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Don Kalb is a leading anthropologist of global capitalism, class, labor and neo-nationalism, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, and director of the GRIP programme on global inequality (UiB and the International Science Council). His most recent book is Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism.

Walden Bello is an author, academic and political analyst. He has devoted most of his life to fighting imperialism and corporate globalisation, and has served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. Designated 'my favourite no-nonsense revolutionary' by Naomi Klein, he is also the recipient of 'Most Distinguished Defender of Human Rights' by Amnesty International Philippines in 2023, and author or co-author of many books.

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'With the far right continuing to consolidate power, Backlash is an essential guide to the different forms that authoritarian populism has taken and the different strategies it has employed ... Required reading not only for scholars but for those on the frontlines of fighting fascism' John Feffer, author of Right Across the World

'An urgent book [which] shows how the rise of autocracy links to global upward transfers of wealth' Sian Lazar, Professor, University of Cambridge

We live in an age of counterrevolution. Political and social gains of previous decades are being rolled back, while at the same time the atomisation and injustices of global capitalism intensify. Political leaders are scapegoating minorities and political enemies, while consolidating even more power and wealth for elites.

This collection of essays from an international team of leading researchers explores the global rise of the radical right and its social and political contradictions. Examining India, Eastern Europe, the US, Argentina, Germany and more, Backlash draws the connections between these movements and governments, providing crucial analysis for those looking for weaknesses in the terrifying rise of the far right.

Don Kalb is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, and director of the GRIP programme on global inequality. His most recent book is Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism.

Walden Bello is an author, academic, and political analyst. Designated 'my favourite no-nonsense revolutionary' by Naomi Klein, he was also the recipient the Right Livelihood Award (aka the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 and named Outstanding Public Scholar by the International Studies Association in 2008.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Counter-Revolution Within and Against the Counter-Revolution - Don Kalb

1. What is Fascism, and Why We Should be Really, Really Worried about Fascists - Walden Bello
2. Autocracy and Resistance in India - Svati Shah
3. South Africa's Postcolonial Right-Wing: Authoritarian Populism as Anti-Liberal 'Revolutionary Politics' - Christi van der Westhuizen
4. Unraveling Liberalisms: Hungarian Insights for America and Elsewhere - Gábor Scheiring and Ábel Csath
5. "Us First": Counter-Revolutionary Consciousness in the French Working Class - Benoit Coquard
6. Russia's Vanguard Authoritarian Neoliberal System - Jeremy Morris
7. Eastern European Reactionary Nationalism: A Ukrainian Exception? - Volodymyr Ishchenko and Don Kalb
8. Which Fascism, Whose Counter-Revolution? Unpacking the Current Political Conjuncture from the Netherlands - Ewald Engelen
9. Turning Points and Undertows: German Authoritarianism and History's Long Reach - Petra Rethmann
10. "Learning the Value of Things": Why Working People Consent to the Far Right Government in Argentina - Julia Soul
11. Fascism USA: Class and Identity Politics in the Age of Trump - Marc Edelman
12. The Trumpist Movement: A Class-Based Counter-Revolution Against Those Who Would Strand the Assets of Capital? - Don Nonini
    Notes on Contributors
    Index