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Snapshot, Austria: Class Struggle from Above Right
Sabeth Buchmann and Jens Kastner
In Austria, ultra-right-wing politics quite obviously attracts a stable or rising fraction of potential voters—between 25 and 30 percent. These numbers are shocking and sobering, but so is their consistency over the past decade. In the 2000 general elections, the so-called Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), then still led by Jörg Haider, received 28 percent of the votes and become part of the governing coalition. Most recently, on the October 10, 2010 communal elections, the FPÖ won almost 27…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2011
Category
Migration & Immigration, Nationalism, Economy, Education
Subjects
Class, Xenophobia, Europe, Money & Finance