MothraAttack posted:

Al Jazeera is reporting that Nikos Mihaloliakos, leader of the Golden Dawn, has been arrested on charges yet unknown.

Strudel Man posted:

'Causing a shipwreck' in particular is pretty eyebrow-raising. Though that might be a mistranslation.

Darth Walrus posted:

UKIP teaming up with Wilders and the FN? Being members of EFD was bad enough, but man, they're really not even making a token effort to hide what they are now, are they?

EDIT: Ah, they said no. Guess Farage still has some savvy after all.

Mans posted:

French, British and Dutch nationalists don't seem like the type of nationalists that bond well together. What's next, an alliance between Polish and Russian nationalists?

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Protesters jeered "murderer" today as the body of a notorious Nazi was taken to a church for a funeral outside Rome that had been banned by the Catholic Church.

The body of former SS officer Erich Priebke was to be cremated, but it is unclear where his ashes will go. So far, no country has said it was willing to accept his remains.

Priebke died Friday at the age of 100 while serving the last 17 years of a lifetime prison sentence under house arrest in Rome.

Priebke was reviled in Italy for carrying out the massacre of 335 Italian civilians, including 57 Jews, in 1944 at the Ardeatine Caves in Rome. The slaughter was in retaliation for the killing of 33 German soldiers by resistance forces in the center of Rome during World War II.

The funeral came on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Italy on Wednesday. This year, the date will mark the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Roman Jews in 1943, many of whom died in Nazi concentration camps.

The Rome Vicariate, which overseas churches in the city and province, promptly announced in a statement soon after Priebke's death that no public funeral would be granted to him in the city or outskirts of Rome. Officials cited canon law which states that a funeral may be denied to "manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful."

But a splinter group of Catholic priests called the Society of St. Pius X who object to the Vatican's outreach to Jews and other reforms agreed to hold Priebke's funeral at the chapel of their institute at Albano Laziale.

As the hearse bringing the coffin arrived outside the society's church, people in the crowd slammed their fists and umbrellas on the car and shouted "We are all anti-fascist!" and "Priebke, murderer!" the Associated Press reported.

...

Priebke's son, Jorge, who still lives in Argentina, is quoted in the Italian media saying what happened to his father "an injustice" and said that "the trial against my father was all invented by the Jews."

Emden posted:

I'm slightly younger than you are

Guildencrantz posted:

A move away from orthodox Marxism isn't the end of the world.

Enjoy posted:

That's real interesting, do you have a source

Install Windows posted:

Is the 70th largest economy figure from 1996 too? Also is that "54th in the world" for per capita or just raw numbers?

HighClassSwankyTime posted:

Neither do you, if you actually think killing everyone you disagree with leads to... anything.

SSJ2 Goku Wilders posted:

The Identitäre bewegung has finally reached the Netherlands then?

Pollyanna posted:

hahaha hey this thing looks cool. lets tack it onto my screenname without even bothering to look it up

Jedit posted:

Yes, but not my romantic silliness. When you say things like "I will be killed for what I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyway because it is necessary" then you want people to think you are making a noble sacrifice. When they came for Robespierre and he responded with panic - which is certainly the case whether he botched the suicide attempt (likely) or was shot in a struggle - his convictions were proven hollow.

SSJ2 Goku Wilders posted:

on the left posted:

Is part of the problem with immigration that skilled immigration is extremely difficult and the lion's share of immigrants are asylum seekers bringing a boatload of social problems along with them?

on the left posted:

Why not?

on the left posted:

US immigration policy is ruined by illegal immigration. We can't import smart skilled people because a bunch of the lowest rungs of Latin American society have immigrated illegally.

Shibawanko posted:

Teeven is a fascist piece of poo poo and belongs in jail.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Antisemitism is probably a topic where pan-European generalizations don't really work. ... while in the Netherlands the perpetrators are 80% 'white'.

Nonsense posted:

All anarchists were executed for being annoying by the Bolsheviks. I don't think they were really around to 'win' anything in Russia.

Mans posted:

Do i really need to pull out the "if anarchists were the bread and butter of the worker's struggle then how come the best they can come up with was firebombs, getting beaten by cops and failing to organize a single revolutionary state?" argument again?

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Reality! Now with Leninist bias!

You know you could actually post some loving proof that anarchists played a role in the revolution other than Kronstadt and a Ukrainian bandit instead of lamenting a supposed conspiracy to hide the "glorious successes" of anarchism.

quote:

At first it seemed to some Anarchists the revolution could inaugurate the stateless utopia they had long dreamed of. On these terms, some Bolshevik-Anarchist alliances were made. In Moscow, the most perilous and critical tasks during the October Revolution fell upon the Anarchist Dvinsk Regiment, led by the old libertarians Gratchov and Fedotov. It was they who dislodged the Whites from the Kremlin, the Metropole and other important defenses. and it was the Anarchist sailor Zhelezniakov who led the attack on the Constituent Assembly in October 1917. For a while, the Anarchists rejoiced, elated at the thought of the new age that Russia had won.

SWITCH HITLER posted:

posting superstar!!!!!

To bring the discussion back to Fascism in Europe, I posit that there's nothing more destructive to the cause of fighting fascism than a group of delusional ideologues who would rather tear the state down to nothing, and not even try to replace it because of reasons that nobody but said ideologues can comprehend.

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Police had to box the Hungarian Neo-nazis in at Holborn subway station to protect them from antifascist demonstrators, who waved banners with the slogan “No Nazis, no Golden Dawn, no Jobbik, no BNP.” Jobbik hoped Hungarians living in London would come to their rally, instead they found them protesting against them: “I’m a Hungarian Jew: you murdered my family”, one man shouted at them, as the police dragged him away.”

Omi-Polari posted:

He also advocates establishing ties to the radical left on areas of mutual agreement: anti-capitalism, anti-globalization, etc.

NihilismNow posted:

SP always polls great, watch them lose all of those gains and more in the 2 weeks before the election. Also the SP is coming from a rather weak position so it should really be considered a return to normal.
Not that it matters if the results should actually favour the SP. Even the labour party prefers to cooperate with the neo-liberal VVD before the (supposedly idealogically closer) SP. Most parties have shown themselves willing to co-operate with the quasi fascist PVV where almost no one will cooperate with the SP. I have to agree with the sentiment that the elites would rather tolerate fascists than socialists.

quote:

8. (C) In a separate meeting with the Ambassador on May 17,
PvdA member (and close Bos advisor) Frans Timmermans rejected
outright any possibility of forming a coalition government
with SP. Timmermans stressed that Bos recognizes that even
to hint at such a possibility would alienate large numbers of
centrist voters both within and to outside the PvdA. In his
view, it would be foolish for the PvdA to trust anyone "who
used to be a communist."

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A firebombing attack last night in Hamburg killed 3 asylum seekers (a woman and 2 children) and injured 20. This comes after weeks of huge protests by asylum seekers, anarchists, and others defending squatted social centers and houses in the city from eviction.

Noctis Horrendae posted:

Reading the ramblings of a madman is arguably one of the most interesting things you can so when you run out of proper reading material.

Torrannor posted:

The latest news revealed that this had nothing to do with fascism. It was a 13 year old boy who is member of the youth fire department. He confessed the crime, and is now in psychological treatment (in Germany, children under 14 year old cannot be held accountable for any crimes the commit, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_infancy).

So while this was a big tragedy it was at least not motivated by xenophobia.

Ardennes posted:

That said, there is evidence of fascist symbols and Right Sector flags out there. In addition, there were other groups (such as Svoboda).

quote:

A far-right mayoral candidate of Paris’s upmarket 6th arrondissement has apologised after writing on his blog that Roma (Gypsies) should be “concentrated” in “camps”.

Elliptical Dick posted:

I am severely disheartened by the lack of a strong response from the other parties re: Wilders' statement about Moroccans. "The less, the better" is reminiscent of every call to ethnic cleansing ever and imo borderline incitement to harm or kill.

visceril posted:

I don't get it.

Why are politicians so afraid of being called meanies by the right-wing press?

Orange Devil posted:

and I still maintain that anyone who lets his entire professed worldview and ideology (dude apparently used to be a Marxist and in his Leefbaar Nederland commencement speech or w/e he literally talks about this) get shattered by 19 fundamentalists in some planes is a loving coward more than anything else.

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Verdonk was a member of the activist group Bond voor Wetsovertreders (BWO; English: Union for Lawbreakers) which had close ties with the far-left Pacifist Socialist Party. [...]

Because of her activism during this period, she earned the nickname "Red Rita." In 2002 she became a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

In a 2006 article, some of Verdonk's friends and colleagues from her Nijmegen days expressed surprise at Verdonk's radical switch in political orientation after graduating in 1983. Some observed that Verdonk had never held outspoken left-wing ideals and was a critic of communist regimes, others hypothesized that it was part of a growing-up phase; a former treasurer of the BWO suspected that Verdonk had been a police informer all those years.

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Seven Lega Nord activists wanted to make a point by sailing a rubber dinghy from Italy to Tunisia to show how easy it is for asylum seekers to cross over in the opposite direction.

But their adventure ended in a farce.

The seven – brothers Diego and Giovanni Murtaro, Michele Brambilla, Gino Troisi, Giacomo Gremini, Fausto Sarti and Remo Girenni, aided and abetted by party secretary Matteo Salvini – left Modena, their home town, early one morning and drove to Melito di Porto Salvo, in the extreme south of Italy, next to Reggio Calabria, where they boarded the rubber dinghy they had brought with them, flying the Lega Nord flag.

But when they were near Malta, the dinghy’s motor caught fire. After they had put out the fire, the Leghisti tried to launch a distress signal. Somehow, however, the launcher must have been facing the wrong direction, for the flare pierced the rubber dinghy and they all ended up in the sea.

A second distress flare was launched and this time the Maltese Armed Forces were informed and saved the activists from the sea.

Apart from being ridiculed all over the Italian press, and even in the Lega Nord paper itself, the seven will now have to pay for being saved from the sea.

Instead of covering themselves with glory, they only succeeded in covering themselves with ridicule. And they actually proved that it is easy for sea trips of this sort to end in tragedy – and in Malta, where neither they nor asylum seekers want to land.

Rutkowski posted:

Apparently the news was a hoax but goddamn it was a fun one.