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This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. Below are six blocks of guidelines for discursively confronting the far-right. The first three blocks of guidelines (those related to frameworks and language, those related to argumentative and emotional strategy, as well as warnings and mistakes to avoid) belong to the realm of one’s own development, … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. From this perspective, it can be affirmed that common sense is not an indicator of intelligence or rationality, but an indicator of belonging. People do not believe what they believe because it is true, but because their group teaches them to believe it, and because believing … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. A society’s common sense is not a neutral reality unrelated to power relations, but rather a space of dispute where what is considered normal, acceptable, or inevitable is defined. Deep political changes are usually preceded by transformations in collective perception, in which certain ideas manage to … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. Perhaps one of the questions we most often ask ourselves when reflecting on social periods in which the far-right grows is: “How can it be that society allows and even supports a process in which the far-right gains power if it is going to go against … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. No totalitarian regime is consolidated solely by force. It also happens thanks to the capacity of the masses to assume as normal what, some time before, seemed unthinkable. Societies rarely change abruptly. Even in times of greatest political transformation, collective behaviours tend to respond to prior … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. The far-right is more than a political ideology. Behind its discourses, symbols, and rituals, there exists a deep psychological structure that connects individual vulnerabilities with collective dynamics. Understanding this profile is not a theoretical exercise but a central element in being able to counter its discourse. … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. As previously seen, the far-right is a heterogeneous, constantly changing conglomerate made up of movements of different natures (neofascism, Alt-right, Nouvelle Droite, Old Right, Q-Anon, neo-patriotism, ecofascism, far-right accelerationism, etc.) that share a rejection of and hostility towards liberal democracy, a deep-seated ultranationalism, and an anti-establishment … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. Far-right is a word whose etymological origin is formed by the prefix “ultra” (from the Latin “ultra-“, meaning ‘beyond’, ‘extreme’) and the root “right” (from the Latin “-directa”, meaning ‘right’, ‘straight’). In the French National Constituent Assembly during the revolutionary process of 1789, the conservative deputies … Read more

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire for thirteen seconds against a peaceful protest against the US invasion of Cambodia at Kent State University. The so-called Kent State massacre resulted in four students dead and nine others injured. The massacre took place under the presidency of Richard Nixon and triggered a wave of student strikes that forced the closure of hundreds of universities across the country. Popular outrage was immediate, and the social and artistic response was … Read more

On August 8, 1974, 51 years ago today, the President of the United States of America, Richard Nixon, announced in a televised address from the Oval Office his resignation from office, preempting the impeachment process. He was the first president in that country’s history to take that step, and the reason was the scandal known as Watergate—the famous case of political espionage that brought to the fore the workings of what was supposed to be a democracy and shook the … Read more