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Books & Films — End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them.

“End Times Fascism” is the ideology of the actors who strive to make the world unlivable and then seek to protect themselves from the fall-out.  Whether by retreating to luxurious private islands, rocketing off to Mars, or bunkering the nation to keep their enemies at bay, these new survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable.  Klein and Taylor show via original reporting and analysis that the many internal conflicts and contradictions and nihilistic inability to envision a shared future, even for their ostensible allies, leaves these actors vulnerable to a new kind of “pro-life” politics – rooted in reverence for our shared existence, and regard for the earth we inhabit, and must protect.

My 10th book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World, co-written with Astra Taylor, will be published in September 2026.  We wanted this book to be available before the November US midterm elections – Astra and I firmly believe in writing books that readers can use, and we dearly hope that the movements rising up against fascist violence and exploitation will find our research and analysis tangibly useful to their vital work.

Tech oligarchs tell us they are summoning demons with their machines, religious extremists celebrate every catastrophe as a ‘sign’ of the coming messiah, and the U.S. government is betting all of our futures on such dark prophecies. The good news is that the vast majority of people, including those who voted for Trump and others like him, reject these apocalyptic worldviews. That’s why this book, though harrowing in parts, is ultimately hopeful: whether we are fighting polluting data centres or opposing forever wars, most of us desperately want a future we can believe in, and leaders who believe in us. Astra and I wrote this book because we are absolutely convinced that the more End Times Fascism is exposed to the light, the weaker its hold will become.

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The new supremacist survivalists are far from impregnable.

In this blistering reckoning with our age, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor take us deep into this man-made Armageddon complex – and show us how to resist it. Around the globe, they investigate how those who are making our world unliveable through climate chaos and job-consuming AI are preparing to protect themselves from the fallout, whether it’s by repairing to luxurious private islands for the super-rich, rocketing off to Mars or bunkering nations against a dehumanized ‘other’.

But, Klein and Taylor reveal, the new supremacist survivalists are far from impregnable. They have no vision of a shared future. All they offer are remixes of a bygone past: the nihilistic, sadistic pleasures of domination. If we’re to meet this critical moment and defend what’s left of democracy before it’s smashed up beyond repair, we must break the doom loop, and find a new way of living together, rooted in our existence on this earth, in the here and now. A story not of end times – but of better times. This book shows us how.

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Publishing information.

The current release date for End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World is scheduled for September 15, 2026.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States
Knopf Canada
Allen Lane (Penguin), UK

In ebook and audio in the U.S. by Macmillan Publishers

For more information on translation rights, please visit Inkwell Management.

For more information, please visit Inkwell Management.

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