The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a culmination anti-Ukrainian rhetoric that political elite and state-controlled media have been promoting at least since 2013. Apart from accusing being Neo-Nazi state, pro-Kremlin commentators espoused heavily gendered describing as loose woman in need saving by its older brother. Gendered discourse instrumentalized foreign pol...

This paper traces the recent turn to humour, irony and ambiguity embodied in adaptation of memes into repertoire online propaganda militant neo-Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement; a process, we dub ‘memefication’ white supremacism. Drawing on combination quantitative visual content analysis (VCA) in-depth focused iconography symbolism, explore all (N = 634) created circulated by around 2018 ...

Fascism belongs to the "family" of right-wing authoritarian and radical nationalist movements and regimes. Fascist movements regard the state as an organic whole and omnipotent principle transcending class interests, economic tensions, and ethnic conflicts. Fascism and authoritarianism rejected and repressed Marxist socialism, liberalism, ethnic minorities, and laissez-faire capitalism. One may...

Mental health nurses have a critical stake in resisting the right-wing ideology of British fascism. Particularly concerning is the contemporary effort of the British National Party (BNP) to gain credibility and electoral support by the strategic re-packaging of a racist and divisive political manifesto. Evidence that some public sector workers are affiliated with the BNP has relevance for nursi...

Dictyostelium discoideum cells undergo a major lifestyle change when they get hungry. They grow as unicellular amoebas, but when food starts to get short they aggregate into masses of up to a million cells, which in turn differentiate and sort out into mushroomshaped fruiting bodies. Aggregation and differentiation are rigorously controlled by a multitude of signalling pathways, which together ...