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Athens trials highlight the neonazi threat
KEVIN OVENDEN looks at the perils of underestimating fascists’ danger to democracy
Golden Dawn members with flags with the ‘meander’ symbol outside party HQ in Athens, March 2015 [DTRocks/Creative Commons]

MAJOR developments in three trials in Athens concerning Golden Dawn this week have shone a spotlight on the specific nature of the neonazi threat.

They provide important lessons for the anti-fascist movements internationally.

On Monday the Court of Appeal upheld the convictions of the two racist murderers of Pakistani retail worker Shahzad Luqman.

Through pseudo-anti-system rhetoric,
it [Golden Dawn] can become able to penetrate into layers such as young unemployed

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