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Abstract:

Gramsci and the far Right

On 19 September 2018, Australian senator Fraser Anning tweeted an extraordinary attack on the controversial Safe Schools project, which runs anti-bullying programs in Australian schools. Safe Schools became a flashpoint for the Right, which loathed the project’s focus on gender and sexual orientation. In his tweet – a summary of the speech he made in the Senate – Anning wrote that ‘The real goal of the Safe Schools Commo perverts is absolutely nothing to do with safety in schools or compassion. It’s all about destroying the traditional fabric of our society, corrupting our youth and creating Gramsci’s nightmare vision of a Marxist utopia’.

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