Archive for the ‘Left-right convergence’ Category
Left/right convergence in France
Several items from Tendance Coatesy, on the Voltaire Network, on the French far right’s links to Putinism, and on Godard’s fascist turn. 1. On Franklin Lamb and France’s Assad supporters: Counterpunch has published some well-informed reports on the unfolding civil war in Iraq, notably by Patrick Cockburn. The same cannot be said for the latest piece by […]
Filed under: France, Left-right convergence, Middle East | 1 Comment
Tags: Aleksandr Dugin, Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin, Ataka, Aymeric Chauprad, Counterpunch, Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections, Franklin Lamb, Front National, Heinz-Christian Strache, Jean-Luc Godard, Konstantin Malofeev, Marine Le Pen, Parti Anti Sioniste, Parti communautaire national-européen, Rassemblement Bleu Marine, Réseau Voltaire, russia, Syria, Thierry Meyssan, Volen Siderov, Voltaire Network
This is from Shiraz Socialist: The following warning to the Left comes from Gerry Gable of Searchlight, the UK’s longest-established anti-fascist publication. It was published on 1st June, the day before the inaugural meeting of ‘Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine’: The so-called Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine has called a meeting on the evening of Monday 2 June at SOAS. […]
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Tags: Aleksandr Dugin, Borotba, Donetsk People Republic, Gerry Gable, Lyndon LaRouche, Natalya Vitrenko, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, russia, Russia Today, Schiller Institute, Searchlight, Ukraine
Jazz jihad
This article, by Brian Chasnoff, is the the San Antonio Express-News: Kory Cook, music director at KRTU-FM Jazz for San Antonio, said the radio station at Trinity University just “dodged a bullet,” but it’s probably more accurate to say it dodged a “quenelle.” The hand gesture, widely seen as a reverse Nazi salute, is familiar to […]
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Tags: American Free Press, Brian Chasnoff, Dieudonné, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Gilad Atzmon, Mark Dankof, quenelle, Trevor LaBonte, Willis Carto
Greek anti-antifa
A third Greek/fascism post in a row. This story has been chronically underreported: A Holocaust memorial in Rhodes was spray-painted with swastikas. The Holocaust Memorial to the Jews of Rhodes in the Jewish Martyrs Square — the old Jewish Quarter — was defaced Saturday on its six sides. The initials AME also were spray-painted on […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism, Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, Greece, Left-right convergence, national anarchism and autonomous nationalism | 2 Comments
Tags: Greece, Greek Helsinki Monitor, Ανένταχτοι Μαιάνδριοι Εθνικιστές, Rhodes
From Tendance Coates, with apologies for some added hyperlinks and gently corrected typos: Counterpunch’s friend Israël Adam Shamir does not only write about Dreyfus on Entre la Plume et l’Enclume (between the Pen and the Anvil). He, for example, wrote a vibrant defence of Gilad Atzmon on the same site earlier this year […] calling him “un volcan vivant, un titan pourvu d’un sens de […]
Filed under: Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, France, Left-right convergence, Middle East, the poverty of anti-imperialism | 1 Comment
Tags: Ahmed Moualek, Alain Soral, Alexander Cockburn, Anti-imperialism, Égalité & Réconciliation, Centre Zahra, Counterpunch, Dieudonné, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Entre la Plume et l’Enclume, France, Gilad Atzmon, Ginette Skandrani, holocaust denial, Hussein Triki, Israël Adam Shamir, Israel Shamir, La Banlieue S’exprime, Le Mouvement des damnés, María Poumier, new right, Nouvelle Droite, Parti antisioniste, Raba Serbout, Réseau Voltaire, Robert Faurisson, Roger Garauday, Samya Ayari, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Syria, Yahia Gouasmi
Strange alliances?
AFP, via Allvoices, via Little Richardjohn on Twitter. A Serbian Facebook page in support of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi which has gathered more than 46,000 “likes” was set up by an ultranationalist movement, its administrator said Thursday. “It’s all simply about support to Libyan people defending their independence,” administrator Igor Marinkovic of the minority extreme nationalist […]
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Tags: Muammar al-Gaddafi, Serbia
To add to the German article, “Class-Strugglers against their own Will: The German Communist Party and the Antisemitism in Weimar Republic“, by Olaf Kistenmacher that I already linked to, here are two more texts, this time in English, by Olaf, from the Engage journal: From ‘Judas’ to ‘Jewish Capital’: Antisemitic Forms of Thought in the German […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism, germany, Left-right convergence | 3 Comments
Tags: anti-zionism, antisemitism, communism, German Communist Party, Jewish capital, Judas, KPD, left antisemitism, Olaf Kistenmacher, Weimar Republic
Ecological Headstand
A recommendation for Tom Walker’s blog. Here’s some stuff from it: OSLOndon In a late note to editors on the topic of the flaneur, Walter Benjamin discussed the customer’s empathy for the commodity and the commodity’s empathy for the customer. Instead of “work adorning the citizen” (“Arbeit ist des Bürgers Zierde”), in industrial society the […]
Filed under: Conspiracy theoey, critique and theory, Fascism and antisemitism, Left-right convergence, Northern Europe, The right | Leave a Comment
Tags: Anders Breivik, conspiracy theory, Critical theory, Cultural conservatism, Cultural Marxism, Frankfurt School, Martin Jay, Max Horkheimer, right-wing extremism, Tom Walker, Walter Benjamin, William Lind, William S Lind
Anti-National Translation 