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European Far-Right And Centre Unite To Pass Brutal Refugee Policy SPD Cheers CSU Efforts In Imposing Even-Harsher Policy On Migrants As Anti-Semitic AfD Takes Credit For "Cleansing" Of Germany..... Extreme Centre Parties Create Repression Philosophy To Pathologise Left-Wing Thought, Action Emmanuel Macron Launches New, Direct Attack On The French Social Model And The Constitution Europe's Ongoing Genocide: More Than 200 Migrants Drown In Three Days Another Boat Full Of Refugees Capsizes As EU's New Social Murder Policy Blocks Ships A Detailed Analysis Of The European Union's New Refugee Policy Denmark: Harsh Conditions Intensified In Ghettos For Refugees And Immigrants #RefugeesGR: Plans To Close Pikpa Refugee Camp Slammed By Activsts Left-Wing Groups Denounce Increasingly Barbaric Policies In European Parliament Deportation Targets And The Deterrent Dogma: UK Immigration Enforcement From Straw To May #OccupyICE Movement Explodes ...

Since the G20 in July of last year, the German state has moved to the right at an ever-more rapid and frightening pace. From the massive police repression , increased surveillance , attacks on left platforms and locations , and imprisonment of leftist protestors , the actions of the Grand Coalition (GroKo) government (comprised of the Orban-aligned CDU/CSU and Social Democratic SPD) have evoked many eerie memories of the first Grand Coalition , a government in office during the events of 1967-68 which enacted various oppressive measures, leading to the creation of the Extra-Parliamentary left opposing the two parties comprising 95 percent of the Bundestag.  The 1966 grand coalition was formed amid an environment of left-wing protest and rebellion in West Germany and the world. Students were gassed and even shot protesting right-wing Arab leaders allied to the German government , especially the Shah of Iran, while the tabloid media (mostly the Springer Press) heaped prai...

Nach unten scrollen für Deutsch As citizens across Europe protest daily against Erdogan's invasion of Afrin, a shadowy far-right armed group aligned with the Turkish ultra-right and NATO has become intimately involved in the war in northern Syria. The organisation, known as the "Grey Wolves," has also been involved in the harassment of pro-Kurdish protestors in Germany, according to news sources. The Grey Wolves were founded exactly 50 years ago in 1968, at the apex of a period of social revolution in Europe and the world. Turkey was no exception to this trend, and nationalist leaders in the country were deeply concerned with the potential popularity of communist and left-wing ideas in Turkey. Set up by Alparslan Türkeş , the group was to function as the paramilitary group of the ultra-right MHP party, and began its life targeting student activists and left-wing people. However, it soon acquired the character of a death squad, similar to those backed by the US ...