The Black Wave: A Review of ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Us’

Book Review: Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley (Eds.), Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967. London: Routledge: Fascism and Far Right Series, 2017. ISBN: 978–1138675179 (paperback). 288 Pages. $45.95.

Inside the academy, the study of fascism was notoriously elusive until the 1990s, yet today it is still largely treated like a ghost. Something born out of the tumultuous 1920s, forged through international war and genocide, and only “properly” identified in a handful of European countries, the analysis of that history is often broken by the broadness of the term’s use. As a syncretic, far-right, politic, fascism takes on a mythical sense of rebirth while re-establishing an essentialized identity and hierarchical view of humanity and society. While interwar European fascism had some commonly identifiable features, even if confused by varying levels of racism and viciousness, it was after the war’s conclusion that it really sprouted into a disparate series of barely connected ideologies and movements. It took a couple of decades for the fascist movement, particularly in ruins of Europe’s Second World War, to really find a trajectory. It is in the late 1960s, when both the revolutionary left and right are grappling with their failures through redefinition, that the anthology Tomorrow Belongs To Us attempts to tell a fragmented story of the…