Today, the interior minister of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer and employing a clever multi-media strategy, it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.
This text on Pasolini’s Salò first appeared something like 25 years ago in Datacide No.6. It was part of a sequence of texts on cinema which began with a piece on Alan Pakula’s Parallax View and ended in a text on Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
Here Howard Slater returns to and revives his psycho-social analysis of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
In his book “Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump,” Gary Lachman explores the role of occult ideas in contemporary politics, particularly in the USA and Russia during the Trump era. Lachman delves into “New Thought,” Chaos Magic, and traditionalist influences on right-wing movements.
Book review by Neil Transpontine
National Action was a British openly neo-Nazi group founded in 2013. The group cultivated a militant image and notoriously carried a banner with the slogan “Refugees not welcome” and the hashtag #hitlerwasright at public demonstrations. Since December 2016 the group has been proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000. Since the trials of three of the members connections to the Neofolk music scene emerged.
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Alexander Reid Ross: Against the Fascist Creep, published by AK Press in 2017, reviewed by Christoph Fringeli. The fascist creep: ‘the porous borders between fascism and the radical right, through which fascism is able to “creep” into mainstream discourse’.
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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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“If you go back to the birth of nations, if you come down to our own day, if you examine
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“Boyd’s rather unimaginative sadism used to embarrass me, but then he explained it using words like ‘Weltanschauung’”Lisa Crystal-Carver, Drugs are Nice [LC,
Read MoreWhen this travelling correspondent examined, as she habitually does, the bargain basement boxes of a second hand CD and record
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