The International Mauthausen Committee (CIM), in which the Austrian camp community Mauthausen and the Mauthausen Committee Austria are represented, expresses “deep concern” about the rise of nationalist and right-wing extremist movements and parties in Europe. According to Kathpress, in a statement published on Wednesday, the committee makes an urgent call to “resolutely oppose the rise of neo-fascist parties in Europe”.
Seven months before the European Parliament elections, the Mauthausen Commission’s guiding principle, “Never again fascism!”, is in danger given the rise of the far right in Europe and the world. Right-wing extremist parties are already represented in many local parliaments and some countries are also governed by them. “It is clearly visible everywhere that they want to abolish democracy step by step and rob culture and education of their diversity in the sense of a so-called community of values.”
The history of National Socialism, its rise to power and the subsequent, rapid establishment of a dictatorship are a textbook example of this. History also shows that political parties that, out of their desire for power, enter into coalitions with anti-democratic parties, strengthen them and pave the way for the abolition of democracy.
Threatening development
This threatening development must finally be taken seriously. According to the International Mauthausen Committee, there is still a chance to stop this and move in a different direction. “This can be achieved through solidarity among all those committed to democracy, human rights and international understanding, social justice and peace.”
Human rights, social justice and peace
The Mauthausen Committee Austria (MKÖ for short) was founded on December 15, 1997 by the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and the Episcopal Conference of the Roman Catholic Church, with the Federal Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Austria as a partner in the form of a successor association of the Austrian camp community Mauthausen.
The MKÖ is a member of the International Mauthausen Committee (CIM), which was founded in 1944 as an illegal, international resistance movement in the Mauthausen concentration camp. The aim was to unite survivors, working to defend human rights, social justice and peace and continually remembering the crimes of National Socialism.
Source: Krone
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