Alexander Clapp

Alexander Clapp is a journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee based in Athens. He has written about the Balkans and Eastern Europe for New Left Review, among other journals. In the LRB he has reported on the Golden Dawn, Syriza, and Montenegro’s politicians and criminal cartels. His first book, Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish is published by John Murray in the UK and Little, Brown in the US.

Diary: Inside Golden Dawn

Alexander Clapp, 4 December 2014

In Kalamata I introduce myself as an American neo-fascist with a strong interest in Greek history. Sceptically at first, later with fervour, a few members of the Golden Dawn invite me to attend meetings. Their offices tend to be located off main squares, usually in residential buildings in quiet neighbourhoods. Large Greek flags hang on the walls, along with news clippings and redrawn maps: Greece in possession of Skopje and bits of Bulgaria, Greece in possession of northern Turkey, Greece in possession of Cyprus and southern Albania.

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