Table of Contents

Liz Fekete: Neoliberalism and popular racism: the shifting shape of the European right; Richard Seymour: Ukip and the crisis of Britain; Michael Lowy & Francis Sitel: The far right in France: the Front National in European perspective; Walter Baier: Europe at the crossroads: right populism and reactionary rebellion; Geoff Eley: Fascism then and now; G.M. Tamas: Ethnicism after nationalism: the roots of the new European right; Richard Saull: Capitalism and the politics of the far right; Alexander Buzgalin & Andre Kolgonov: Russia and Ukraine: oligarchic capitalism, conservative statism and right nationalism; Aijaz Ahmad: India: Liberal democracy and the extreme right; David Moore: An arch of authoritarianism in Africa: toward the end of a liberal democratic dream?; Alfredo Saad-Filho & Armando Boito: Brazil: the failure of the PT and the rise of the 'new right'; Gavan McCormack: Chauvinist nationalism in Japan's schizophrenic state; Avishai Ehrlich: Israel's hegemonic right; Doug Henwood: The American right: from margins to mainstream; Bill Fletcher, Jr.: 'Stars and Bars': understanding right-wing populism in the USA; Stefan Kipfer & Parastou Saberi: The times and spaces of right populism: from Paris to Toronto; Lesley Wood: Policing with impunity; Reg Whitaker: The surveillance state; Adreas Karitzis: The dilemmas and potentials of the left: learning from Syriza.

About the Author

Leo Panitch and Greg Albo are Professors in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.