Right-wing Extremism and Civil Society

Right-wing extremism and its manifestations have undergone quite big changes in recent years. Extremists are trying to reach the supporters and voters and get to higher politics by changing their image and behaviour. Due to the attention of politicians, the public and the media, we can talk, in my opinion, about a "boom of extremism". In the spring of 2009, there was not a single day without extremism mentioned on television or printed media, and even though this "hysteria" calmed down during next months, extremism is still a hot topic. Social climate has changed of course, and public opinion is now, after all, less tolerant to open expressions of racism, xenophobia and Nazism or Fascism. This work will aim to clarify or bring different perspectives to the concept of political extremism, on the basis of which groups are described as extremist, who identifies them so, why, what is the relationship between extremist groups and civil society and how civil society and State (or both together) fights extremism. The last part of this work is to survey civil actions arising in response to the growing extremism, their cooperation with other sectors and forms of resistance against the right-wing extremism