American money and American moral and political support has been really important in creating this backlash in Europe against feminism, LGBT rights and basic equality. The reason we started looking at this was it didn't add up how much these groups were able to organize, and the size of these organizations, based on the size of the bases they could reach when they started. A lot of these groups seemed to suddenly spring up. That a lot of their funding is coming from the US explains that.
Journalist Adam Ramsay traces money fueling Europe's far right back to Christian fundamentalists in the US - as a way to create new political spaces within Europe for the far right to advance against gay and trans rights, immigration and abortion, and as cover for a global reactionary movement in service of oligarchs on both sides of the Atlantic.
openDemocracy released the report Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian âfundamentalistsâ pour millions of âdark moneyâ into Europe, boosting the far right.
âBy controlling the international financial system, Washington can demand banks in foreign countries to accept US restrictions or face sanctions themselves.â
Community Control of Police Advocates Poised to Win in Chicago
âThe rebellions of the Sixties were not the same as we witnessed last summer,â said Elizabeth Hinton, author of âAmerica On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Re
Oppressed communities and political movements need money, but âI donât believe that corporations can become partnersâ in peopleâs liberation, said Imani Wadud, a doctoral student a
The issues of race and class are intertwined, and âwe must fight against them simultaneously rather than trying to decide if racial or class exploitation came first,â said Justin Leroy
