Mark Ames: Austerity & Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine

Starring Makis Voridis, Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks

After the hammer, he graduated to law school– and the ax; was expelled from law school; and worked his way up the adult world of Greek fascist politics, his ax tucked under the bed somewhere. In 1994, Voridis helped found a new far-right party, The Hellenic Front. In 2004’s elections, Voridis’s ‘Hellenic Front Party’ formed a bloc with the neo-Nazi ‘Front Party,’ headed by Greece’s most notorious Holocaust denier, Konstantinos Plevis, a former fascist terrorist whose book, ‘Jews: The Whole Truth,’ praised Adolph Hitler and called for the extermination of Jews. Plevis was charged and found guilty of ‘inciting racial hatred’ in 2007, but his sentence was overturned on appeal in 2009.

By that time, Makis ‘Hammer’ Voridis had traded up in the world of Greek fascism, merging his Hellenic Front Party into the far-right LAOS party, an umbrella party for all sorts of neo-Nazi and far-right political organizations. LAOS was founded by another raving anti-Semite, Giorgos Karatzeferis—nicknamed ‘KaratzaFührer’ in Greece for alleging that the Holocaust and Auschwitz are Jewish ‘myths,’ and saying that Jews have ‘no legitimacy to speak in Greece.’ The Anti-Defamation League is going ballistic about it; for some reason, the media hasn’t taken notice, except in Israel.