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Right Across the World

The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response
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Description

'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London' - Mike Davis

In a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power. Significantly more than half the world's population currently lives under some form of right-wing populist or authoritarian rule. Today's autocrats are, at first glance, a diverse band of brothers. But religious, economic, social and environmental differences aside, there is one thing that unites them - their hatred of the liberal, globalized world. This unity is their strength, and through control of government, civil society and the digital world they are working together across borders to stamp out the left.

In comparison, the liberal left commands only a few disconnected islands - Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain and Uruguay. So far they have been on the defensive, campaigning on local issues in their own countries. This narrow focus underestimates the resilience and global connectivity of the right. In this book, John Feffer speaks to the world's leading activists to show how international leftist campaigns must come together if they are to combat the rising tide of the right.

A global Green New Deal, progressive trans-European movements, grassroots campaigning on international issues with new and improved language and storytelling are all needed if we are to pull the planet back from the edge of catastrophe. This book is both a warning and an inspiration to activists terrified by the strengthening wall of far-right power.

Product Details

PublisherPluto Press (UK)
Publish DateSeptember 20, 2021
Pages192
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780745341897
Dimensions8.4 X 5.7 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds

About the Author

John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of Aftershock: A Journey through Eastern Europe's Broken Dreams (Zed, 2017) and the novel Splinterlands (Haymarket, 2017).

Reviews

'An important book [...] the Trump world is part of a transnational story that won't go away. Feffer knows this international ground well and covers it skillfully'
Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair and Lead Researcher of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies

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