New Right

proper noun

A conservative political movement formed during the 1960s and 1970s in response to the liberalism of the New Left.

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Meanings

proper nounthe New Right
  1. Various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries:
    1. USgovernmentA conservative political movement formed during the 1960s and 1970s in response to the liberalism of the New Left.
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      Nevertheless, advocates of individual freedom not only continue to exist, but are increasing in number. Refugees from the Old Right, the Old Left and the New Left, they are organizing independently under the New Right banner of libertarianism. The birth of the New Right occurred when libertarians finally accepted the fact that they had been abandoned by the liberals, used and misled by other radicals and sold out by the conservatives.

      1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025
    2. UKhistoricalgovernmentA strand of conservatism influenced by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, committed to economic liberalism as well as being socially conservative.
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      While clearly opposed to the political thrust of much 'Heritage' cinema (Sammy and Rosie, in particular, in programmatically anti-Tory: for example, the property developer who ousts the 'straggly kids' is one of Thatcher's MPs and her vision of a 'new Britain' is blatantly lampooned), Kureishi's films do not, however, endorse traditional kinds of Left oppositional politics as the best means by which to challenge the hegemony of the New Right.

      2001, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Hanif Kureishi, page 89
    3. EuropeangovernmentThe European New Right.

      Employing the lambda symbol, identitarianism has gained increasing purchase amongst youth across western Europe, and France in particular, growing out of the (European) New Right (Nouvelle Droite), which dates to the 1970s and GRECE (Research and Study Group on European Civilization).

      2020, Tim Nieguth, editor, Nationalism and Popular Culture, Routledge, →ISBN
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