The Great Italian Post-Fascist Tolkien Takeover
Giorgia Meloni, like many in the Italian far-right, is a Lord of the Rings obsessive – raising questions about what it is in Tolkien’s work that seems to appeal to fascists.
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Ko Leik Pya works as a teacher and writer in the UK and Myanmar. He writes here under a pseudonym.
Giorgia Meloni, like many in the Italian far-right, is a Lord of the Rings obsessive – raising questions about what it is in Tolkien’s work that seems to appeal to fascists.
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Mike Davis, the American geographer and historian, has died. There was no better socialist writer in the last four decades.
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Liz Truss’s plan to move the UK embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was a blatant expression of support for apartheid and annexation. It must be consigned to the dustbin of history alongside her premiership.
Rishi Sunak’s rise to power is designed to shore up British capitalism. He will do it by unleashing a massive new wave of austerity – unless we build a movement to stop him.
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The Tories’ latest attack on trade unions would conscript transport workers to work against their will – a historic blow to the right to strike that must be fiercely resisted.