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Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria gives a thumbs-up as he arrives at a polling station in Purkersdorf, Austria, September 29, 2024, to cast his vote in the country's national election
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AUSTRIANS voted today in a national election in which the far-right Freedom Party has tapped into public concerns about immigration, inflation and the war in Ukraine.
Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, was hoping to become Austria’s new chancellor, with results expected after the Morning Star went to print.
Mr Kickl has used the term “Volkskanzler,” or chancellor of the people, a term used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Packed meeting hears that that new party must align with mass struggle beyond the ballot box, reports BEN WOODWARD