Socialist Worker: Greece’s anti-fascist struggle (Heinz Leitner)

„We must defeat the neo-Nazis“

The Greek government ordered the arrest of Nikolaos Michaloliakos and other leaders of the fascist Golden Dawn party after mass protests following the murder of a left-wing hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas. But the struggle against the neo-Nazis has been building for a long time, even before the far-right party got a significant share of the vote in national elections in 2012, winning them 18 seats in parliament. That anti-fascist struggle has also been against the coalition government, led by the center-right New Democracy and the center-left PASOK, which has allowed the far right to have a voice and grow.

The Internationalist Workers Left (DEA), a revolutionary socialist organization in Greece and member of the Left Platform in the Coalition of the Radical Left, or SYRIZA, issued this statement about the arrests of Golden Dawn leaders and the tasks in the struggle ahead….

http://socialistworker.org/2013/10/08/we-must-defeat-neo-nazis

Greece’s anti-fascist struggle

Kevin Ovenden, a national officer of Unite Against Fascism in Britain, analyzes the challenges facing the left in Greece as it confronts the menace of fascism.

http://socialistworker.org/2013/10/08/greece-and-the-anti-fascist-struggle