Austria - 2012
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
| 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. Sources: |
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| 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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