Fascism & Anti-Fascism In Present Day Austria

Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota

Thursday, May 30th

Boneshaker Books

2002 23rd Ave S

6:00 PM

As today’s extreme right wing Austrian government came into power in 2017, it fits well within the narrative of the european political atmosphere of racist, xenophobic, and anti-immigrant tendencies—but how did it happen?

A short introduction to post World War II politics in Austria; why the government can be counted among the extreme far-right and what anti-fascists try to do about it.