Voters in Austria have increased their support for "far right" parties in Sunday's general election there. The left wing UK Guardian reports:Austria was shaken by a political earthquake yesterday when the neo-fascist right emerged from a general election as a contender to be the strongest political force in the country for the first time. The combined forces of the extreme right took 29% of the vote, with Jörg Haider almost tripling the share of his breakaway Movement for Austria's Future to 11%, while his successor as Freedom party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, saw his party soar to 18%.No doubt there are some very disagreeable views among those supporting these political parties. Austria has neo-Nazis, and did not match (West) Germany's efforts at de-Nazification. Strache, who has been associated with neo-Nazi militants who deny the Holocaust, according to a court ruling, and who wants a new government ministry created to manage the deportation of immigrants, wound...(Read Full Post)