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AfD's Alice Weidel (centre) answers journalists' questions after her election as the second, equal federal spokeswoman at the AfD's federal party conference in Riesa, Germany, June 18, 2022
PROMINENT members of Germany’s mainstream political parties have expressed alarm at a new poll that shows support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) at a record high.
The DeutschlandTrend survey, released on Thursday, puts voter support for AfD at 18 per cent, on a par with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats.
In the 2021 election, Mr Scholz’s party received 25.7 per cent of the vote, while AfD got 10.3 per cent.
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
