Antisystemic

  Errico Malatesta was an Italian Anarchist and revolutionary who toured Europe in political exile agitating for a radical answer to society's problems. He came to reject republicanism for essentially the same reason that Marx rejects when he says that the right of the stronger prevails in constitutional republics. Malatesta was the Anarchist's Anarchist. As such his name carries major weight among contemporary Anarchists with any connection to historical Anarchist thought. In some quarters the name 'syndicalism' carries an inverse, negative weight. Syndicalism, it is maintained, is just one of the old tactics of the old labor movement. It slowly collects dust on the trash heap of history, no more interesting than Leninist vanguardism, or social democratic reformism, or bog-standard trade unionism. How nice it is then, for those who see syndicalism as one of the oldest of old hats, that Malatesta, during his time, produced two critiques of syndicalism from an Anarchist

  In 2017 Emmanuel Macron beat Marine Le Pen in the presidential elections. Macron just beat Le Pen once again in the 2022 elections, and handily so. Like last time this year's elections have gotten eyes on the far-right. Le Pen's party, National Rally, is a far-right, anti-immigrant, conservative party of the type of politics we've seen in North America and Europe since 2016. Candidate Eric Zemmour split the far-right vote with Le Pen, running a campaign even to her right, arguing the white nationalist conspiracy that Muslim and African migrants are replacing white Christian French nationals. As such many saw this election as another indication of the far-right drift in global politics. However, I see it as part of a trend in the decline of the far-right globally.  In 2016 we all bore witness to a phenomena dubbed "global Trumpism". Candidates and parties around the world sprang up in electoral politics which scapegoated minorities, particularly migrants and refu