Tag: The Right
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Trump’s America: Echoes of a Fascist Past
“Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. US President Donald Trump has saturated … Keep reading »
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Enabling Dictatorship and Destroying Democracy
In Timothy Ryback’s recently published book Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power, he explains how the establishment (the political and economic ruling elite) allowed Hitler and the Nazi Party to … Keep reading »
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Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism
We live in an age of increased disasters and encroaching fascism. This is a historical moment marked by a systemic attempt by an emerging authoritarianism to disable language and dissent … Keep reading »
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Trump and His Backers Spread Lies, Violence and Fascism
Death threats have become rampant as MAGA culture twists norms and makes once-marginal forms of violence mainstream. Keep reading »
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The Canadian ‘Newest’ Right
Is the Far Right Redrawing the Boundaries of Mainstream Politics? There seems to have been a re-making of conservative politics in 21st century Canada. Most mainstream Canadian conservative parties, both federal … Watch video »
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The Hard Right and the Political Parties of Capital
Moderated by Michael Lardner, Marxist Education Project, and introduced by Greg Albo, co-editor of Socialist Register. Ingar Solty: Market Polarization Means Political Polarization Bill Fletcher Jr.: Trump and the Danger … Watch video »
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Canada’s Alt-Right ‘Freedom’ Rage
Canada has been rocked in recent weeks by the ‘Freedom Convoys’ that have descended on the various cities and blocked border crossings across the country. Keep reading »
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The Threat of Fascism Won’t End with Trump
It will take sustained progressive political pressure now and into the future to dismantle the powerful fascist forces that threaten our democracy. Keep reading »
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Racist Violence Can’t Be Separated from the Violence of Neoliberal Capitalism
“I don’t see an American Dream; I see an American Nightmare” — Malcolm X. As a renewed Black Lives Matter uprising fills the streets following a spate of high-profile police … Keep reading »
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Conservative ‘Blue Wave’ Sweeps Across Canada
The provincial level of government is now dominated by the Conservatives and other hard right political parties. The only viable resistance to Canada’s creeping blue wave will come from a united working class, writes John Clarke. Keep reading »
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From Neo-Liberalism to Neo-Fascism?
Reaction across the Americas from Bolsonaro to Trump. Presentations by Ana Saggario Garcia, Ray Kiely, and Ruth Felder. Recorded in Toronto, 28 March 2019. Watch video »
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The Far Right, the Hard Right, and Our Fight Against Them
The massacre of worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh by a far-right shooter and the election of fascist politician Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil on the same October weekend … Keep reading »