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Anarchist News Review: Anti-fascist crackdown, Stock market falls, new BDS and predicting murder

Anarchist News Review: Anti-fascist crackdown, Stock market falls, new BDS and predicting murder

“There’s a strong tradition of far-right activism in universities, anti-fascists have been trying to combat that and they’ve been demonised for it” ~ Mike Finn joins us to talk about Austria’s targeting of anti-fascists barely a month after being forced into a three-party coalition to shut out the far-right, and how “liberal order” governments across

Crackdown on anti-fascists in Austria

Crackdown on anti-fascists in Austria

Armed house searches and arrests in Graz following protest against right-wing student associations’ ball ~ Rob Latchford ~ Police in Graz, Austria have arrested seven anti-fascists over the past two weeks on orders of the public prosecutor’s office. The operation began in the early morning of 14 March, when an apartment in the city was

Hate fascism, hate the spectacle: Far right wins Austrian elections

Hate fascism, hate the spectacle: Far right wins Austrian elections

Instead of self-righteous identity politics, our practice should oppose fake empowerment narratives ~ Anon Grata ~ A right-wing populist party has won the elections in yet another European country—but as the international media reminds us, it’s not any country: it’s both the birthplace of the leader of historical Nazi-Fascism, and the cradle of modern post-fascist

Austria: thousands protest against government’s anti-migrant policy

Austria: thousands protest against government’s anti-migrant policy

Thousands of people took to the streets of Vienna last Saturday to protest the country’s ruling coalition of conservatives and far- right. The protest was held a year since Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party (OeVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) formed government in December 2017. Amid snowfall and sub-zero temperatures, the organisers estimate

Austria: 12-hour work day approved by the parliament

With the votes of the coalition government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz’s conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Nationalist Liberal Party, as well as the votes of the neo-liberal opposition party NEW (New Austria), the Austrian Parliament  approved the controversial law to allow 12-hour work days. The new law will come to force on 1st September