{"id":89114,"date":"2026-01-12T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=89114"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:22:09","slug":"standing-up-to-the-rise-of-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/12\/standing-up-to-the-rise-of-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Up to the Rise of Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/gZkTxuUqRvg?si=HfOlixw1fC6i5Olx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put this short video out<\/a> this lunchtime:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Standing Up to the Rise of Fascism\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZkTxuUqRvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the transcript:<\/p>\n<p>First, they came for George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for Renee Good.<\/p>\n<p>And they could come for you.<\/p>\n<p>My point is that fascism is growing fast. We're all at risk from the developing political movement around the world that we now see has virtually taken over the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Let's not pretend the USA is a democracy anymore. It isn't. It's a dictatorship. Trump is ruling by fear. His troops on the streets are killing people. If we want to stand up against this form of tyranny, we've got to make up our minds now.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians in Europe will copy what Trump is doing. The risk is, we'll see it here.<\/p>\n<p>If we want freedom, if we want security, if we want democracy, if we want the choice to live how we wish, then we've got to say so now and demand action from our politicians because fascism is coming our way, and it's our job to oppose it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Comments\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When commenting, please take note of this blog\u2019s comment policy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/about\/comments\/\">which is available here<\/a>. Contravening this policy will result in comments being deleted before or after initial publication at the editor\u2019s sole discretion and without explanation being required or offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We put this short video out this lunchtime: This is the transcript: First, they came for George Floyd. Then they came for Renee Good. And<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/12\/standing-up-to-the-rise-of-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":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89114","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=89114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89122,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89114\/revisions\/89122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}