Beyond Liberal Responses to Fascism: How to Fight the Culture Wars

Following our reading group earlier this month on understanding the culture war, our director, Mohammed Elnaiem, will present his research on the technofascist right and lead an interactive session on how to fight it. 

Transhistorical neoliberal framings of the culture war as a case of misinformation or populism fail to diagnose the right’s cultural politics as a particular kind of class war. We will explore the marriage of fascism and big tech today, focusing on case studies presented by Elnaiem that demonstrate how this alliance has been organised. We will then collectively work to chart ways that help us rethink our tools of anti-fascist struggle beyond default liberal responses to fascism.

Tickets are Pay What You Can starting from £5; all proceeds will help us continue funding the work we do.

Schedule
6.00pm - Doors open (snacks  + teas)
6.30pm - Presentation
7.00pm - BREAK
7.10pm - Discussion + Workshop
8.20pm - Final reflections
8.30pm - Close
 

Venue and Physical Accessibility 
The event will be held at the Africa Centre in the Feeny Room. The closest stations are Southwark (Jubilee line) and Borough (Northern line). The Feeny Room is located on the third floor and can be reached via a wheelchair-accessible staircase or lift. There is an accessible bathroom on the floor below, reachable via lift or staircase. If you have any accessibility needs, please let us know in advance, and we will do our best to accommodate them. 

Mohammed Elaniem is a Sudanese political activist and the director of the Decolonial Centre, an anti-colonial political education project. 

The Decolonial Centre is a political education platform committed to spreading anti-colonial and decolonial perspectives on history, social theory, and current affairs. We deliver our work via our Newscast episodes, Decolonial Encyclopaedia, and community events. By fostering solidarity and collaboration, we aim to amplify the powerful movements at the forefront of challenging and dismantling the enduring legacies of colonialism today. Our vision is to help inspire a new intergenerational cohort of activists who push for systems change and build links between communities in struggle.

(Image credit: Sans Titre, Beauford Delaney, 1968)