Alana Goodman — ADL Poll: 85% of Greeks Believe the Jews Have Too Much Power Over Global Finance

A new poll by the Anti-Defamation League found that the majority of Greeks continue to hold anti-Semitic views about Jewish control over finance and the global economy, despite a recent drop in anti-Jewish attitudes in other parts of Europe.
Greece—which faces the prospect of economic default at midnight on Wednesday—surpasses Iran and trails just slightly behind Turkey in the percentage of its residents who hold anti-Semitic views.

In total, 67 percent of Greek respondents agreed with the majority of a list of anti-Semitic statements included in the survey. Other European countries, particularly France and Germany, have experienced a decrease in overall anti-Semitic attitudes in the wake of recent attacks on Jews.

According to the ADL poll, 90 percent of Greeks agreed with the statement that “Jews have too much power in the business world” and 85 percent agreed “Jews have too much power in international finance markets.”

In addition, 70 percent said that “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust” and 51 percent said “Jews don’t care about what happens to anyone but their own kind.”

Over one-quarter of respondents also said they believe the number of Jews reported to have died in the Holocaust has been “greatly exaggerated.” One-third said Jews are “responsible for most of the world’s wars” and 41 percent agreed that “People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.”

Still think that Greece isn't ripe for a rightist government?

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ADL Poll: 85% of Greeks Believe the Jews Have Too Much Power Over Global Finance

Alana Goodman

Leningrad — ROT FRONT: ‘Fascists have no place in our city!’

On March 22, our city will host the so-called "International Russian Conservative Forum,” which will bring together representatives of extreme right-wing, nationalist and openly neo-Nazi parties in Europe. The event is organized with the support of the “Motherland” [Rodina] party led by a member of the "United Russia" Duma faction, Alexander Zhuravlyov.

ROT FRONT believes that holding such a forum for representatives of Nazi and fascist organizations in the country that defeated fascism is unacceptable. 

Among the participants are the Greek Golden Dawn, which has repeatedly openly admitted being sympathetic to Hitler. Its logo is a stylized swastika, and membership is strictly specified by nationalist standards. Activists of the Golden Dawn are guilty of numerous crimes in Greece, committed on the basis of ethnic hatred.

The National Democratic Party of Germany, which will also take part in the forum, established in the 1960s by supporters of National Socialist ideas, dreams of reviving the Third Reich. Any street event by the NPD causes massive protests by German anti-fascists and all honest people in Germany, mindful of the brown plague of the last century.

Also coming are nationalists and xenophobes of Sweden (Party of the Swedes), Denmark (Danish Party), Austria (Freedom Party). The neo-Nazi fringe of the British National Party will be there.

It is noteworthy that one of the organizers of this nationalist Sabbath is the “Motherland” party, which calls itself "Putin’s special forces" and expresses its full support for the Kremlin's policy. Despite the constant talk about the struggle against fascism during the large-scale preparations for celebrating the 70th anniversary of Victory Day, a pro-government party invites neo-Nazis from across Europe to the city that survived the Nazi blockade. No official from the Kremlin or Smolny has spoken out against this shameful event held just six weeks before May 9.

Event organizers are trying to hide behind the argument that the right-wing parties appear to support Russia and oppose anti-Russian sanctions by the West over Crimea and support for the anti-fascist struggle of Donbass. However, this is an outright lie. 

These parties do not support the fight against fascism, but the rightward policy of Russia and Putin personally. They support the injection of nationalist hysteria in all countries, including in Europe, Russia and Ukraine. They satisfy the needs of large capital for an injection of national tension as a cover for anti-working class, reactionary policies in all countries.

All this suggests that the Russian authorities feel their spiritual kinship with the ultra-right, practice imperial ideology, preach anti-communism and anti-Sovietism, and increasingly show signs of reactionary and fascist trends in its internal politics.

Stop the spread of fascism -- it is up to the workers in Russia and around the world!

Leningrad Committee, ROT FRONTMarch 20, 2015

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Translated by Greg Butterfield

Red Star Over Donbass

Leningrad ROT FRONT: ‘Fascists have no place in our city!’

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After being being reelected in 2012, Vladimir Putin reinvented himself as a defender of conservative Christian values, a change of tack apparent in the arrest of the Pussy Riot band members for “insulting believers." Another cornerstone of his ideology is the Soviet victory in the war with Nazi Germany. Russian propaganda paints Putin as an “anti-fascist” who opposes what the Kremlin calls the rise of neo-fascism in Ukraine, which Russia invaded last year. 

These two ideological lines clashed at the forum, as both the timing and the choice of venue played against the organizers. The gathering was held as the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe approaches and in the city where nearly 700,000 died during the 900-day siege of Leningrad, as it was then known.

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Nick Robins-Early — A Field Guide To Europe's Radical Right Political Parties

From Greece and France to Sweden and Denmark, Europe's far-right parties have taken the spotlight in recent months. Trading on sometimes vitriolic anti-euro, anti-immigrant sentiment, as well as renewed security fears, parties of the far-right have taken the center stage in protests and elections. 

These parties have not emerged overnight. In fact, many have lingered on the fringe of Europe's political landscape for decades. The WorldPost presents a guide to some of the most prominent radical right parties active in Europe today.

You can't tell the players without a scorecard, Huffington Post version.

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A Field Guide To Europe's Radical Right Political Parties
Nick Robins-Early | The Huffington Post

Yves Smith — Outlook Darkens for Syriza and Greece

Greece's finances look to be more precarious than previously thought, which puts Syriza in an even weaker bargaining position.

The real threat to the EU and EZ is not Greece but France.

That optimistic possibility now looks hopeless. Syriza is finding its options narrowing dramatically. And as we will discuss shortly, a Grexit is not something the government wants or is seeking, and for good reason. But the short-sighted pounding of Greece will if nothing else play into the hands of Marine Le Pen, the rabidly anti-Eurozone leader of Front National. A Le Pen victory in the French presidential elections of 2017 would mean a rapid departure by France, an almost certain fatal blow to the Eurozone project. So even if a victory over Syriza winds up looking decisive, it is likely to prove to be Pyrrhic.

Why Syriza won't actually push the exit button.

Evans-Pritchard’s assessment is that Syriza is willing to play an extreme form of a game of chicken because the costs to the Eurozone will be high if Greece is forced out. He like many observers believe that once the Rubicon of defining exit mechanisms is crossed, other exits are inevitable. The idea that a Grexit will be contained, even if it is “contained” in the immediate sense of limited immediate financial contagion, will prove to be illusory as the spring 2007 delusion that the subprime criss would be contained.
And let me again stress that Varoufakis sincerely believes that a Grexit would be a disaster for Greece. The idea that Syriza is executing a nefarious plan to produce a Grexit while looking blameless to Greek voters is implausible. The damage to the Greek economy, not just short term but longer-term, would almost assure Syriza’s ouster and pave the way for big gains by the Nazi party Golden Dawn. This is what Varoufakis wrote in 2012 on why a Grexit was a terrible idea (emphasis original)

It's looking more and more likely that eurocrat intransigence may end darkly, with rightist ascendency in Europe — the very thing that the euro was established to preclude from ever happening again.

Yves brings in a lot of other relevant information. I've just emphasized one particular point.

Naked Capitalism
Outlook Darkens for Syriza and Greece
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system failure — Greece: when neoliberal dictatorship threatens with a military dictatorship!

...the message is clear: either you will accept neoliberal dictatorship, or, you will get a military one!

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Greece: when neoliberal dictatorship threatens with a military dictatorship!
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