organisations.

We ask what building antifascist movements means in the age of the internet, the contemporary models for anti-fascist organising, anti-fascism's relationship to anti-racism and much more!

Read Zack's article here: https://www.thelever.org.uk/blog/2018/9/18/building-to-confront-fascism

What should we do about the design problem of anti-fascist organising?

We talk to spokesperson for Bristol Antifascists about the far right party For Britain, Tommy Robinson, and the upcoming opposition to FB's demonstration in favour of slave trader Edward Colston.

The counter demo is happening on the 9th of April, 11 am at the empty plinth in Bristol.

Bristol Defendants: https://twitter.com/bristoldefenda1?lang=en-GB

This week we hear from Sam and the launch of his new project series on the politics and theories of social collapse. In this first episode Sam introduces the project, sets out some terms and explains what we can expect in the weeks to come!

'The content will encompass collapsology, existential risk research, political theory, the politics and culture of collapse, information on practical movements for collective survival, climate systems breakdown, and the affirmation of an experimental attitude towards living and dying.

If society is collapsing, what is to be done?'

https://soundcloud.com/collapsepodcast

https://collapsology.substack.com/

We are joined by Rona Lorimer to discuss the career of fascist French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour.

We discuss how Zemmour was allowed a position on mainstream French media, his articulation of a militant anti-feminism, his capacity to shake off scandal and the prospects for opposition to rising reaction in France.

The interview was recorded before Russia invaded Ukraine so we didn't get to talk about the backlash to Zemmour's Putin friendly statements.

Read Rona's article on Zemmour here: https://conversationalist.org/2022/02/03/softbois-in-france-the-rise-of-eric-zemmour-from-a-feminist-perspective/

https://www.instagram.com/ronalorimer

https://twitter.com/laserveuse2

We are joined by campaigner, researcher and activist Bjørn Ihler to discuss the newly launch European Anti-fascist Monitoring Project, a joint initiative between the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Khalifer Ihler Institute. We discuss the necesscity of transnational research into the far right, the question of deradicalisation and much more!

https://antifascist-europe.org

Alex and Sam talk about the future of ecofascism: how does it relate to the crises of capitalism and the environment in our future? And what can we do about it?

This is our final book preview, back to regular episodes next week! If you want to hear the full show, subscribe to our patreon. Going forward subscribers will have early access to the shows

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