Archive for the ‘Northern Europe’ Category
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
News from Malmo
Malmo in Sweden has become an icon for many of the rising tide of antisemitism in Europe. In that light, this report (via icare) is interesting: Hate crimes against Jews living in Malmö, in southern Sweden, are growing less common, reported Swedish radio station SR. The number of reported crimes are less than half as many […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism, Northern Europe | 1 Comment
Tags: antisemitism, Davis Cup, Hate crime, Malmo, sweden
A long and well-worth reading post at Z-Word: The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo, a guest post by Christian Tau of NIJ, about Eirik Eiglad’s recently published The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo. I find the post somewhat problematic because of this passage: A left-wing activist Author Eirik Eiglad is the editor of Communalism, a journal which […]
Filed under: Antifa, Fascism and antisemitism, Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, Northern Europe | 6 Comments
Tags: AFA, Antifa, Eirik Eiglad, Norway, Oslo
Variousness 8
Illustrations in this post from Stickerkitty. // Germany: Hebrew and English banned for Quds day (but police say sorry…). Don’t let religion trump human rights. Merkel’s pro-Russianism. Meet Germany’s next foreign minister: Guido Westerwelle. // UK: Antifa England debunk the Aryan Martyrs Brigade. The BNP is anti-worker. TUC should focus on Iran, not Israel. // Sweden: […]
Filed under: Antifa, germany, Northern Europe, the poverty of anti-imperialism | 1 Comment
Tags: Al-Quds day, Aryan Martyrs Brigade, BNP, FragFM, germany, Guido Westerwelle, Holocaust, holocaust denial, Holocaust revisionism, iran, Israel boycott, Jerusalem Day, Libya, Lyndon LaRouche, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Siemens, Timothy Garton Ash, TUC
Variousness 5
The Revolutionary Communist Party and its “liberal” comrades. Radical Leftists, Neo-Nazis, and other “Anti-Zionists” in a Tizzy Over the Launching of Z Street. Germany’s Obama: Cem Ozdemir’s support for Israel is considered unshakable. (Via Greens Engage) Poland in Pictures. Gelman and Good Dictatorships. Steve Cohen: Writing as a Jewish traitor – An imagined disputation with my comrades […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism, germany, Northern Europe | 2 Comments
Tags: Aftonbladet, anti-racism, antisemitism, blood libel, Bob Avakian, Cem Ozdemir, Die Grunen, Donald Boström, germany, Green Party, Holocaust, Islam Channel, Israel, Italy, John Rees, Mike Huckabee, MRZine, nazi, Nazi analogy, NGOs, Palestine, Poland, racism, RCP, Steve Cohen, Stop the War, sweden, Uighurs, Wolfgang Pohrt, Z Street, Zionazi
From Malmo
From the Davis Cup: Anja and Engage. Note this pic: “Antifa” activists again deployed alongside fascists, and minimising the Holocaust too.
Filed under: Antifa, Northern Europe, the anti-Zionism of idiots | 2 Comments
Tags: Antifa, Davis Cup, Israel, Malmo, sweden, tennis
Nazi squatters
From Alert! (in Searchlight November 2008): Police ejected a bunch of violent nazis, on 11 October, from a dilapidated mansion they had occupied in the small village of Monster, near The Hague in the south of Holland, after a series of clashes with local youngsters. The eviction took place in the early hours with riot […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism, Northern Europe | Leave a Comment
Tags: Monster, Netherlands, squat, squatters, squatting
Variousness 3
Music: Uncarved on dubstep releases. Django on the best music of 2008. Octopus 2: Fresh poulp. Antisemitism and conspiracy theory: Special feature: Scandanavia: Manfred Gerstenfeld on Norway as a new paradigm for antisemitism. Jonathan Leman and Gudmondson on the Swedish Social Democrat supporters of Hezbollah. Francis Sedgemore on the Danish intifada. Principia Dialectica on critical […]
Filed under: Anti-anti-Zionism, Fascism and antisemitism, music, Northern Europe | Leave a Comment
Tags: Denmark, dubstep, Gaza, George Orwell, Holocaust, Israel, Jim Slepper, Naomi Klein, Norway, Palestine, sweden
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Filed under: Antifa, Fascism and antisemitism, Northern Europe, the poverty of anti-imperialism | 1 Comment
Anti-National Translation 