Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right

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Given this book attempts to understand the far right in Europe, there is a surprising lack of analysis about the role of Islam in Europe - with no attempt to explore the ideology of Islamism, Salafism or Islamic concepts such as Jihad. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too. An expansive investigation of the ways in which a newly-configured right interconnects with anti-democratic and illiberal forces at the level of the state, Europe's Fault Lines provides much-needed answers, revealing some uncomfortable truths. She shows how, in contrast to counter-radicalisation programmes for Islamists, white extremists do not have to show remorse for their crimes. While we can wholeheartedly support localised forms of resistance and the fight for a vibrant, anti-fascist social climate, the struggle for consent, for which the extreme right is increasingly winning the Gramscian war of position, should not be forgotten . Having said that, this book is a perspicacious enquiry into the ‘fomenting of a reactionary cultural revolution’ (p.The "very high" risk index areas could have an average annual economic loss of up to 65 Million Euros and could reach over 30 fatalities a year, whereas the losses in a "moderate" risk index area could instead be up to 25 Million Euros, with up to 2 fatalities per year. In other words what many see as political competition (the centre-right, for example, taking up some of the security themes of the far right in the hope of stemming a haemorrhage of votes to them) Fekete sees as ideological and political complicity. Fekete provides an accessible and stimulating discussion on the roles of the state, intellectuals, the media, and uneven development in the triumph of the right in our age of crisis and rage .

It is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone's minds is: how did this happen? This has seen an expansion of transnational policing; of torture and rendition; the militarisation of the streets and the marketisation of all this under the auspices of national governments and, indeed, the EU.Example: Over 100 years we may expect a few, rare, large earthquakes to cause a total of 200 deaths. Seismic hazard is not just about calculating the probability of an event occurring somewhere in Europe in a certain period of time,’ said Prof. For the twenty-five years I have known Liz Fekete she has been a tireless anti-racist and anti-fascist fighter, as well as a people’s intellectual and a political inspiration.