Is the Far-Right due another [sic] millenarian rebirth?

The steady rise in fascist attacks will make us face up to our past, present and future.

The election of two far-right parties in Austria should have been a wake-up call to us all, but it's only on the pages of innit24 that it seems to be getting the coverage it deserves. It can be said that every country gets the Government it deserves, we have to hope this is far from the truth. There have been various recent elections where the right have made significant gains. None was more bitterly opposed than when Jean-Marie Le Pen (slightly right of Attila the Hun) won enough votes to contest Chirac for French Presidency in 2002. The fact it merely tipped the balance it the National Assembly from centre-left to centre-right we can now see was telling of a darker problem looming.

Stories of racist attacks throughout the EU have been reaching the British media for years. They all tell of increasing violence against immigrants and the slow march towards aggressive Nationalism. The worst stories appear the be centred around Moscow, France, Germany and now Austria. All countries that one would have hoped, in the strongest possible terms, WOULD KNOW BETTER.

If we all follow France's lead and bury our heads in the sands of our colonial pasts there is no hope. Perhaps the most shocking stories were those of the Paris riots in 2005, where France's repression of it's colleagues in arms in the Algerian war reared it's ugly head. The mistreatment and alienation, as France has perfected, creating virtual ghettos for it's immigrants breeding hatred and bitter recriminations.

Until we can bring together all elements of society to form dynamic and sacrificial (on both parts) solutions to our clearly desperate problems the march of the far-right will continue. These aren't men in jackboots with Chaplineqsue moustaches, these are people with suits, facts and disarming rhetoric. The solutions aren't simply rooted in control of the population but go down the the very core of society: Our town planning, the way our services are provided, our attitude to ourselves and others but most importantly, the way we deal with the issues. Frank openness is the only way.

It's time we accepted our pasts, dealt with the present and plan for a better future. Franklin