On the floor of a plaza in Athens, “Foreigners outside Greece! You can see a painting that says, "Greece for the Greeks." On a wall, another one says: “A new holocaust will cleanse this people.” On the street you can see several Greeks insulting some immigrants without remorse. All these signs are the reflection of a socialist nationalist movement, which is gaining more and more strength in Greek society, according to Cameron. The Golden Dawn game represents this movement.
This party has assumed the responsibility of "cleaning up" Greece. They use extreme right-wing nationalism to demand the expulsion of anyone who does not belong to their ideological framework. In the last elections, the Golden Dawn won 440,000 votes and 18 parliamentarians, which is a year-on-year setback. Although at first glance they appear to be few, this is a very high figure to be the first year in which the seats have been won. The legitimization of votes has had a direct influence on society: attacks on left-wing, homosexual militants and, above all, immigrants have taken place multiplicado.Una of these victims is the fisherman
Abu Zeid Mubarak egiptoarra.The, according to a Guardian interview, who one night slept on the terrace when he was attacked by several neo-fascists: “I woke up while I was being beaten. They were about twenty people,” says the immigrant. “They hit my face and had to put on metal implants. I spent 27 days in the hospital.”
The supporters of the Golden Dawn party blame immigrants for the crisis. Ilias Panagiotaros, a party parliamentarian, is clear that the "destruction" of Greece has been caused by them and by other social groups: “Society is ready for struggle. On one side are the nationalists like us and some Greeks who want the people as before. And on the other hand, illegal immigrants, anarchists and who have destroyed Greece countless times.” There are people
who have been concerned to show the world the behavior of the members of this movement. Film director Konstantinos Georgousis has shown how easy this party is to socialize racism through images he recorded during the June election campaign in the documentary The Cleaners.
In it you can see a Golden Dawn parliamentarian distributing party leaflets in a market. “Vote for the golden dawn. To free the people from dirt,” the pamphlets say. Insults any immigrant crossing the road: “This junk hasn’t dared to look at me! The Pakistani fucking!”, “Are you Greek? Out of here! You are not here!” In
an interview given to Geogrousis by the 4News television channel, the film director has stated that the militants show their pride. “They were aware that I was recording and yet they were very proud that they were showing their behaviour across Europe, as if they were advertising their ideas.” The filmmaker says that much of Greek society does not know what nationalism is and that most have been surprised by the force and rage of the extreme party derecha.La Golden Dawn pressure on the street has caused the latest polls to draw an upward trend in attachment to the party.
According to some surveys, training support in the forthcoming elections could rise from 7% to 15%. As a result of this force, his ideas have also come to the New Democracy party in power. We must bear in mind the words spoken by Antonis Samaras of this party as soon as possible to obtain the presidency: “Clandestine immigrants should
be expelled from the country, as they have become oppressors of society.” In the armed forces of Greece, and particularly in the police, the nationalist party is gaining a great deal of support, and many voices have denounced it. A police chief who didn't want to pronounce his name, as he told The Guardian: “There have not been enough politicians to remove the remnants of fascism that have survived for years in the Greek police. The State apparatus, the secret service and the security forces have long known the Golden Dawn movement. Today, if political change reaches Greece, the Golden Dawn and the repressive forces could be used against the Greek left.” A video released by
Al Jazeera clearly shows that relationship between the police and the party, which faces two gangs. Following the electoral analysis, it was found that at the polls, at the central polls in Athens, the Golden Dawn had obtained 7.8 per cent of the votes. In other areas close to police stations, the PSE, for its part, obtained a bond of up to 20.3% of the votes. Panagiotaros also confirms this protection: “I believe that today among the police we have support of more than 50% or 60%. Perhaps more, because every day it grows.” The words
of the Pakistani community spokesman, Javet Aslam, also demonstrate a harsh truth: “Fascists beat you many times when the police stop you. They do it in front of the police and nothing happens. They don't tell them anything. What’s more, they encourage ‘Continue! We are by your side.’ There are sectors
of society that oppose the far-right movement. The Communist Party has begun to denounce the neo-fascism harshly. Your parliamentarian, Liana Kanelli, says: “It is the ideological and political camels that polarize the citizens who are afraid. They present themselves as an obstacle, a limit to a desperate and frightened people.” In recent times, moreover, the anti-fascist movement is gaining strength in the streets. Between August and October 2012, more than 120 events antifascistas.El have taken place in Bilbao, resulting from the turbulence of the situation in Greece,
and this is something that needs to be done at the root. However, Kanelli believes that this is difficult: “After all, the Golden Dawn is fulfilling the mission entrusted to it by the system.” Faced with this system which recognises racism as a bad means, leftist movements must offer a real alternative to the working people, so that the fires of fascism that have never been extinguished in Europe do not take hold again.