“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...
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...
As the Trump administration openly threatens historic American allies in Europe, weighs in on German elections in favor of the far-right, and pushes the idea of MEGA—Make Europe Great Again—it’s becoming increasingly clear that the relationships and dynamic between the U.S. and Western Europe is changing at a scale we haven’t seen in almost a century...
Part 1 - French and Belgian politicians foment jihadist conspiracy
Since the end of February 2020, thousands of refugees and migrants have been trying to cross the Greek border by way of Turkey, specifically in the border region along the Evros River, but also by boat to the Greek island...
Right-wing radicals and neo-fascists have become more powerful in Russia over the past few years. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the new, aggressively anti-communist government of Boris Yeltsin overthrew the weak social-democratic government of Mikhail Gorbachev, and two right-wing Russian structures merged. The émigré anti-communists, who had been nurtured...
Yarvin is a cheerleader for “neocameralism,” a system where states operate like corporations, prioritizing efficiency and governance by technocrats or capable leaders rather than elected officials
Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed...
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With the highest voter turnout in two decades (50.5%), the recently held European parliamentary elections were clearly viewed with special importance by Europe’s citizens. The outcome was marked by considerable losses of the center factions in the European...
Of all European elections, the one scheduled for May 23-26, 2019, which will decide the composition of the 9th European Parliament, may be the most unpredictable, as well as the most important, in the history of the European Union. Far-right forces may gain unprecedented ground, with polls suggesting that they...
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...
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...
