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Friday, October 4, 2013

What's Driving Golden Dawn's Extremism?

Golden Dawn is an extreme nationalist party in Greece that has risen to prominence in the last two years. The party, with its anti-immigration rhetoric, provision of parallel social services, propensity for street violence, and, some say, Nazi-like logo has attracted attention the world over. It has frequently been linked to attacks on immigrants and leftists, and its politics are not only nationalistic and anti-immigrant, but markedly racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Turk, and anti-Semitic. While it is very much a minority group, Golden Dawn's rise indicates a hardening of attitudes in Greece. Founded in 1987, but with a prehistory dating back to 1980, Golden Dawn was an insignificant party until well after the economic crisis hit, polling just 1 percent of the vote in 2009.

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