The Current Situation of the Far Right in Québec in 2026

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This condensed version of a recent report by the anti-fascist research collective Montréal Antifasciste surveys the current militant far right in Québec and analyzes the manifestations and repercussions of far-right themes in mainstream political circles, media commentary, and the online ideological and propaganda ecosystem.

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Fascism Today Conversation Part 1: Interview with author Shane Burley

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In this post I interview Shane Burley about his new book, Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, to which I was honored to write the foreword. Publisher AK Press describes the …

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The Alt-Right: History, Ideology, and the Future of a Fascist Movement (podcast)

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Eric Draitser interviewed me for an episode of his Stop Imperialism podcast series on Patreon. The full podcast (almost two hours) is available to Patreon subscribers, while the first half is available for free. Here’s …

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Fascist anti-capitalism?

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Henry Ford, industrialist and antisemite. Jason Wilson of The Guardian has a good article about the role of socialism and anti-capitalism in fascist ideology. I am quoted along with antifascist authors Alexander Reid Ross and …

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An Alt Right Update – Six Months After “Ctrl-Alt-Delete”

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“An Alt Right Update,” published by Political Research Associates, is my attempt to summarize how the Alt Right’s political situation has changed since Donald Trump took office on January 20th, when the report “Ctrl-Alt-Delete” first …

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How the alt-right is reshaping patriarchal politics

I have a new opinion piece in The Guardian under the title “The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of color.” The article’s main focus is the contrast between the alt-right’s version …

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Militant Tactics in Anti-Fascist Organizing–Interview Transcript

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“I think some folks, many folks… try to divide the concept of a mass response with a militant response. That it’s only possible to do one or the other. I think we really want to …

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Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024

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Even more than in the past, Trump and the MAGA movement have brought key elements of fascist politics into the Republican Party, and a second Trump presidency is likely to be significantly more authoritarian than the first one.

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Chaos or Revolution? It Depends on Us

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The institutional far right is strong, while the far left is weak and disorganized. To develop the capacity to meaningfully intervene in the current crisis, far leftists need to engage with oppressed communities and work together with liberals in a united front.

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Who’s Afraid of Luigi Mangione? A Response to Alexander Reid Ross

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Luigi Mangione’s recent alleged killing of an insurance CEO touched a wedge issue that cuts across class and across the political spectrum—the massive corruption of the health insurance industry—and created an opening for the left. A recent article by ex-leftist Alexander Reid Ross, which dismisses Mangione as expressing an American proclivity for violence, represents a counterinsurgency action in defense of the state.

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Reading Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza

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by Matthew N. Lyons How do we forcefully make the case to defend the Palestinian people in Gaza against Israel’s increasingly genocidal assault, and also honor the conflict’s heartbreaking contradictions? This is a question I’ve …

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Burn the foundation and all that it upholds: an antifascist review of “Tell Me I’m Worthless” by Alison Rumfitt

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“The House spreads. Its arteries run throughout the country. Its lifeblood flows into Westminster, into Scotland Yard, into every village and every city. It flows into you, and into your mother. It keeps you alive. …

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“We are not interested in a polemic,” — but we got one anyway.

TurningThe Tide has published a response to a previous article, Off the Nazis!…but how? We had previously linked to it and post this response here to continue the discussion. A response to Bring the Ruckus
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Right-Wing Movements 101

by Matthew N. Lyons Presentation at a political study retreat in Monroe, New York, on 5 June 2011. I’m going to try to give you an overview of right-wing movements in the U.S. and how

Signalfire post: “Homeland Security Department curtails home-grown terror analysis”

The leftist blog Signalfire has an interesting post about the federal government’s monitoring of domestic right-wing forces. From the article: “The Department of Homeland Security has stepped back for the past two years from conducting

Liberalism’s Limits: A review of Burghart and Zeskind’s Tea Party Nationalism

by Matthew N. Lyons The Tea Party movement erupted largely as a backlash against Barack Obama’s election as president. Starting in February 2009, a series of local and then national protests invoked the anti-tax Boston

On the potential and limitations of militant anti-fascism

Bring the Ruckus has published a thoughtful discussion of a recent confrontation between neo-nazis and militant anti-fascists in Trenton, New Jersey. The article raises a number of important issues related to anti-fascist organizing. From the

A Wall is Just a Wall…

Check out a new video mix by chicagoforthepeople featuring clips of the December 2010 Georgia prison strike, 1971 Attica rebellion, and the resistance to anti-immigrant racism in Arizona, set to the song “Jailer” by Asa:

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The Current Situation of the Far Right in Québec in 2026

This condensed version of a recent report by the anti-fascist research collective Montréal Antifasciste surveys the current militant far right in Québec and analyzes the manifestations and repercussions of far-right themes in mainstream political circles, media commentary, and the online ideological and propaganda ecosystem.

Demonizing Antifa: Federal Prosecutions Target Radical Organizers

With the court cases against the Prairieland ICE protesters and the Minnesota 15, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its authoritarian power drive. The regime is trying to criminalize radical politics and grassroots organizing, as a cornerstone of its campaign to suppress all political dissent.

A feminist think tank studying misogyny and the far right

The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism studies the role of misogynist ideology in far right politics and its relationship with systemic oppression of women and other marginalized groups.

Disability and the Far Right: Joan Braune interviews Esther Warwick

Esther Warwick discusses the relationship between disability movements and the far right, and how eugenics has influenced laws that harm people with disabilities and people experiencing homelessness.

“Naming the Moment”: new pamphlet addresses revolutionary analysis and strategy

Faced with the Trump regime’s drive toward authoritarianism, the authors of a new pamphlet ask, “How do we pull the emergency brake so that we can create a fundamentally different society together?”