{"id":83102,"date":"2025-06-15T07:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83102"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:32:30","slug":"we-need-to-defeat-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/15\/we-need-to-defeat-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to defeat fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this encouraging this morning. This man was photographed yesterday in the mass demonstrations against Trump across the USA:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-83103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1647-550x820.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1647-550x820.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1647-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1647-768x1145.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1647-1030x1536.jpeg 1030w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1647-268x400.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1647.jpeg 1212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>This is what speaking truth to power looks like.\u00a0 A person of conviction says that they have had enough. They know the truth. They're able to cut through all the crap, and summarise the situation with clarity. And then, they have the courage to speak out, whatever the consequences for them might be.<\/p>\n<p>I applaud this man.<\/p>\n<p>I applaud his actions.<\/p>\n<p>I thank him, whoever he is, and I do not know, for what he said, and for his saying it.<\/p>\n<p>I wish him well.<\/p>\n<p>I wish that his wish comes true. We need to defeat fascism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this encouraging this morning. This man was photographed yesterday in the mass demonstrations against Trump across the USA: This is what speaking truth<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/15\/we-need-to-defeat-fascism\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,203,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-fascism","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83106,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83102\/revisions\/83106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}