politicalevent:federal election

Why is the far-right benefiting from the crisis of capitalism? - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/28/pers-s28.html

Why is the far-right benefiting from the crisis of capitalism?
28 September 2017

Sunday’s election in Germany saw the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and collapse of the official left party, the Social Democratic Party. With more than 90 deputies in the incoming parliament, the entry of the AfD will mark the first time since the end of the Third Reich that outright fascists and racists participate in the national legislature.

Far from an exception, the electoral triumph of the neo-fascist party in Germany is part of a pattern being repeated again and again throughout Europe and internationally.

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Behind the electoral success of the far right in Germany - World Socialist Web Site

▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/28/elec-s28.html

Behind the electoral success of the far right in Germany
By Peter Schwarz
28 September 2017

“How could it come to this?” Many people are asking themselves this question following the far right Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) electoral success in the federal elections held on Sunday.

With the AfD, more than 90 deputies—open Nazis, racists and xenophobes—are entering parliament 72 years after the downfall of Hitler’s Third Reich. Alexander Gaulland, the 76-year-old lead candidate, made this abundantly clear, calling for Germans to be proud of the achievements of German soldiers in two world wars—that is, to take pride in a criminal war of aggression, complicity in the Holocaust and the cold-blooded murder of millions of civilians, partisans and prisoners of war.

#extrême-droite #allemagne #europe

The rise of the AfD and the rightward lurch of official politics in Germany - World Socialist Web Site

▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/25/pers-s25.html

The rise of the AfD and the rightward lurch of official politics in Germany
25 September 2017

For the first time since the fall of the Nazis, a right-wing extremist party is entering Germany’s national parliament. With 13 percent of the vote in Sunday’s federal election, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the third largest party in parliament, finishing behind the governing Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which suffered an electoral collapse. The CDU/CSU obtained 33 percent of the vote, its worst result in over 60 years.

The AfD has acquired political influence far beyond its actual strength. It set the tone in the election campaign with its agitation for a crackdown on refugees and the strengthening of the state’s repressive apparatus. All of the establishment parties sought to outdo the AfD with pledges to hire more police and deport more refugees, thereby bolstering the far-right party. Why vote for the more established parties’ versions of the AfD’s chauvinist and authoritarian politics when you could vote for the real thing? The CDU/CSU lost more than a million voters to the AfD, while the SPD lost 470,000 and the Left Party lost 400,000.

#allemagne #extrême-droite

The Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration is proud to publish its tenth issue, which includes seven articles written by graduate students, young researchers, and an individual resettled in New Zealand as a refugee. Full contents are listed below. Articles are accessible on our website (▻http://oxmofm.com) and in the following pdf: ►http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/OxMo-Vol.-5-No.-2-Full-issue.pdf

ISSUE CONTENTS:
Editorial
Welcome to Vol. 5, No. 2
Andonis Marden and Angelica Neville
▻http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Welcome-to-OxMo-Vol.-5-No.-22.pdf

Academic Article
State responsibility for international cooperation on migration control: the case of Australia
Nikolas Feith Tan
▻http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NIKOLAS-FEITH-TAN-State-responsibility-for-international-cooperation-on-migr

Policy Monitor
On encampment and gendered vulnerabilities: a critical analysis of the UK’s vulnerable persons relocation scheme for Syrian refugees
Lewis Turner
▻http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LEWIS-TURNER-On-encampment-and-gendered-vulnerabilities1.pdf

Syrian informal tented settlements in Jordan: humanitarian gaps and challenges
Alex Odlum
▻http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ALEX-ODLUM-Syrian-informal-tented-settlements-in-Jordan.pdf

Law Monitor
The wrong end of the wedge: migrants and Islamaphobia in the 2015 Canadian federal election
Lorne Allan Waldman and Warda Shazadi Meighan
▻http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LORNE-ALLAN-WALDMAN-and-WARDA-SHAZADI-MEIGHEN-The-wrong-end-of-the-wedge.pdf

Forced displacement as a war crime in non-international armed conflicts under the ICC Statute: exploring the horizons of a wider interpretation complimenting international humanitarian law
Anubhav Dutt Tiwara
▻http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ANUBHAV-DUTT-TIWARI-Forced-displacement-as-a-war-crime-in-non-international-

Field Monitor
The Italian reception system in the context of southern Sicily
Silvio Majorino
▻http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SILVIO-MAJORINO-The-Italian-reception-system-in-the-context-of-southern-Sici

►http://oxmofm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/OxMo-Vol.-5-No.-2-Full-issue.pdf

#migrations #asile #réfugiés #Italie #Sicile #accueil #Canada #islamophobie #Jordanie #logement #hébergement #réfugiés_syriens #campaement #femmes #genre #UK #Angleterre

In refugee crisis, Angela #Merkel stands tall
▻http://www.thearabweekly.com/?id=2742

The debate over the wisdom of opening the door so wide in Sep­tember has rekindled speculation about the future of Merkel. Can she survive the refugee crisis and run, and win, a fourth term? The next federal elections are scheduled for September 2017 and Merkel said in August — before the refugee flood rose to unprecedented levels — that she intended to run.

However, there is renewed spec­ulation that Merkel has an eye on a post that would enhance her global stature: secretary-general of the United Nations.

In February, a group of prominent women from academia formed the Campaign to Elect a Woman UN Secretary-General, pointing out that there have been eight men to hold the job since the world body was established 70 years ago. It’s high time for a woman, the group argues.

Merkel is on the group’s list of po­tential candidates, alongside such figures as International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde, for­mer Irish President Mary Robinson, former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Federica Mogherini, the EU foreign policy chief. Before the campaign listed its candidates alphabetically, Mer­kel topped the list. Her stand on the refugee crisis has won applause from many UN members.

Land You Love - Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/land-you-love-hey-rosetta-and-yukon-blonde

Land You Love is a political protest song concerning the upcoming 2015 Canadian federal election. The music video was performed and recorded on opposite sides of the country by Hey Rosetta...

You Can’t ‘Waste Your Vote’ !
▻http://www.chickennation.com/2013/08/18/you-cant-waste-your-vote

Je découvre le #système_électoral australien ; et je trouve ça plutôt chouette !

Any time there’s a federal election approaching, you’ll see and hear Australians saying things like, “I’d like to vote for [Minor Party/Independent] but the most important thing is to keep [Major Party A] out, so I’d better vote for [Major Party B].” But this concern doesn’t apply in Australia; we have a more elegant voting system than that. We seem to have picked up ideas about “wasting your vote” from American TV shows or something.

http://www.chickennation.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/web-500-cant-waste-vote-01.png

Ça n’efface pas tous les travers de la pseudo-#démocratie représentative à l’occidentale (y’a qu’à voir la bande de semi-facho qui ont dirigé l’#Australie de tout temps) mais ça doit tout de même favoriser la visibilité des « petits » partis.
Et ça tord le cou une fois pour toute à l’arnaque du #vote_utile !

L’analyse décapatante de l’actualité européenne par la presse irlandaise :

Confirmation that the talks will be delayed until after the German federal elections will be seen as further evidence of the power Europe’s most populous nation now has over the rest of the EU, and moves Europe closer to the US political system which effectively shuts down ahead of presidential elections there.

Ireland’s strategy for exiting the bailout is not the only item that has been apparently held up by the German political calendar.

▻http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/bailout-exit-talks-delayed-by-german-poll-noonan-admits-29429401.html

Dark Money Politics - NYTimes.com
▻http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/dark-money-politics

In the world of nonprofit “dark money” groups, nothing is as it seems : political committees, through the magic of the internal revenue code, become tax-exempt “social welfare” organizations; a partisan campaign ad becomes principled “issue advocacy”; and federal election law that requires public disclosure of donors is rendered toothless by regulatory loopholes.

Arizona’s Barrier to the Right to Vote - NYTimes.com

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/opinion/arizonas-barrier-to-the-right-to-vote.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_2

Arizona’s Proposition 200, passed in 2004, prohibits local officials from registering any would-be voter who does not provide “satisfactory evidence of United States citizenship.” That requirement conflicts with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as the Motor Voter Act, which set up a national registration system for federal elections.

#migrations #étatsunis #mexique

Overcoming Islamophobia in US elections

►http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=30942&lan=en&sp=0

Newark, Delaware - Islam has become an important part of American discourse leading up to the 2012 federal elections and candidates everywhere appear eager to take a position on Islam for political gain. Across the country, rising Islamophobia has made it difficult for some Muslims to build mosques and practice their faith, although their right to do so is enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

In the current race for the presidential nomination, some presidential candidates are invoking Islam and Muslims in a negative fashion in an attempt to bolster their popularity with populations they perceive to be suspicious of Muslims or Islam. For example, if elected, former presidential candidate Herman Cain promised not to appoint Muslims to his cabinet.

Les musulmans sont les juifs d’aujourd’hui. Le succès de Marine Le Pen aujourd’hui repose sur la certitude de son islamophobie. Elle sera au premier tour de l’élection, j’en suis certain. De la même manière que la montée d’Adolf Hitler n’a pas été contrecarrée parce que le monde entier de l’époque était antisémite, l’islamophobie actuelle est aussi mondiale et un argument pour toute élection.

#islamophobie

Belgium, from Model to Case Study for Conflict Resolution

Une analyse bien décalée, hors-sol et à côté de la plaque.

“One way forward is the creation of a nation-wide electoral district for federal elections in which every Belgian, regardless of residence, can vote for Flemish and Walloon candidates.”

►http://www.usip.org/files/resources/PB79-Belgium,_from_Model_to_Case_Study_for_Conflict_Resolution.pdf

#belgique #separatisme #peace #conflict