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2017ArticlesDatacide 16
Alexia Elliott 0 Comments , , , ,

Poisoned Fruit in the Walled Garden – The Alt Right: A Growing Problem, But Not a New One

In 2016, the Alt Right, a network of neo-fascist trolls, intensified online hate speech, manipulating public opinion on major political issues like Brexit and Trump’s campaign. Their tactics included posing as ordinary users, creating fake accounts, and spreading misinformation, ultimately aiming to propagate a neo-fascist agenda across America and Europe.

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2017ArticlesDatacide 16
Strelnikov 0 Comments , , , ,

Siege Mentality – Mason, Manson, Moynihan: On the Fringes of the American Nazi Movement

Michael Moynihan has gained a reputation as an intellectual despite his association with fascist and occult circles. He collaborates with other fascist artists, publishes fascist-leaning works, and promotes extremist ideologies. One of Moynihan’s key contribution is publishing ‘Siege’ by James Mason, a collection advocating violence, racial hatred, and revolutionary nihilism, promoting Charles Manson as a new Führer.

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2017Book ReviewsDatacide 16
Neil Transpontine 0 Comments , , , ,

Angry White People – Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right by Hsiao-Hung Pai (Book Review)

“Angry White People” by Hsiao-Hung Pai offers an in-depth look at the English Defence League (EDL), challenging the non-racist image they cultivate. By speaking directly with supporters and leaders, Pai reveals the group’s anti-Muslim sentiments and underlying racism. Set against Luton’s history and culture of multiculturalism, Pai explores the roots of EDL’s rhetoric and examines why the far right persists despite its inconsistencies. The book provides a nuanced view of British nationalism, its manifestations, and its opposition, within the broader context of societal change.

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2016ArticlesDatacide 15
Howard Slater 0 Comments , , ,

Sincere Genesis – On Félix Guattari & Groups

For a left that rejects the party-form and in times in which the ‘soviet’ model of workers councils became less viable, the question of organization has proved problematic. Guattari, a life-long member of militant groups from the 60s onwards, never failed to address this issue of how we can ‘belong together’. This short text offers the rudiments of Guattari’s response as informed by his work as a maverick psychoanalyst and his ideas of a micro-politics that upsets long-held views of what it is to be an ‘individual.’

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2014ArticlesDatacide 14
Controlled Weirdness 6 Comments , , ,

Journeys in the Naked City – Adventures in New York Before the Rain

Journeys in the Naked City – Adventures in New York Before the Rain is an article by Controlled Weirdness about 1980s Clubbing in New York, published originally in Datacide 14 in 2014, the follow-up/companion piece to ‘You’re Too Young to Remember the Eighties about London underground clubs and warehouse parties.

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