Confronting the Resurgent Right

by Miriam Edelson

University of Manitoba Press, 2026
Paper: 978-1-77284-134-3 | eISBN: 978-1-77284-137-4 (epub) | eISBN: 978-1-77284-136-7 (PDF)

TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Terminology

Deep Roots, New Threats

Notes

Part 1: Neo-Liberalism, Canadian Politics, and Intersectional Approaches

1. Extreme to Mainstream: Normalizing Right Wing Extremism

Enabling Hate

Contours of the Extreme Right in Canada

Countering Hate

Notes

2. The Roots of the Right: Why Combatting Settler Colonialism Is Key to Ending Far-Right Extremism

Defining Concepts and Clarifying Intent

Part I. Allying with Indigenous People

Part II. Strategies of Resistance

Conclusion

Notes

3. The Resurgence of the Right in Canada: The New, the Old, and the Ugly

What Do We Mean by “The Right”?

Understanding the New Right in Global Context

Mapping the New New Right in Canada

The Religious Right and Social Conservatives: In and Beyond Political Parties

The Far Right

Closing Thoughts

Notes

4. The Right, Queer Communities, and Homonationalism

Resurgence of the Right

Responses

“Liberal” Neo-Liberalism’s Liberal Largesse

Effect on Canadian Queer Communities

The Right Today

What’s a Queer to Do?

Notes

5. “We Exist”: Supporting Diasporic Black LGBTQ People in Canada in the Decade for People of African Descent (2015–2024)

Brief Overview: Scholarship of African/Black LGBTQ and Anti-Black Exclusion in Canada

Early Black LGBTQ Presence in Canada

Centring and Documenting African/Black LGBTQ History, Organizing, and Activism

Federal Government Commitment Overlooks Black LGBTQ

BLACK LGBTQ Operational Praxis

Sankofa Praxis

Racial Capitalism

Hate Crime Laws

Notes

6. Solidarity Matters: The Community Solidarity Project

Notes

Part 2: Organizing the Right: Social Protest and Community Activism

7. Perilous Liberal Diversity Narratives of Mainstreaming the Right in “Raceless” Canada

Racial Liberalism and the Persistent Myth of Racelessness

Race and Racelessness in the Rise of the Conservative Party of Canada

Against the Limited Politics of Incorporation

What Can We Do?

Notes

8. Gendered Islamophobia and Its Impact on Canadian Muslim Women

Notes

9. Antipoverty Movements and the Rise of the Right

Growth of the Far Right

Fascism and the Poor

Racialized Poor Targeted

United Struggle

Notes

10. Learning from the Canadian Pro-Choice Movement

Notes

11. The Alt-Right, Unions, and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Workers

COVID-19 Moment

Wage Stagnation, Income Disparity, and Economic “Growth”

Union Inaction—The Ontario Case Study

Structural Challenges

Union Paralysis

Union Democracy

Organizing Unionism

Notes

Part 3: Organizing the Left: Social Protest and Community Activism

12. Stronger Than Hate: Countering the Convoy

The Convoy and Petro-Populism

The Occupation

Building Community Solidarity Ottawa

We Keep Us Safe

The Battle of Billings Bridge

13. A Near-Death Experience: How Neo-Liberalism Choked the Canadian Women’s Movement

Women’s Rights Organizations

Feminist Organizing—The Last Sixty Years

Backlash

Current Challenges to Women’s Organizing

Notes

14. Building an Antifascist Movement: Community Solidarity Ottawa and the Struggle Against Demobilization

Mobilization and Demobilization

Resistance and Revolution

On Whose Terms Do We Fight?

Call to Action

Notes

Part 4: Artifacts of the Right: Communication and Technology

15. Canadian Skins: Modern Racist Skinhead Activists Adapting Recruitment

Racist Skinhead Organizing in Canada

Branding Replaces Brotherhoods in Racist Skinhead Activism

Disrupting Racist Skinhead Activist Organizational Recruitment

Notes

16. Creating Democratic Space in Contested Times: Reflections from the Ottawa People’s Commission

The COVID-19 Effect

The Duty of Care

Reaching Beyond the Usual Activists

Amplifying Community Voices

Accountability, Transparency, and Rootedness

Lessons to Be Learned?

Notes

17. “Honk Honk”: The Freedom Convoy and Far-Right Memetic Convergence

From Pepe to Clown World: Irony Poisoning, Plausible Deniability, and Metapolitics

Meme Warfare and the Honkler in Ottawa

Conclusion

Notes

18. The Hard Truth: To Win, Progressives Must Look in the Mirror, Not Just Blame the Right

Where It All Began—The Blueprint

Testing Grounds—Staged Conflicts

Astroturfing and Corporate Media

Digital Dominance

Why They Win

How Do Progressives Redirect the Culture Wars? A Blueprint

Notes

Appendix: Resisting Right-Wing Politics

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)

Federations of Labour and Labour Councils

National (Canada-Wide)

Various Organizations Across the Country

Black Lives Matter Canadian Offices

Contributors

Integrated Bibliography

Index

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