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Nation-wide organisations that express racist or xenophobic sentiments/discourse in the form either of hate speech or promote an anti-migrant and/or anti-minority agenda

Code:
RED36
Key Area:
Political Parties-organisations - Racist & Xenophobic Discourse
Strand(s):
Racism
30/12/2011 - 17:19
Short Answer

There are several groups expressing racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideologies.

Qualitative Info

Besides the political parties (FPÖ & BZÖ) described in the three previous indicators of the section "Political Parties-organisations - Racist & Xenophobic Discourse",  there are several organisations which spread and express racist, anti-islamic, xenophobic and anti-Semitic sentiments and ideologies. However, the Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011 (Report on the protection of the constitution) states that these organisations do not constitute a real threat to the state and the internal security. They are also only to a small extent responsible for criminal activities. 

The Ministry of the Interior lists the following organisational structures concerning the far right-wing scene:

- The organised right-wing scene (organisierte Rechte) is concentrated on elaborating on political propaganda and is only to a lesser extent the object of police work.

- The Neo-Nazi scene (Neonazi-Szene) is guided by national-socialist ideologies and is organised in international networks. The readiness for violence of this group is very high.

- The Skinhead scene (Skinhead-Szene) is characterised by committing criminal offences, high readiness for violence and conspiracy.

- The Revisionists (Revisionisten) are organised on an international level and are concentrated on promoting anti-Semitic sentiments and ideologies.

- There are also right-wing key figures (Schlüsselfiguren) who enhance xenophobic and anti-Semitic attitudes. The main important features are readiness for violence, conspiracy and a well-organised international network.

 

The Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes (Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance) mentions the following organisations as being important organisations of the far right-wing scene:

- The Arbeitsgemeinschaft für demokratische Politik (AFP - Working Group on Democratic Politics) was founded in 1963 and is registered as a political party with an emphasis on ideological-cultural work with a pronouced far right-wing ideology. In its publications there are neo-Nazi and revisionist articles. The AFP has only few members but they are internationally organised and has good contacts to the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ).

- The Aula is a publication by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Freiheitlichen Akademikerverbände Österreichs (Working Group of the Liberal Academic Associations Austria) and constitutes a crucial point of the right-wing scene in Austria. It contains publications by a broad range of German national, right-wing and neo-Nazi writers and therefore has an important function as an ideological instrument.

- The Deutsches Kulturwerk europäischen Geistes (DKEG - German Cultural Work in a European Context)/Deutsche Kulturgemeinschaft (DKG - German Cultural Community) is the Austrian branch of a far right-wing German organisation with cultural and political ideological objectives. 

- The Kameradschaft IV (K IV - Comradship IV) is a far right-wing organisation of veterans who had been members of the "Waffen-SS". 

- The Kritischen Demokraten (Critical Democrats) is a small organisation with a linking function between the far right-wing and the Neo-Nazi scene and the FPÖ.

- The Schutzverein Österreichische Landsmannschaft (ÖLM - Defence Association of Austrian Territorial Association) is a far right-wing organisation which has an emphasis on journalistic work and which has a crucial linking function for far right-wing and German National groups.

- The Partei Neue Ordnung (PNO - Party of New Order) is a small right-wing group operating in the south-east part of Austria. The objectives of the group are the exculpation of the National-Socialism and the incitement against antifascists, democratic politicans and the National-Socialist Prohibition Act. The publication of the PNO contain anti-Semitic contents and conspiracy theories.

- The Volksbewegung or Volksbewegung gegen Überfremdung or Ausländer-Halt-Bewegung (Popular Movement, Popular Movement against Foreign Infiltration, Stop-Foreigners-Movement) is concentrated on xenophobic, rasicst, anti-Semitic and national-socialist propaganda.


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Size - Membership
Groups affected/interested Migrants, Refugees, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Asylum seekers
Type (R/D) Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Nationalism
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Political discourse -parties - orgs
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