Miguel Urban Crespo, a leading member of Izquierda Anticapitalista in the Spanish state, analyzed the rise of far-right forces in Europe for International Viewpoint.
October 11, 2010
EUROPE IS in crisis, and we are living through one of the worst anti-social and anti-labor offensives of our recent history... The crisis occurred at a time of retreat for the left--virtually across the continent, with honorable exceptions--while at the same time, for two decades, we have seen the emergence of neo-populist options of a totalitarian and xenophobic nature, starting with the growth of the National Front (FN, by its French initials) in France in the European elections of 1983.
Since then, it has been confirmed that the case of the FN was not an exception, but rather the model around which a new far right in Europe has been built. In the heat of the crisis, the far right is not only appearing "electorally" in parliaments where it has never had seats before, but is also growing and consolidating where it was already present.
In the most recent elections to the European parliament it was the ideological current that grew most, reaching 37 seats, and in various elections from 2009 onwards, it has continued to grow: in the Hungarian elections...in France... in Austria...the Northern League... in the north of Italy...in the Netherlands...
These organizations, while maintaining significant differences, the product of their disparate political, social and economic contexts, also maintain common features that allow us to speak of a break with the classic paradigms of inter-war fascism and which constitute a totalitarian neo-populism of a xenophobic stripe, a 21st century far right...
http://socialistworker.org/2010/10/11/far-right-thrives-on-crisis
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