Defending Democracy Across Borders with David Adler
To defend democracy across borders, we must understand the global right-wing network and build the power to confront it.
Far-Right Populism
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Facing Down the Far-Right in East Germany
“We social democrats always talk about how the fight against right-wing extremism is part of our political DNA. However, many rightly wonder what exactly that means.”
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Standing Up for Democracy with Matthias Ecke
This German Social Democrat explains what’s at stake as the far-right surges in Germany and across the globe.
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How Mis/Disinformation is Driving Alberta to the Right, Part 1: Understanding the Origins
Misinformation and disinformation are polarizing Alberta politics, stoking division and a reactionary shift to the right.
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The Alt-Right’s Co-Optation of Wellness Subculture at the Intersection of Health, Purity, and Ideology
The wellness to alt-right pipeline continues to draw more and more who fall outside of the shrinking net of collective care into movements that threaten democratic institutions and community wellbeing. Governments need to stop the erosion of institutions of community care.
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Shifting to the centre is no way to fight right-wing populism
The problem with this narrative that elections are won by appealing to the mushy centre is that it fails to come to grips with the electoral appeal of Donald Trump and other right-wing populist.
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A progressive perspective on the 2017 German federal election
The 2017 federal elections in Germany confirm and continue some key trends in contemporary politics.
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Social democracy versus “populism”
What we urgently need is a recreation of the effective politics of post-War social democracy. But we can’t just return to the past.
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Whiteness trouble: the Left’s challenge after Trump
Will white progressives struggle for anti-racism alongside people of colour, and make it a central strategy and analytical tool in organizing change?
