“Greeks for the Fatherland:” Ilias Kasidiaris and Greece's New Far-Right Party
A new neo-Nazi party, “Greeks for the Fatherland,” has formed in Greece under the leadership of former Golden Dawn (GD) leader Ilias Kasidiaris as the infamous GD Party begins to fade.
Serious fissures in GD began in July 2019 when...
Will Marion Maréchal (MM), who announced her premature retirement from politics three years ago at age 27, return to the forefront? Having since founded her far-right “metapolitical school,” the Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences (ISSEP) in Lyon, MM looks to be far from done with her political...
Part 2 -- Far-right groups in Greece
In Part 1 of this dispatch we described recent visits of far-right politicians to the Turkish-Greek border. But also “pre-political” proponents have been instrumentalizing the current humanitarian crisis in Greece for their purposes. Since early March three groups of far-right and neo-Nazi sympathizers...
Rather than growing wealth, conservative economic policies have led to a lack of money in the country
The country has changed in the last eight months; it is different. Since Javier Milei took office on December 10, 2023, Argentinians have only heard austerity, devaluation, recession, layoffs, poverty, repression, privatizations and...
Many
still see Germany as a beacon of stability in an increasingly polarized Europe,
with the Christian Democratic chancellor Angela Merkel leading the country for
15 years in a row by now. But the façade of ostensible perdurability is
crumbling quickly as the country currently experiences rather drastic shifts in
its political power structure,...
Part 1: Old Nazi Networks and Cold War Crooks
While voter support for Germany’s most powerful party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), had been crumbling in the course of the current legislation period (2017-2021), with the onset of the coronavirus crisis, the tables have turned importantly in favor of the...
With the dramatic rise of extreme
Rightist, Fascist, and neo-Nazi parties and movements in Europe, attention is
now focusing on the last stages of a profoundly important trial in Greece.
In Athens on September 18, 2013
Pavlos Fyssas, an antifascist rapper, was murdered by Giorgios Roupakias, a member
of a gang from...
Golden Dawn’s export of neo-Nazism
Although more than 5,223 miles separate Charlottesville, Virginia, from Athens, Greece, the political connections are ominously close. One of the major instigators of the August 11-12, 2017, neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville was Matthew Heimbach. In the past he has participated in a cordial conversation with...
In September, CovertAction Magazine published an article entitled “We Need a New 'Church Committee' to Curb Massive Intelligence Agency Criminality Ranging From Illegal Surveillance to Torture and Assassination.”
And low and behold, the House-led GOP has set up what they call a new Church Committee—the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization...
In CovertAction Magazine’s prior Paris Dispatch titled "Linking the Right and Far Right: Marion Maréchal's Plan for France" (dated April 12, 2020), we explained that the “union of the rights” project was a political venture aimed at blurring the barriers between the right and far right. This creates, instead,...
