Tag: Austria

National Rally’s leader Jordan Bardella with Marine Le Pen on election night. (Image source: Marine Le Pen’s Facebook wall)

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The European Union Parliament elections have come and gone. While some results were being finalized just this morning, the dust has settled more or less and we can take stock of what occurred.

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We’ll start with what is arguably the most momentous election result. In France, National Rally, of which Marine Le Pen is a member and which is now led by the handsome and charismatic Jordan Bardella, won 31% of the votes and gained 12 seats in the EU Parliament. (more…)

A 500-strong pro-remigration demonstration that was held by Martin Sellner’s group in Vienna in July 2023. (Source: Martin Sellner’s Telegram channel.)

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Martin Sellner
Remigration: Ein Vorschlag [Repatriation: A Proposal]
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2024

Vienna native Martin Sellner founded the Identitarian Movement of Austria in 2012, maintained a highly successful YouTube channel before it fell to censorship in 2019, and is the author or co-author of four previous books. (more…)

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The following interview with occasional Counter-Currents contributor Martin Lichtmesz was published in Hungarian by the news portal Magyar Jelen on March 2, 2024.

Could you introduce yourself and describe the scope of your activities?

I was born in Vienna in 1976, lived for 14 years in Berlin, and returned to my home country of Austria a decade ago. (more…)

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Editor’s Note: March 31 marks the 115th birthday of Robert Brasillach, the French journalist, novelist, film historian, and man of the Right who was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad for “intellectual crimes” he was alleged to have committed as a German collaborator during the Second World War. The following translation is offered as a commemoration, and links to other resources regarding Brasillach’s life and work are included at the end. (more…)

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David L. Hoggan
The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed, 2nd ed.
Newport Beach, Calif.: Institute for Historical Review, 2023

David Hoggan (1923-1988) was an American historian who received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1948 with a dissertation on The Breakdown of German-Polish Relations in 1939. (more…)

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There has been increasing talk about the need to build a parallel economy going around lately in the prepper community as a result of high inflation, the rising costs of living, and bank crashes, not to mention the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the cancellation of bank accounts belong to “undesirables,” and, not to mention, the looming threat of World War III.

While the circumstances are radically different, and it is doubtful whether the idea would or would not be allowed to catch on beyond a limited group of consumers and producers, there is historical precedence of communities actually cutting themselves loose to a certain extent from the banking system. (more…)

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Immigration has become a major issue in Central Europe since 2015, whereas since the fall of Communism the primary social issue in this region had been emigration . But a lot has changed since the famous “migrant crisis” along the Balkan route — and the faces you see in the streets of Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, and Bratislava are changing, too.

Over a few weeks in the summer of 2015, a veritable migratory route was set up stretching from Turkey and Greece to Hungary, the guardian of the Schengen Zone’s southeastern border. (more…)

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The year 2016 has special significance in Dissident Right circles.

To a Dissident Rightist, “2016” is more than just a 365-day time span during which the most unlikely things were made real by the most unlikely of personalities. To us, “2016” is more than a moment in time and space. To the Dissident Rightist, the mere utterance of “2016” conjures up a collage of emotions and memories. (more…)

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Translated by F. Roger Devlin

On Saturday, Vienna witnessed the largest demonstration yet against Coronavirus regulations. (more…)

Viennese feminists inside the office of oe24

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“SoHo Karen” Charged With Hate Crime for Accusing Negro Youth of Stealing Her Phone

The George Floyd saga cemented the fact that in modern America, if you’re black and something bad happens to you, it’s BECAUSE you’re black. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Beethoven, 2020.

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Today is the 250th anniversary of the christening of Ludwig van Beethoven, a titan of classical music and one of the greatest composers of all time. Beethoven transformed every genre in which he wrote and singlehandedly changed the trajectory of classical music. Rooted in the Classical idiom of Mozart and Haydn, he paved the way for the Romantic era and influenced composers such as Brahms, Liszt, and Wagner. His works remain cornerstones of the classical repertoire. (more…)

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He came from a world where soft music lilted through dining rooms and ballrooms and salons . . . it was played to make life sweeter and more festive, to make women’s eyes flash and men’s vanity throw sparks . . . [his] music on the other hand didn’t offer forgetfulness; it aroused people to the feelings of passion and guilt and demanded that [they] be truer to themselves . . . such music is upsetting . . . [1] (more…)

Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1497-98.

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Albrecht Dürer died on April 6th, 1528. He was a highly influential painter and artist of the German Renaissance. Dürer was one of the first major artists to produce high-quality woodcuts and engravings that eventually spread throughout Europe, influencing future generations in various mediums and styles. While I grew up seeing Dürer’s artwork on many of my favorite heavy metal albums, I never knew his name until I went with an ex-girlfriend to a Christmas market in Vienna last December. Discovering his woodcuts was the highlight of the day and it taught me to find the silver lining in the most challenging of times, including the current COVID-19 pandemic.  (more…)