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Fascism in 2025 isn't just swastikas and flags.

Joe Mulhall, the research director at the anti-fascist organization Hope Not Hate says we should be more worried about the erosion of liberal democracy and universal human rights.

In this episode, co-editor Bethany Rielly speaks to Mulhall about why the far right is gaining ground around the world, where resistance can take root and what communities are doing to resist the UK’s own far right party, Reform.

Host: Bethany Rielly

Credits: Bethany Rielly (Co-Editor, Host), Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Digital Editor, Producer), Amy Hall, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design)

Guest: Joe Mulhall

Further reading from this episode:

Read NI557: The Global Far Right

A time of monsters (Bethany Rielly, New Internationalist)

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