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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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
In the Netherlands, the Right is dominating debates on European integration and refugees.
The Netherlands has been a loyal supporter of the European Union. The small country’s economy consists primarily of financial services and trade — sectors at the core of the EU project. At the same time, (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
In Germany, a “modernized” far right is marrying neoliberalism and racism. What will be the Left’s response?
The gap between ideology and reality could not be any more jarring: according to a European Center for Economic Research study made public in November, immigrants contribute a net plus (…)
The intervention of SYRIZA MP and Speaker of the House Zoi Konstantopoulou during the first (and so far sole) session of the Greek Parliament sent a chill through the country’s anti-fascist movement. The Speaker proposed the postponement of the parliamentary sitting because the District Attorney (…)
Instead of simply rejoicing at the processes of decomposition in the ranks of the organisers of Pegida (and above all of Degida in Dresden, which at its last Monday demonstration could only mobilise 2,000 people) we should rather analyse the social and ideological bases of this right wing (…)
Since October 2014, Germany has seen demonstrations against “Islamification”. The first sizeable one to make the headlines was organised by the “Hooligans gegen Salafisten” (HoGeSa, “Hooligans against Salafists”) with 5,000 participants in the streets of Cologne, while counter-demonstrators were (…)
In the Netherlands, the right-wing PVV (Freedom Party) has steadily garnered power using a hate-filled discourse directed at Muslims and elites alike.
The Dutch far-right has evolved into one of the most successful national movements in Europe. Its leader Geert Wilders is a major political (…)
The deadly attack at the offices of a French magazine is the focus of international attention. Here, we publish a statement of the International Socialist Organization about the killings.
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THE HORRIFIC killings at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris have (…)
I lived near where the attack took place and, as an avid reader of Charlie Hebdo during my five years there, I felt sick in the stomach when I heard the news today coming out of Paris. Two of the slain cartoonists, Cabu and Wolinski, were very familiar to me, and their pieces were picked up and (…)
Europe is ill. How seriously, and why, are matters not always easy to judge. But among the symptoms three are conspicuous, and inter-related. The first, and most familiar, is the degenerative drift of democracy across the continent, of which the structure of the EU is at once cause and (…)
The European Antifascist Meeting took place in Athens on April 11-13, 2014. It was attended by approximately 80 persons from abroad, representing 32 antifascist collectives from all over Europe. It is estimated that about 3.000 local people joined the various activities of the meeting.
One of (…)
This statement was made by the Socialistisk Partiet, Swedish section of the Fourth International, on 10 March 2014.
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Several people were attacked by Nazis on March 8 in Malmo, in a case of attempted murder in the street, after the feminist demonstrations of the day (…)
Late last night [8 March] several people were attacked in central Malmö by members of the fascist Svenskarnas Parti (Swedes Party). They were on their way home after having taken part in celebrations for International Women’s Day.
The incident occurred just after a nighttime demonstration (…)
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