The Far-Right International Versus Anti-fascist Internationalism

Has internationalism from below been kidnapped by the far right? This article explores how an emergent “far-right international” responds and seeks to capture forms of “internationalism from below,” which in recent years have included transfeminist, anti-racist, and environmentalist struggles. The authors inquire into emergent far-right international dynamics, with a focus on Argentina and the United States, while highlighting strategies that exceed the institutional sphere and that capillarize from below. The authors conclude by asking: How might new internationalisms rearticulate existing subjectivities in this conjuncture of financialized capitalism and far-right reaction? To what extent does the anti-fascist dimension reorganize the coordinates of internationalism from below? How is this conjuncture demanding a reinvention of anti-fascism in response to far-right international strategies? To address these questions, the authors examine a series of struggles from below that, in meeting present challenges, could be called an emergent anti-fascist internationalism.