Why the rise of the Right? In brief: the wedge of fear of Islam and immigration, used to divide working people, under the hegemony of the politics of austerity. Here’s the Sweden Democrats’ election ad (pitting pensioners against immigrants, symbolizing the latter by women in burka, an obligatory 21st-century far-right move), viewed on YouTube [below] nearly a million times, in a nation whose electorate is just over 7 million. Monthly Review Zine