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Behind the Bastards

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The Rise of the French New Right

The anti-racism movement in France has failed to solve structural racism. The French Socialist Party broke promises like letting immigrants vote, he says. In the 80s and 90s there was a rise of "the French new right," neo-Nazis who read books by modern neo-Nazi authors such as Robert Mugabe. This is part of what's happening after the Iranian Revolution: There's this rising fear of Islamism,. And all of this stuff is particularly intensely intense at least until 2005 or so.

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