After more than 10 years of since the start of the economic crisis of ’07-’09 and precisely because of the inability of the bourgeois technocrats to find viable answers to the spiral of economic turbulence, traditional political representation is also in deep crisis. Center-left and center-right parties and government are crumbling, leaving the door open to new parties that emerge.
At the same time we should say that despite the crisis of political representation, in a large part of the world the ruling class appears to be playing alone on a pitch without an opponent, after the successive capitulations and sell-outs of political parties identified with the Left and the defeat of the great social and workers’ mobilisations of the previous political era.
Against this background, in a number of countries around the world we are witnessing the growth of far-right forces with significant electoral gains and the assumption of government positions. But what is the character of this (not always new) far-right?
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