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IFJ/EFJ Condemn Latest Attack on Greek Journalist by 'Golden Dawn' Members2013-12-12
International Federation of Journalists / European Federation of Journalist
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have condemned the latest brutal attack against a Greek journalist by members of the Golden Dawn part...
Journalist serving 150-day jail term for insulting Hungarian far-right politician2012-07-31
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the 150-day jail sentence that a Serbian journalist received for allegedly insulting a Hungarian far-right politician.
Meeting the Challenge of the Right2017-10-09
Connexions
Meeting the challenge of 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 soci...
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Aliens, Antisemitism, and AcademiaFrim, Landon; Fluss, Harrison
Article
2017
Jacobin
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 ...
Alt-right group posts names, photos of 'potentially dangerous' Cornwallis protesters28 people 'doxed' by national socialist group, some labelled as mentally ill
Meloney, Nic
Article
2017
CBC News
A group of self-described national socialists in Nova Scotia has posted personal information about people who have shown interest in protests calling for the removal of an Edward Cornwallis statue in ...
The American right is trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional worldTo have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it.
Younge, Gary
Article
2011
The Guardian
On the Republican primary race and the problem of credibility that socially conservative candidates who mobilize the Republican base will face in a general election regarding their appeal to centrist ...
American White Separatist Finds Shared Values with IsraelSheen, David
Article
2015
Muftah
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?
Americas Radical, Underground Climate Change CountermovementSmoking Out the Kochs
Hunziker, Robert
Article
2014
Counterpunch.org
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...
Amid the Tumult in DurhamReavis, Dick J.
Article
2017
CounterPunch
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 demonstratio...
Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book HarperismSmith, Charlie
Article
2014
Straight
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 havi...
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...
The Billionaires' Tea PartyOldham, Taki (director)
Film/Video
2010
Larrikin Films
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 ...
Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz?Rudolph, Jeffrey
Article
2012
Countercurrents
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 in...
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: The Right Focus PageWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Right.
Conspiracy, Inc.Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
DiMaggio, Anthony
Article
2009
CounterPunch
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 ...
Curiouser and curiouserTea Party members aren't foaming at the mouth racist bigots
Raban, Jonathan
Article
2010
The Guardian
A journalist travels to the first National Tea Party Convention in Tennessee as a delegate and finds the other delegates privately share his disdain for the racism and conspiracy theories the group f...
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...
Death of an Activist in Venezuela: In Memory of Orlando FigueroaCenteno, Jimmy
Article
2017
Counterpunch
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 produci...
Debunking the Fraser Institute's Latest Crusade: Teacher Merit PayGutstein; Donald
Article
2011
The Tyee
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 ...
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.
Extremism goes mainstreamAcross Europe far-right parties are gaining power by forming coalitions while liberals have failed to find a coherent response
Traynor, Ian
Article
2010
The Guardian
Right wing extremist parties that attempt to stir up racial and ethnic prejudices have been gaining support during the recession in Europe. In Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy liberals already form ...
Facing Facts in WisconsinProgressives and Workers Were Sold Out by Obama and the Democratic Party
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2012
CounterPunch
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.
Fanning the flames of intoleranceThe burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation
Henley, John
Article
2010
The Guardian
A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
France's National Front Draws Strength From BrexitWolin, Richard
Article
2016
The Nation
The party has long shrouded racism in the language of "self-determination" -- now, they feel vindicated.
A freedom that we can't affordRightwing thinktanks profess a love of freedom, but their refusal to reveal who funds them is deeply undemocratic
Monbiot, George
Article
2011
The Guardian
Freemarket thinktanks vastly outnumber those arguing for public spending. The author suggests that these thinktanks allow corporations to exert influence on public life without showing their hand, he ...
Front RunnerMarine Le Pen's campaign to make France great again
Zerofsky, Elizabeth
Article
2016
Harper's
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 Fren...
Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environmentCatterall, Peter Paul
Article
2017
The Ecologist
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 h...
How 'Antifa' Mirrors the 'Alt-Right' Hedges, Chris
Article
2017
TruthDig
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...
How Hitler's Rise to Power Explains Why Republications Accept Donald TrumpChait, Jonathan
Article
2016
New York
To watch Donald Trump rant and rave uncontrollably on the stump and on Twitter -- praising Saddam Hussein for his disregard for civil liberties, insisting the anti-Semitic propaganda he inadvertently ...
How Right-Wing Extremists Stalk, Dox, and Harass Their EnemiesLee, Micah
Article
2017
The Intercept
How neo-Nazis in the U.S use the online chatroom Pony Power to harass anti-facist activists.
How Stieg Larsson Exposed the Swedish Far RightKicking the Hornets' Nest
Proyect, Louis
Article
2014
Counterpunch.org
But after reading Jan-Erik Pettersson’s “Stieg Larsson: the real story of the man who played with fire”, I felt a keener loss, that of a man who I never met but now miss as a comrade in the fight agai...
How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops CampaignProyect, Louis
Article
2018
CounterPunch
Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
How to fight reactionariesYounge, Gary
Article
2006
Guardian Weekly
Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
Hungarian far right launches new political partyMilitants gather in Budapest to form political movement aiming to replace current party on the extreme right
Article
2017
Guardian
Hundreds of Hungarian right-wing militants gathered in Budapest to launch a political movement that they hope will run in next year’s parliamentary elections on a platform that includes open racism.
IFJ/EFJ Condemn Latest Attack on Greek Journalist by 'Golden Dawn' MembersSources News Release
Article
2013
International Federation of Journalists / European Federation of Journalist
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have condemned the latest brutal attack against a Greek journalist by members of the Golden Dawn part...
Islamophobia, Left and RightSparrow, Jeff
Article
2012
CounterPunch
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 b...
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy LandBlumental, Max
Film/Video
2013
The Nation
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 persecut...
Koch Political Machine Focuses on "Freedom" to Pollute and Pay Less TaxesFang, Lee
Article
2015
The Intercept
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 inj...
The Koch WhisperersBig Brothers Buy in at Big Media
Martens, Pam
Article
2011
CounterPunch
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 th...
Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far rightAn advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation.
Strickland, Patrick
Article
2018
Al Jazeera
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.
Frank Luntz - Profile in SourcewatchArticle
SourceWatch
Right-wing political consultant.
The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National SovereigntyJohnstone, Diana
Article
2017
CounterPunch
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, i...
The Media and the Far RightShowcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
Nader, Ralph
Article
2010
CounterPunch
The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution
Ditz, Jason
Article
2016
Antiwar.com
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 Palestin...
Minute Women of the U.S.A.Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The Minute Women of the U.S.A. was one of the largest of a number of anti-communist women's groups that were active during the 1950s and early 1960s. Such groups, which organized American suburban hou...
Minutemen (anti-Communist organization)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The Minutemen was a militant anti-Communist organization formed in the United States in the early 1960s. The founder and head of the right-wing group was Robert Bolivar DePugh, a biochemist from Norbo...
The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in CharlottesvilleGreenwald, Glen
Article
2017
The Intercept
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 ...
The modern US army: unfit for service?Kennard, Matt
Article
2012
The Guardian
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is as likely to be a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.
Nativism (politics)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Nativism favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. It may also include the re-establishment or perpetuation of such...
Neo-NazismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
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
Article
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 ...
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 - November 13, 2014Libertarian Socialism
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
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...
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...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
Connexions
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 soc...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
Possible Connections Between Militant Islamic Fundamentalists and the U.S. Extreme RightArticle
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.
Protesters cast shadow over US billionaires' rally in the sunKoch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders to discuss how to influence politics
Pilkington, Ed
Article
2011
The Guardian
The Koch brothers' annual rally of rich Americans and rightwing media figures was hosted to raise money for anti-government think tanks and climate change denial. This year a counter rally was orgnai...
Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"Kilkenny, Allison
Article
2009
Smirking Chimp
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.
Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' RightsGraves, Lisa
Article
2014
PR Watch
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 ...
Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including KidsBoehlert, Eric
Article
2009
The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
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...
Rolling Back ReconstructionAgainst The Current vol. 159
Miah, Malik
Article
2012
Against The Current
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 ...
Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanksGoldenberg, Suzanne
Article
2013
Guardian
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science.
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.
Stephen Harper's Covert EvangelicalismNikiforuk, Andrew
Article
2015
The Tyee
How an apocalyptic strain of Christianity guides Stephen Harper's policies and campaigning.
Supremacy, oppression, and powerDiemer, Ulli
Article
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 ...
A taxonomy of American far-right hate groupsMerelli, Annalisa
Article
2017
Quartz
An overview of the attitudes of various far-right groups in the United States.
They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, PoliticiansFite, Katie
Article
2016
CounterPunch
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 p...
Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in UkraineCrazed Warmongers
Annis, Roger
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
Ukip: the battle for BritainHarris, John
Article
2013
Guardian
A exposé on Ukip, which wonders: is it a lunatic fringe or a sign of things to come?
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 ...
Understanding Harper's Evangelical MissionNikiforuk, Andrew
Article
2012
The Tyee
Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
Uyoku dantaiWikipedia article
Article
2015
Wikipedia
Uyoku dantai are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups. Uyoku dantai are well known for their highly visible propaganda vehicles – converted vans, trucks and buses fitted with loudspeakers and promin...
The vanguard of India's assertive patriotism is a 3 million-member student groupLakshmi, Rama
Article
2016
Washington Post
In India rightwing group combs campuses to weed out voices critical of state.
Venezuela Threatened by Far-right ViolenceAustralia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
Article
2014
Green Left
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.
A Visit to Germany's Flyover CountryThe AfD Heartland
Klovert, Heike
Article
2017
Der Spiegel
Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremismGoodwin, Matthew
Article
2012
The Guardian
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 i...
Why People Vote Against ThemselvesWisconsin and the Collapse of Liberalism
Smith, Sam
Article
2012
CounterPunch
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.
Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy TheoriesBerlet, Chip
Article
2009
Indypendent.
Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?Podur, Justin
Article
2017
podur.org
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.
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Don't Think of an ElephantKnow Your Values and Frame the Debate
Lakoff, George
Book
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 al...
The Empire God BuiltInside Pat Robertson's media machine
Foege, Alec
Book
1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
Inventing RealityThe Politics of News Media
Parenti, Michael
Book
1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
Inventing Tax RageMisinformation in the National Post
Patriquin, Larry
Book
2004
How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
The Power of PersuasionThe Politics of the New Right in Ontario
Kozolanka, Kirsten
Book
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...
The Secret of Hitler's VictoryPetroff, Peter; Petroff, Irma
Book
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 on...
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