In Europe, fascism is on the manhunt again. Greedily it points at everything with which a spontaneous identification seems hard. It brutalises old prejudices and suggests itself as a bulwark against everything unknown. It goes against Muslims, Roma, the Left and other Democrats and again against Jews.

The fascism takes up simple thought concepts like anticommunism, anti-Semitism and anti-Islamism, deepens the popular shyness being faced with difficult crisis contexts and elevates – in a populist way – its anti-intellectualism to “common sense”.

The fascism controls the bloody art, to draw damaged and defeated people as free-rider of the crisis, as scapegoats and even as elitist. It does this in order to protect old elites and to offer itself to them as alliance partner. Notwithstanding its socio-demagogic showings of rebel poses at state power, it always became the most open form of terroristic and imperialistic dictatorship of the banking and multinational companies’ power executing its enemies, the organisations of the workers movement.

Democrats all over the world are now have to help to stop fascism and its manhunt. To spread humanistic cultures in order to discuss the context of crises broadly - also in and with its difficulties -and not to leave good tradition as well as social dissatisfaction without a fight.

EL Executive Board meeting,
Berlin, 11.-12.01.2013