Strategies for the struggle against the Far Right and Neo-fascism in Europe is the title of the Antifascist seminar that will be conducted on the 3rd of April in Kossuth Klub, (Múzeum street 7), before the organizers and their guests walk up to Gellérthegy for the demonstration called the REAL PEACE MARCH (VALÓDI BÉKEMENET).
The title of the demonstration is referring to the Peace March that has been organized during the last two years by the right wing, and most recently last Saturday on the 29th of March, and questioning wether the right marches in reality for the peace.
Translation in English, French and Polish will be proposed.
See below the proposed schedule:
Timetable & speakers’ list according to AS-network meeting (13/14 March)
9.00 Inauguration: 1 Hungarian/1 Alter-Summit (A Belgian Trade Unionist)
9.30 Panel 1: Typology of Right Extremism and neo-fascism in Europe: Cases: Hungary (Tamas Krausz, H), Greece (NPI, Gr) Western Europe (René Monzat, F), Central and Eastern Europe (n.n.) Germany (Institute for Societal Analysis, IFG)
11.00 Panel 2: Strategic Debate (1), The cultural challenge (Gaspar Miklos Tamas;H ), Right populism against democracy and labour rights (speaker of the Austrian Trade Union Confederation), (G. Atkinson, UK),
12.30 Lunch break – Press conference
13.30 Panel 3: Strategic Debate (2) National tensions and the far Right in CEE (Ian Kavan, Cz), Sexism and Fundamentalism (Feminists for another Europe), Nationalism and Populism – Key concepts of contemporary right extremism (Walter Baier, At)
15.00 Panel 4: How to fight effectively? Systemic Crisis and Far Right (Alliance of French Trade Unionist against the Far Right), Solidarity as the weapon against neo-fascism (Antifascist Coordination on Athens and Piraeus), The manifesto of the AS, a tool in the fight against the far Right (AlterSummit)
16.30 Closing statements 1 Hungarian/ 1Alter Summit –Adoption of the working paper
17.00 End of the seminar
17h30 start of the walk to Gellérthegy for the demonstration - at the statue on the top of the hill the Romano Teatro from Miskolc will hold a musical performance