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Fascists take power in Austria. Could they do the same in Australia?
Heinz-Christian Strache, a neo-Nazi in his youth and now the besuited leader of Europe’s most successful fascist party, is set to become Austria’s deputy prime minister.
The election on October 15 tipped out the coalition between the Socialists and the conservative People’s Party.
A new coalition between the racist neoliberals of the People’s Party and Strache’s Freedom Party is being negotiated.
With the Greens’ failure to tally the 4 per cent needed to gain any seats, there is now no clearly anti-racist party in the…
The previous government, under Socialist prime minister Christian Kern, presided over falling real wages and rising income and wealth inequality.
In an attack on…