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How to Defeat the Far Right and Fascism in Scotland, the UK and West

September 29, 2025
How to Defeat the Far Right and Fascism in Scotland, the UK and West Sunday National, 28 September 2025 Gerry Hassan The myth of British exceptionalism has collapsed in relation to the far right and fascism. There has been for too long a belief that Britain was somehow exempt from such politics and that its institutions and culture was immune. The Scottish version of this - a smug, self-congratulatory story - has stressed that our civic, inclusive culture makes us less susceptible to racism, racists and bigotry. This view was always deluded, especially given our history of anti-Irish racism. But

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