Anti-fascism or anti-extremism?

Anti-extremism frameworks, now utilised in policy and academic circles, are masking the multi-dimensional and pan-European nature of contemporary fascism and the role of the state. The author argues that the threat of fascist violence across Europe is now very great. Yet anti-fascists are being prevented both by the new narratives on cumulative extremism, which tend to equate threats including those from Right and Left, and by state security policies from developing the necessary democratic oppositions to the threat.