AUSTRIAN President Alexander van der Bellen announced today he would meet Herbert Kickl, as speculation grows that he will ask the far-right leader to form a government.
Mr Van der Bellen made the announcement after meeting with Chancellor Karl Nehammer and others at his presidential palace.
Mr Nehammer has announced his intention to resign after coalition talks between his right-wing Austrian People’s Party and the Social Democrats collapsed.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD


