Above : Local Golden Dawn supporters attend Greek Independence Day celebrations in Melbourne, 2012.
Dunno why but The Australian is running an article about the attempt — not yet fully realised, it seems — to establish a branch of the fascist Golden Dawn party in Melbourne. The article notes that the group has a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/xryshavgh.melbourne) and alleges that members attempted to disrupt a rally celebrating the Greek Independence Day (March 25). The group’s attendance was apparently not reported in the local Greek press (Neos Kosmos) but was commented upon by other ethnic media (Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee | AIJAC). According to the report by the AMHRC, Golden Dawn’s official website carried the story but, sadly, wordpress evicted the group several months ago, and subsequently “xryshaygh.wordpress.com is no longer available”, having been “archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service” (hate speech).
As noted in John Ferguson’s report, the group’s Facebook page currently has over 2,500 fans, but only a few dozen of these appear to reside in Melbourne, most support coming from members and sympathisers in Greece. Not surprisingly, the most marked increase in support for the group’s page occurred not when it was established (March 2, 2010) but in the wake of the party’s recent electoral successes (May/June 2012). As it stands, then, Golden Dawn (Melbourne) currently has only a small core of followers: whether or not other members of the local Greek diaspora choose to join them is unknown, but I think unlikely. In Greece itself, the party’s recent victories has resulted, inter alia, in more widespread collaboration with Greek police in conducting pogroms against migrants, refugees and political opponents. On the other side of the coin, there are many more struggles in Greece directed at ruling elites rather than at fellow workers…
Greek neo-Nazis set up local chapter
John Ferguson
The Australian
July 26, 2012
A SPLINTER group in the Melbourne Greek community has been condemned for launching a local branch of the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, which has been accused in Greece of sparking xenophobic violence by espousing neo-Nazi and anti-immigration policies.
The mission to use the cover of the internet to create a nationalistic political force among one of the world’s largest Greek communities outside Athens has been savaged by Australia’s Jewish and Greek communities.
The Golden Dawn Melbourne Facebook page has attracted more than 2500 followers – with many friends from overseas – and the proponents are planning to organise regular meetings to discuss nationalistic policies and widen appeal for a political party that has been condemned worldwide.
The Facebook page lists the group’s favourite quote as: “Northern Greece, Cyprus, Macedonia, the battle continues as in Australia blood and honour, Golden Dawn.”
The Australian backers of the ultra-nationalist party do not appear to have put their names to the project and did not respond to requests for comment yesterday.
The emergence of the party’s Australian branch comes after a small group of protesters tried to disrupt Greek National Day celebrations in Melbourne in March, wearing clothes promoting Golden Dawn. Proponents are claiming to be behind the group’s first chapter outside Greece…
Hang on. Why would immigrants want to join an anti-immigration group?
Wait. Isn’t this Sparta? Coulda sworn.
@ Eric
…as opposed to going to live in Greece where they could join the real Golden Dawn.
They’re probably just drumming up support (ie donations) for GD within the diaspora, I can’t see what else they could achieve here apart from leading young Australian born Greek kids astray…then again Mr Saleam has expressed solidarity with GD, so they might fill some seats at his Rubbery Chicken feast later in the year.
@Doug: Probably, yeah. And yeah, Dr Jim and Australia First expressed solidarity with GD. Jim is also a member of an Internet project known as the ‘Academy of Social and Political Research’ along with a number of Greek fascist intellectuals including Dr Dim (Dimitris Michalopoulos). The tinfoil Academy publishes a journal called Ab Aeterno. His Satanic Majesty Kerry Bolton, a Kiwi, also contributes.
In April 2008, Bolton signed — along with, ‘For Australia’, Brendan Gidley, Saleam and Neil Baird, and, ‘For New Zealand’, Kyle Chapman (a neo-Nazi Mormon!) and Anton Foljambe — ‘The ANZAC Declaration’. Funnily enough, Bolton denies having signed the declaration, a denial which accompanied his complaint to the Press Council regarding “an article in The Press, on 5 December 2009, entitled A Right muddle” that “was inaccurate and biased” according to Kerry. Thus:
Odd. Note that the complaint was upheld. Another complaint (regarding an episode aired on Radio New Zealand in May 2009) was also initially upheld then later overturned: Reading the Maps features several posts on Bolton’s madcap legal and political adventures, the most recent (January 10, 2011) titled Surprise, surprise: Bolton’s anti-semitism goes back online. See also : The murky politics of the Right (in New Zealand/Aotearoa) (March 16, 2010).
Also odd is the fact that many claim Saleam is of Lebanese descent — a continuing source of friction among local White nationalists, tho’ given Dr Jim’s prominence, few dare to raise it publicly — while he himself maintains that his ancestry is Greek.
In other news, local neo-Nazis have reportedly denied producing a poster denouncing GD as filthy immigrants.
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Yay just what we need another immigrant hate group
to Mr Ignorant Eric, yes Hellenes ARE immigrants but they’re white which means they’re EUROPEAN get it u dumbed down lemming! white people are 8% of the world’s population and declining, white nations need to grow some and take back what rightfully belongs to them 14 words live by them.
Thanks for clearing that up Christine. I hadn’t realised that Greeks were white. Most of the Greeks I know are a kind of olivey/browny hue.
If we let more coloured people into the ‘whites’ then, perhaps, our % of the world’s population would go up!
I’m still a bit confused though. See, I’m white but I’m not EUROPEAN. Also, I’m pretty sure Lemmings are Canadian and I’ve never even been there.
It’s all Greek to me.
GD in Melbourne are tiny in number, depend on a fraction of a migrant ethnic minority for support and — crucially — don’t have the support of the cops or the rich — so prospects aren’t good. This recent account of their comrades back in Greece is very useful:
REPORT: GOLDEN DAWN, 1980-2012. THE NEONAZIS’ ROAD TO PARLIAMENT
Augustine Zenakos
Reports from the Edge of Borderline Democracy
October 25, 2012
We should be proud of who we are of & what we have achieved. Ignorance and prejudice and fear-mongering are elements of the past, we don’t embrace ‘em anymore. No need to exclude anyone, there’s plenty for all!
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boo hoo.
yall complain about greeks defending their racial purity but when extremist islamic grouops pull shit you all bow your heads in silence.
you ppl make me sick.