Bernadette McAliskey is a prominent Irish republican socialist political activist and feminist. This week’s Women on the Line is from a speech she gave in April this year in Dublin, Ireland, at the launch of a people’s history magazine marking 80 years since the fascist bombing of the village of guernica in the Basque country, Spain.  McAliskey took this opportunity to give a wide ranging and passionate speech about the face of fascism today, which has been edited here for an Australian audience.