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The Authoritarian Collaboration Index, for example, traces the evolution of relations between Reform UK, the party led by Nigel Farage, and Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National, which have formalised a partnership with a commitment to tackle immigration together in the run-up to a possible election victory. The two parties agree that sovereignty takes precedence over international law, including the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Another revelation is that the AfD, Germany’s far-right party, has been dependent on Russian funding since 2016, but the flow of money has increased over the last six months and the link with Moscow has intensified in tandem with their electoral success. Following the AfD’s recent victories in the local elections in Saxony-Anhalt, “Russia’s support has gone far beyond traditional funding, evolving into a close dialogue that recognises the AfD’s importance as a future governing party”.
These parties, which also include Vox in Spain, have not formed a single bloc but prefer to strengthen bilateral ties, which give them greater legitimacy, whilst employing common tactics and methods.
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“What emerges from the report is that an increasingly dense network of collaboration is forming between governments, parties and authoritarian movements at a global level, one that utilises every possible means of repression,” explained Domonkos Kovacs, head of the Authoritarian Collaboration Index and director of Action for Democracy. “ ‘These movements used to be isolationist, but they have now learnt to collaborate using technology and social media. The only possible response is to establish an equally intensive collaboration between democratic parties, governments and movements.’
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Beyond Europe
Looking beyond Europe, the report emphasises that ‘although China and Russia remain the main pillars of the global axis of autocracy, other states are playing an active role in exporting surveillance and control tactics to Africa and South-East Asia’.
At the presentation, Jesus Armas, the former leader of the opposition in Venezuela, who was imprisoned and tortured for a long time by Nicolás Maduro’s government, said that his country still has a long way to go before it can return to democracy, but that Maria Corina Machado’s recent return home bodes well.
Carmen Lau, a Chinese dissident living in exile in the UK with a $1 million bounty on her head imposed by the Hong Kong Government, highlighted just how pervasive Beijing’s global influence is and criticised the British Government for failing to speak out against the repressive regime in its former colony.
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Increasingly? All that’s changed is that what many suspected for a long time is more and more coming out. That’s not an increase, that’s confirmation.
I suspect the catalyst for this international cooperation of the far right was Paul Manafort’s pro Russian lobby work prior to becoming involved in Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2016. Manafort started working for Russia’s interests in Europe at least as early as 2004. During those years, politicians of far right EU parties started having meetings with Manafort, with Russian officials, “observing” sham elections for legitimization in Russia and Crimea, voting for Russia’s interests, … And now we have additional confirmation that they are being paid for their services, which we already knew in part since at least 2018 when Manafort was being investigated: https://www.dw.com/en/european-politicians-got-millions-to-lobby-for-pro-russian-government-in-ukraine/a-42721849
And we can thank Steve Bannon for why EU far right parties their social media presence is more advanced than that of centrist parties. He came to Europe in 2018 to kickstart this new form of campaigning amongst the eu far right parties: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/secret-rightwing-gathering-europe-steve-bannon Add in the support from Russia’s troll army and the complicity of CEOs like Zuckerberg/Musk/Huffman and it explains how popular social media became so hateful.
So the far right align with the far right, who would have thought…
No shit. Pretty late observation.
far-right = traitors, should there be war they definitely would do sabotage and other stuff to aid russia.
Why the centrists liberals do nothing against those homegrown fascists . Yeah like in French they are focused on beating peaceful protesters
Another revelation is that the AfD, Germany’s far-right party, has been dependent on Russian funding since 2016, but the flow of money has increased over the last six months
This neatly explains not only why I’ve seen fascists in Germany don Russian camo at work, but also the huge increase of blatant displays of fascism - “Reich” flags, runes and so on - since this year’s spring in particular. I’ve really been wondering about that sudden change.
Social media is 100% a lost cause, but real life is almost as bad. This is not the Germany from 2025. It’s like a giant switch has been flipped. The fascists are everywhere now, they’re loud and enormously aggressive, and they’re hellbent on getting into power.
It feels like we’re sitting on a giant powder keg. The fuse has been lit, but nobody knows when it will all blow up!Russia needs cheaper war and China likes chaos.
It will be interesting to see what happens when Russian funding dries up after the war.
You have no idea how cheap those actually politicians are…
One politician maybe.
But not all of them.
Running the troll farms and similar projects is not that cheap.
There is also US. What a nice bunch of supporters.
report presented in London by Action for Democracy, a US-based non-profit organisation
this is the first sentence in the article, which op conveniently didn’t copy 😹
i won’t believe anything coming from these cunts.
It‘s not really the US but just MAGA and they aren‘t nearly as, let‘s call it „reliable“ as Xi or Putin and seem to be in Putin‘s and Israel‘s pockets in a lot of cases anyway.
It‘s not really the US but just MAGA
It is the US. The country that voted twice to hand over its highest government office, along with the control over its world-ending arsenal of nuclear weapons to the leader of MAGA, a deranged, demented career criminal with multiple convictions, and, after round one, an attempted coup to his name.
MAGA is not the cause, MAGA ist the symptom of a dangerously broken political system.
Currently US is MAGA. But yes, democrats are usually not involved, just the other side.
Edit: not involved with EU’s (far) right that is.
“In Europe” meaning rather everywhere. But good it is publicly talked about. Time for actions?
Time for actions?
No.
Just like the far-right most of the democratic parties are also paid, just by corporations instead of foreign countries. And actual policies that benefit the voters do not match with their master’s goals either. Which is the reason they are trying to embrace the far-right’s populist tactics and narratives instead to stay in power.
Unfettered capitalism leading to fascism is no coincidence but a logical conclusion.
I’d love to see some ‘passive’ defence, but I can’t imagine it really happening without certain exchanges in freedom. I’m thinking mostly facebook and future digital infrastructure. Maybe we could develop an in-house open LLM. We also need RAM, but we’ll have federation before proper chip maufacturing.
Turn the social media sides into a cooperative held by the users. Every verifiable real human being gets a vote.
Even just open sourcing the damned algorithms they use and regulatr them. That’d do a lot of damage to these bastards
Nein?!
Doch!
Oh!
Who’s going to be the next Ribbentrip-Mollietov to play pretend as allies?
That depends on who wins the war.
Tankies are gonna tankie.
