Fascism

A new academic study by the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) argues that the authoritarianism of Turkey?s ruling party has gone beyond the political sphere to include all of society, including the cultural and economic spheres. As a result, Turkey is sliding toward a ?semi-totalitarian? regime.

A new academic study by the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) argues that the authoritarianism of Turkey?s ruling party has gone beyond the political sphere to include all of society, including the cultural and economic spheres. As a result, Turkey is sliding toward a ?semi-totalitarian? regime.

Novinite is publishing an analysis by Simeon Nikolov, Director of the Center for Strategic Research in the field of Security and Internal Relations, a Bulgaria-based think-tank.

The newly-formed Anti-Fascist League will attempt to tackle what it says are the growing pro-fascist and extreme nationalist tendencies in Croatian society.
 

Hundreds of people have gathered at Syntagma Square in downtown Athens on Saturday afternoon, where several events were being held to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racism.

One day after Golden Dawn staged its main campaign rally in Athens, footage emerged Thursday showing supporters of the neofascist party chanting "Sieg Heil" and singing the German national anthem to SS and Nazi war flags.

Authoritarianism has always been both a "show of power" and an "expression of weakness." The rise of authoritarianism has always been the result of the failure of smooth and peaceful governance; in other words, it has always been an outcome of the "failure to reach consensus" among different interests and views, and of the inability to manage politics without using force and suppression.

Hungary summoned the United States' top diplomat in the country on Dec. 3 to protest comments by U.S. Senator John McCain branding Prime Minister Viktor Orban a "neo-fascist dictator."       

BELGRADE - The International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism was marked on Sunday with a memorial concert by the Borislav Pascan Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at the National Theatre.

Fascism has been defeated, but it is not gone, warned Minister of Veteran Affairs Aleksandar Vulin at a ceremony organised by the Serbian government.

The trial of two Golden Dawn members, accused of attacking anti-fascist activists in Piraeus two years ago, was due to begin on Monday but has been postponed until April next year.

The court postponed the trial after deeming that one of the two suspects had not been summoned properly. The other is already in pretrial custody as part of the main judicial probe into the neo-Nazi party.