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While the far-right and capitalist governments globally have made attacking trans rights a key aspect of their agenda under the guise of protecting women and femininity, this is also combined with a moral panic about falling birth rates resulting in increases in ‘pronatalism’, and attacks on abortion rights.
Capitalism is waging an international offensive – it is on the warpath against the working class and the masses of the whole world. This global offensive with the election of right-populist governments and the increasing use of authoritarian measures manifests in several ways. These phenomena do not appear in pure form but as uneven and shifting combinations shaped by concrete class relations.
Under the guise of campaigning for ‘Free Speech’ on campuses Kirk promoted a hostile environment for ideas which challenge the racial oppression, toxic masculinity, violence and corruption rife in US capitalism and academia. He spewed an endless stream of frequently implausible lies, and bogus statistics directed at people of colour, Jews, the trans community, migrants, and even climate scientists.
