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  1. Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers. This coincides with one of the Alt-Right’s primary tactics: adopting leftist rhetoric as cover for its racialist, nativist, and often misogynistic agendas.
  2. American Fascists 
    The Christian Right and the War on America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
  3. American Taliban 
    How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    America's main international enemy- Islamic radicalism - favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
  4. American White Separatist Finds Shared Values with Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    If America and Israel have "shared values," as their elected leaders often claim, then how can so many Americans reject ethnocracy in their own country, but support what is happening inside Israel?
  5. Americas Radical, Underground Climate Change Countermovement
    Smoking Out the Kochs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The year is 2050; rising seas have inundated Miami, America’s most recent ghost city since Detroit. A deadly heat wave scorches Chicago, killing thousands of elderly, and a mega-drought has farmers in the Southwest on their knees, praying for relief, as a dreadful dustbowl blankets the fields. America goes hungry.
  6. Amid the Tumult in Durham
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Peter Gilbert (a rights attorney) and his wife Elena Everett,a non-profit organizer, had their house searched by Sheriff's officers in Durham when nobody was at home. It had to do with a demonstration of some 200 on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.
  7. An Analysis of 12F
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A discussion of the events, factors, and actors involved in the protests, deaths, injuries, and arrests in Caracas on Venezuela's annual 'Youth Day'.
  8. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
  9. Anti-Fascist Self-Defense: From Mussolini's Italy to Trump's America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A conversation with Mark Bray, a political activist, historian and a lecturer at Dartmouth College and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
  10. Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
  11. Antifa in Theory and in Practice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. American Antifa looks very much like a middle class wedding between Identity Politics and gang warfare.
  12. Antifa is a 'major gift to the right
    World-renowned academic prompts criticism for his comments about the anti-fascist movement in the wake of Charlottesville
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    In the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville and tension between white supremacists and anti-fascists, Noam Chomsky condemns Antifa militant tactics and suggests constructive activism based in education is more effective.
  13. Anti-fascism isn't working
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    What all the current anti-fascist approaches have in common is that they miss the real danger. This doesn't lie in the BNP taking power, in the possibility of concentration camps or any of the other scare stories we've been hearing recently. It lies more immediately in the far right colonising the anti-mainstream vote and developing party loyalty, thereby blocking the development of an independent working-class politics capable of defending our conditions and challenging neoliberalism.
  14. The Approaching Storm
    One Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1939   Published: 1988
    Nora Waln, a Quaker journalist, chronicles her experience living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. During those four years, she took covert notes, bearing witness to the rise of Hitler.
  15. The Armageddon Factor: The rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
  16. Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book Harperism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In Harperism: How Stephen Har­per and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada (James Lorimer & Company Ltd.), Gutstein makes the case that neoliberalism is far more sinister than simply having a desire for smaller government. A central tenet of his new book is that Harper is undermining democracy by marshalling the power of government to create and enforce markets where they’ve never existed before.
  17. Berkeley Republicans Hope More Left-Wing Riots Will Create "Pedestal" For Conservative Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The students hosting conservative pundit Ben Shapiro at University of California, Berkeley this week say their fingers are crossed in the hopes for a left-wing protest that could amplify his message.
  18. Beyond Radical
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation.
  19. The Billionaires' Tea Party 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2010
    Both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism. Through an examination of astroturfing and disinformation, we see how citizen democracy has been captured by powerful corporate interests that threatens not only the heath of American democracy, but that of its citizens and the planet as a whole.
  20. Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.
  21. Bolivia's Autonomist Right -- A Dangerous Threat
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Autonomist right-wing forces in the Bolivian department (state) of Santa Cruz — acting through the offices of the prefecture (governorship) and Santa Cruz Civic Committee — held an illegal May 4 rerendum on departmental autonomy. According to the consulting agency Captura Consulting the “yes” side won 85% of the votes cast, with 15% against. However, many organizations within the left-indigenous bloc of the department had called for a boycott of the referendum, and were successful in obtaining an abstention rate of over 40%. Compare that to the remarkably low abstention rate of 15% in the December 2005 general elections that brought Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, to office at the national level. Nonetheless, the right declared results a triumphant victory.
  22. The Brown Revolution in Ukraine
    The Spectacle in Kiev
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Kiev is now patrolled by armed thugs from the Western Ukraine, by fighters from the neo-Nazi -Right Sector, descendants of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Quisling’s troopers, and by their local comrades-in-arms of nationalist persuasion.
  23. Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    An understanding of the Christian Right, a loose coalition of politically conservative congregations and organizations, is critical to understanding the US. This quiz seeks to explore the political influence of the Christian Right, and to highlight the threat its radical fundamentalists pose to the majority of Americans who value pluralism and tolerance.
  24. "Citizens Coalition" loses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
  25. Confronting the Right: An Introduction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An overview of issues related to confronting the right, including questions surrounding the labelling of free speech as hate speech.
  26. Connexions Library: The Right Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Right.
  27. Conservatives have perfected the trick of defending power by attacking it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The UK Cameron government is atempting to use a tried-and-proven trick: defending the elite by pretending to attack it.
  28. Conspiracy, Inc.
    Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
  29. Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor – the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.
  30. The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt
    The Rise of the Quasi-Fascists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    While most of the Western media describes the current crisis in the Ukraine as a confrontation between authoritarianism and democracy, many of the shock troops who have manned barricades in Kiev and the western city of Lviv these past months represent a dark page in the country’s history and have little interest in either democracy or the liberalism of Western Europe and the United States.
  31. The "Date Rape" Issue: Feminist Hysteria, Anti-Sex Witchhunt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993   Published: 2014
    The anti-sex frenzy springs from the agenda of the religious right. Espousing an ideology supposed to have something to do with women's rights, the feminists might be expected to oppose this witchhunt. Instead, there is a convergence between feminism and religious reaction in support of moralist repression. This is particularly evident in the "date rape" frenzy on the campuses which has recently grabbed headlines across the nation and the world. Egged on by feminist witchhunters, "politically correct" sex on campus serves the war on privacy by whitewashing the intrusion of the campus administration and the cops into students' personal business as "protecting women" and "stopping rape."
  32. Death of an Activist in Venezuela: In Memory of Orlando Figueroa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Highlighting the death of a political activist in Venezuala by the utra-right, which uses brutality, murder and ecological destruction to pursue their goal of recuperating control over the oil producing nation.
  33. Debunking the Fraser Institute's Latest Crusade: Teacher Merit Pay
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Fresh from the triumph of successfully promoting its fallacious school report card, this time in Alberta, the Fraser Institute is already scheming to peg teacher pay to student test scores and create a market for teachers. We should remember that the institute's success with school rankings would not be possible without over-the-top support from the corporate media.
  34. Did Somebody Say Fascism?
    Waiting in the Wings of Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    As Marxist historians of fascism have long argued, fascism at its essence is an outcome of capitalism in crisis. The quintessential counterrevolutionary movement, fascism responds to capitalism’s invariable crises by redirecting potentially revolutionary threats to capitalism to nationalist, (relatedly) racist (or within Europe’s right today, “culturalist”), and militarist violence that preserves the basic material conditions of class society.
  35. Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing "infrastructure" to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.
  36. Don't Think of an Elephant 
    Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides examples of how progressives can reframe the debate.
  37. Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011 
    Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, "inside" and "outside."
  38. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
  39. Enemies of the People
    How hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divide
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    As we veer into a brave new age of right-wing populism, a restive mood of contempt for the masses has seized the opposition. Demoralized liberals, still reeling from the debacle of the 2016 presidential ballot, are salving their wounds with reveries of metaphysical superiority.
  40. Europe's Political Turmoil and the Rise of the Far Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the recent rise of far-right governments all over Europe and the failure of the left to effectively counter this.
  41. Facing Facts in Wisconsin
    Progressives and Workers Were Sold Out by Obama and the Democratic Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The time has long since come for labor and progressives to bolt the Democratic Party and coalesce around a new genuinely progressive, working people’s party.
  42. The Far Left and the Far Right Actually Have a Lot in Common
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    It is the strangest thing to know that most of the regular people attracted to both the far left and the far right very clearly appear to be motivated by a desire to stand up to an elite that is actively destroying the lives of so many people around the world, but they have such radically differing ideas of each other’s motivations, and of the nature of the elite they oppose.
  43. The Fascist Threat
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Deep economic crisis, savage austerity, and social upheaval have polarised Greek society. One result has been the rise of Golden Dawn, responsible for brutal attacks on immigrants and left-wing activists. Christina Ziakka reports on the response of the political establishment – and why the left and workers’ movement must provide a genuine alternative.
  44. A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The goal of a true movement opposing American fascism should not be adrenaline-boosting brawls, it can only be the long and dedicated work of dismantling various engines of white supremacy within our socio-political landscape.
  45. Flatly Outrageous
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
  46. France's National Front Draws Strength From Brexit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The party has long shrouded racism in the language of "self-determination" -- now, they feel vindicated.
  47. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
    How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
  48. Free To Hate
    The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  49. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
  50. Front Runner
    Marine Le Pen's campaign to make France great again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A look at Marine Len Pen, leader of the far-right National Front Party (FN), and the events and circumstances that led to her party's rise in popularity from a fringe movement to the forefront of French politics.
  51. Gay Liberation Against The Right Everywhere
    Organization profile published 1983
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1983
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  52. Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  53. Globalizing the Culture Wars
    Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Uganda, like many countries in Africa and around the world, adheres to long-standing heterosexual and patriarchal traditions as to what is acceptable sexual behavior. In the West, such traditions are shared by a dwindling minority. The bourgeois capitalist marketplace has reconfigured that which is morally acceptable. Sexual practices among adults are areas of personal erotic experience, protected private activities.
  54. The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Google, the tech giant, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers. The policies advocated by some of the Google’s grantees are in stark contrast with the progressive image that Google has worked to promote.
  55. Greece mourns slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A self-professed Golden Dawn member stabbed leftist rapper Killah P to death in Piraeus on September 18, 2013.
  56. Greece's Golden Dawn: Fascists at the Gate 
    The party is deeply rooted in the political culture of Greece.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    While Golden Dawn -- with its Holocaust denial, its swastikas and its Hitler salutes—looks like it might inhabit the fringe, in fact the organization has roots deep in the heart of Greece's political culture.
  57. Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?
  58. How 'Antifa' Mirrors the 'Alt-Right'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Behind the rhetoric of the "alt-right" about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the Black Bloc and the so-called "alt-left" about capitalism, racism, state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence.
  59. How Canada's Christian right was built
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The religous right is organizing hard, and effectively, to get their hands on the levers of power.
  60. How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess?
    Tweedle Destruction and Tweedle Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    On the nauseating hypocrisy of our good friends on the regressive right. You know the rules. One set of sexual standards for us, another for them behind closed doors. Big thumping militarist patriotism when our kids go off to war, rather less when it's their turn. Itsy-bitsy small government ideology for the lil' folk, Washington as a great big candy-covered sugar teat for them. Etc., etc.
  61. How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    As white nationalism and the so-called "alt-Right" have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of this bipartisan coalition focuses on individual, extreme, and hate-filled mobilizations and rhetoric, rather than the deeper, politer, and apparently more politically acceptable violence that imbues United States foreign and domestic policy in the 21st century.
  62. How Race Fuels Rightist Agenda
    Against The Current vol. 148
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Nearly 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, the conservative movement is mobilizing its electoral base by using the wedge issues of race and racism. The principal targets are not new — African Americans and “illegal immigrants” from Mexico.
  63. How Right-Wing Extremists Stalk, Dox, and Harass Their Enemies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    How neo-Nazis in the U.S use the online chatroom Pony Power to harass anti-facist activists.
  64. How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
  65. How to End the Tea Party (and Scare Obama at the Same Time)
    A Black / Brown Coalition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    One of the reasons the left doesn't do better is because it tends to view the right's transgressions as a moral issue rather than as a pragmatic problem as, for example, a baseball coach would do if the Tea Party were the other team. In fact, calling someone a racist is not a particularly useful political move whereas figuring out why they're getting to first base all the time, and you're not, is. The right keeps it simple. It speaks plain talk, not bland abstractions devised by some third rate branding coach. There is hardly anyone in the country who doesn't know the right opposes gay marriage, abortion and illegal immigration. Now try describing three primary goals of liberals or the left and you see the problem.
  66. How to fight reactionaries
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
  67. How to Rig an Election
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Election fraud in the United States in the era of computerized voting machines controlled and programmed by far-right corporate executives.
  68. How Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    While Western media deploy Zelensky's heritage to refute accusations of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the president now depends on them as front line fighters in the war with Russia.
  69. I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Daryl Davis befriended Ku Klux Klan members in order to gain some understanding of the organization, their beliefs and hatred.
  70. In Dresden, PEGIDA meets opposition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    PEGIDA's quick growth derives largely from the many fears, especially in eastern Germany, about the scarcity of decent, steady jobs, about constant rent hikes and dwindling hopes about having enough to live on when they retire. Echoing past fascists, today's "pied pipers" try to deflect such fears and resentment against refugees.
  71. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
  72. Inventing Tax Rage
    Misinformation in the National Post
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
  73. Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
  74. Is God a Racist?
    The Right Wing in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
  75. Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  76. Islamophobia, Left and Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Should Muslims be worried about rising Islamophobia? Of course they should! Anti-Islam bigotry is becoming a key element of the revival of the far Right – a Right that doesn’t merely slander Muslims but also takes action against them.
  77. Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe's neo-fascists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The recent visit to Israel of a dominant figure in Italy's right-wing coalition government, is the latest in an increasingly open alliance between the Israeli state and resurgent forces of the far-right and neo-fascism in Europe.
  78. Israel Shamir and Slavoj Zizek
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Despite my general aversion to Slavoj Zizek, I want to defend him against the misrepresentations found in Israel Shamir’s Counterpunch article from July 14th titled “Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv: Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla“. Zizek is not above criticism but Shamir’s article is nothing but a hatchet job.
  79. Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2013
    About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists.
  80. Know-Nothings of 2010
    The New War of the Christian Crusaders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Over the last four centuries, Quakers, Mormons, Catholics, Jews and many others have been targets of religious persecution, often the victims of imprisonments, hangings, lynchings and other acts of violence.
  81. The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
    More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Tracking to funding of extremist right-wing groups.
  82. Koch Political Machine Focuses on "Freedom" to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that "we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back."
  83. The Koch Whisperers
    Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A review of documents and tax records for the dizzying, interconnected web of corporate front groups, frequently created, supported and influenced by Charles or David Koch, shows just how dangerous these groups espousing free markets and liberty have become to a free society. The game plan is to devalue the rights of actual citizens by seeking human voices dangling from a corporate marionette string, that might be willing for the right amount of cash incentive to broadcast the Orwellian reverse-speak: liberty means more liberty for corporations (corporate serfdom for real citizens); freedom means corporate freedom to privatize national resources, pollute the environment and fleece the consumer with impunity; free market means the freedom to draw a dark curtain around how the corporations are actually screwing us and stealing our liberty.
  84. Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far right
    An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
  85. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  86. 'Like a poison': how anti-immigrant Pegida is dividing Dresden
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A year since its launch, German protest group has evolved into slick operation whose polarising rhetoric is increasingly blamed for attacks on refugees.
  87. Linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments shows the alt-right is getting stronger
    Taxonomy of Trolls
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The alt-right isn't one group. They don't have one coherent identity. Rather, they're a loose collection of people from disparate backgrounds who would never normally interact: bored teenagers, gamers, men's rights activists, conspiracy theorists and, yes, white nationalists and neo-Nazis. But thanks to the internet, they’re beginning to form a cohesive group identity.
  88. The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
  89. The Media and the Far Right
    Showcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
  90. Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'
    DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Tensions within Israel's extremely narrow right-far-right coalition continue to grow, as the military's investigation into an Israeli medic who shot and killed an already wounded and disarmed Palestinian has become a cause célèbre for the settler movement and for hawks in general.
  91. The Menace of Right "Populism"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.
  92. The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLU’s universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. It’s an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.
  93. Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  94. The Nazi Seizure of Power 
    The Experience of a Single German Town
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
  95. The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums – is on the rise. How do we stop it?
  96. Neo-fascism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Neo-fascism is a post-World War II ideology that usually includes nationalism, anti-immigration policies or, where relevant, nativism (see definition), anti-communism, and opposition to the parliamentary system and liberal democracy.
  97. The New Face of the Radical Right? 
    Amerika's Would-be Pravy Sektor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Political Research Associates agreed that Anarchist Nationalism "could become the new face of the radical right" in the USA. Attempting to mix subcultural anarchist mores with a cross-cutting class analysis that hinges on racial separatism and ancestral traditions, such as tribalism, Anarchist Nationalism demonstrate a worrying tendency of reactionaries to co-opt radical language in attempts to gain control over large popular fronts.
  98. Not by Politics Alone
    The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    An informative study on the Christian Right, this book addresses how politics and culture converge. Diamond provides an analysis of how "family values" are infused with evangelical beliefs on a number of societal issues.
  99. Not Your Father's Far Right
    Populist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    All over Europe, the new, populist far-right parties have become part of the political scene. They're not defined, as the old far-righters used to be, by what they want, but by what they don't want.
  100. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
    Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
  101. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
    Meeting the Challenge of the Right
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
  102. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
    Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
  103. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
    Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
  104. Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.
  105. Peril from the Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Many serious observers hold that the crisis in Europe has not come to an end. With the restructuring of the Greek national debt and the enlargement of the European Stability Mechanism, only time was bought, yet the fundamental problems of over-accumulation2 and the imbalances of the current accounts among the members of the Eurozone still persist.
  106. Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
  107. Poisoned Fruits of Austerity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The most dramatic advance of the far right is that of the National Front in France. It is not unusual that such forces prosper, with some working-class support, in the absence of well-articulated progressive alternatives.
  108. Possible Connections Between Militant Islamic Fundamentalists and the U.S. Extreme Right
    Resource Type: Article
    Right-wing racial nationalists and antisemites have attempted to spread their conspiracist message to the political left by stressing the anticapitalist aspects of the Third Position.
  109. The Power of Persuasion
    The Politics of the New Right in Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Kozolanka looks at how the Mike Harris's new right conservative government came to power in Ontario Premier Mike Harris by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public accquiescence for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."
  110. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  111. Preston Manning and the Reform Party
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A profile of Preston Manning and his right-wing agenda.
  112. Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    An IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
  113. Prospects for an Alt-Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Examining the limitations and issues with prevalent approaches of younger progressives and how a more effective 'alt-left' movement might be formed.
  114. Protest Alone Won't Stop Fascism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Desperate people are vulnerable to fascism, and the desperation is deepening: millions are eyeball deep in debt and 80% live paycheck to paycheck, while skyrocketing healthcare costs and rising rent heat up the social pressure cooker. It's this economic gut punch that the fascists hope to benefit from: as working people struggle to breathe the fascists hope to offer cheap, ready-made oxygen.
  115. Reactionary Tide in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The oligarchic reaction against the leftist governments never ceased during the past 15 years, but now it has achieved some very substantial victories.
  116. Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The cause du jour for the Republican Party is to make as many rapid-fire comparisons between the Democrats and the Nazis as humanly possible.
  117. Responding to Antifa and Riseup
    On Revolutionary Politics and Non-Violence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    "The left" of contemporary 2017 America is deeply divided and fractured, and it is a shadow of its former self, considering the decline of organized labor, and the disappearance of left-public intellectuals in higher education. In this environment, what remains of "the left" desperately needs to reach out to the masses of Americans, including liberals, moderates, and political independents, and to pull them further to the left, if there is to be any chance of meaningful change. And berating anyone who is not perceived to be on the far left, rather than patiently working to bring these individuals into a broader left movement, is a recipe for irrelevance.
  118. Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Rick Berman, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements. Berman specializes in setting up pro-corporate front groups to attack grassroots citizen groups. Berman advocates and practises a range of dirty tactics and propaganda techniques.
  119. Right to Life - Ghouls and the Schiavo Case
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Exploiting the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
  120. Right-Wing Assault, Liberal Retreat
    Against The Current vol. 143
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The heat is on the Obama administration. The energized conservative base has taken over town hall meetings on health care. There are “birthers,” “deathers” and just pure haters. President Obama has been personally attacked as a racist, socialist, communist, Stalinist, fascist, Nazi, Pol Potist, foreigner and every other name the right finds in its vocabulary.
  121. The Right-Wing Doesn't Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities, So Let's Talk About Christian Atrocities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    History is full of atrocities committed by Christians for Christ, against not just other religions but against Christians themselves.
  122. Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo
    'Yell,' 'Stand Up And Shout Out,' 'Rattle Him'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
  123. Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
  124. Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
  125. Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The right is never truly defeated; its leaders are patient, and they learn from their errors. When they're out of power, they stay busy, building institutions and mailing lists, all the while waiting for their moment to strike.
  126. Right Woos Left
    Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1999
  127. The Right's Fringe Festival
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Milling around the crowd, it was impossible to miss the references to issues as disparate as blocking investigations of CIA torture, promoting assault weapons and God "judging" America for homosexuality. Confederate flags were flown, Obama was told to "go back to Kenya," and so forth and so on. The crowd itself was almost exclusively white--and its members had come to get their country back.
  128. Rightwing Manipulation of the Wisconsin Revolt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Manipulation of opinion surveys is easy enough for those seeking to muddy the waters of political debate regarding the current war on unions.
  129. Right-Wing Populism in America
    Too Close for Comfort
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
  130. The Rise of Fascism in Greece
    Waiting is Not an Option
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In Germany, Spain and Italy (and elsewhere) in the early 1930s during those troubled times, unemployment was high, Left alternatives were weak, resentment against others oozed in the streets, and terrible insecurities pushed nominally good people, the middle classes, into supporting the forces of hatred and nationalistic fervour.
  131. The Rise of the Tea Party
    Where Did They Come From?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely linked to the Republican establishment from its inception.
  132. The Rise of the Tea Party
    Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A socio-political analysis of the Tea Party that probes its history, organizational structure, membership, ideological coherence, and relationship to the mass media.
  133. Rolling Back Reconstruction
    Against The Current vol. 159
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of immigrants and women, marriage equality and LGBT rights, and voting rights for African Americans and other minority ethnic groups.
  134. The Secret of Hitler's Victory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1934
    In this book, the Petroffs set out to answer the question that has perplexed so many onlookers in other countries: How did it come about that the apparently mighty forces of the German Left fell in one night, and without resistance, before the Nazi attack?
  135. Seven Reasons Why Capitalism Can't Recover Anytime Soon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    There is a larger disease in the international economic system, a disease that cannot be cured by politicians who swear allegiance to this deteriorating system and to the wealthy elite who benefit from it.
  136. Shades of Right
    Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada, 1920-1940
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  137. Slumming It At the Rodeo
    The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
  138. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  139. Socialist Register 2003
    Volume 39: Fighting Identities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
  140. Something has to give
    Emotional issues are potent
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    One of the things that the recent civic election made clear is that left-leaning and reform candidates can be very vulnerable if right-wing groups are able to seize on emotional questions and make them issues during the an election campaign.
  141. Statement on Another Attack by the Far Right on Christians and Democracy in Pakistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    More than 72 people including children were killed, and more than 200 injured, in a suicide bombing in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Bagh.
  142. Stephen Harper's Covert Evangelicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    How an apocalyptic strain of Christianity guides Stephen Harper's policies and campaigning.
  143. Still Lonely on the Right
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A review of 3 books about Black Republicans.
  144. Storming Babylon
    Preston Manning and The Rise of the Reform Party
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A portrait of Preson Manning and right-wing Canada's Reform Party.
  145. The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1939
    Russia must be placed first among the new totalitarian states. It was the first to adopt the new state principle. It went furthest in its application. It was the first to establish a constitutional dictatorship, together with the political and administrative terror system which goes with it. Adopting all the features of the total state, it thus became the model for those other countries which were forced to do away with the democratic state system and to change to dictatorial rule. Russia was the example for fascism. There is an unbridgeable opposition between bolshevism and socialism. Nationalism, authoritarianism, centralism, leader dictatorship, power policies, terror-rule, mechanistic dynamics, inability to socialize-all these essential characteristics of fascism were and are existing in bolshevism.
  146. The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A collection of Leon Trotsky's writings on the situation in Germany from 1930 to 1940. From 1930 on Trotsky sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Germany, and warned that the policies of the Communist Party and the Social Democrats were likely to lead to disaster. He urged a common front, mobilizing the German working class regardless of party affiliation, against the Nazis.
  147. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
  148. Suck It Up: Using Our Pride Against Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  149. Supremacy, oppression, and power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
  150. The Swastika and the Maple Leaf
    Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    Betcherman deals with Adrien Arcand and other leading Canadian fascists of the 1930s, as well as Swastika Clubs, and fascist movements in the west.
  151. Taking on the Far-Right Menace
    An Interview with Mark Bray
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Diana Feeley and David Finkel interview Mark Bray, author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook and professor at Darmouth College. Bray answers questions about his book, facism, tracking the racist right and tactical issues.
  152. Talking Back to the Right 
    A guide for community activists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
  153. The Teabagger Anti-Socialist Purity Pledge
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  154. These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    As I see in threads on my articles, the online sabotaging of intelligent debate seems organised. We must fight to save this precious gift.
  155. They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, Politicians
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Thanks to the Bundy Gang, public lands advocates became aware of elements of the Land Seizure movement that had been operating in the shadows. The curtain was drawn back on networks of agitators and propagandists: Constitutional "experts" and sheriffs, "patriot" legislators and self-centered sovereign citizens.
  156. This Group Has Successfully Converted White Supremacists Using Compassion. Trump Defunded It. 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Life After Hate is a Chicago-based nonprofit that does path-breaking work. Founded by former white supremacist leaders in 2011, it studies the forces that draw people to hate and helps those who are willing to disengage from radical extremist movements. In June, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a grant to the nonprofit, telling The Huffington Post that it wants to focus on funding groups that work with law enforcement.
  157. This Rough Game
    Fascism and Anti-Fascism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Renton describes the rise of European Fascism, the condition of Weimar Germany, British fascism, Battle of Cable Street and Hitler's life.
  158. Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in Ukraine
    Crazed Warmongers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
  159. The Tragic Ironies of Breivik's Terror
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    We need to challenge neo-fascism and anti-Muslim bigotry, just as we need to challenge Islamism. But in both cases we also need to keep a sense of perspective about the nature of the threat.
  160. The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
  161. Trust Me
    A Handbook of Tory Contortions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2011
    Satirical bites from Ontario’s past — 1995 to 2003. They expose the Common Sense Revolutionary backgrounds of some of Canada’s highest-ranking conservatives currently on the scene.
  162. The Tyranny of False Consciousness
    Know-Nothings of 2010, Part Two
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Today's nativists are beset by the crisis of capitalist globalization and its accompanying waves of forced migration. Sadly, nativists refuse to acknowledge the relationship between capitalism and migration. Instead, they seek to resolve the mounting social crisis by returning the country to a fantasy way-of-life that never existed, a white Protestant homeland. Rightwing ideological hacks promote this fictitious solution, setting the stage for a far deeper neo-fascist, racist (and anti-Muslim) upsurge.
  163. Ukraine and the Rebirth of Fascism
    The Menace Across the European Continent
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government. Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most insidious form of fascism that Europe has seen since the fall of the Third Reich.
  164. Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
  165. An Unholy Alliance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Fleischmann looks at the reasons behind the unlikely alliance that has formed between Trump, the alt-right, and Israel, who have based their support for each other around shared enemies.
  166. United States: The Ultra-Right Pot Boils Over
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The appearance of right-wing mobs at town meetings organized by Democratic Party representatives to discuss the proposed health-care reform has set off alarm bells, in particular because of the blind fanaticism of the right-wing protesters and their threats of violence, including armed violence. These outbursts show many features of historic fascist developments and on a scale as yet unseen in the United States.
  167. Venezuela Threatened by Far-right Violence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A statement by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network condemning the recent violent actions instigated by far-right sections of the opposition in various cities across Venezuela.
  168. Venezuela: US, elite launch new attacks on democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Venezuela is facing new attempts to subvert its democracy and roll-back the pro-poor process of social change known as the Bolivarian revolution.
  169. Victory in Stagnation? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An analysis of the direction of the German left party, Die Linke, in the wake of the 2017 national elections.
  170. Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses its strength through violence rather than at the ballot box.
  171. What Fascism is, and Isn't
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    By examining historicial fascist movements, Oppenheimer delineates what is and isn't fascism and also explores the common themes between the alt-right and its fascist predecessors.
  172. What's the Matter with Kansas? 
    How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramatically shifted from the class animus of traditional leftism to one in which "explosive" cultural issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, are used to redirect anger towards "liberal elites."
  173. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
  174. When the Alt-Right Hits Campus
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Under the auspices of the "Alt Right" and its wannabe hipster version of white nationalism, the University of Michigan community was subjected to a bombardment of racist hate that many of us thought relegated to the pre-Obama past.
  175. Who Are the "Alt-Right"? On the Rise of Reactionary Hatred and How to Fight it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    With much of the public discussing strategies for how best to fight right-wing extremism, the need for constructive solutions is greater than ever. First and foremost, it’s important to point out that public support for far-right extremists is miniscule. The vast majority of Americans reject this movement's violence and hatred. According to a Marist survey from the summer of 2017, just 4 percent of Americans said they support "white supremacy movement" or "white nationalism." Similarly, just 6 percent embraced the term "alt-right" Still, there is a legitimate concern that support for right-wing bigotry may grow in the future if left unchecked.
  176. Who Voted for Germany's New Nazis?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Klikauer examines the rise of the far-Right in Germany, with reference to unresolved inequalities post re-uinification, changing demographics and media interests.
  177. Who's afraid of the BNP?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    How should a liberal democratic society respond to an organization such as the BNP? Should the political mainstream ostracise the BNP or engage with it? And if engage, how?
  178. Why People Vote Against Themselves
    Wisconsin and the Collapse of Liberalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The reasons people vote against their self-interest are numerous and varied but key to them is often a culture under great stress believing false promises being made to it by the powerful.
  179. Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
  180. Why the Swedish Left Lost
    An Analysis of the Electoral Fiasco and Lessons for the Democrats
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Analysts and political leaders on the left focus on how the right wing's lies go unfiltered by the establishment mass media. The media bias theory has some plausibility but the limit to the media-bias argument is that the extremist Sweden Democrats largely faced a media blackout but still managed to be one of the biggest winners in the electoral system.
  181. Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
    White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.
  182. Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Unlike Brazil and Argentina, Venezuela has been victimized by a number of factors outside of its control, but especially a precipitous drop in the price of oil, the country's main source of revenue.
  183. A winning formula
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Intelligent community-based campaigning exposes the BNP for what it is, as well as providing a defence of civil society.
  184. Women and the far right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Many of the past gains of human and civil rights with women are at risk of being rolled back as the far right assumes power in numerous countries. Such attacks on women's reproductive rights and their places and roles in society have historical precedents in fascist movements in the past.
  185. The workers' government
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed their strategy to one of focussing on the formation of a ‘left’ government within the existing parliamentary set-up.
  186. Worthington provokes election controversy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.
  187. You Are What You Think
    Markos Moulitsas' "American Taliban"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    America's main international enemy "Islamic radicalism" favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
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For experts and media spokespersons also see the Sources directory and the comprehensive Sources Subject Index.
Links Selected Internet resources featuring information about alternatives.
Calendar Events from across Canada. Also see: Sources Calendar and news releases.
Publicity and Media Resources, publications and articles to help you get publicity and raise awareness. Plus Media Names & Numbers Canadian media directory, the Parliamentary Names & Numbers Canadian government directory, and mailing lists.
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Mission Connexions exists to support individuals and groups working for freedom and social justice. We work to maintain and make available a record of the theory and practice of people struggling against oppression and for social change. We believe that the more we know about the struggles, victories, and defeats of the past, and about those who took part in them, the better equipped we will be to bring a new world into being. Connexions maintains a physical archive of books and documents, and is engaged in an ongoing project to build and expand an indexed digital archive of documents. We try to feature a wide variety of resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of expression, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. We are internationalist in our orientation, but as a Canadian-based project we feature an especially extensive collection of Canadian documents and profiles of Canadian activist organizations.