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French President Emmanuel Macron votes during the European election, in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, northern France, June 9, 2024
“The only good Tory is a dead Tory."
FAR-RIGHT parties achieved major gains in the European Parliament elections last week.
Results announced on Sunday showed a clear shift to the far right and in France prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election.
The far-right Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni more than doubled her party’s seats in the assembly. And despite being hounded by a scandal involving candidates, the neonazi Alternative for Germany (AfD) still rallied enough seats to sweep past the slumping Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Ministers vote to escalate war on starving Palestinians
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
