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This is After Club. Welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left. I'm Nadia Eidel and I'm joined as usual by

Kiea Milburn. Hello and Jeremy Gilbert. Hello. And today we're tackling the subject of fascism. So guys why are we

talking about fascism today? Because we thought we'd had enough fun.

Yes, we don't have a nice grim topic to round off our frivolity.

No, to get serious for a moment, it's because there's a rise of the far right globally basically

probably over the last 10 years particularly over the last sort of five years you might say as

the sort of the left project got defeated in various ways around the turn of the decade.

The far right are likely to do very well in the European elections this year and

the left slightly to do badly.

There's also a fairly strong possibility of a

second Trump presidency. We can discuss later on whether all these things are fascist or not,

but these are certainly the contemporary far right.

You have leaders such as Maloney in Italy whose party directly traces back to

Mussolini's party.

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