Hanna Lichtenberger: The Decline of the Social Democrats and the Rise of the political Right in Austria

Austria was spared, barely, from far-right candidate Norbert Hofer being elected its next president.1 All the more painful, though, has been the debate about the rise of the radical right in general and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in particular. Bourgeois minds like to reduce the causes of the right’s rise to popular dissatisfaction with the on-going dispute in the country’s grand coalition more

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Judith Dellheim

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Referentin Solidarische Ökonomie