In Britain, Theresa May’s Conservative Party, who suffered significant defeats at the General election on June 8 at the hands of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour, are now trying to stitch together an agreement with one of the most reactionary parties on the continent to maintain her minority government. (...)
The French left shouldn’t rest easy — Marine Le Pen hasn’t been vanquished.
It sounded like a crushing victory for France’s Emmanuel Macron, who will now become the eighth president of the Fifth Republic. From abroad, this margin was welcomed very positively. It seemed like a resounding result, (...)
Paris, France - Plumes of darkened smoke rose from burning tyres early on a March morning in the northern French city of Calais last year.
French gendarmes struggled to contain a rowdy crowd of around 50 protesters carrying banners demanding the closure of a nearby refugee camp and the (...)
The National Front hasn’t changed. It just learned how to articulate its longstanding racism and xenophobia with mainstream French republican discourse.
The first round of the French presidential elections is scheduled for Sunday, followed by a runoff between the top two candidates on May 7. (...)
The FN’s new image doesn’t mean the far-right party had a change of heart — it means the mainstream has accepted its program.
Almost every article about Marine Le Pen’s National Front (FN) makes some reference to her party’s supposed dédiabolisation. Generally translated as “detoxification,” this (...)
A generation feeling let down by traditional parties and excluded from opportunity are putting their faith in Front National victory.
Along the winding roads of Yonne, one of France’s poorest and most sparsely populated départements, Marine Le Pen’s smiling face is now part of the landscape. (...)
In Les Nouveaux Visages du fascisme, Enzo Traverso and Régis Meyran discuss the continuities and discontinuities between the fascist movements of the twentieth century and the “post-fascist” far right of today. Olivier Doubre spoke with Traverso for the 16-22 February 2017 edition of Politis. (...)
SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Muslim, anti-EU party leader Geert Wilders promised to crack down on “Moroccan scum” who he said were making the streets unsafe and urged the Dutch to “regain” their country as he launched his election campaign on Saturday.
Wilders was surrounded by (...)
Europe is probably facing its most serious crisis since the 1930s and the outbreak of World War Two. Through populist nationalism, the far right are in resurgence, gaining credibility across the continent. But to see their true nature, we only need look to Greece.
The Trump effect
After (...)
Greece’s most prominent neo-Nazi movement says it has found a new surge in support following Donald Trump’s election as US President, and that his ban on travellers from some Muslim-majority countries “validates” the group’s far-right views.
Stirring a hardline, nationalistic element in Greece, the (...)
Today (4 December), Austrians go to the polls again to elect their president. Earlier this year, the candidate of the far-right Freedom Party, Norbert Hofer, was narrowly defeated by the former Green candidate Alexander Van der Bellen. However, the Freedom Party successfully challenged the vote (...)
In the wake of Thomas Mair’s conviction for the murder of Jo Cox, Ian Cobain examines rightwing extremism in the UK.
After years of austerity, and at a time of rising concern about immigration and uncertainty about the future direction of the UK, the political and economic conditions appear to (...)
Fears grow that leader of France’s far-right Front National could win presidential election in May as Europe’s rightwing politicians celebrate US result.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right Front National, was jubilant on Wednesday as she took to the stage at her party’s headquarters (...)
Freedom Party says it wants to reverse the ‘Islamization’ of the Netherlands.
The Dutch far-right Freedom Party will run in the country’s parliamentary elections next year on a platform seeking to ban some of the key tenets of Islam, according to a manifesto published by its leader Geert Wilders (...)
Joe Sabatini reflects on the social, demographic and ideological issues behind the Austrian Presidential Election, and considers strategies to oppose the far right.
On 22 May the Austrian electorate came within a percentage point of electing Europe’s first fascist head of state since the 1930s. (...)
The narrow defeat of the far-right Freedom Party highlights the failure of mainstream parties to challenge the politics of fear across Europe, explains Nicole Colson.
BY AN extremely narrow margin, Norbert Hofer, candidate of Austria’s racist far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ, by its initials in (...)
Far-right leader suffers backlash from women’s groups for her argument on Cologne attacks.
PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has discovered her inner feminist following mass sexual assaults in Germany, invoking forebears such as Simone de Beauvoir and Élisabeth Badinter for the first (...)
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has deployed populist rhetoric to swell its base. Now the party is eyeing state power.
It was a bizarre sight: when the initial results of Vienna’s regional elections were announced on October 11, Austrian national television cut to the Viennese headquarters of (...)
Marine Le Pen has taken the National Front into the French mainstream without shedding the party’s far-right politics.
Over the summer Jean-Marie Le Pen was expelled from the National Front (FN) — the far-right party he cofounded, led for nearly four decades, and is the largest of its kind in (...)
The Greek left has a historic opportunity to marginalize fascists and address the needs of migrants.
After five months of negotiations between the Greek government and the European “institutions,” things may be finally boiling over. The dramatic situation has captured international headlines and (...)
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