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,...
Dissecting Identity & Democracy: the EU’s new far-right super group
Ellen Rivera and Masha P. Davis - 2
Austria
Denmark
France
Belgium
Estonia
Germany
Czech Republic
Finland
Italy
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...
Collusion or Homegrown Collaboration? Connections between the German Far-Right and Russia
Marlene Laruelle and Ellen Rivera - 0
Executive Summary
The Russian-German far-right relationship encompasses three ecosystems: first, the main German far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), because of its electoral success and ability to influence “high politics”; second, several echo chambers—peripheral “think tank” institutions and individuals without visibility on the broad German political landscape; and third, the...
The head of
Rassemblement National (RN)—formerly known as Front National—Marine Le Pen (MLP) announced during her New
Year's greetings to the press on January 16, 2020, that she would be a candidate
in the 2022 presidential election. "One can’t improvise oneself as
president, one prepares for it" explained Marine Le Pen, in her
incessant...
Athens Dispatch: The Trial of Golden Dawn and the Normalization of the Far-Right Agenda
Andrew Lee - 0
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...
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...
Unraveling the Anti-choice Supergroup Agenda Europe in Spain: A Case Study of CitizenGo and HazteOir
Ellen Rivera - 1
While political analysts mostly focused on the refugee crisis as a major accelerator of the current far-right resurgence in Europe, much less attention has been paid to the (re)formation of an ultraconservative axis that, in 2013, appeared under the name “Agenda Europe.”
In his detailed report on the Agenda Europe...
Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party — Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
Andrew Lee - 0
“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...
Project 2025 bills itself as a comprehensive plan to undo decades of social progress - in its own words, to “dismantle the administrative state” and “return self-governance to the American people.” Democrats have jumped into using it and its connections to the Trump agenda and former staff as a reason to rally behind Joe Biden...
QAnon and the Recent “Storm on the Reichstag:” A Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Gone Global
FOIA Research - 9
August 29, 2020, will be remembered by Berliners as the day when a bizarre crowd of almost 40,000 Corona deniers came together from all over the country, among them hardcore neo-Nazis, Reich Citizens (Reichsbürger), Identitarians, anti-vaxxers, adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theory, and other proponents lured into the "crossfront" under an anti-scientific and conspiracist umbrella....









