Siamo tuttx antifascistx

This issue began with an observation. In 2024, more than one hundred countries across the world held general elections affording it the nickname, the “year of elections” (John & Sen, 2024). These elections revealed a “swing” towards the far right in Western countries. The National Rally in France, the Reform Party in the UK, and other nationalist parties have gained in popularity, but the re-election of Trump in the USA truly cemented this political shift. Since then, countless discriminatory policies have been adopted, censorship and silencing of voices is rife, and our news and social media feels swamped by disheartening exposures – or erasures – of our current political climate. Antifascist resistance has been witnessed globally, in political demonstrations, academic discussions, and in creative and artistic mobilisations.  

The primary object of this issue was to record contemporary responses to the rise of the far right in the world, but as a journal whose goal is to offer critical reflections on the politics of the present, we were equally keen on including a variety of voices in this special issue. As such, we received essays, articles, interviews, but also photography, music, film, painting, prose, poetry, mixed-media and digital media.  

Siamo tuttx antifascistx!  

Free Palestine!