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Golden Dawn close to being added to 'predators' list2013-06-05
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders, which last visited Greece in September 2011 to investigate the collapse in the media environment and the future of journalism, is alarmed by the steady decline in respect fo...
Israeli settler destruction of 1000s of trees hits Palestinian olive harvest2011-10-20
Oxfam
Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and i...
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AntiFa's Moral Superiority and the Potential for Left-Wing UnityLitvin, Yoav
Article
2017
CounterPunch
On the tragedy at Charlottesville and its aftermath.
Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threatThe battalion's far-right volunteers' desire to 'bring the fight to Kiev' is a danger to post-conflict stability
Walker, Shaun
Article
2014
Guardian
The Azov battalion, a volunteer militia that has been doing much of the frontline fighting in Ukraine's war against Russian-speaking rebels in the east, may pose a serious threat to the Ukrainian gove...
Black BrigadesSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Fascist paramilitary groups forming a bloc operating in the Italian Social Republic (in northern Italy), during the final years of World War II, and after the signing of the Italian Armistice in 1943.
Black HundredsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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An ultra-nationalist bloc in Russia in the early 20th century noted for their direct action methods, including pogroms and terrorist attacks against liberals and leftists.
BlackshirtsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Fascist paramilitary groups in Italy who dressed in black, and assembled in blocs to attack unionists and leftists. Subsequently fascist groups in Germany and Britain also dressed in black and used si...
Censorship is the Wrong Way to Combat the British National PartyFox, Claire
Article
2009
Index on Censorship
The illiberal obsession with silencing Nick Griffin and the British National Party in the run up to elections has won the party undeserved publicity, says Claire Fox
Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties FocusWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
Connexions Library: The Right Focus PageWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Right.
The Cross and the Sword: The Making of a Christian Taliban in UkraineMamon, Marcin
Article
2015
The Intercept
The recruitment point for volunteers in Dmytro Korchynsky's holy war is located in the basement of a building in central Kiev, on Chapaev Street, in what used to be a billiard club. Anyone can sign up...
The Dark Side of the Ukraine RevoltThe Rise of the Quasi-Fascists
Hallinan, Conn
Article
2014
CounterPunch
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 t...
English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrestGrowth of anti-Muslim group raises fears of street violence
Taylor, Matthew
Article
2010
The Guardian
A profile of the supporters and the protests of the English Defence League, a right wing anti-Islam group of mostly white, young British men, many of them mobilized through their soccer clubs.
FascismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Fascism is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and...
Fascism, American-StyleOne-Step from the Third Reich?
Stanton, John
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financiall...
Fascism and ideologySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Fascism and ideology is the subject of numerous debates. The position of fascism on the political spectrum is a point of contention. Various scholars have sought to define fascism, and the consensus i...
Ford & the Nazi War EffortsHenry Ford was no Oskar Schindler
Karliner, Joshua
Article
1998
CorpWatch
The Ford Motor Company's commercial-free sponsorship of NBC's airing of Schindler's List, the epic movie about the Holocaust, was a class act. Nevertheless, it would be remiss of us here at CorpWatch,...
Golden Dawn close to being added to 'predators' listSources News Release
Article
2013
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders, which last visited Greece in September 2011 to investigate the collapse in the media environment and the future of journalism, is alarmed by the steady decline in respect fo...
Greece's Fascist ThreatFox-Hodess, Katy
Article
2013
Jacobin
The increasingly bold Golden Dawn party has precipitated a political crisis in Athens whose resolution is far from certain. Golden Dawn, the largest fascist party in Europe and the third largest party...
Halting British Fascism - Book ReviewsHorn, Gerd-Rainer
Article
1999
Against the Current
In Excited Times: The People Against the Blackshirts by Nigel Todd (Whitley Bay: Bewick Press, 1995), 130 pages.
The Struggle For Hearts and Minds: Essays on the Second World War by Raymond Challinor...
Harper's Relationship With the Jewish Defense League Is DisturbingLevitan, Tyler
Article
2015
Huffington Post
With Canada's federal election less than two weeks away, Levitan addresses a highly topical matter: the Conservatives' close relations with the controversial Jewish Defense League (JDL).
March on RomeSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The March on Rome (Marcia su Roma) was a march, in October 1922, by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, or PNF) came to power in Italy (Regno ...
A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of thos...
A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil WarFaulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
In 1936, after General Franco had led an unsuccessful coup against a democratically elected government, revolution swept across Spain. Neil Faulkner explains why the workers were ultimately defeated.
A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World WarFaulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
Neo-NazismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof. The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of those movements. Neo-Nazi...
Neo-fascismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Neo-fascism is a post-World War II ideology that includes significant elements of fascism. The term neo-fascist may apply to groups that express a specific admiration for Benito Mussolini and Italian ...
No Platform Won't WorkTripathi, Sali
Article
2009
Index on Censorship
It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything 'establishmen...
Not Your Father's Far RightPopulist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism
Camus, Jean-Yves
Article
2014
Le Monde Diplomatique
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.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015Organizing
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
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. Th...
The Revolutionary Act of Telling the TruthPilger, John
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Pilger discusses the challenges that we encounter as Western governments and media actively seek to supress any political consciousness and independent thought.
The Rise of Fascism in GreeceWaiting is Not an Option
Tirado, M. Jose
Article
2012
CounterPunch
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 terr...
The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in UkraineKatchanovski,Ivan
Unclassified
2015
academia.edu
On the mass killing of the "Euromaidan" protesters and police in the Maidan area of Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20, 2014.
Sousa Mendes, Aristides deConnexipedia Article
Article
Portuguese diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. (1885-1954).
Twenty-First-Century Fascism: Private Military Companies in Service to the Transnational Capitalist ClassPhillips, Peter
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Globalization of trade and central banking have propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands f...
Ukraine and the Rebirth of FascismThe Menace Across the European Continent
Draitser, Eric
Article
2014
CounterPunch
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 ...
White nationalismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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White nationalism is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people, as opposed to multiculturalism, and a separate all-white nation state. White separa...
White power skinheadSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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White power skinheads are a white supremacist and anti-semitic offshoot of the skinhead subculture. Many of them are affiliated with white nationalist organizations.
White supremacySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideolo...
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MussoliniHibbert, Christopher
Book
1972
War Leader Book No. 13 in Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century
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Our Way to FightPeace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
Riordon, Michael
Book
2011
Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people ...
Press for Conversion #43December 2000
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2000
Press for Conversion #53March 2004
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2004
Few realize that during the early 1930s, there was a homegrown fascist plot to overthrow the U.S. government and install a dictatorship.
Press for Conversion #54August 2004
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2004
The Bush family's links to fascism.
Press for ConversionTo oppose Canadian military exports and promote conversion of military industries and bases. Projects: anti-war toys, nuclear weapons research, links with Third World NGOs, opposing weapons bazaars.
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