The Rise of the Far Right – And What We Can Do About It

An urgent, instructive conversation offering insight, tactics and solidarity for the elections this year and beyond. We are encouraged to understand the ‘fuck you’ vote, beware fragile consensus, and to speak in the language of basics, emotions, and deep purpose. We need to be ‘clear-eyed’ that democracy’s promise of equality is impossible in the hands of the modern establishment, and that the nihilism and cynicism about democracy among the young is justified. Ultimately we must avoid navel-gazing self-flagellation and restore our own and others’ faith in humanity, asking ourselves “what’s mine to do?”