Al Jazeera English
| May 1, 2012
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has delivered a further blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy's hopes of re-election by refusing to endorse him and telling her six million supporters to make their own choice at Sunday's ballot. "I will not grant...
France 24
| Apr 23, 2012
French newspapers react to results from the first round of the country's presidential election, with many giving the Sarkozy campaign up for lost, and focusing instead on what a President Hollande might mean for France, as well as analyzing far-ri...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 23, 2012
Socialist candidate Francois Hollande is leading France's presidential election race. He has won the first round of voting, but the situation is still uncertain. Hollande still faces opposition from incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy and pressure...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 18, 2012
Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway last July, has been questioned by the prosecution on his alleged contacts with far-right nationalist groups as they seek to prove his European network does not exist. Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 17, 2012
In the north of France, where the country's economic crisis has hit hardest, National Front leader Marine Le Pen and Left Front candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon are winning support with policies that attack immigrants and the rich, respectiv...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 17, 2012
Anders Breivik, the man who has admitted the mass killings of 77 people in Norway last year, has taken the stand at his trial to tell the court that he acted out of "goodness, not evil" in order to "defend his country." Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull ex...
Channel 4 News
| Apr 16, 2012
The opening day of the trial of Norwegian Anders Breivik, accused of killing 77 people in a mass murdering shooting spree, began with a clenched-fist salute and ended with tears from the accused when an anti-immigration video was aired. In between...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 7, 2012
Nicolas Sarkozy says he will cut the number of new immigrants by almost half if he is re-elected president. This comes after far-right candidate Marine Le Pen made the amount of Halal meat sold by Parisian butchers into a campaign issue.
Democracy Now!
| Jan 27, 2012
Many analysts say Newt Gingrich's recent rise in the Republican contest would have been impossible without the backing of one man, multi-billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Adelson and his wife have donated $10 million to the pro-Gingrich su...
The terms far right, or extreme right, describe the broad range of political groups and ideologies usually taken to be further to the right of the mainstream center-right on the traditional left-right spectrum. Far right politics commonly involves support for strong inequality and social hierarchy, elements of social conservatism and opposition to most forms of liberalism and socialism. Both terms are also used to describe Nazi and fascist movements, and other groups who hold extreme nationalist, chauvinist, xenophobic, racist, religious fundamentalist or reactionary views. The most extreme right-wing movements have pursued oppression and genocide against groups of people on the basis of their alleged inferiority.
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