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Spain’s far right quits five regional governments over migration spat

The Vox Party will pull out of five power-sharing deals across Spain in protest of national migration policy

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2024

“It was like going back 60 years... You can imagine what it would have sounded like in the Cavern”: Could this be Lennon’s first Vox?

Could this rediscovered AC15 be Lennon's first Vox amp?

MusicRadar · Jul 12, 2024

“The serial number was the same as John Lennon’s amp. I couldn’t believe it”: John Lennon’s first Vox amp – used on early Beatles recordings and Cavern gigs – was lost for 60 years. Now it may have been found, covered in black paint, on an auction site

Heard on Please Please Me and Love Me Do, this unassuming 1962 Vox AC15 Twin may have just become the most valuable amp on the planet – and we’ve had the exclusive first look

Guitar World · Jul 11, 2024

Populist, nativist, neofascist? A lexicon of Europe’s far right

There are numerous terms to describe the wide array of far right parties, but what do all they mean – and do we always use the right ones?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2024

The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right

To truly understand populism, we have to take the long view. In the 1960s, populist parties won, on average, 5.4% of the vote in Europe, while today, following the European Parliament elections on 9 June, more than 20% of the electorate trusts them with their vote.

The Conversation · Jun 18, 2024

Why are Europeans – including the young – being pushed to the far right?

In Europe, the slogan “never again fascism” is one that still resonates. The death and destruction wrought by hyper-nationalist, authoritarian states in the first half of the 20th century still haunts the nightmares of successive generations.

The Conversation · Jun 14, 2024

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StockNews.com · Jun 6, 2024

The far right may not win real power in Europe – but it will influence those who do

Polls predict huge gains for the far right in the European elections. But it is too fragmented to truly capitalise on them, says Cas Mudde of the University of Georgia

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2024

Spain's parliament approves amnesty law for Catalan separatists

Spain’s Parliament voted Thursday to give final approval to a controversial amnesty law for hundreds of Catalan separatists involved in the illegal and unsuccessful 2017 secession bid.

France 24 · May 30, 2024

New research raises hopes of exhuming foreign Spanish civil war dead

Catalan authorities ask relatives to provide DNA to help identify 522 members of International Brigades from US, Canada, Britain and Ireland

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024