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Today I'm joined by Max Kaiser, author of the new book Jewish Anti-fascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism to discuss a forgotten history of Jews in Australia. We discuss the complexities of Holocaust memorialisation, the importance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to Jewish anti-fascists, the position of Jewish migrants in Australian society and much more! If you want to support the show then you can subscribe to the patreon: patreon.com/12rulesforwhat

For our first episode of 2023 we are joined by Mike from the It's Going Down Collective to discuss all things US antifascism. We discuss the presence of firearms on demonstrations, the aftermath of January 6th, how US colonialism influences the far right and much more! **This episode was recorded before allegations of sexual coercion were made against Andrew Callaghan** If you want to support the show subscribe to our Patreon! Its at patreon.com/12rulesforwhat We will be launching our latest book club next week, on Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley's Fractured. Get in touch if you want to talk part!

For the final episode of the year, Alex and guest host Mark talk to Michael Colborne of Bellingcat Monitoring on investigating hate online, the expose of Rob Rundo, Azov, Putin's Russia and more.

I chat to independent journalist Murray Kemp about his recent article on the far right in MMA, and the anti-fascist red gyms challenging it. We discuss the importance of anti-fascists training combat sports, how the UFC allows the right to flourish and ask just how good a fighter Andrew Tate actually was. Support the show on patreon! patreon.com/12rulesforwhat Read Murray's article here: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/09/13/the-leftists-breaking-the-rights-chokehold-on-mma/

Writer and actovist Armadeep Dhillon joins the podcast to discuss the the impact of far right Hindu nationalism in the UK, in India and on the internet. We discuss the recent unrest in Leicester, how Hindutva is promoted around the world, its origins in India, colonialism and the legacy of the British Empire and much more!

In the past weeks Fratelli d'Italia, a party who can trace a lineage to Mussolini's regime, was elected as the leader of a far right coalition that will take power in Italy. Today David Broder, Jacobin European editor and author of upcoming book Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy, joins the podcast to discuss the election, Fratelli d'Italia's bad gender politics, its links to the non electoral far right and more. Pre order the book from Pluto here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348025/mussolinis-grandchildren/ Support the show and get access to episodes early: patreon.com/12rulesforwhat

Independent scholar and writer Matthew Lyons joins the podcast to discuss the historical development of the far right in the USA, the problems with common analyses of fascism, the effect of gun culture in the US and the relevance of the three way fight for anti-fascists today. Matthew is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: the US Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire and is a contributor to a new anti-fascsist anthology, No Pasaran Buy Insurgent Supremacists from PM Press here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=924 Read the Three Way Fight blog here: http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/

Today Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley, the authors of Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics, join the podcast to discuss how reactionary forms of identity politics operate, both in the world today and historically. We discuss why the working class has never been united, how black feminists used concepts of identity in theory and organising, the statue defender protests of 2020 and much more! Support the show on patreon and get to listen to episodes early: patreon.com/12rulesforwhat

This week I am joined by lecturer and political theorist Kai Heron and first generation farmer and writer on agroecology Alex Heffron to discuss the far right influences in the farmer protests currently sweeping the Netherlands, far right representations of rural life, the politics of food production and much more! Check out Kai and Alex's work: http://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/renewing-land-question-against-greengrabbing-and-green-colonialism/ https://spectrejournal.com/let-a-thousand-fiefdoms-bloom/ Support the show on patreon: patreon.com/12rulesforwhat

Today I am joined by antifascist researcher Allan Jones to discuss all things fascist fitness culture and combat sports. We cover a recent expose of Patriotic Alternative's fitness clubs, self improvement threads on 4chan, the far right subculture in MMA and much more! Support the show on Patreon patreon.com/12rulesforwhat

I am joined by journalist Io Dodds to discuss the latest in the world in Qanon, Tanon and the rising tide of transphobia in the US. Read Io's article on the topic here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/transgender-far-right-qanon-violence-b2108235.html Support the show and join in on our summer book club here: patreon.com/12rulesforwhat

The boys reflect on nearly 4 years of 12 rules as an anti-fascist project, assess the state of far right and anti-fascist movements and draw some concluding arguments and reccomendations from their output. Message from Sam: Doing 12 Rules for WHAT has been one of the most important and enlightening experiences of my life, but I am now moving on to new topics. You can follow my new writing project here: https://collapsology.substack.com/ Thanks to Alex for all the insight and fun and to you for listening and joining in. Alex will be carrying on with the project. There are interviews coming up on QAnon and transphobia, fascist fitness culture and a book club on Race to the Bottom, which you can access by signing up to our patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/12rulesforwhat

We talk all about the influential nazi book The Turner Diaries with Fritz and Boris of the podcast The Empire Never Ended. We discuss the author, William Luther Pierce, the unremitting bleakness of the book, the representation of women and much more. You can support them here: https://www.patreon.com/tenepod

Today we are joined by Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi, authors of the upcoming book Race to the Bottom, to discuss anti-racism from below, it's co-option and repression, the deficiencies of anti-racism from above and how we rebuild new grassroots movements. You can pre order the book via Pluto Press, the book comes out later in June!

We are joined by author Aurelien Mondon to discuss the recent election in France in the context of his co authored book Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy

We discuss the dynamics of the Polish far right and the Polish government with Dywizjon 161. We discuss the ruling Law and Justice Party, the 2010 plane crash subject to far right conspiracies, the shifting positions on migration in the context of war in Ukraine, far right cooption of the independence day march and more! https://twitter.com/Dywizjon161

We are joined by author and activist Zack to discuss his article 'Building to Confront Fascism' and the problem of building robust antifascist organisations. We ask what building antifascist movements means in the age of the internet, the contemporary models for anti-fascist organising, anti-fascism's relationship to anti-racism and much more! Read Zack's article here: https://www.thelever.org.uk/blog/2018/9/18/building-to-confront-fascism What should we do about the design problem of anti-fascist organising?

We talk to spokesperson for Bristol Antifascists about the far right party For Britain, Tommy Robinson, and the upcoming opposition to FB's demonstration in favour of slave trader Edward Colston. The counter demo is happening on the 9th of April, 11 am at the empty plinth in Bristol. Bristol Defendants: https://twitter.com/bristoldefenda1?lang=en-GB

This week we hear from Sam and the launch of his new project series on the politics and theories of social collapse. In this first episode Sam introduces the project, sets out some terms and explains what we can expect in the weeks to come! 'The content will encompass collapsology, existential risk research, political theory, the politics and culture of collapse, information on practical movements for collective survival, climate systems breakdown, and the affirmation of an experimental attitude towards living and dying. If society is collapsing, what is to be done?' https://soundcloud.com/collapsepodcast https://collapsology.substack.com/

We are joined by Rona Lorimer to discuss the career of fascist French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour. We discuss how Zemmour was allowed a position on mainstream French media, his articulation of a militant anti-feminism, his capacity to shake off scandal and the prospects for opposition to rising reaction in France. The interview was recorded before Russia invaded Ukraine so we didn't get to talk about the backlash to Zemmour's Putin friendly statements. Read Rona's article on Zemmour here: https://conversationalist.org/2022/02/03/softbois-in-france-the-rise-of-eric-zemmour-from-a-feminist-perspective/ https://www.instagram.com/ronalorimer https://twitter.com/laserveuse2