Golden Dawn and the deafening silence of Europe — http://roarmag.org/2012/10/golden-dawn-european-union-silence/

One day it may … be considered one of history’s greatest ironies that, as EU leaders were busy deciding who would collect its Nobel Prize for “the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights,” those same leaders remained woefully silent when a recent survey indicated that the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party now polls third in Greece, at 14 percent — a showing comparable to that of Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1930, three years before rising to power and setting the world on course for WWII.

Also: Golden Dawn glows amid Greece gloom — http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/10/2012102572921214294.html

Rising unemployment on the back of financial crisis allows far-right party to win supporters by targeting immigrants.