Serbs, Czechs, whatever. At the time there was a sort of bourgeois liberal circle which discussed was the model of a multi-ethic society but the Czechs for example always responded that it was not a multi-ethic state but a prison of peoples Democrats encouraged migration by workers from Tugoslavia and Turkey but they did not take any measures to integrate them -they were only interested in their labour power. This attitude was Social Democratic trade unions.
In 1993 the Freedom Party of xenophobia by organising a plebiscite under the slogan which Jorg Haider came to the attention of the media at this time and lion signatures. He claimed that this was not against foreigners for Austria and Austrians This led to the rebirth of an a masse demonstrar demonstration 300,000 people in Vienna and links were made which built on what had been done at the time or waldbeam in the yous. & bese were broad committees involvliberal opinion ormers as well as the left. The effect was a defeat of the FPO: only 470,000 pcopic suraco tae picorsciic.
The problem was that in the 1990s you had the Schengen accord and the Democratic policy was in favour Laws.
There have been social demo. for more than 30 years and the last Social Democratic Minister or tae intenor, Narl scalogi is hated by the far left and the antithat drafted the worst laws based Schengen and encouraged grants.
These were years in which Social Democrats had the majorwithin the government and Schlogi Interior it was at that moment that police his mouth so that he suffocated.
Haider always said that Schlori was his man in the sor. So you can see that xenophobia and anti-semism is not at all found in all the political parties with the exception of the Green party and sock bcmocricy aus stri ger! a particular responsibility for the rise of the Freedom Party in the way that it has pandered to antiSemitism and racism.
The Freedom Party The Party was founded in 1947 under the patronage of the Allies as a party for the Nazis, It was an attempt to bring together former Nazis and integrate them into a астостанс parnamenary sysThe Social Democrats were very much in favour of this party being created and supported it that this would divide the big which class struggles were very tense because on the one hand tant Social Democracy and on In the first 40 years after its foundation the Freedom Party ceased to be the party of ex-Nazis but it still had ex-SSers in it and people like that who were leaders with former SSers and Nazis in head of the party Norbert Steger wanted to turn it into a new right aco-noctal party unable to stabilise this because the space for such a project - you bourgeois and right wing but at the same time tolerant and lib. inside the Freedom Party at their became head of the Party.
afterwards was Nazis and that is why he can say, as Chancellor Kohl also used to say that tocy were all born alter the National Socialist era, so how whether on politics or economics Freedom Party today you could say are Jorg Haider and a group or yuppics who arc Freedom Party is that they are have stable party structures. It only has 30,000 - 40,000 members and they are not organised. There are full timers and a few leaders in small towns but there is no real organisation at the that Haider has only be able to do what he has done not because 10ay ornon Dur Deus he has had a good deal of expocompletely false. The Freedom Party electorate is very young: the aveniee is under do vears ola and 40% are workers. The media portray the Freedom Party as a Party received a large number of protest votes in these recent elections because during the 1980s and 90s there was & very very store system or H the answer to this monolithic bloc, as between the Peoples Party and the Freedom Party this was a big is good because he is aggressive -he will tell the people up there what is what - but we don't want want mim to be in toc governentered government, there have Party is stable, and the Greens What is happening is a radParty is now a major bourDemocrats Incy are beins gramme and others elements are different from Nazism. capital cither in Austria or interAnd Austrian capitalism is very dependent on outside support sol the stock market fell sharply there would be a stock market this period - they are not see the Freedom Party today as a fascist party, it would be a huge error if their participation in government was accented. if they were seen as a normal such as France, Flanders and Italy were we have scen a resurgence of the lar Parties ideas that feed them are so key.
That is also why it is positive 807080 motives of the governments of the European Union are suspect ing out the policies that fuel this a normal politician would reinParty today is to have is to make themselves acceptable in our living rooms and this is the biggest ad, 18. Feh.200 IN THIS MOMENT of Austrian history we are deeply concerned with the political developments in our country. For more than 10 years, many NGOs, initiatives and smaller parties have tried to change the Austrian racist reality without success. in the new millennium, Austria still is not a comocracy out a napondi democracy: More than 10% of our population is systematically denied all political nights and participation, often for decades, they are left with the status of "foreigners". equal voting rights for all workers and guaranteeing equality not to human beings but to citizens only, is unique in Europe.
since a democratic system nas beer only the conservatives and the right wing. but also the governing Social Democrats fortified this system of nationalistic and racist segregation and exclusion. Inis lack of balance in the porcal sys tem led to the growth in support for a party that is openly promoting a revision of Nazi history, using racism as an effective political tool due to the lack of a counterEven the killing of Marcus Omofuma during his deportation on May 1st 1999 the contrary, police action, especially against people with African background, Charles O., major activist, writer and poet from Niseria, was even accused of being a drug-boss and imprisoned for 3 months, before he had to be reicased due to complete lack of evidence and major charges Nevertheless these practices led to sig nificant intimidation of the Black communities in their political campaigning. sation and the lack of democratic rights. we welcome initiatives from the side of the international community that put pressure on Austrian representatives. Austria is facing a drastic swing to the right. With a right-conservative govemment things will even get worse for people disthe Jewish minority, as well as for people discriminated on the grounds of sexual orientation, sexual identity or on the grounds of being physically handicapped. the European Union for its attempts to radically alter the politics towards a dis.
Convention and the denial of asyAs cone e nomes base for right-wing policies, threatTherefore it is in the self-interest of al democratc powers in europe to t Au severse the poitical currents in We want to encourage all intemational steps in this direction, hoping leamed from history, while the official Austria has not. Austria should finally change towards a fair democratic system which includes in which there is an anti-discrimina. ton-aw with respective entorcement. in which immigrants are not treated as enemies and in which human rights are really Platform for a world without racism Vienna, 1.2.2000