Why Fascism is on the Rise in France is an audacious, urgent, precise and often terrifying intervention. Shaking off the encrustations of orthodoxy, the greasy equivocations of mainstream anti-populism, and the crudely polemical or creakily mechanistic conceptions of fascism inherited from parts of the Marxist tradition, Palheta restores rigour to antifascist thought. In underscoring \'fascisation\' as a process immanent to hegemonic collapse and democratic decay, he renews Marxist theory and gives us a practical orientation in the battles to come. This is essential reading for everyone in the crosshairs of the new fascism, and everyone who wants to fight back. Richard Seymour, author of Disaster Nationalism