Far-right politics

Two police special guards were arrested on Monday for physically assaulting a man taking part in a far-right demonstration on Sunday in the Athens suburb of Ambelokipi later that night.

The two officers were identified in a video doing the rounds on the internet.

In April of 1947, in the midst of the civil war, the leader of the Nationalist Party (renamed People's Party in 1920), Theodoros Tourkovasilis, while speaking to the Greek Parliament, mentioned Switzerland in passing: "I was recently given the chance to admire this people and to see the fine organization of this state up close. Switzerland is indeed a masterpiece of a state.

The National Intelligence Academy, a newly established institution within Türkiye's intelligence service MİT, has unveiled its first study report shedding light on the surge of right-wing extremist movements in Europe.

Teachers and students alike in the central Greek city of Volos were stunned this week by the sight of threatening, nationalist and racist slogans on the walls of their school campus.

One woman was injured and 13 people were arrested on Wednesday night in clashes between far-right groups and anti-fascists in central Athens, following gatherings on the 10th anniversary of the murder of two members of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. 

A total of 60 people were detained. 

A group of 21 Italian neo-fascists were apprehended at Athens International Airport late on Tuesday, as reported by the police.

The group, members of the far-right group CasaPound, intented to attend a rally on Wednesday afternoon, commemorating the 2013 killing of two members of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn outside the party's offices in Neo Iraklio, northern Athens.

Greek police and intelligence services are monitoring activity at the country's borders for the possible arrival of neo-Nazi and other far-right demonstrators responding to a call from local like-minded groups planning a rally in Athens on Wednesday.

Greek Police on Thursday banned all public rallies and protest marches in Attica on November 1, which marks the 10-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of two members of the now-defunct, Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party, citing a "risk to public safety" and the possibility of violence.

The United Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat (KEERFA), one of the country's more active groups in raising awareness over hate crimes, has reported a spike in what appears to be racially motivated attacks against migrant workers.

I have begun to wonder whether the term "extreme right" is the most suitable one for us to understand the wide range of politics adopted by significant sections of the population and which include radical, conservative (reactionary) concepts, extreme nationalism and nativism, the rejection of experts and institutions, suspicion towards local and foreign elites, and antagonism towards migrants a