Velina Barova

France’s far-right parties have widened their support base in part by fusing concerns over immigration and climate into a new “green nationalist” ideology. Youth in the suburbs of Paris and elsewhere see through the lie, and are developing new narratives to wrestle the climate agenda back from ecofascism. On the morning of 12 October, a crowd gathered in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, the first commune north of Paris.

Public figures like politicians and journalists are no strangers to hate speech and online harassment. Though this is not a new phenomenon, our globalised age has seen the internet become a new terrain where vitriol thrives and spreads. With a focus on Italy, Sofia Cherici traces the roots of the hate that permeates the online and offline worlds to reinforce exclusionary structures and silence the voices of women and minorities. With cyber hate at crisis point, democracy itself is at stake.

Women’s rights are under a dual attack: both the ‘neoliberal neopatriarchy’ and the reactionary anti-gender movements threaten to reverse hard-won gains in rights and equality. Krisztian Simon spoke with historian and Professor at Budapest’s CEU Andrea Pető about illiberal governments, the struggles of women’s rights organisations, state-supported sugar daddy sites, and the challenges posed by labour market changes and robotisation.