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Supporters of the far right Sweden Democrats attend an election party in Stockholm, Sweden, last night
SWEDEN’S far right failed to make the expected breakthrough in yesterday’s general election as mainstream parties’ support crumbled.
The nationalist Sweden Democrats attempted to claim victory after preliminary results of the election showed it polled 17.6 per cent of the vote, up from 12.9 per cent in 2014.
Leader Jimmie Akesson suggested the party were “kingmakers,” indicating he is open to talks to form a coalition government, but it is unlikely other parties would be willing to enter such a formation.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism