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The truth lies in Chemnitz?
(2018)
"Germany to the Germans! Foreigners out" was the central slogan of the racist riots in the city of Rostock in 1992. For around three days, neo-Nazis controlled the streets in the plattenbau district of Lichtenhagen where the central registration for asylum-seekers (as well as a housing block of Vietnamese contract workers) were situated. ...
Am 20. April beginnt der lang erwartete Prozess gegen die Führungsriege und Mitglieder der sog. Sturmtruppen der griechischen Goldenen Morgenröte (Χρυσή Αυγή – XA). Insgesamt 69 Angeklagte müssen sich für die Bildung bzw. die Mitgliedschaft in einer kriminellen Organisation verantworten. Es stehen Anklagepunkte wie Mord, Körperverletzung, Bestechung und Schutzgelderpressung im Raum. Trotz der deutlichen Ausgangslage liegen die konkreten Organisationsstrukturen weithin im Dunkeln, wodurch eine Rädelsführerschaft schwer nachzuweisen ist. Andererseits wird der Prozess auch Verbindungen in den ‚politischen Mainstream‘ deutlicher machen als es manchem Akteur lieb sein wird, was wiederum neue Herausforderungen für die Unabhängigkeit des Verfahrens mit sich bringt...
Dass die russische Führung auf der Suche nach Verbündeten in Europa auch auf die extreme Rechte zurückgreift, wurde bereits mehrfach diskutiert und analysiert. Ebenso wurde deutlich, dass ganz verschiedene Akteure jenes heterogenen Zielpublikums in Russland wiederum den Hegemon sehen, an dessen Seite sie gegen die ‚neue Weltordnung‘ oder ‚westliche Werte‘ aufbegehren möchten. Die autoritäre Durchsetzung des nationalen / völkischen Interesses im Blick, verweist jenes Spektrum auf die Ideologie des Neo-Eurasismus als Anknüpfungspunkt für außen- und sicherheitspolitische Überlegungen. Die griechische Golden Dawn als stärkste Vertreterin des militanten Flügels der extremen Rechten Europas fügt jener strategischen Russophilie eine historisch-kulturelle Komponente hinzu und unterstreicht damit ihre revisionistischen Ansprüche...
This is the first article in our series Trouble on the Far-Right.
Europe is in trouble. Far right politics is spreading all over the place and its actors and discourses become increasingly influential at various levels: Parties from the far right achieved successes in French, Austrian and Slovakian elections. Far right movement organizations in Germany and Italy mobilized thousands of people to the streets. In Sweden and Great Britain, vigilante and terrorist groups wage armed struggle. And last but not least, ‚illiberal models of democracy‘ in Poland and Hungary demonstrate the far right’s capacity to transform politics on the European level...
This is the 27. and final article in our series Trouble on the Far-Right.
Trouble on the far right has become troubling for Europe. Not only do right-wing motivated attacks occur regularly against Roma camps, ethnic minorities, LGBTQI people and Jewish institutions. At the same time, a xenophobic discourse on refugees has gained momentum in politics and society and further blurred the lines between far right agitation and mainstream politics. In order to classify these events adequately, far right activism should not just be regarded as a security issue that can be eliminated by force, but as a threat that threatens the foundations of open, democratic and pluralist societies. Hence, we should be aware that far right politics are neither a new nor an isolated phenomenon but often bank on existing cultures of (gender, competitive, nativist) domination in capitalist societies.1
Certain developments have recently accelerated a radicalization of the political mainstream in terms of rhetoric, demands and policy outcomes and transformed the institutional landscape. The Slovakian parliamentary elections and the fateful presidential elections in Austria are central events during our 10-week blog series that prove the inherent dynamic. The right-wing government in Poland that has started removing fundamental rights and facilitated the spread of nationalist values is another example.
Contrary to the one-sided academic focus on elections, far right influence on European societies should be measured on three further levels: Massive street mobilizations epitomized by Pegida in Germany (and beyond) and the Italian Stop Invasione rallies, clandestine organizing such as the British far right militants and prospering relations between state authorities and far right movements, for example in Turkey, testify a growing diversification of far right activism. These scenarios demand methodologically and theoretically innovative perspectives. Our blog series Trouble on the Far Right has provided them with an international forum.
