Companies respond to anti-Golden Dawn ad campaign

Twitter campaign launched after TV segment featured far-right MPs

A campaign initiated on Twitter has prompted numerous sponsors of a television segment featuring Golden Dawn officials to respond to consumer concerns. 

The campaign was launched after Skai TV’s Yiorgos Tragkas hosted four Golden Dawn MPs on his “Sniper” show on April 7. Following @ypopto_mousi’s call to boycott companies that advertsise on shows giving air time to the far-right party, a campaign emerged under the hashtag #xa_advertising. Soon, advertisers received hundreds of complaints.

Most of the companies - including WIND Ellas, Coca-Cola Tria Epsilon, Novartis Hellas, Lidl Hellas, among others - have stated they were previously unaware of the content featured on the show and, in some cases, that they will seek to not sponsor future similar segments. …

Golden Dawn candidate MP thrown in the sea at the harbour of Chania

Stelios Vlamakis, Golden Dawn candidate, was thrown in the sea at the Venetian port of Chania [Crete] by local residents reacting to the attacks against immigrants and other residents by Golden Dawn supporters at the centre of Chania.

The incident took place on Tuesday evening. Golden Dawn members were having fun till 18:30 in the evening at a cafeteria at Apokoronou Street, downtown Chania.

Around 10 Golden Dawn members had gotten extremely drunk since early afternoon, singing various anthems and giving the Nazi salute.

The place where they were having fun is just a few meters away from an AEK [football] fan club of Chania and around 70 meters away from the offices of the local committee of KKE [the Communist Party of Greece] that are located on the same street. …

Your porno TV channels called me guilty. I will rub the court’s decision in your face. We are powerful and soon we’ll be dominant.

These were the words last week of Ilias Kasidiaris, second in command of the Greek neo-nazi party Golden Dawn, after leaving the court where was acquitted of being an accessory to the bodily harm and armed robbery of a student in 2007.

In a courtroom occupied by Golden Dawn supporters who wouldn’t allow “others” to sit and who would throw abusive remarks at the victim and the witnesses through their teeth, the atmosphere was tense. …

REPORT: GOLDEN DAWN, 1980-2012. THE NEONAZIS’ ROAD TO PARLIAMENT

… They are not being truthful in the least: Golden Dawn is a neonazi organization, upgraded to a crowd-pleasing political party by riding on the wave of popular discontent with the established political system. Like their original source of inspiration –the German nazis– the neonazis of Golden Dawn have held views as varied as they are laughable, including mystical beliefs in the ancient Greek god Pan and other gods of Mount Olympus, as well as satanist beliefs dressed up in the theatrics of Black Metal music. They have also subscribed to wildly irrational or conspiratorial views, such as that the once no2 in the German nazi party Rudolph Hess was of Greek descent, or that Adolph Hitler roamed the streets of Berlin for forty days after his apparent suicide, only to ascend to the heavens at the end. …

Over 10,000 anti-fascist activists have formed a human chain in downtown Dresden in anticipation of a neo-Nazi march. The demonstration falls on the 68th anniversary of the WWII bombing that destroyed the city. …

Uproar as Golden Dawn set to open Australian office

Golden Dawn member of the Greek Parliament, Elias Kasidiaris, has told Radio 3XY that his Party plans to open an office in Melbourne and a delegation of parliamentarians will be visiting Australia soon.
The radical right party has toyed with opening offices in Australia and around the world, and believes there is demand for them here. 

Already, Golden Dawn have reportedly set up a New York office…

Be warned: if you want to see fascism on the rise, look no further…

… History has shown it is myth that radicalism encourages fascists to take over a country but, rather, is due to the acquiescence, either by design or otherwise, of the centrist parties of the state which adopt the view that an authoritarian approach is required to ‘save the country’ from crisis (i.e. to protect the wealthy). In 1967 elements in the Greek Government and military plotted with the king and, with US support, a military junta was set up (but it didn’t go quite as planned and King Constantine fled in exile), ostensibly against the ‘anarchist communists’, but in reality against wider leftist parties. Today, Greece faces such a crisis again and, again, one which has been created by the government. [Note: it was the rebellion of students and anarchists at the Polytechnic in Athens in 1973, that is credited as the catalyst that eventually led to the fall of the junta a few months later.] …

Fascist attacks on self-organised spaces repulsed

Supporters of the fascist Golden Dawn attacked self-organized spaces in the Athens’ neighbourhood of Zografou on Saturday night. The attack, which was beaten back, came as supporters of Golden Dawn and nationalists marched nearby.

The attackers broke off from a Golden Dawn and nationalist demonstration in Athens. The march was on the anniversary of the Imia incident, a clash in the 1990’s between Greece and Turkey over some deserted rocks in the Aegean which almost led to war. The media reports that around 5,000 fascists and nationalists from all over Greece took part in the march, though the same reports fail to mention the attack in Zografou.

As the protest ended a number of motorcyclists who accompanied the march broke off and headed to Villa Zografou and Berntes, two self-organised spaces in Zografou. The fascists attacked the buildings but in both cases were repulsed by people in the area. Some of the fascists needed hospital treatment and according to some reports one of those injured was taken to hospital 401 which is only for members of the police and armed forces. Following the attack the Villa was surrounded by heavy police forces as hundreds of people rushed to defend the spaces. The police forces eventually withdrew in the early hours. …

30,000 Golden Dawn Supporters March in Athens Under Neo-Nazi Banners

Tens of thousands of black-clad neo-Nazis have rallied in Athens in support of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party, in the movement’s biggest show of support since it emerged from obscurity to win 7 percent of the vote in last June’s general election. …

[“Why go to bother of spending time and money reading about world history, when we can just wait for it to repeat itself for free?”]