Reactionary Politics Research Network

The RPRN's two new publications are open for submissions! Red Lines is a space for political interventions on resisting reaction. The Reactionary Politics Working Paper series aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship on reactionary politics. Submit your work below! reacpol.net/publications/

🟥Red Lines🟥 'What’s at stake? Everything.' @corneelwey.bsky.social on Bolsonaro and the need for a radical left alternative in Brazil. reacpol.net/bolsonarismo...

🟥Red Lines🟥 'What’s at stake? Everything.' @corneelwey.bsky.social on Bolsonaro and the need for a radical left alternative in Brazil. reacpol.net/bolsonarismo...

🟥Red Lines🟥 'If human extinction is imminent, why are these companies refusing to shut down their AI systems entirely?' Diana Wallens reflects on the ideological commitments of US 'Tech Bros' and how to resist their reactionary political project. reacpol.net/ai-apocalypse/

'The RPRN sends its full solidarity to the antifascists implicated in proceedings related to the Budapest affair, and to all antifascists facing this heightened repression.' RPRN Statement of solidarity to antifascists facing growing repression. reacpol.net/antifascist-...

📣New working paper📣 @gerardagill.bsky.social discusses the structural mismatch between complex societies and democratic capacity, along with how this mismatch helps to explain the appeal of reactionary politics. reacpol.net/workingpaper... Check it out below!

🟥Red Lines🟥 'Today, in the context of European migration governance and the externalisation of borders, Harga continues'. Moving beyond prevailing Eurocentric explanations, @uselesssimo.bsky.social discusses the social and psychological roots of the Ceuta-crossing. reacpol.net/ceuta-harga/

📣New interview📣 "Transgression makes the limit exciting. Subversion makes the limit lose its necessity." Sebastián Ronderos and @emmyeklundh.bsky.social discuss whether populism threatens the status quo, and the difference between transgression and subversion. reacpol.net/populism-tra...

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

For now, we mourn his death, along with all those who were close to him. Rest in eternal peace and power, Jason 🕊️

In his own words, Jason asked “only for understanding, for compassion, and for the space to begin again.” He was denied this. There must be a reckoning with the media and academic actors that created and fuelled the specific racism that shaped the final years of his life.

His death comes after an obscene and relentless media campaign that denied him the most basic human compassion. By one count, this media barrage totalled 249 media articles in less than a month, with over 20 stories per day even following his resignation. Racism has consequences; it kills.

Our love and deepest condolences to the family and friends of Jason Arday. Jason was a trustee of the Runnymede Trust for three terms, concluding his service in 2024. His death is personal to us, and we are all reeling from this news.

📣New working paper📣 Bianca Alighieri Luz Monteiro and Lara Nasi discuss the role of helplessness in the discourse of Brazillian president, Lula, and how it transforms vulnerability into a collective political resource. Check it out below! reacpol.net/workingpaper...

📢Happy to see our article “Far-righting the mainstream: endogenous drivers of reactionary shifts in western party politics” with @alvarooleart.bsky.social published in Compartive European Politics A short thread 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣New working paper📣 Oluwaseun J. Oguntuase reconceputalises the climate delayism of corporate elites in Africa as a mode of reactionary politics, situated within existing extractivist political economies. reacpol.net/workingpaper...

🟥Red Lines🟥 'Using algorithmic visibility tactically is only meaningful if it translates into informed citizenship, democratic participation, and organisational capacity.' Deniz Celikoglu reflects on the relationship between radical politics and digital platforms. reacpol.net/masters-tools/

🟥Red Lines🟥 'The right to mental and bodily integrity, the right to inviolability – that is autonomy.' @ajoellie.bsky.social reflects on the role of women's shelters and the need for autonomy. reacpol.net/abolish-wome...

📣New working paper📣 Ana Țăranu continues our working paper series by reflecting on the neoliberal convergences of the technocratic centre and far right in the Romanian context. Check it out below! reacpol.net/workingpaper...

🔴 Red Lines 🔴 @georgenewth.bsky.social explores the reaction to Henry Nowak's murder and shows why the government needs to channel a real ‘common sense’ 'Trying to outflank Reform UK is a dead end that will lead to more hate and division.' Read on 👇 reacpol.net/redlines-com...

📣New working paper📣 Ana Țăranu continues our working paper series by reflecting on the neoliberal convergences of the technocratic centre and far right in the Romanian context. Check it out below! reacpol.net/workingpaper...

🟥Red Lines🟥 'How is this cordon sanitaire supposed to survive if it is undermined from within?' @uselesssimo.bsky.social and @cburchett.bsky.social examine the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz. reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...

🟥Red Lines🟥 'In our circumstances, it should be obvious that voting does not equate to democracy.' @aurelmondon.com explains why democracy is not (only) about elections. reacpol.net/elections-no...

📣New working paper📣 Benjamin Nangle launches our working paper series by reflecting on the consolidation of reactionary politics in Lithuania. He credits this consolidation to the fusion of market fundamentalism, cultural traditionalism, and border securitisation. reacpol.net/workingpaper...

New interview in @crossbordertalks.bsky.social 'Nick Fuentes and Corp.: Dialectics of the New Far-Right Ecosystem' Great to chat with Wojciech Albert Lobodzinski @lancasteruninews.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social www.crossbordertalks.eu/2026/03/23/n...

Not sure what to read over the weekend? @imrobwalker.bsky.social and other brilliant RPRN members have you covered with this provocative anthology about Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary It also includes the first ever poem published by Red Lines! reacpol.net/theroux-docu...

📣New publication📣 '‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti-Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’' or how the Commission constructs the threat of 'populism' to deflect from its own exclusionary policies and discourses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 1/

Excellent presentation @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference from @emmyeklundh.bsky.social on her new book "Europe's Populist Condition"

🗣️ New Interview 🗣️ “In a nutshell, don’t be anti-populist, be anti-fascist!” Read more on @alexyates2000.bsky.social ’ new article ‘A Cure for ‘Populism’?’ Thanks to @imrobwalker.bsky.social for doing the interview! reacpol.net/anti-populism/

📜 RPRN statement 📜 HEPI’s Preparing for Populism is a profoundly unhelpful document that mistakes capitulation for strategy Research, critical inquiry, expertise, and the transmission of knowledge are not incidental irritants reactionary projects, they are its targets reacpol.net/populism-hepi/