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My name is Paul Mason. (Not Paul T. Mason, thanks, Google!) I was born in Leigh, Lancashire, to a family that had been miners and tailors for generations. I was the first person in my family to go to university – in Sheffield, where I joined the Labour Party in 1979. So my story is […]
In How To Stop Fascism, published August 2021, Paul Mason warns the Capitol Hill riot was no one-off. It is evidence of a global trend: the convergence of right-wing populism with a new kind of fascism.
Narrator Paul Mason. Executive producer Karen O’Connor. In this four-part documentary series Paul Mason follows the Greek uprising against the Eurozone, from inception to defeat. With exclusive access to the corridors of power, and at the front line of social conflict.
Regular Labour voice in national media. Campaigned across the Red Wall in 2019. Award winning journalist at BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News. NUJ activist and former FoC – fought strikes over pensions at BBC. Presented Labour mayors’ green energy plan at COP 26 in Glasgow.
It can be fought, Mason argues, only if we are prepared to conduct a radical defence of the human being: to reinvent humanism in a way that allows it to survive the attacks against race, gender and reason, the opponents of human rights.
Mason argues we need a nuanced form of this – a Militant Democracy 2.0 – focused both on maintiaing the rule of law, forcing the police and armed forces to obey and implement the law, and regulating social media to drive hate speech and incitement offline.
The successful crooks and dictators of the emerging world have already bought influence and respectability: you can feel their power as you walk through the door of certain law firms, PR consultancies and even corporations.
I’m Paul Mason – and I am standing to be Labour’s candidate for Mid & South Pembrokeshire / Canol a de Sir Benfro in the next General Election. I was born in Lancashire, to a family that had been tailors and miners for generations.
The thought-architecture of modern fascism is constructed around five ideas: – that migration is a form of ‘genocide’ against the white race – that feminism, liberalism and human rights advocates are the willing accomplices – that behind it all lies “Cultural Marxism” – a plot to destroy western society – that the main activity has […]
Rare Earth. Tiananmen Square, 2009: “Across the concrete, hundreds of metres wide, tens of thousands of unquiet spirits had begun to march …. The dead, scraped up off the floors of unlit factories; the victims of firing squads; workers whose lives had been shortened by cancer and poisoning.
