INTRODUCTION
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he far right has changed. Since the rise of the internet, it has scattered, diversified, and stuck itself back together. The internet has facilitated these tendencies, filtering and contorting familiar forms of activity and ideology, and pushed far-right groups to adapt, causing the decline of some formations and the break-up of others. But the far right has not gone away – far from it – it is more powerful now than it has been for a generation. It has produced new configurations of tactics, priorities, and goals. Those who have survived the arrival of the internet have found a greater capacity to exert power than at any point since the Second World War. These changes are still little understood, either in the popular consciousness or in left-wing movements. Conceptions that focus on Nazism or skinheads or attempt to label groups only in terms of their policy platform, or describe all forms of political authoritarianism as ‘fascist’, are not only inaccurate but counter-productive. The types of far-right thought and action developing in the wake of the internet are much more varied and complex than these 9
