On the streets of Vienna, I saw Austrians’ rage at the march of the far right – but also their helplessness | Owen Jones

On the streets of Vienna, I saw Austrians’ rage at the march of the far right – but also their helplessness | Owen Jones

Events in Austria are alarming. Because there and elsewhere, progressives hold up their hands and ask: what can we do? Last Thursday, on a cool Vienna night, anti-fascist protesters thronged through the pretty boulevards of Austria’s capital. The far right – in the shape of the Freedom party (FPÖ), led by bespectacled ideologue Herbert Kickl…