Daily: PAUL MASON on how to stop fascism

From Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s Turkey, the far right is on the rise around the world. Are we really on the brink of resurgent fascism? And if so, how do we fight it? Political journalist Paul Mason tells Dorian Lynskey about his radical blueprint for defeating the extreme right, outlined in his new book How to Stop Fascism. Why is trust in democracy collapsing around the world, and can what progressives do to win it back?

• “People like Trump and Bolsonaro don’t want to play the globalisation game and they don’t want to play the democracy game either”
• “We’re not dealing with a tribute band to Nazism. We’re dealing with a new form of Nazism”
• “Fascism is always violent. It’s now become obsessed with ethnicity rather than nation”
• “One in five people serving jail for terrorism in the UK are from the far-right. Soon that could be one in two”
• “Very little is taught about how the Nazis came to power. That is something we need to get our head around”

Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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