Latest editorial
Anti-racism campaigners took to the streets of London last night to protest against the German far right’s recent electoral success.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) — a Eurosceptic party with a large fascist wing — attracted a shock 12.6 per cent share of the vote in Sunday’s election, winning seats in the Bundestag for the first time.
Angela Merkel’s centre-right CDU party saw its vote share shrink from 41.5 per cent to 33 per cent, meaning she will have to form a new coalition. Talks are reported to have started with the Christian Social Union, the pro-business Free Democratic Party and the Greens.
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
