At the annual congress of Front National in Strasbourg March 1997, Jean-Marie Le Pen advocated the establishment of a pan-European National Front - “Why not call this EuroNat, a grouping of nationalists in Europe”.
EuroNat was officially established in Paris on October 9th 2005.
The EuroNat site proclaims the following “To be Nationalist is a culture and a way of life...”, this is pure bellyfeel as George Orwell described it in 1984. I feel the truth, therefore it must be so. Reading the EuroNat Manifesto also leaves one with some uncertainties:
• The Establishment of a Europe of free nations
• The respect of our heritage, the Western civilisation and its identity
• Freedom of speech
• Self-determination
• Social justice
• No Third world immigration
• The family unit is to be the corner stone of society
• The establishment of Zero tolerance for violence
• Keeping a high moral profile in everything we write,say and we do
• Cooperation, goodwill and meaningful contribution between party members
Some of these tenets are easy to grasp, No Third world immigration period, whereas others are more vague and in need of a clear definition. To obtain a better understanding of what the points above might suggest it will thus be necessary to briefly examine them in the context of the membership.
British National Party (United Kingdom)
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The modern British National Party(BNP) was founded in April 1982. With John Tyndall(to the left in the picture) and his deputies Richard Edmonds and John Morse at the helm, the BNP never tried to conceal its racism nor neo-Nazism. Amongst other things Tyndall is famous for having said “Mein Kampf is my bible”.
In October 1990, the BNP was described by the European Parliament's committee on racism and xenophobia as an "openly Nazi party... whose leadership have serious criminal convictions". Asked whether this was accurate, Edmonds replied that people such as German stormtroopers were "fine, brave men who fought the whole world for five years". When asked if the BNP was racist, Edmonds said, "We are 100 per cent racist, yes".
In early 1992, the BNP formed the now notorious Combat 18 as a stewarding group to protect its events. Combat 18 refers to the first and eighth letter of the alphabet, AH - for Adolph Hitler.
Come 1995 where, the mastermind of the American neo-Nazi group National Alliance, William Pierce would speak at the annual BNP rally in London. BNP has also been linked to the neo-Nazi music promotion network Blood and Honour, who’s bands have helped raise money for the party. Furthermore party member Mark Matthews maintained the British 14 Words Press. etc
In 1999 Holocaust denier Nick Griffin, who’s since shared platforms with former Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke and addressed the German neo-Nazi party Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD), was elected chairman of BNP.
In the era of Griffin the BNP has sought to present itself less extreme, stating Front National and its electoral success as a source of inspiration for this sudden shift in style.
The 2002 Channel 4 documentary "Young, Nazi and Proud" features hidden-camera footage of the then BNP youth leader Mark Collett stating his admiration for Adolf Hitler, adding "I'd never say this on camera...”. Today Collett is paradoxically director of publicity for BNP and produces the party's monthly magazine Identity.
Finally BNP No. 2 and deputy chairman Scott McLean can be seen in the documentary Nazi Hate Rock from 2006 making Hitler salutes at a white-supremacist cross-burning ceremony.
Democracia Nacional (Spain)
Democracia Nacional(DN) was founded in 1995 by the merger of the defunct far-right party Juntas Españolas, the neo-Nazi group and publishing house CEDADE and the extremely militant neofascist fraction Bases Autónomas amongst others.
DN attempt to instill a moderate appearance by campaigning against illegal immigration, capitalism and in strong support of law and order alas their members have on several occasions also been known to extoll Franco and Hitler.
In 1998 Samuel Maréchal, then secretary of Front National de la Jeunesse and son-in-law of Jean-Marie Le Pen, chaired the first youth meeting of European nationalist movements in Madrid arranged by DN.
DN is currently headed by Manuel Canduela, who’s signature is also on the EuroNat manifesto. Canduela has a history in various radical movements and was furthermore lead-singer in the neo-Nazi band Division 250. Division 250, who took its name from a Spanish WWII pro-Nazi infantry division of volunteers, is the Spanish equivalent of bands like Skrewdriver and Legion 88.
Footage of the neo-Nazi band Division 250
Fiamma Tricolore (Italy)
Fiamma Tricolore(FT) is an offshoot of Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) and thus one of the few remnants of the fascist party that ruled Italy for two decades. MSI was formed in 1946 by former members of the of the Nazi puppet state Repubblica Sociale Italiana(RSI) which existed in the period 1943-1945. MSI collapsed in 1995 when most of the members followed Gianfranco Fini in joining forces with Alleanza Nazionale, while the more radical elements stayed loyal to Pino Rauti who started the new party Fiamma Tricolore.
Pino Rauti, MSI founder and former RSI member, always represented the more radical streak in MSI. In 1956, disillusioned with what he saw as the moderate drift of MSI, he concentrated on his then new heart-child Ordine Nuovo, an association dedicated to political studies and analysis. Although Ordine Nuovo was mainly build upon an Evolian core Nazism was also referenced, which is reflected by the groups motto "Our honour is called loyality" the same as that of the Waffen SS. The New Order, which was absorbed back into MSI in the seventies, has furthermore been implicated in terrorist attacks and the upbuild of the strategy of tension in the years between 1960 and 1980.
Fiamma Tricolore this day still looks back upon the Repubblica Sociale Italiana with nostalgia and former members of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana are as a token of this granted free membership.
The leadership currently resides in Luca Romagnoli who’s also Member of the European Parliament and in this capacity a part of the new group Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty within the parliament.
Footage of a Fiamma Tricolore rally in Rome
Front National (France)
Front National was founded at the second congress of Ordre Nouveau in October 1972. The fundamental idea was to create a party with a greater width compared to the movements that existed. The Presidency was eventually entrusted Jean-Marie Le Pen, François Brigneau(Milice/French Gestapo, Ordre Nouveau) was elected vice-president and new general secretary was Alain Robert(GUD, Ordre Nouveau).
Front National, always campaigning on a platform of some kind of xenophobia and zero tolerance on crime, has always embraced and mastered the art of populism. It is without contest the mastermind of EuroNat.
I will not go into too much detail here, suffice it to say that FN is notorious for its criminal record, mayors(ie. Vitrolles etc.), links to radical far-right groups such as GUD, the security branch Département Protection et Sécurité, flirtations with historical revisionism and finally anti-Semitism.
Nationaldemokraterna(Sweden)
The National Democrats(ND) were formed in 2001 by dissidents of Sverigedemokraterna. The latter whom had only three years earlier, about the same time as the Front National paid the campaign printing expenses of the party, banned the display of Nazi uniforms at its public gatherings.
ND laid out a more radical course by openly recruiting from militant groups such as Nationell Ungdom, a group implicated in severe violence and murder.
In 2002, through the umbrella organization Salemfonden, ND took part in arranging the largest Nazi manifestation in Sweden since WWII, the so called Salemmarschen. Other participants were the Swedish Nazi party Nationalsocialistisk Front, Nationell Ungdom, Blood and Honour Scandinavia and the neo-Nazi magazine Info 14.
American neo-Nazi presentation of the Salem March 2002
Nieuw Rechts (Netherlands)
The little far-right and racist New Right(NR) was founded in 2002 by Michiel Smit, a former member of Leefbaar Rotterdam (to the right in the picture).
Haitske van de Linde, a former Leefbaar colleague, has described Michiel Smit as “about the greatest neo-Nazi of Dutch politics". One doesn’t need to be close to Smit to get this impression as he is renowned for his participation on neo-Nazi internetforums such as stormfront, holland-hardcore and polinco, where he contributed with wordities such as “there is only one thing that is worse than a negro, a white negro!”.
Practically all members of Nieuw Rechts have some kind of relation to radical movements.
The party has so far been electorally unsuccessful.
Having set up the premises we can now return to the manifesto,
• The Establishment of a Europe of free nations
- a cleansed nationalist if not neofascist Europe.
• The respect of our heritage, the Western civilisation and its identity
- ethnocentrism and historical revisionism.
• Freedom of speech
- a carte blanche on hate speech(applies only to people within the nationalist framework)
• Self-determination
- determination of the self, in this case EuroNat which by backchaining leads to the
respective members, to put it plainly totalitarianism.
• Social justice
- national preference
• No Third world immigration
- No Third world immigration
• The family unit is to be the corner stone of society
- natalism, (the propaganda images of the Goebbels family spring to mind)
• The establishment of Zero tolerance for violence
- police state
• Keeping a high moral profile in everything we write, say and we do
- as William Pierce is affiliated with the above we can adopt the National Vanguards
definition of “high moral”, which excludes: Persons of Jewish descent, homosexuals,
bisexuals, “criminals”, persons with a non-White spouse, dependent, or sexual partner
and persons with more than an undetectable trace of non-White ancestry.
• Cooperation, goodwill and meaningful contribution between party members
- Impuzamugambi
References:
Euronat
BBC News | Programmes | Under the skin of the BNP
Expo
Antisemitism and Xenophobia Today
Expelled BNP founder plans court battle | Guardian Unlimited Politics
Nieuw Rechtse kandidaten Europese Verkiezingen 2004
Le Pen a fait au 1er tour l'un de ses scores les plus bas depuis 20ans...une bonne chose...
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