Digital Fascism and Antifascism

Can antifascism still thrive online?

The internet is real life. That’s how an article in The Atlantic, published the morning after the insurrection in Washington DC on January 6, 2021, opened. “The internet is real life” was probably the biggest take away of the 2010s. The Arab Spring of 2011 was our first lesson. Young people across North Africa and the Middle East organised demonstrations protesting the cost of living, high unemployment, and the authoritarian regimes they lived under, largely through social media. At the time, some leftists in the West sneered at the suggestion that a mass movement in the global south was happening via American websites. Though it would be wrong to discount the in-person organising that was happening across these countries via trade unions, communities connected to mosques, and football clubs, the significance of the internet was highlighted when Egypts government responded to civil unrest by shutting off access.

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