Tag: far-right
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Brexit and the Mainstreaming of the Far-Right in Britain
The Brexit vote reflects a triumph for nativist political ideas that have long been espoused by radicals and extremists. Yet it would be unfair and indeed, completely absurd to argue that the 52% of Leave voters are extremists or even radicals. The vote to leave the EU has provided succour to right-wing populists across the…
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Whose Failure is the Rise of the Far Right?
In recent years several EU countries have been facing a growing support for far right parties. Slovakia, my home country, is not an exception here. A couple of years ago the Slovak Prime Minister and leader of the social democratic party Smer, Robert Fico was asked if he felt any personal responsibility in this matter.…
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We Need to Recognise Jo Cox’s Murder as an Act of Far-Right Terrorism
Published on 22. June 2016 by James Bartholomeusz and Paul Stocker In the early afternoon of Thursday 16 June, British MP Jo Cox was murdered. On the way to a local library for a meeting with her constituents, she was confronted by an armed man shouting “Britain first”. The man, Thomas Mair, proceeded to shoot…