Translated "Avante!" article by Angelo Alves, Member of the PCP Political Committee
International media has been highlighting the right-wing outcome concerning the first round in France’s local elections. “Europe’s extremisms danger” sound the alarm. Therefore, one ought to be aware of what this reality is, its causes and how to fight against it.
France’s situation is not unique. The right-wing has been reviving electorally in many of the European Union countries, incorporated in governments, working out its “institutionalisation”. The “Jobbik” in Hungry, highly organized, appalling the Gipsy and Jewish communities, comes third in the polls for the elections in April 6th, next. The “ True Finnish” in Finland, racist and xenophobe, achieved 19% of the votes, during the legislative elections , the third most voted force, in 2011. The “ Golden Aurora”, in Greece, and together with the government’s complicity, organized militias against immigrants and behind the violent attacks against communist militants, reached 7% of the elections votes, in June 2012.
The “ Party for Freedom” in the Netherlands, xenophobe, populist and Islamphobic, held a government agreement with the right-wing till 2012, having reached the 15.4% of votes in the elections.
In Sweden - a country where 5520 racial hatred crimes were committed in 2012, according to the Swedish National Crime Prevention Council - the “Swedish Democrats” party comes in third place in the polls for the end of this year’s elections, holding 10,8% of the vote intentions. In Denmark, the “ People’s Party”, which in exchange of its parliamentary support to conservative governments between 2001 and 2011 ( including Anders Rasmussen’s, the current NATO secretary-general) was able to approve an author anti-immigration bill, and with 10.1%, was the third most voted force in the local elections, in 2013. In Estonia, the minister of Defence, announced a message of support to members of the “Fighters Alliance for Estonia’s Freedom”, a Nazi organization, in 2013, ( which is composed by SS “veterans”) during their annual meeting. In Latonia, Lithuania and Poland, these countries’ governments have forces or colligations which incorporate the far right-wing ideology within the constitutional power. In Austria, the “ Freedom Party” reached almost 21% in the elections last year (2013). A party which stood in government as a colligation. In Great-Britain, the “UKIP” has been given great media importance, xenophobic and holding great hatred against Romanian immigrants, has gone up in the polls.
This is the EU framework, in brief and incompletely. But more than expressing concern, it is necessary to identify the causes and those responsible. The European Union civilization regression policy, together with the attempt of crashing national sovereignty is the major reason, as it holds in itself reactionary elements from the social point of view, nationalists, imposing the powers interests, upon a number of countries, and xenophobe, well patent in the explicit or implicit speech of Europe’s division between the “ wealthy, working and organized North” and the “ poor, lazy and irresponsible South”. But one ought to go beyond. Hollande and others like him, who currently appeal unto a “republican union” against the far right-wing are the very same who support the Fascist and Nazi forces in Ukraine, the same who support Israel’s racist policy or the reactionary religious forces amid Syria. And this reflexion takes us along to two others: firstly, Europe’s displacement unto the right-wing within the parties spectrum. The right wing defends and performs more and more far right-wing policies and social democracy follows behind, proceeding the very same policies in what concerns their essential nature, visible in France and in the “ Sacred Alliance”, which decides Europe’s path. The second, is that the strong communist parties, implanted amid the masses - carrying a real rupture alternative towards the right-wing and the EU policies, with a proved policy and an anti-Fascist unity heritage - and a class and masses union movement, which ought to stop Fascism’s pace. And this is our historical responsibility.
