The Socialist Register 2016
The Politics of the Right
The fifty-second edition in the highly popular Socialist Register series focuses on the political forces and parties of the Right, seeking to shed light on their social base, organizational strength and range and influence on mainstream parties and opinions.
About the book
The fifty-second edition in the highly popular Socialist Register series focuses on the political forces and parties of the Right, seeking to shed light on their social base, organizational strength and range and influence on mainstream parties and opinions. Subsequent chapters look at the degree to which the Right has penetrated state institutions, the impact of the free movement of capital and the liberalization of domestic markets. Finally, contributors to The Politics of the Right examine the probability and dangers of a renewed rise of fascism and outline ways that the Left should respond to the challenges and dangers posed by the Right.
Contents
- Neoliberalism and popular racism: the shifting shape of the European right (Liz Fekete)
- Ukip and the crisis of Britain (Richard Seymour)
- The far right in France: the Front National in European perspective (Michael Löwy & Francis Sitel)
- Europe at the crossroads: right populism and reactionary rebellion (Walter Baier)
- Fascism then and now (Geoff Eley)
- Ethnicism after nationalism: the roots of the new European right (G.M. Tamás)
- Capitalism and the politics of the far right (Richard Saull)
- Russia and Ukraine: oligarchic capitalism, conservative statism and right nationalism (Alexander Buzgalin & Andre Kolgonov)
- India: Liberal democracy and the extreme right (Aijaz Ahmad)
- An arc of authoritarianism in Africa: toward the end of a liberal democratic dream? (David Moore)
- Stars and Bars: Understanding Right-Wing Populism in the USA (Bill Fletcher, Jr.)
- Brazil: the failure of the PT and the rise of the ‘new right’ (Alfredo Saad-Filho & Armando Boito)
- Latin American States and the Politics of the Right Today (Nicola Short)
- Chauvinist nationalism in Japan’s schizophrenic state (Gavan McCormack)
- Israel’s hegemonic right (Avishai Ehrlich)
- The American right: from margins to mainstream (Doug Henwood)
- ‘Stars and Bars’: understanding right-wing populism in the USA (; Bill Fletcher, Jr.)
- The times and spaces of right populism: from Paris to Toronto (Stefan Kipfer & Parastou Saberi)
- Policing with impunity (Lesley Wood)
- The surveillance state (Reg Whitaker)
- The dilemmas and potentials of the left: learning from Syriza (The surveillance state)
- References