カテゴリー: The far right
Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary ‘there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted’Europe live – latest updatesHundreds of Afghans previously promised sanctuary in Germany have been told they are no longer welc…
Analysts say the Japanese are suffering a crisis of confidence that is feeding xenophobia amid economic insecurity and a record number of foreign residents The emergence of a rightwing populist party in Japan’s upper house election on Sunday running on…
Ballot heaps pressure on Shigeru Ishiba’s minority government just as it attempts to negotiate deal to avert Trump tariffs Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future was unclear on Monday after his coalition lost its upper house majority in electi…
Whenever mainstream politicians begin to mutter about infiltrators, fifth columnists and failed assimilation, that smell of sulphur is fascism in the airThe problem with “fascism” as a description of any modern political tendency is that the term is a …
Report finds ‘alarming’ rise in extremism, with Islamist groups and cyber-attacks also posing dangersA surge in far-right violence, Islamist extremism and cyber-attacks from Russia and China are putting German democracy under “significant” threat, the …
Man worked as assistant to Maximilian Krah, top candidate in European parliament elections, say prosecutorsA close adviser to a leading member of Germany’s far-right populist Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD) has been arrested on suspicion on spy…
Far-right Hindu nationalists are giving women prominence to mobilise others, but regressive patriarchal systems are embedded in their ideologyIt all started in the family WhatsApp group. A member of my extended family posted photos and videos of firewo…
Questions have been raised over laws governing school boards after Philip Arps nominated for a position at a multicultural Christchurch collegeA white nationalist convicted of what a judge called “in effect a hate crime” towards Muslims is standing for…
Report warns that rise in support for conspiracy theories is fuelling recruitment for far rightSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than a quarter of people believe Covid-19 was likely to have been a biological weapon intentionally spread by the Chines…
Britain First makes anti-migrant videos at hotels amid warning issue being used to whip up hateThe evacuation of thousands of Afghan refugees to the UK after Kabul fell to the Taliban has triggered an increase in far-right groups targeting hotels where…
French president draws criticism for saying country must ‘protect itself from a wave of migrants’ Emmanuel Macron has been accused of pandering to the far right after he said France should have a robust plan to “anticipate and protect itself from a wav…
The 16-year-old is the first person in the country to be detained for being ‘inspired by far-right extremist ideology’A 16-year-old who was arrested in Singapore for allegedly planning a terror attack on two mosques was inspired by the Australian who c…
I worry we don’t have enough resources and skills locally to adequately monitor threats in our communityIn the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped New Zealand would finally stop believing it was immun…