{"id":34023,"date":"2013-05-22T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T08:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=34023"},"modified":"2013-05-22T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T08:10:41","slug":"goodbye-monsieur-venner-hello-french-hammerskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=34023","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Monsieur Venner, Hello French Hammerskins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

French far-right historian Dominique Venner<\/a> (April 16, 1935–May 21, 2013) has committed suicide in a rather spectacular<\/a> fashion. Venner’s action was apparently prompted by his fear that France was becoming ghey and Muslamic. You can read his suicide note here<\/a>; The Huffington Post<\/em> records some thoughts here<\/a>, including the reaction of others on the French far right to his death. For her part, Marine Le Pen, leader of the French fascist party Front National, reckons Venner was a top bloke, and his action laudable. Others agree, but it may be that the example may have to be repeated several thousand times before Venner’s argument really cuts through…<\/p>\n

As an aside, and further to the margins of the political right, a few days ago (May 18\/19) neo-Nazis in France gathered<\/a> under the sheltering umbrella of the French Hammerskins. Or did they? Accounts vary<\/a>. It seems that, while there was meant to be a large gathering of European neo-Nazis on the weekend, there was instead only a small meeting near Montpellier, involving perhaps 100 or so key members of various neo-Nazi organisations from across Europe, meeting overnight. A French antifa website (fafwatch) reckons it was organised by the French Hammerskins. A few hundred antifa demonstrated on Friday and Sunday in Perpignan – which is where they thought the meeting would take place (instead, it took place in a community room, one booked, typically, under false pretences).<\/p>\n