Potsdam., German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, increasingly fragile at the national level, achieved respite this Sunday with a narrow victory for his social democratic party –SPD– against the extreme right, in an important regional election. According to calculations by public television channels ARD and ZDF, the SPD obtained just over 31 percent of the vote, compared … Read more
Brandenburg is a region that is used to punching above its weight. With just 2% of Germany’s population and a microeconomic economy, it completely envelops the capital, Berlin, and casts a long shadow over what happens in the nation’s government. The result of Sunday’s election, in which the Socialists have saved their necks against the … Read more
Germany is expected to stay up late tonight with its eyes on the Thuringia ballot box, fearful of the possibility that Monday will dawn in the federal state with the most extreme far-right government. All scenarios are possible. Far-right Holocaust denier Although he has repeatedly sat in the dock for using banned Nazi slogans, the … Read more
Efert/Dresde. Thousands of people took to the streets in the main cities of Thuringia and Saxony in eastern Germany on Sunday to protest against right-wing extremism, a week before regional elections in those states. Organisers counted 7,000 participants in front of the regional parliament building in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, while police said there … Read more
Javier Milei has once again found a wall in the Argentine Congress. This Wednesday, the opposition in the House of Representatives defeated with a large majority of votes a decree with his signature that increased by 100,000 million pesos (about 100 million dollars at the official exchange rate) the money destined for the State Intelligence … Read more
London. British police were bracing for another night of violence on Wednesday amid concerns that far-right groups were planning to attack up to 30 locations across the UK following a week of rioting and clashes. Authorities deployed some 6,000 specially trained officers to respond to the unrest across the country, and London’s Metropolitan Police said … Read more
London. Thousands of people took part in anti-racism marches in several UK cities on Tuesday evening, in protest against the violent far-right protests that have shaken the country for a week. During the day, security forces feared dozens of new racist and Islamophobic demonstrations and possible acts of violence, particularly against mosques and hotels hosting … Read more
Far-right riots in the UK have plunged the country into the worst wave of violence in more than a decade. The circulation of fake news The investigation into the identity of the murderer of three girls in Southport on 29 July, who some radical agitators linked to Islam and asylum seekers, has brought to light … Read more
Buenos Aires. The government of far-right President Javier Milei has sent a bill to Congress to allow the armed forces to participate in internal security, in the fight “against terrorism,” in the control of people and vehicles that may be considered suspicious, and to carry out “arrests in flagrante delicto.” In addition, it contemplates the … Read more
What is essential, before any consideration of the Nazi violence against racialized people that has been unleashed in England and Northern Ireland since July 30, is to clearly define what is happening. We are facing a violent political operation that is developing on several levels.from the streets to the networks, passing through the editorial offices … Read more