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Tom Harris's opening speech in a meeting "Rise of the Far Right In Europe: How to Fight It". For future meetings see: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Video online at: https://youtu.be/jFcckjO3Swo All audio and link to subscribe: www.workersliberty.org/audio - The growth in anti-semitism across Europe - Attacks on migrant rights - Scapegoating of immigrants and refugees - The rise nationalist ideas - The growth in right-wing popularlist ideas These movements feed on despair and demoralism resulting from the failures of labour movements to mobilise their tremendous potential power in the workplaceand fightback against austerity. The coming century will see tremendous upheavals. The horrors of climate change will generate mass migration on an unprecedented scale and social emergencies that will shake our society. In the decades to come, we need a labour movement that responds to crises with the politics of solidarity, compassion, and rationality.