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Recorded at: Second International Marxist-Feminist Conference
On: 8th October 2016
Panel: Feminist Organising beyond Europe: the USA
The Conference was organised by the feminist section of InkriT (Berlin Institute of Critical Theory) http://www.inkrit.de, transform! europe http://www.transform-network.net, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation rosalux.de and many others.
Recorded at: Second International Marxist-Feminist Conference
On: 8th October 2016
Panel: Feminist Organising beyond Europe: the USA
The Conference was organised by the feminist section of InkriT (Berlin Institute of Critical Theory) http://www.inkrit.de, transform! europe http://www.transform-network.net, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation rosalux.de and many others.





![Fighting the Far Right in the US: news from the frontline (ENG webinar)
[The session is in English. Yet, at two moments in the video the French interpretation is turned on for few minites. Sorry for the inconvenience]
transform! europe is a network of 39 European organisations from 23 countries, active in the field of political education and critical scientific analysis, and is the recognised political foundation corresponding to the Party of the European Left (EL).
For years transform! europe have been working for years on researching, monitoring, analysing and evaluating the course of the far right and/or the alt-right. In this webinar we bring together USA based political actors to dive deep into the phenomenon of Trumpism. Its time to avoid simplistic and superficial analyses and face all the surprising and contradicorty elements of this political paradigm in the Western -and not only- world.
Speakers:
- Kristian Hernandez
Member of Demoratic Socialists of Americas National
Political Committee
- Matthew N. Lyons
Author of Insurgent Supremacists:
The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire
- Kazembe Balagun
Project manager at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and BLM activist
Moderation : Marga Ferré, co-President of transform! europe
Defeating Trump was only the beginning. The struggle against the Far-right remains an urgent necessity. Despite the recent elections, American political landscape is not free of “Trumpism”.
The character retains the support of tens of millions of fervent and dedicated supporters, but also of many neo-liberal and conservative organizations, as well as several media outlets, such as Fox News or Breitbart News. Moreover, the ingredients that made Trumps success in 2016 possible are still there: hostility to immigrants, racial animosity, the despise of the educated elite towards the working classes, and the now widespread feeling that globalization has served the interests of multinationals and the upper classes to the detriment of the majority.
“Trumpism” is a complicated political ideology. It is a blend of mainstream and far right forces and politics, of elitism and populism, insider and outsider, creating a hybrid that challenges democracies in fundamental ways. As progressive forces, we have to revisit our conceptualizations and our classifications to understand it and defeat it.
From the stories of the movements which resisted Trump, as told by those on the front lines, this webinar will draw the lines of this “new” type of Far-right and how it shakes the US political order.
Their struggles and analysis will also be an opportunity to take some broader conclusions that can feed European strategies against Far-right.
The webinar took place on April 10th, 2021 Fighting the Far Right in the US: news from the frontline (ENG webinar)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HFGG34kPQN4/mqdefault.jpg)




