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In the recent Hungarian general election in April 2022, the ruling coalition, composed of Prime Minister Victor Orban’s Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People’s Party, won 50% of the vote. Another far-right, neo-Nazi party, the Our Homeland Movement, won 5%. What characterizes these parties (...)
Many influential European ultra-conservatives share an ideological alignment with Moscow – particularly on the rights of women and LGBTIQ people
That Russia serves as a reliable cash machine for Europe’s far-Right political forces has long been an open secret.
Back in 2014, for example, French (...)
Given Putin’s style of aggression against Ukraine, it is not surprising that he has long been backing extreme right wing parties
He supports, for example: France’s National Rally, who used to be known as the National Front; Germany’s neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, whose early leaders were (...)
This is an overview of the initial reactions of some European far-right voices on the Ukraine war as expressed in a sitting of the European Parliament (EP) on 1 March 2022, which opened with a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The parliamentary agenda and later outcome was a (...)
One of the Kremlin’s declared goals in attacking Ukraine is the “denazification” of that country. According to the official version, the Ukrainian authorities have been under the influence of neo-Nazis for the past few years. Meanwhile, since the annexation of Crimea, the Moscow government has had (...)
The Ordo Iuris Institute, which opposes women’s and LGBT rights and wants to ban abortion, is in the headlines again – but for all the wrong reasons
Organisations that oppose reproductive justice and women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, as well as gender studies and anti-discriminatory legislation – what (...)
openDemocracy told the European Parliament how cash from the US Christian Right is funding movements against women’s and LGBTQ rights
Those seeking to block or roll back women’s and LGBTIQ rights are transnational, coordinated, organised and incredibly wealthy, openDemocracy today told the (...)
In this piece by Dave Kellaway we conclude our look at fascist currents in France, Spain and Italy. Two recent events in Italy show fascist groups are on the rise. In the photo above you see the funeral of a fascist woman called Alessia Augello on 10 January 2022. Her coffin is draped with a (...)
Just like the rest of Europe and the world in general, the far right is gaining ground in both institutional and ideological terrains. By Steve Cedar.
The Spanish State is no exception, and the major force of the far-right that has emerged in recent years is Vox, an extreme right-wing populist (...)
An independent data analysis of major political parties in Poland that was conducted for The Post showed that after 2018, negative messages were more likely to receive a high number of shares.
WARSAW — Most political parties in Poland have complaints about Facebook’s algorithms, the obscure (...)
Extremist party’s demise has left a gap that it is being filled by far-right groups in north of the country
“They were big and brawny and struck like a thunderbolt,” says Aphrodite Frangou, an activist and leftwing journalist recalling the moment a group of far-right Golden Dawn sympathisers went (...)
With new messaging emphasizing a return to normal, Germany’s AfD party is seeking to bring nationalism back into the center of German politics.
For this year’s federal election, the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has come up with a campaign that kills three birds with one (...)
They’ve ditched the shaven heads but, despite recent setbacks, they remain a threat, says film-maker Christian Schwochow
Inside a university auditorium in Prague, a young man in a crisp black shirt and white trainers is railing against the pro-immigration politicians he holds responsible for a (...)
Romania’s recent parliamentary elections had two spectacular, seemingly surprising results. On the one hand, the advance of the Romanian far-right (9% of the votes for AUR, the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians); on the other hand, the very low voter turnout (31% of registered voters). Here (...)
A new Romanian radical right party is resurrecting Romania’s interwar fascism.
One of the big surprises of the Romanian elections in December 2020, was the stunning success of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR), a new party on the radical right whose acronym means ‘gold’ in (...)
Did Poland’s notorious far-right football fans find solidarity with a popular protest stemming from the liberal left? Not quite.
The picturesque squares of Poland, practically empty just a few months ago due to the growing threat of COVID-19, were set ablaze in impassioned protest. The colours (...)
After decades of murderous attacks on migrants and leftists, on Wednesday, a Greek court ruled that Golden Dawn is a criminal organization. The verdict is a triumph for victims, and for the minorities targeted by the neo-Nazi party — and it will embolden the resistance against still-active (...)
The CADTM congratulates demonstrators for the success of the united antifascist mobilisation in Athens this Wednesday 7 October, as well the Athens penal court for its decision to label the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party as a ‘criminal organization’.
It is largely on the streets that the (...)
These days in Greece an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory has successfully infiltrated the public discourse. Officials of the right-wing New Democracy government, as well as by journalists of major media outlets, express suspicion regarding the role of NGOs in the movement of refugees.
An (...)
Within the “popular classes”, the gender attributes that characterise the workers who vote for the far-right were analysed. By “popular classes” we mean the respondents who defined themselves as “Clerks and skilled service employees” or “Industrial skilled employees” or “Less skilled employees” when (...)
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