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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reflecting on the rise of the far right in York and beyond. A talk by Aaron Winter @lancasteruni.bsky.social Defending the university: Fascism, free inquiry and the question of safety series University of York Department of Sociology & SATSU (Science & Tecnology Unit) Today! Sept 28 • 12-2pm

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just leaving Manchester for London. The Rebel Book Club Manchester event Beyond the Headlines was great. Really enjoyed the discussion and meeting everyone. Looking forward to the Aesthetics of Postdigital Extremism Symposium at UEL. @sosslancaster.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

'A whole civilization will die tonight' All the legal and political oversight, international law and historical lessons don't mean shit if they aren't applied or only applied selectively. 1/

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Making this about the individual and AI as opposed to the reactionary grift and its platforming in ways that help whitewash and legitimise GB News is ridiculous.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Domination is their new weaponised word of the day

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, @identitiesjournal.bsky.social, has curated a special collection of articles and made them open access. @tandfresearch.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/gid...

Identities Holocaust Memorial Day Special Collection

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'll be keynote speaker at the International Criminology and Global Security Conference (ICGSC) at @teessideuni.bsky.social tomorrow. My talk is on 'Researching right-wing extremism and terrorism in the middle of a reactionary culture war'. Really looking forward to it. @lancasteruni.bsky.social

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This week, I was interviewed on Sky News about the ICE shooting and killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. @neonuk.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I'll be the keynote speaker at the ICGSC @teessideuni.bsky.social next week. The theme of the conference is Crime, Security & Society in Context. My talk is on Researching right-wing extremism & terrorism in the middle of a reactionary culture war. Looking forward to it. @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Poster for the International Criminology and Global Security Conference (ICGSC) at Teesside University.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Great to finally meet @pdkmitchell.bsky.social in person - in Newcastle for the Launch of the Race and Migration IDRT at Northumbria and drinks.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I'm sorry but a 6 months fixed-term lectureship that includes research, teaching and scholarship and has responsibilities including designing and developing courses, teaching materials and curriculum proposals, income generation, and strategic future orientated planning is absolutely wrong ARU. 1/

Anglia Ruskin University job specifications

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Join us for the next #IdentitiesEvent @identitiesjournal.bsky.social From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness - Dr Jamella N. Gow. Chaired by Dr Aaron Winter @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-colon...

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Really looking forward to participating in this event: Theology, Churches & the Mainstreaming of the Far Right 15 October 2025 7:00-8:30 pm Online Register using the QR code

Theology, Churches & the Mainstreaming of the Far Right

15 October 2025
7:00-8:30 pm
Online
Register using the QR code

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Literature only on the back of British Airways seats. I didn't have any on me though.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I'm in the hotel lobby killing time before my flight and this guy has been staring and smiling for hours. It's not that I don't realise it's a cardboard cutout, but I'm tired, sick and drifting in and out of sleep so I forget each time I am woken up.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Memòria de la repressió, Barcelona ajuntament.barcelona.cat/memoriademoc...

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

'Change'. Still centrism. Is this left looking right or centrists nodding at, as opposed to attacking, the left.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Yes, AI can be used to radicalise, spread misinformation and disinformation, but policy and power matter more. Also, don't use AI for a synopsis of films when writing essays or renting.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This is not racist, it's classist & an example of elites attacking anti-racist by projecting racism onto the white working class as if bottom up & defending them against that representation. Old divide-rule & distraction tactic + right wing & @thetimes.com. Why buy & re-sell it @novaramedia.com?

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Been thinking about inclusive and anti-fascist symbols

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

In my neighborhood. Red paint & property damage at the taxpayer's expense is designated terrorism in some cases & legitimate in others. The politics of this 'double standard' is consistent though: genocide & fascism are acceptable & opposition to them, like migration, is a threat to the nation.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The problem is definitely social media and online radicalisation of our youth ... say politicians and mainstream media.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This is a clip from my interview with Raees Khan on BBC Radio Manchester (BBC Local Radio) about Lord Anderson's review of Prevent and the response to the far right following the Southport riots. @neonuk.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

You can support racism, fascism and genocide, but not oppose them. That causes outrage, bans and criminal investigations, instead of an endorsement in a major establishment broadsheet - despite the 2024 far right riots. That's where we are.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Social media and youth radicalisation again!

Rod Stewart urges voters to 'give Nigel Farage a chance' as he reveals what he really thinks about Keir Starmer

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Some good research on this. I came across this catalogue a while back. Had heard about the older stuff, but not the later songs that overlapped with grunge.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Great to see my article on BLM and the far right backlash in the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/opinion/blac...

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Sick of this reductive framing as religious/biblical hate/conflict. It makes it irrational, equal(ly so) & understandable but untouchable by logic or law. It's a modern case of settler colonialism & genocide by a state abusing the memory of the Holocaust & using hi-tech weapons & PR.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I'm the guest on the next episode of @riskpodcast.bsky.social - out tomorrow theinternationalriskpodcast.com

The International Risk Podcast

What can sociology say about right wing extremism and the mainstreaming of racism and the far right

Aaron Winter

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It is a mistake to think the Liberals are left seeing off the right/far right by moving to the centre like elsewhere as many are claiming. Liberals are centrist & we need a strong left, but imagine others opposing the right addressed actual needs instead of just serving more racism & reaction!

Canadian PM Mark Carney on expanding Dental Care

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Donald Rodney, Visceral Canker at Whitechapel Gallery

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Thessaloniki street art and flyposts

Profitizin death. Solidarity to Palestine

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Really great to speak at the Lancaster University Health Innovation Campus Collaboration Cafe about The Far Right’s Impact on Health Policy, Including Conspiracy Theories Around Big Pharma and the Privatisation of the NHS yesterday. Thanks for the invitation, opportunity and discussion

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I see experts warning & writing about the mainstreaming of the far right. It's already happened & should not have taken a nazi salute & overt fascism to see it. If you think counterextremism or liberal centrism are solutions, you have not really been paying attention. Better late than never though.

Online Hate: From the Far-Right to the ‘Alt-Right’ and from the Margins to the Mainstream by Aaron Winter (2019)

Reactionary Democracy:
How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (2020)
by Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I put on a podcast and went to the kitchen to cook, leaving my phone in the living room. As I'm cooking, I hear this screaming through my headphones so went to check my phone only to find my son holding it and laughing. I grabbed it and saw that he had searched 'Screaming Goat' and played it ...

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My university cancelled/suspended promotions and sabbaticals just before the deadline (and after submitting for the internal department one and responding to feedback), but Avanti gave me a free Standard Premium ticket for my loyalty ... commuting to that very job. Gotta get it somewhere!

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Seeing The Lonely Londoners at Kiln Theatre

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It should come as no surprise that if you're demonising those opposing genocide, you make excuses for fascism. 1/

ADL making excuses for Elon Musk's fascist salute at the inauguaration

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I was recently emailing with Routledge as my name had disappeared from a book I co-edited (Discourses and Practices of Terrorism) on their website and other linked platforms. Later that day, I started receiving ads for discounts on my other two Routledge books, but not that one ...

Routledge book ad for Historical Perspectives on Organised Crime and Terrorism

Routledge book ad for Researching the Far Right

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy New Year Sex Clinic and World of Tanks or Jools Holland ...

TV Guide: Sex Clinic and then World of Tanks

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