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Rise of Fascism in Europe & Golden Dawn
France: The National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, won nearly 18 per cent of the vote in April's first round of presidential elections. The party is eyeing seats in June parliamentary elections.
Greece: Golden Dawn is the chief right-wing movement in the country, an openly neo-Nazi party that is one of Europe's most extreme. Could take a dozen seats in May 6 parliamentary election.
The Netherlands: The Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, is the third-largest in parliament - and brought down the minority government by withdrawing support.
Austria: The Freedom Party, having 34 of the 183 seats in parliament, is the second-strongest party in opinion polls.
England: British National Party has a policy that restricts membership to 'indigenous British people'. Ten local councillors, a fall from 50 in 2008.
Germany: The NPD has two of 16 state legislators but no seats in national parliament. Support base in former Communist east German states, where unemployment and discontent is high.
Norway: The Progress Party holds 41 of 169 seats in parliament and is Norway's biggest opposition party. More moderate than many European counterparts.
Denmark: The Danish People's Party is the nation's third largest political organisation, and has pushed Denmark to adopt some of Europe's strictest immigration laws.
Sweden: The Sweden Democrats entered parliament in 2010 with 19 of 349 seats, but has had no major impact on legislation.
Finland: The Finns party won 19 per cent of parliamentary election votes in 2011 - up from four per cent four years earlier.
Hungary: Jobbik won nearly 17 per cent of the 2010 vote, and is one of two leading opposition parties.The conservative Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has passed laws restricting civil rights and basic freedoms that go against the country's EU membership.
Golden Dawn -- The party wants land mines placed on the Greek-Turkish border to stop illegal immigrants entering the country, organizing security patrols in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods.
As I see the rise of fascism, I worry for the minorities across Europe. HOW CAN WE STOP THIS!?!? What is the left doing to combat this?
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"It will happen to all of us that at some point, you get tapped on the shoulder and told not just that the party's over, but slightly worse: The party's going on, but you have to leave."
Interesting. I don't live in Europe, but wouldn't mass protesting be one of the best ways? I can't think of that many solutions for leftists.
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Only thing these boneheads understand is violence, that is how you stop fascism.
Where I live we had "mass protest" popular fronts against the NPD.
They don't give a fuck, to be blunt.
It should be noted that not all of these groups are a threat, for example The Finns aka True Finns leadership was bashed after the elections and lost pretty much all credibility. Some of the party members got fined and thrown in jail for ignorant racist comments.
The Danish People's Part is not an "overt" threat, but it does have connections with the Danish Neo-Nazi Party
I'd say it is quite serious still; parties like them, and the somewhat similar scum of Wilders party and such, are legitimising their political platforms and managing to somewhat enact their policies.
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The utterly digusting religious Fascism is on the rise here.
Fascists are on the rise all throughout Eastern Europe especially, Slavic nations which suffered terribly at the hands of the Nazis now have neo-nazi hooligans running around in the streets. It breaks my heart considering how many of my family members suffered at the hands of the nazis.
It is in my opinion that a far more aggressive and militant stance than anything Antifa has to offer needs to be taken to counter these fascists. We need to be in the streets in a far more concentrated and aggressive effort to break the backs of the neo-nazis both figuratively and literally if need be.
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Here in Portugal only few old people and even fewer young people want dictatorship back, the big majority is against this, and against this government, 40% of the population didn't vote in the elections, therefore ,democraticaly, there should be no government in Portugal.
I am prety sure anarchism is rising in Portugal, I have seen many anarchist symbols show up in the street, my generation is learning that government is good for nothing and only serves to empoverish people. The communism the people here know is leninism/stalinism, (when I told my father about anarchist communism he said those were not compatible because communism is authoritarian) when I teach people anarchism they instantly become interested, but if I say communism they want nothing to do with me, they feel like communism is not the answer, that is one of the reasons anarchism (in my generation) is rising.
This is social polarization. The center is loosing credibility and so this opens up possibilities for the far-right and far-left. And we haven't seen anything yet.
So while people are right to be concerned by the legitimacy and gains of the far-right (and of course the actual street-violence and attacks on Roma, Eastern Europeans (in Northern Europe), Arabs and North Africans) I wouldn't say this is "fascism on the march" - it's just polarization like most of us haven't seen in our own locations in our lifetimes.
Like I said, I think it will get sharper, so what we need to do is organize our side now so that we can be in a better position to resist and and oppose the far-right both on the streets and in the public dialogue and politics and also when Tahrir-like uprisings happen in our own locations our class will be more organized and able to put forward independent working class demands.
In the UK, the main far-right party is the British National Party (BNP).
In the early 1990s, its members numbered perhaps 800 at most, and these were mainly bonehead boot boys. Since then, it has attempted to gain 'electoral respectability'. It has an MEP (Nick Griffin, also the BNP leader), no members in the British Parliament, and did have some councillors in local government. However, its support has come crashing down in recent times. There are internal feuds, and most (if not all) of the local councillors, lost their seats in the local elections on May 3 this week.
Additionally, there are several other political parties, most notably the National Front, and the avowedly neo-nazi, the British Peoples Party. But these are very, very small, and really only empty shells.
There is also the English Defence League (EDL), not a political party, more a campaign and rallying group. And recently a new party was formed, the British Freedom Party. Tommy Robinson, the EDL Leader, has been invited to come onboard as the BFP Deputy Leader.
The threat from these groups is currently small. But as Jimmie Higgins rightly points out, the left need to be aware, and be ready to mount a defence against these groups, should their numbers advance in our respective countries.
Given the very severe austerity measures in the UK, essential services being cut to the bone, rising unemployment and social security benefits under assault, the ground for far-right development could prove fertile.
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Capitalism in decay.
We shouldn't really be surprised. I admit I am disgusted, but really we should have seen this coming and nobody here should be shocked by the outcome. People when they feel threatened often become very tribal.
Very true.
In Britain, in the 1930s, we had the rise of the scumbag Oswald Mosley and his thugs in the British Union of Fascists (BUF). He was effectively given the bum's rush.
I hope if the fash today make anything like the progress Mosley and the Blackshirts made, then we will see them off again.
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I completely agree that fascism is on the rise and is a real threat to Europe and needs to be taken care of. But isn't fascism and fascist parties banned in Germany?
Yes, we want to make your wife a radical feminist lesbian, we want to forcibly gay marry you to a leatherclad bear, we want to send your kids into white slavery at the court of a black communist dictator, we want to paint your church red with the blood of christian babies, we want to set fire to your ikea and your SUV, we want to rape your labrador with the broken pieces of your white picketed fence.
We want to wage nuclear war on the nuclear family.
why? because we are pinko freedom hating commienazi atheist bastards, its just what we do.
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Technically yes. Legally fascism still exists, thinly veiled as theCDUNPD. Everyone calls them what they are though, even the bourgies. It's an open secret.
The fash aren't such a threat in Germany though, well maybe in the former GDR where the NPD has won some seats and propped up some "nationally liberated zones" (aka areas under fash control) but they're not a threat like in Russia or Greece really.
This polarization of the center is all too familiar though. Smells like the 1920s.
I've heard that the fascists in Greece are actually something of a joke, despite their sorta-kinda popularity.
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The Swedendemocrats have gone back in the polls lately, they seem to be irrelevant for most people today and support the right wing block 94% of the times. But at the same time many of their voters are ordinary workers.
So we socialists base our arguments on economic questions instead on liberal bullshit such as "all are created equal".
The Swedendemocrats is a neoliberal party and is pro-capitalism, they are trying to split the swedish working class and if you vote on them you are betraying your own class. This is also the tactics against the pure nationalsocialists in Sweden and they both seem upset with this as they have become more and more seen as "protectors of capitalism".
The nationalsocialist movement have from 2008 been beaten back in the streets by antifa and they split in different organisations but are now again trying to reemerge from the dark, they have not been very succesful yet.
I know how you feel comrade, but when half a million people vote for fascists you have to start taking it seriously.
I didn't know about the Norwegian Progress Party until now.
From Wikipedia:
Yeesh.
I didn't even know Norway had a far-right that was significant enough to get parliamentary seats.
Partija Rada (Party of Labour)