The far-right's victory on social media is so overwhelming that an overly defeatist narrative about the internet is taking hold. In the United States, people have been asking for years why a left-wing Joe Rogan doesn't emerge, and our equivalent would be asking the same question about Jordi Wild. These are two extremely popular podcast hosts among teenagers, featuring long conversations with diverse guests and blending entertainment, curiosity, and politics, always with a strong bias in favor of the new right's arguments. Rogan's numbers in particular, and the male-dominated online sphere in general, are so large compared to progressive alternatives that a significant portion of the American left has blamed this digital world for Donald Trump's reelection, just as here, every time Vox gains ground in the polls, we see editorials blaming Elon Musk's algorithms. This past week, these talking points resurfaced following... the Army Awards gala presented by Santiago SeguraThese anti-awards ironically recognize internet personalities and the most viral moments of the year, and have sparked controversy because several nominees left the event denouncing the unbearably fascist atmosphere.

More than a hundred men march through the streets of Lyubertsy, on the outskirts of Moscow, to celebrate National Unity Day. In a country where demonstrations are banned, such a large group is a surprising sight. They are all dressed in black, their faces covered, and belong to the Russian Community, the country's most popular far-right organization. In 2010, the authorities began cracking down on the radical nationalist marches held every November 4th, but now the police give them free rein. What has changed since then? Who are these new radicals?

Sometimes it seems as if the European Union, along with a few other countries on other continents, lives in a world of yesterday: everything around it is changing very rapidly. The paradox is that the change is actually directed toward the day before yesterday, toward a distant past from which we thought we had emancipated ourselves. Perhaps all this is happening because, with some justification, we fear the future.

Spain today has a central role in the international anti-gender agenda for two reasons: on the one hand, local movements such as Opus Dei, Make Yourself Heard, CitizenGo, and Vox preserve the Catholic legacy of Franco's regime and, on the other hand, have been able to export their strategies to Europe, Latin America, and even Africa. In just a few years, the State has become a laboratory for the global ultraconservative offensive that targets everything that points to diversity, whether it be the rights of LGBTIQ+ communities, the abortion one or the battle against sex education. These are the conclusions of a report that has promotedAssociation for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, signed by several researchers who have analyzed cases such as Spain, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Kenya.

There are people who create problems and there are people who solve them. Individual happiness and social coexistence are built day by day, gesture by gesture. Problems are there, of course. Life is entropy; we tend toward chaos. Solvers are usually discreet, hardworking, and kind. Those who revel in problems—problem-mongers?—can be very conspicuous and noisy, and appear to be vigilantes. "Immigrants out! Politicians out! Catalans are dying!" And they start shouting.

The far right has the advantage of having an argument based on real facts: a widespread impoverishment of the middle classes, on the verge of extinction and tax squeezes; the increasing number of working poor; the desolation of well-educated young people who earn more money as waiters in Scandinavia than in a job here for which they have spent five years studying; the frustration of young people at not being able to emancipate themselves from their parents' home because they can't dream of buying an apartment, but they can't even rent one, and we're not even talking about having children. In short: dreams are disappearing, be it the Catalan dream or the American one: making an effort is no longer enough. It seems as if everything that still holds on to from the welfare state no longer has any value. And all this in a world that spins madly without moral or legal restraints and in a Europe that looks at it paralyzed by fear, like the aristocrat who already sees the sliding doors ofhealthy-culottesthrough the gardens of the residence.

With the identity of the alleged killer now public, we must consider the attack that claimed the life of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk last Wednesday in Utah as a result of the hate speech he himself promoted. The shooter, Tyler Robinson, was someone mentally intoxicated by this kind of messaging, and the fact that he wrote "leftist" messages on his bullets means nothing, because confusion and tapping are part of the ways of doing and saying things of the juvenile far right (also in our country). Barricaded as he often does at the Oval Office desk, Trump tweeted: "For years, the radical left has compared wonderful Americans like Charlie Kirk to Nazis." And he blamed these evil leftists for the death of the wonderful Kirk.

Elon Musk and Eric Zemmour, some of the best-known names on the international far right, joined the British far right this Saturday, represented from outside the parliamentary system by the notorious fascist agitator Tommy Robinson, in a demonstration that brought together more than 110,000 people in central London. With the slogans "For freedom of speech" and "Unite the Kingdom," the protest demonized everything that is not white, Anglo-Saxon, and of the Christian faith. Protesters used freedom of speech to chant "Take back our country," "Kick them out," and "Stop the boats," for example. The demonstration can be described as historic, given its scale, and marks the culmination of a series of protests that have taken place throughout the summer, with migrants and asylum seekers as targets of anger and frustration. In short, a very disturbing show of ultra-right strength.

This has been a heated summer with multiple racist arsons. Protests and even attacks against centers for minors and migrants have multiplied throughout Spain. The most notable was the incident in Torre Pacheco, but there have also been attacks against centers for minors in Vallirana (with Molotov cocktails), in Marcilla (Navarra), riots in Piera (where incendiary devices were also thrown in May), in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), and in Sabadell, and persecutions in Hernani (Guipúzcoa). In San Sebastián, "hunts" for North African and African people have been organized through a Telegram group. These are just a few of the cases. We thus find ourselves following in the wake of Europe, which has been mired for some time in a crisis of vigilantism where the rise in violence against migrants, and especially North African minors, seems unstoppable.

And you, where are you from? This seemingly innocent question hides a ticking time bomb. It means you look like you're not from here. It means we have a prejudice about what people from here look like. It means you believe that if you look unconformable to that prejudice, you can't be considered from here. The consequence is that the person being asked the question perceives they're not considered from here, and they may feel annoyed, insulted, excluded, and discriminated against. Surely with good reason, even if the person asking the question may have done so with the best of intentions and out of genuine, friendly curiosity. Prejudices are also reflected in language and small details.

Yesterday, theA survey by the Center for Opinion Studies offered some results which seem entirely probable, because they predicted a significant rise of the far right in Catalonia:

Today that The CEO survey shows a rise for Vox and the Catalan Alliance again., it is an appropriate day to remember that neither of these two parties has the solution to the problems of Catalan society, because they live off hatred of immigrants (especially Muslims) and, in the case of Vox, also of the Catalan nation.

They are best friends. One, Ismael, was born in Morocco; the other, Daniel, is a Spaniard born in Torre Pacheco. Both attended the unauthorized gathering that the extremist groups had held for eight o'clock in the evening in the Murcia town. According to one of the organizers, the agitator posing as a journalist, Vito Quiles, the rally didn't take place because the Civil Guard had informed them they were in danger. A threat also targeted the leader of Desokupa, Daniel Esteve, who didn't even show up in the town. However, police sources did not confirm these threats announced by Quiles. "The Civil Guard forced them to leave the town peacefully," sources from the Murcia government delegation stated. "We have no record of any threats," a local police officer confirmed.

"I'm organizing an eight-seater van to go to Torre Pacheco on Saturday, July 19th. Route and stops: Cádiz, Marbella, Málaga, Almería, Cartagena, Torre Pacheco. Those interested can write here. Available spots: 6." Messages like this are circulating on Telegram, and the promoters are far-right groups. The goal: to "avenge" the attack on a 68-year-old man last week, allegedly at the hands of young men of foreign origin. And according to Andrés Pedreño, a sociologist and professor at the University of Murcia, the wave of violence against immigrants in that town has a strong ideological component and is encouraged by Vox.

The ballot boxes continue to test the European Union, telling it that it has had enough doubts, and it must go all out and resist the joint assault of Trump and Putin.has been left in a shock, a parody mounted by the ultra-right candidate George Simion, declaring himself the winner when the exit poll estimates indicated that the president would be the pro-European Nicusor Dana. Relief and hope in the EU, coexisting with fears, and all of this surrounded by great uncertainty that will cost him to leave, even if on Sunday, June 1, the liberal Rafal Trzaskowski becomes president of Poland.

With the far right gaining ground in parliaments and governments and women's rights threatened around the world, we spoke to four women who are fighting against this regression of rights in four areas: sexual and reproductive rights, labour rights, the rise of sexism among young people and new forms of hatred. Feminism and feminists as a dam against anti-rights discourse.

Coinciding with the fourth wave of feminism, far-right parties have gained strength around the world, forcing women to build strategies of disobedience. From Africa to the Americas, and also in Europe, where hate speech and anti-women's rights rhetoric grows with each election, partly thanks to the power of social media.

This year, March 8, International Women's Day, finds us in the midst of a wave of reaction due to the push that Donald Trump is giving to the most conservative positions both in the United States and in the countries and formations within his sphere of influence. In the dossier we speak with activists, professionals and scholars who, from their different fields, maintain positions on such relevant issues as cyberbullying or labor or reproductive rights. We also look at what is happening abroad, with the cases of the United States, Iran and Afghanistan, Korea and Argentina.

In case anyone had any doubts, Trump has just made his identity as a tough, unscrupulous sheriff clear and transparent. Everything for my people, if necessary humiliating the weakest of Europeans. This is his refuted identity. This is what excites the millions of Americans who voted for him. Without compassion for those who do not do what he wants. A recipe that is spreading like wildfire. The diplomacy of threat.

Dear friends who live in Madrid, I really hope you don't hurt yourselves, and I am happy to see you cottoning on to what is happening.