On the causes and nature of Populism’s Surge – interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend

Discussing the surge of ultra-rightist populism, where I argued it all started with the West’s response to the 2008 crash – just like after 1929. When $35 trillion was printed on behalf of financiers (between 2009 and 2022), while most people were subjected to some variant of austerity, and given the Left’s failure to defend the majority, the rise of new forms of fascism was inevitable.

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