Every year in early February domestic and foreign far right groups celebrating the „breakthrough” of German and Hungarian forces on February 11, 1945 from the city of Budapest, which was surrounded by Soviet troops on all sides. In December 1944 two Soviet peace parliamentarians were killed when (...)
The anti-immigration party has more followers on Instagram than any other political group in the country
There are three individuals between the ages of 23 and 26 who are largely responsible for the fact that Vox’s Twitter, Facebook and particularly Instagram accounts have started attracting (...)
The December 2nd regional elections in Andalusia unleashed a political earthquake in Spain. After thirty-six years of continuous rule by the center-left Socialists (PSOE), a bloc of right-wing parties won a majority of votes in the southern region. This reactionary surge included an unexpected breakthrough for the extreme-right Vox; if most opinion polls had placed it between 2 and 5 percent of the vote, it ultimately obtained 11 percent and tweleve seats in the regional parliament. This, in a (...)
Teachers and activists in Heraklion explain how they drove the ultra-nationalist, far-right Greek party from the island
Washing hangs from the balconies of an unassuming apartment block on Irodotou street in Heraklion, the capital of Crete. Outside, children ride bikes and old men play cards (...)
Until recently, Spain was uniquely free of neofascism. Not anymore.
On September 7, the far-right party Vox filled Spain’s Vistalegre arena with ten thousand nostalgists for Franco’s regime, neofascists, Catholic extremists, and reactionaries of all kinds. In organizing such a spectacle, Vox had (...)
Those who fight for a society of multiracial equality have a lot of work to do, and they have to start by fighting the new fascists.The far right and new fascists are at their highest point in Europe since the second world war. This poses a grave threat to democratic rights, immigrant (...)
In Italy, where fascism was born, far-right violence is a growing feature of political life once again.
A terrorist attack in Macerata close to Italy’s Adriatic coast on February 3 sharply illustrated the persistence of fascist violence in the country. The drive-by shooting spree, which (...)
After events in Charlottesville US, where one woman was killed and 19 injured by a van driven by a man with links to white supremacist movements. Roda Musa reminds us that it has only been a few months since a right-wing extremist attacked Finsbury Park Mosque in the UK with a van, killing (...)
A far-right organisation has launched a boat in the Mediterranean to confront ships rescuing refugees and send them “back to Africa”.
Defend Europe, a group linked to the European anti-Islam and anti-immigrant “identitarian” movement, is currently sailing a 25-crew 422 tonne vessel to the Libyan (...)
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 (...)
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