FRANCE – RN surges to huge new election records: Le Pen, fascism and the working class
Marine Le Pen and the fascist RN have won massive and unprecedented gains in the French parliamentary elections. We look at how it is building in the polls and on the streets – and among the working class.
HUNGARY: Orban crushes opposition as nazi OHM wins first seats in parliament
Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian far right Fidesz-led coalition stormed back to power in Hungary’s elections, with 53.10% of the vote, while the hardcore fascist Our Homeland Movement entered parliament for the first time. This result was worse than anyone predicted.
Rockabilly, Teddy Boys, racism, antiracism and that bloody flag!
Well, where would rock’n’roll be?
Without ya immigration or migration
Where would rock’n’roll be?
Well, there may not have been no country
May not have been no blues
No melting pot down in New Orleans
Well, that’s a hell of a thing to lose.
Antivaxxers use memory of anti-Nazi White Rose resistance to target school students
Antivaxxers are targeting school students down to primary school age – and disgracefully adopting the name of a German anti-Nazi resistance group
ANALYSIS: far right’s new turn via pop culture figures and politically diverse antivaxx movement
Fascists and Holocaust deniers are gaining a new, diverse audience from the antivaxx movement, reaching out with popular cultural figures and left-tinged rhetoric. It presents a more complex problems for antifascists than traditional fascist parties…
UPDATE: Tbilisi united against homophobia of state, church and far right thugs
TV cameraman Aleksandre (Lekso) Lashkarava, who was violently assaulted by far right thugs outside the headquarters of Tbilisi Pride, was found dead in his home last night by his mother. Now new pro-LGBT+ protests are planned