Fascist Jair Bolsanaro wins. Merkel’s coalition in ruins. Trump supporting white supremacists in campaign of terror against Jews, liberals… MI5 to take lead in fight British neo-Nazis. Let’s understand this carefully… 1/~ newstatesman.com/world/2018/10/…
2/~ Bolsanaro won because a) Brasilian left failed to attack corruption; b) Brasilian business class prefers fascism to the centre-left c) because Trump has unleashed chaos on the multilateral order. My take in the @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
3/~ Merkel is pulling out of the leadership race for the CDU. SPD vote collapsing. European centrism is being destroyed by the Maastrich/Lisbon treaties. EU needs to tax, spend, borrow and print money to stimulate growth. I warned them... novaramedia.com/2018/02/15/for…
4/~ I can only confront the facts of the anti-semitic Pittsburgh massacre with horror. And then understanding: Bowers swallowed the entire bullshit of the alt-right: the elite are bringing the migrants to "replace us". Trump legitimised them. newstatesman.com/world/north-am…
5/~ MI5 to take on British Neo-Nazis? Great - so long as you understand their main threat is not terrorism but attacks on democracy, minority communities and the labour movement. That's what fascists do. newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
6/ This is, first, a crisis of the liberal centre. Break with austerity and greed economics, ally with the left for a defence of democracy, human rights and social justice. newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
7/ It's also a crisis for the social-democratic parties. I toured Germany, Austria, Italy, Netherlands this year - saying break with the Lisbon/Maastricht regime; they nodded sagely and did jack-all. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
8/ It's also a crisis for the radical left. We need to understand the main enemy now is the far right, the alt right, the authoritarian nationalists. Ally with the centre, where it is prepared to fight. Yes, that's a Popular Front. Read this... 
9/ We're facing a far right international, funded by US millionaire money, that will follow the playbook Arendt describes: an alliance of the elite and mob. Yet Sanders, Tsipras, Iglesias, Melenchon + Corbyn can't even make a joint statement? medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
10/11 Me and other journalists said this would happen: @sarahkendzior @Augstein @ggreenwald @KostasVaxevanis @efimeros (RIP) @fotoole @lowles_nick to name a few... always patronised as "activists" by six-figure MSM journos. It's time to care about fascism....
11/11 Here's what it comes to if you can't stop fascism using resistance, education, truthful journalism and the rule of law. Everybody laughed at the tall guy at the back, and his book sales bombed, but he was right. Barcelona, December 1936
