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An Alt Right Update – Six Months After “Ctrl-Alt-Delete”
“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 appeared. ...
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 of ...
Militant Tactics in Anti-Fascist Organizing–Interview Transcript
“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 challenge ...
How the Alt Right builds on earlier far right upsurges: teleSUR article
I have an opinion piece on teleSUR about “How the Alt Right Builds on Earlier Far-Right Upsurges.” A lot of my work over the past couple of years has been based on a distinction between the ...
Against the Grain interview: The Origins and Politics of the Alt-Right
The Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain recently broadcast an interview with me about the Alt Right. Here’s their description: “Until the last year or two, most people had never heard of the alt-right. But the lead ...
Ctrl-Alt-Delete: new report on the alternative right
A new in-depth report on the alt-right, by me, is now available on the Political Research Associates website, under the title “Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The origins and ideology of the Alternative Right.” This same report will also soon ...
It’s Going Down podcast: Matthew Lyons on the Insurgent Far Right, Trump, and #DisruptJ20
I was interviewed about the far right and the Trump administration for a podcast on the It’s Going Down website. The podcast opens with a long rap piece and a general introduction by the host. The ...
Alt-right: more misogynistic than many neonazis
One of the major problems with the campaign to replace the term “alt-right” with “white supremacist” is that it tends to obscure other important dimensions of alt-right politics. The alt-right’s misogyny merits special attention, for a couple ...
Calling them “alt-right” helps us fight them
If “alt-right” is a benign-sounding label to hide white supremacist ideology, why do so many alt-rightists go out of their way to sound as shockingly bigoted as possible? There’s a campaign among Trump opponents to get ...
Red Skies at Night article on far right anti-imperialism
Issue #3 of the independent leftist journal Red Skies at Night includes my article “Anti-Imperialism and the U.S. Far Right.” Here I trace a number of historical roots of right-wing anti-imperialism, such as: the America First ...
Making America Worse
[This is the text of a talk that I gave at the event “Trump, White Supremacy, Fascism? Building New Resistance Movements!” on June 25, 2016, in Brooklyn, New York. My thanks to Resistance in Brooklyn, sponsors ...
Racist Revolutionaries: The Alt-Right Uprising? (radio program)
The alternative right or alt-right movement is a new incarnation of white nationalism that has coalesced in recent years. The alt-right has gained attention over the past year because of its support for Donald Trump’s presidential ...