Interesting link, scary links

This post is mostly a test of an interesting new publishing system I stumbled upon – if the test is successful I might write more about it on my personal blog (oyvindstrommen.be). But for know, such a test is a poor excuse to bother my readers, so I decided to include a link to an interesting article written by Thomas Sheehan in January 1981 instead.

This article is one of the earliest references to “Eurofascism” I can find on the Internet. Although Sheehan uses the term in a different way than I do, the historical ties of what I call Eurofascism are to be spotted also in this article on extreme righ terrorism from 1981.

Indeed the Flemish Order of Militants, mentioned by Sheehan, was a breeding ground for a number of politicians in today’s Vlaams Belang. And lines can also be drawn – without many dots on the way – from the terrorist attack in Bologna in the summer of 1980 to today’s British National Party.

In my upcoming book on “Eurofascism”, you will have a chance to follow those lines for yourself. I’d say it’s a pretty scary ride.