On 3 September, a 70,000-strong crowd took to Prague’s Wenceslas Square to demand action on the rising cost of living and energy prices. The demands for governments to act rising across Europe give an opportunity for the labour movement to push forward a political agenda of social justice and workers’ rights. But in fact the protest in Prague was organised by a vicious alliance of far-right forces pushing anti-immigrant and anti-vax conspiracy theories alongside demands to abandon Ukraine and support Russia for the sake of cheap gas.