Category: European Nationalism

A conference in Croatia on the intellectual revolution

Today, Tom Sunic circulated the following article about a conference that took place on Tuesday in Zagreb.  The article appeared at Javno.com, which describes itself as a multi-media news portal.  The day on-line news media in the English-speaking world print material like this the revolution will have been won, and the former media-owners will be kicking their heels in a condo in Eilat.

The conference nods toward the same neo-Gramscian path that de Benoist’s GRECE promulgated during its vigorous, early phase.  It is taken for granted by all three speakers that the problem of intellectual radicalism on the European revolutionary right remains one of numbers rather than talent, and organisation rather than output.  That’s not at all how it is in the Anglo-American world, though.

GW

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“POLITICAL HEGEMONY OR CULTURAL HEGEMONY?”
The Center of Cultural Information

Speakers:
Zlatko Hasanbegovic (author, publisher)
Jure Vujic (author, expert on geopolitics)
Tom Sunic (author, political theorist)

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at 7pm, in the packed hall of the Center of Cultural Information (KIC), Zagreb, Croatia, a conference was held with the title “Cultural Hegemony or Political Hegemony.”?

The three speakers were a writer and publisher Zlatko Hasanbegovic, a writer and expert on geopolitics Jure Vujic, and Dr. Tomislav Sunic, author of the book “The European New Right” (Europska Nova Desnica), which has recently been published in the Croatian translation by the publishing house Hasanbegovic. The three speakers presented a synopsis of the phenomenon known as “cultural hegemony,” which originated and was developed by the former Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci.

Every political system, including the democratic one, is based on a given cultural hegemony, which presupposes the dominance of political ideas of some social elite, or elites, but also implying the consent of social groups at lower strata of the society. In order to win or maintain cultural hegemony, control of the media, education, and public communications, as well as use and abuse of various mechanisms of “soft power”- as is the case today with “fun-making society"- must be constantly upheld and updated.  All of these conditions shape public opinion.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 06:55 PM in European Nationalism
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Well of morality, non?

You can get Norman’s book here.

Posted by Søren Renner on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 05:37 PM in European Nationalism
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National Front

One day last month I drove up to a Heathrow hotel to take Tom Sunic off the hands of two gentlemen from the National Front, the cinderella nationalists of British politics.  The previous day Tom had delivered a speech to the NF Party Conference in Bradford (you can find it here), and these gentlemen had driven Tom and another speaker all the way down from the Islamic Republic.

After the pair had taken their leave of us Tom made sure that I knew what good, solid people he had been among in Bradford.  I’ve not paid much attention to the NF for quite some time.  So I made a mental note to check out their website and see what they are up to.

My eye was caught by a statement written by veteran nationalist and poet Eddy Morrison.  It is titled The eight principles of White Nationalism – the foundation stones of NF ideology.  I wondered what you would make of it, and how you might compare it with the culturalist vision that Lee Barnes brought to MR a few days back.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:20 PM in European Nationalism
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Put your hands together.

Posted by Søren Renner on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 03:07 PM in European Nationalism
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Jobbik

On its website Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom, the Movement for a Better Hungary, is displaying a ten-minute video of police violence against its apparently legal and peaceful demonstrations held in 2006.  The video was made for handing out as a DVD to members of the European Parliament at the debate on Iran in which one of Jobbik’s three MEPs, Dr Krisztina Morvai, was making her maiden speech.  It has appeared in various places across the nationalist internet.

We cannot know whether provocations have been edited out.  But based on the evidence of the video it is quite shocking to see what these repulsive creatures in police uniform are willing to do in broad daylight to fellow Hungarians.

The “better Hungary” the party is striving for is one in which government serves the interests of the mass of Hungarians, rather than the elites, foreign interests and ethnic minorities.  Economically, it offers an anti-elitist, anti-neoliberal vision.  The minorities issue seems to come down to the problem of the Roma.

But there is, for Dr Morvai, also a Jewish Question.  She is, as it happens, married to a Jew and has three daughters by him.  The marriage itself appears to be over, though the couple remain together for the children’s sakes. In any event, Morvai famously created a stir when she remarked on a conservative Hungarian internet discussion group:

“I would be glad if those who call themselves proud Hungarian Jews in their spare time would play with their tiny little circumcised tails instead of abusing me. Your kind expect that if you fart our kind stands at attention and caters to all your wishes. It’s time to learn: we no longer oblige! We hold our heads high and no longer tolerate the terror your kind imposes on us. We are taking our country back!”

What a woman!

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, July 17, 2009 at 10:46 PM in European Nationalism
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End of the tunnel for Front National?  Not yet - update 06.07.09

The Observer reports on an obscure mayoral election in Hénin-Beaumont, and the anticipated resurgence of FN under Marine Le Pen.

Le Pen’s daughter scents victory for resurgent far right

With a cheery “OK, let’s go,” Marine Le Pen leads her troop of activists down the steps of their campaign headquarters, through the narrow streets and into Hénin-Beaumont’s weekend market. Bottle-blond hair, white stilettoes clicking on the pavement, white jeans a sharp contrast to the tracksuits around her, the 40-year-old former lawyer and far-right politician offers handshakes, leaflets, smiles and encouragement in her smoker’s rasp.

By her side is Steeve Briois, the local boy and Front National (FN) candidate who she hopes will be the mayor of this depressed former mining town in northern France when the final count from the second round of Hénin-Beaumont’s municipal election is known at around nine o’clock tonight .

... For the Front National and Le Pen herself, a victory in Hénin-Beaumont would be “the start of a new era”. The FN would be running a municipal authority again for the first time in several years and for the first time in the blighted post-industrial political landscape of northern France.

Also, a first critical step will have been taken to reverse the steady decline since the heady days of 2002 when Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie, the former paratrooper who founded the FN in 1972, made it to the second round run-off in national presidential elections with a countrywide vote of 18%. And finally, Le Pen fille will be established as the unchallenged “leader in waiting” of the party once her father, now 80, retires as promised next year. Le Pen and her team are confident. In the first round of voting a week ago the FN scored well above 40%, twice as many as the nearest challenger.

... In Hénin-Beaumont, run by the Socialists since 1953, things could not be much worse. This weekend’s poll follows the imprisonment of the serving mayor on wide-ranging charges of systematic corruption and the resignation of virtually all his colleagues. The fraud is reported to have cost the town colossal sums, leading to local taxes rising steeply while schools’ grants are cut. To make up the losses, taxes will have to rise even further or deep cuts be made in the municipal budget or both. To make things even easier for Briois and the FN, the local Socialists have split.

... First, Roget said, came unemployment and the crisis of the welfare state. “The kids in France have got no jobs at all and we are all being asked to work longer and have our pensions and benefits cut.” Then came the politicians and the Paris elite who “don’t give a stuff about ordinary people” and simply spend money on “fast trains or big planes”. They never listened to any “ordinary people”.

Third, there was globalisation and, specifically, the Chinese. “We had jobs in Hénin,” Roget said. “But now everything is made in China. We can’t compete with them. They have factories where it is slave labour. What are we going to do? Work like slaves ourselves?

... The strategy of hunting for votes on the left as well as the right has split the FN and the debates have mirrored those in the British National party. Three years ago Marine Le Pen persuaded her father to ditch the hardline anti-immigration language and tone down the borderline racism and implicit antisemitism. Instead, she argued, the FN could break the barriers placed in its way by traditional parties by becoming “respectable” and gain support by adapting its key message. “We have put the economy, the preoccupations of ordinary people, in the foreground. I’m happy to see that my strategy has worked.” The extremism of her father, who dismissed the Holocaust as a “detail of history” and called the Nazi occupation of France “relatively humane”, was part of the past, she said.

“It’s true that we have sometimes given our opponents a stick to beat us with but ... as regards immigration ... my father was a visionary, far ahead of his time, and was attacked because of the truths he told. Immigration - economic, humanitarian, of relatives, because of global warming - is going to be the number one issue in the 21st century.

Whatever works, I guess.

UPDATE 06.07.09

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Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM in European Nationalism
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The death of Jörg Haider: accident or assassination

When we originally covered the story of Jörg Haider’s death last October, several commenters were very quick to sieze upon the assassination angle.  Today, The Times carried a story titled, Investigative reporter offers murder theory over death of Jörg Haider:

When Jörg Haider died in a car crash last year, many Austrians mourned the complex, fast-living populist. He may have been an admirer of Hitler’s employment policies, but he seemed to many rightwingers, frustrated with the Vienna Establishment, to hold the key to a new Austria.

Now pressure is growing to reopen the investigation into his death, and at least one investigative reporter is asking whether the 58-year-old politician was murdered.

“There are too many open questions,” said Gerhard Wisnewski, the author of the book Jörg Haider: Accident, Murder or Assassination? that has been selling quickly in Austria since it was launched last Tuesday. “After eight months of research I am convinced that it is highly probable that Haider was the victim of a politically motivated assassination.”

... “This case has to be reopened with an independent prosecutor . . . and with the involvement of international experts,” said Stefan Petzner, the former spokesman for Mr Haider and a leading figure in the right-wing BZOe party, the Alliance for the Future of Austria. He is threatening to mobilise a referendum on the issue unless the Justice Minister complies.

Mr Haider’s wife, Claudia, has also joined in the critical chorus, questioning the narrative provided by the police investigation team in the week after the crash. The police version, much of it leaked to the press before the official report, was that Mr Haider had visited various bars, including a reputedly gay hangout, on the night of Saturday October 10, in the town of Klagenfurt. He had drunk the equivalent of a bottle of vodka, according to blood sampling, and had driven at 142 kilometres per hour.

The car, a Phaeton limousine, had ricocheted from a fire hydrant into a noise-protection wall, against a tree and then bounced back on to the road about 100 metres farther along. Claudia has always denied rumours that her mercurial husband, the father of her two daughters, was gay and doubts many of the other details.

Interestingly, the story does not appear to have been reported at all by the English-language Austrian Times.  It might also be interesting to know who owns that publication, and whether Herr Wisnewski’s thesis has been reported by other national media in Austria.

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 09:17 PM in European Nationalism
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Nationalism in motion?  Or liberalism reformed?

The BNP is currently engaged on posting a series of brief résumés of it policy positions.  Recently we had one on immigration policy.

But a few days ago the party set out a number of attractive proposals on civil liberty.  Unquestionably, a future British National Party government enacting these into law would command wide popular support.  The Human Rights Act would be removed from the statute book, naturally.  We would see an end to those monumentally unloved ID cards, the national DNA database and the spiders web of the surveillance society.  On the new legislation side, the country would gain a parliament for England, binding referenda on major, probably constitutional issues, and a Bill of Rights.

All these would be highly significant undertakings, particularly the parliament which could well create a permanent English consensus against the Labour Party.  But none of them are anti-liberal in any systemic or revolutionary sense.  They would not act like acid on the radical individualist template on which multi-ethnicism is scored, burning both radical individualism and race-replacement out of politics in Britain for all time.

Instead, the party hierarchy (for which read Nick Griffin) seems to be relying in an Inevitablist fashion on the people freeing themselves.  Plenty of “patriotic feeling” and “good common-sense” is expected to be released by two other proposals in that civil liberties post:-

Abolish all restrictions on traditional free speech - common law provisions against incitement to violence are the only proper limits in a free society;

Abolish “anti-discrimination” laws which prevent people from making a free choice.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 12:41 AM in European Nationalism
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The leaked BNP membership lost

So the affair of the leaked BNP membership list has already led to a Merseyside policeman being investigated and the Talksport DJ Rod Lucas getting the sack.  But worse will likely come to some:-

If that info gets a bit more public, this could be the end of the BNP - home demos, leafleting neigbours, alterting workplaces etc - we could seriously fuck the BNP up!

Come on, do the right thing - give us those addresses

(A) Sab x

The list itself is of dubious currency.  Excluding family members under eighteen, there are 12,215 names on it, many of whom are lapsed members.  The latest entries are June 2008, but most relate to the 2007 membership (apparently there is a very fast turnover of the BNP membership).

So, who did it?

Theory One: The list was leaked by a former party-member

Actually, a “hard-liner” who, according to Nick Griffin, “didn’t like the direction the party was going and broke away, taking the list with him”.

But EnoughisEnough has issued a rapid and firm denial, together with a demand for an apology to former Head of Administration, Kenny Smith.  There was a report that Griffin is now backing away from this theory, but I can’t locate the link.

Theory Two: The list was leaked by another left-wing mole in the party

The workaday explanation.  Well, we’ve had Jason Gwynne.  We’ve had Ian Cobain.

Theory Three: The list was leaked by an agent of MI5 within the party

The rationale here is that the BNP is on the verge of a “national breakthrough”, and could well grab a seat in the election to the European Parliament next June.

Just yesterday we heard how the party was planning an assault on the first direct elections for police authorities.

“We will be having a real go, there’s no doubt about that,” said Simon Darby, deputy leader of the BNP. “We have a staunch core of voters who are guaranteed to turn out and they could be enough to win us seats in these circumstances:-

“Crime will undoubtedly rise in the recession – burglaries go up, car theft rises, there will be problems with drug pushers. People don’t want to put up with that and they’ll want something done about it.

That reference to an increase in popularity as the recession bites was a major point of interest at last week’s BNP national conference in Blackpool, and might also be weighing on minds in high places.

This would be a good moment, then, to release sensitive information that could starve the party of membership and members’ party fees.  But ... why would an intelligence agent use an old list?

So, I favour Theory Two for now.  But the police have been called in, so perhaps we shall eventually learn who is the guilty party.

Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 02:27 PM in European Nationalism
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Jörg Haider killed in car crash

Only two weeks after the Austrian electorate put Jörg Haider back on the national stage, he is reported to have died in a car crash near his home town of Klagenfurt:-

Mr Haider, 58, who earned worldwide notoriety for making statements sympathetic to Hitler’s Nazi regime, suffered fatal head and chest injuries after the car he was driving plunged down an embankment near his home town of Klagenfurt.

Detectives are still investigating the cause of the crash, but said he was driving alone at the time in a government-owned vehicle.

The death of Mr Haider, who was governor of Carinthia province in southern Austria, comes less than a fortnight after a major resurgence in the far right’s political support in the country, riding on a wave of anti-immigrant and anti-European Union sentiment.

At parliamentary elections last month, Mr Haider’s Alliance for the Future of Austria polled 11 per cent of the vote, while the similarly-aligned Freedom Party, which Mr Haider founded but then split from, polled 18 per cent. The results meant nearly in three Austrians had voiced support for far-right movements, dismaying the country’s liberal politicians.

Mr Haider’s death may prompt concerns that political support will pass from him to the current Freedom Party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, who is seen as a much more hardline figure. Mr Haider was originally Mr Strache’s political mentor, but the two fell out as Mr Haider chose to pursue more moderate policies in recent years.

Mr Haider’s spokesman, Stefan Petzner, said that he had been heading to a town near Klagenfurt for a gathering of his family to mark his mother’s 90th birthday.

“This is for us like the end of the world,” he added.

Born in Upper Austria, Mr Haider’s father was a former member of Hitler’s brown-shirted storm troopers, while his mother was a teacher who had been a Hitler Youth leader. Involved in politics since his teenage years, he caused an international outcry with a series of remarks where he appeared to imply an admiration for the Nazi era.

He once compared the employment policies of Austria’s government with the “proper labour policies” of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and on another occasion he referred to Nazi concentration camps as “penal camps” rather than death camps.

Visits to see despots such as Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Colonel Gaddafi in Libya heightened his image as a pariah politician.

Such was the opprobrium he earned among fellow European statesmen that when the Freedom Party entered into a coalition government with the conservative People’s Party in 2000, it triggered temporary European Union sanctions against Austria.

The coalition deal then fell apart, leading to an early election in 2002 in which the Freedom Party lost heavily, followed by a remake of the coalition.

Mr Haider then formed the breakaway Alliance for the Future of Austria in 2005, courting greater public acceptance by pursuing more moderate policies, but in a national election in 2006, the Alliance only just scraped past the 4 percent threshold to enter parliament.

Mr Haider is survived by his wife and two daughters.

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 10:39 AM in European Nationalism
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The case for Inevitablism

Today the quality British papers have carried articles uniformly decrying the Austrian election result.  As one would expect, it’s all “far right” this and “extremist” that.  But I’ve been struck by how many readers commenting on the threads take issue with these sentiments.  Ten or fifteen years ago, any sympathy for Germanic nationalism would have been completely beyond the pale.  Eight years ago, when Haider’s Freedom Party entered government with Wolfgang Schüssel’s People’s Party, the mandarins of the EU felt bold enough to issue sanctions against Austria for voting “wrongly”.  Today that is beyond the pail.

Now, I’m no Inevitablist, and should a wave of mass revulsion of the MultiCult actually sweep Europe’s nationalists into office over the next decade, my immediate concern would be that their intellectual roots are too shallow to give the required coup de grace to liberalism and all its works (and its workers).  But it is impossible to explain to a man who has been confined for so very long that the first openings of the door aren’t the beginnings of his freedom.  He is going to will it to be anyway.

Here are some thread comments to illustrate the point that there is a crack in the door.  They are taken from the thread to a confused and rambling but PeeCee piece in the Telegraph titled “Far-Right’s showing in Austria’s election is worrying”.

To wring hands about this is just so hypocritical and, frankly, missed-the-boat journalism.

For years, the so-called Political ‘Elite(what a misnomer!)AND the MSM have combined in a cosy and sinister cartel to keep the issues of Immigration and Integration of Europe OFF the discussion list of voters ; anyone with half a brain(many of the electorate, sad to say)could see that in the event of an economic downturn, this would come back viciously to rebound, especially on the corrupt and smug political parties who can hardly be separated by a cigarette paper in their policies on BOTH of these subjects.

The vote in Austria may be tut-tutted by both media and Politicians of the centre left, but it won’t go away - neither will the increasing anger in other parts of Europe about these issues. The day of the Soft-left is coming to an end, caused in no small way by their stupid and unsustainable policies of Lending to those who cannot afford to repay loans but who can be relied on to vote for them ; Clinton began this policy by repealing the Glass-Steaghal Act in 99, and the financial melt-down currently rocking the world is a direct result of this - Doubtless, Democrat-leaning media in both the USA & UK will try to whitewash this, but the fact remains.

As times become harder and jobs scarcer, the simmering resentment over unchecked Immigration will turn and devour the Left ; the future looks increasingly frightening and it is ALL the fault of Liberal woolly thinking.

Posted by King Canute on September 30, 2008 3:25 AM

Why should it be sinister that people want an end to uncontrolled economic migration to their corner of the globe?

It seems to be a point that eludes the vast majority of politicians and the MSM.
Posted by Jabba the Cat on September 30, 2008 7:25 AM

Nationalism is a perfectly logical reaction to counter the EU liberal Lib/Lab/Con communism.

It’s coming to a place near you, but you still don’t get it!
Posted by Rocket Scientist on September 30, 2008 7:29 AM

austrians will always tell you -hitler -was a german and beethoven an austrian, from what i hear from friends in austria the would welcome the nazi party under a different name. this is because of immigration but like the elephant in the room as in u.k. no one dare mention it,i was told by friends the fear is losing their national character as a people and high taxes to pay for benefits for the immigrants.sounds familiar?.
Posted by londoner432 on September 30, 2008 8:20 AM

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Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 09:18 PM in European Nationalism
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Nationalist gains in Austria

The first national elections since the bank collapse really went critical have taken place in Austria today.  The news is: significant gains for the two nationalist parties.  Heinz-Christian Strache’s Freedom Party (FPOe) and Jorg Haider’s Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZOe), have taken 29% of the vote between them.  Of that, the Freedom Party took 18 per cent of the vote - up from 11% in 2006 despite suffering accusations of xenophobia during the election campaign.  The Alliance for the Future of Austria won 11 per cent of the vote - up from 4%.  So it’s an even split of 7 percentage points gained apiece.

The official result will only be announced on October 6th.

It is possible but, of course, unlikely that nationalist parties will be invited into government, as they were in 2000.  On the other hand, the Austrian public will not smile upon a repeat of the centrist double act of the People’s Party and the Social Democrats.  Most likely to emerge from the inevitable period of political horse-trading is a “grand coalition” of the Social Democrats, who won the largest share of the votes with 28%, the Greens and one of small parties.

Following on the Northern League’s coup of joining the governing coalition in Italy last April, achieved with only an 8% vote share, this is a heartening result.  One should always remember, though, that it has come about for negative reasons: electoral disenchantment with the governing duo and with aspects of Austria’s membership of the EU, and discontent with immigration.  This negativity is a weakness of European nationalism.  Of course, nationalists have to believe in the “certainty” that voter dissatisfaction with the Establishment parties will escalate and keep on escalating, delivering power to them as an inevitable product of the postmodern hell.  Thusfar, however, it has proved impossible for nationalists to sustain the gains they have made, and all too easy for the default mainstream to adapt à la Sarkozy.

The lesson would appear to be that a positive, communicable vision has to run alongside the standard mix of critical rhetoric and vote-buying managerial politics.

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 09:49 PM in European Nationalism
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National feeling and the nation state in Europe

Politics is … the shaping of the future through power over the present.  That’s it, really.  But already in that simply formulation there is an inherent contradiction.  If we survive into the future, it will necessarily contain us.  But who is shaping it?  In whose interests?  And exactly what future are they shaping?

The realisation that the “we” in this are the people, our own people, and that not only is the hand on the lever of power not ours, but our allotted future is not one we would ever wish upon ourselves … that realisation is the wellspring of all nationalist dissidence in the modern age.  It’s the reason why political nationalism throughout Europe today is centred on a principled defence against mass immigration.

But obviously, the impulse itself predates all political “isms” by tens of thousands of years, predates the nation state, predates the sovereign king.  In its evolutionary essence it is as pure an affirmation of life as was ever made.

It is also an affirmation of the sacred tie between the people and the land.  But we are not talking about mere patriotism here.  Patriotic pride is fully acceptable to the enemies of Europe’s people.  There is not enough such pride in the whole world to fill the heart of one man or woman who rediscovers the love of and sense of belonging to his or her own people.  To borrow from a rather well-known if propagandistic Hollywood call to arms:-

Continued...

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 09:55 PM in European Nationalism
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Gangs of Denmark

Danish patriot and blogger, Balder, had circularised a very good and comprehensive piece on the racial and political street violence now on the rise in and beyond Copenhagen.  The addition of immigrant, mostly Moslem, gangs to the brew moves things a stage further than the old antifacist vs NF street violence in England that I blogged about here a few days ago.  So does the fact that “large numbers of young Danes are volunteering for the new movement, hoping that they will be able to contribute to the fight against the muslim invaders”.

GW

DENMARK: STREET WAR BETWEEN HELLS ANGELS AND IMMIGRANT GANGS SPREADING

Clashes in Denmark between bikers, hangarounds and patriots, versus immigrant gangs and left wing extremists.

The biker group Hells Angels seem to be coming back at the at the moment still dominating immigrant gangs, with their new support group AK81, which is increasingly gaining support from Danes who are not first and foremost interested in bikes or crime, but who have grown increasingly hostile to especially muslim immigrants, after ever increasing street violence, knife attacks, robberies and rape from the side of muslim immigrants.

The rates for violent crime and especially rape related cases have gone up dramatically with the increasing number of muslim immigrants. Large numbers of Danes, not otherwise interested in motorcycles or gang related criminal activity, are reported to sign up under the new banner of the HA support group AK81 ‘81′ being synonymous with the letters HA), and AK probably referring to the famous AK 47 ‘Kalashnikov’ submachine gun, as well as meaning Always Ready [Altid Klar] in Danish.

For many years motorcycle gangs such as the illustrious Hells Angels and muslim dominated street gangs managed to exist side by side in relative peace, in the struggle for control of the market for illegal drugs, especially cannabis, but also other forms of crime.

The later years the ethnic Danish gangs such as Hells Angels were increasingly coming under pressure from the muslim gangs, who showed to be far more relentless in their methods, and much less afraid of the possible judicial consequences of their actions, besides being much more numerous, and able to draw upon support from much of the immigrant community not otherwise involved in similar crime.

Continued...

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 09:10 AM in European Nationalism
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The old lion can still roar

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Front National member of the European Parliament, given just 4 minutes to explain the world to Monsieur Bruni, le président de la page trois.

He did alright.

From the BNP website, and originally from fdesouche.com

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 10:37 PM in European Nationalism
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A homage to Alexander Solzhenitsyn

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of postings translated by Fred Scrooby from Robert Steuckers’ interesting and important Synergies Européennes site.

GW

Slavic languages specialist Barbara de Munnynck, who is Flemish, devotes two full pages in the Flemish newspaper De Standaard (December 8, 2006) to enthusiastically paying homage to Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  She retraces and analyses his whole body of work and writes this very fitting conclusion:

Solzhenitsyn is no longer in fashion.  It’s because of the recent political upheavals.  Simply put, this man by his nature stands apart from all fashion.  Though known as a political writer, he’s closer to a religion-inspired moralist.  He critiqued the Soviet dicatorship from a spiritual point of view, not in the name of an alternative political ideology.  Measured against the yardstick of Solzhenitsyn’s ethical criteria, neither the West nor the New Russia has any worth.  For these reasons Solzhenitsyn might be considered merely a grumpy old man or a perennial dissident.  No matter:  his attitude toward life, one of coherence, commands respect.  It was forged under trying circumstances and has certain things in common with the Christian humanism of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Edmund Burke.  Solzhenitsyn is a venerable prophet whose message exists beyond the passage of time.  The enthusiasm for him personally during the Cold War was as strange as the disinterest in him today.

Continued...

Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:31 PM in European Nationalism
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A little honesty - not a lot - works for the Swiss right

Keen cuckoo clock observers will no doubt be aware of Sunday’s election in the gun-toting, bank-ridden concantenated canton-nation called Switzerland.  The result was a resounding success for billionaire industrialist Christoph Blocher’s Swiss People’s Party, and for white sheep everywhere.

The SVP already holds two of the seven seats on the ruling Federal Council, and is the largest party in the bicameral parliament.  As forecast it increased its share of the poll from 27.7% to 29%, continuing its steady progress from the 22% base won in 1999.

Ueli Maurer (who is, in fact, party leader - not Blocher) said, “We have reached the highest score ever since this electoral system began.”

This is impressive by any nationalist measure, and compares with the solid if, now, unspectacular success of Vlaams Belang in Flemish Belgium.  Notwithstanding the SVP’s entrenchment within the power structure, and its consequent and enviable freedom to speak only a lightly varnished truth, there are some interesting parallels between the two parties.

Both present a substantially Conservative - not overtly racial nationalist - prospectus to the electorate.  Both have a spiritual disconnection with their French-speaking social democratic fellow-nationals.  Both have to play the self-righteous left’s game and deny that they are “racist”, and are pilloried all the same:-

But the SVP has its share of power in the most democratic country in Europe, and it shows in campaign policies like:-

Foreign residents who commit crimes in Switzerland should be expelled after serving their sentences. If they are minors, the parents should be expelled with them.

The construction of minarets - the traditional tower of a mosque - should be forbidden in Switzerland.

When foreign residents of a commune want to acquire Swiss citizenship, the commune should continue to have the right to put their applications to a popular vote.

Foreigners who do not learn the language of the area in which they are resident must leave the country.

The party will surely now claim a mandate to push forward with these ideas.  It will be interesting to see to what extent it succeeds.

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 08:49 PM in European Nationalism
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Lowell podcasts

Norman Lowell, he of Imperium Europa and the subject of a very good Renner interview at the end of January, is now podcasting.  He kindly sent me links to his opening English language broadcasts, which are numbers two and four in the series (numbers one and three were recorded in Maltese).

Podcast Number Two explores the Imperium Europa duality idea and clarifies certain misconceptions.  Podcast Number Four explores the concepts of Dominium and Imperium.

Ave!

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 11:01 PM in European Nationalism
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A good day in Flanders

A very good day, in fact.  Vlaams Belang’s chairman, Frank Vanhecke, characterised his Party’s local election performance as “a landslide”.  But mindful, no doubt, of the political Establishment’s past record he said, “There is no way to disregard this victory.”

From The Indy:-

Early results showed the party had gained 5.6 percentage points to reach 20.6 per cent in the 308 municipal councils across Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, and surged beyond its traditional stronghold in Antwerp.

However in Antwerp itself, Belgium’s second largest city, the party appeared to be simply treading water, winning the same one third of the vote that it captured in the last regional elections. That made it far from clear that the Vlaams Belang, which means Flemish Interest, had made enough progress to force other parties to allow it to share power.

Actually, VB increased its vote share in Antwerp to 33.5%.  Its relegation from first to second place came about through dramatic gains by the Socialists, inspired by their popular mayor Patrick Janssens.  They took 35.3% of the city’s vote, in large measure because support for Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt’s Flemish Liberal Democrats fell away badly.  “The average trend of the Party is not so good,” he said, “We must acknowledge that the government has had a few bad months and we know that whoever leads faces the most fire.”

Now, as before, we will see the anti-Flemish parties in Antwerp form a coalition to keep VB out of power.  The road is a long one for VB.  But these results are their best ever, and demonstrate that that road is being travelled all across Flanders.

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, October 9, 2006 at 10:06 AM in European Nationalism
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Le Pen’s diary filling up

22nd April, 2007: 1st round of voting in the French Presidential Election.

22nd May, 2007: 6th May, 2007: 2nd round of voting in French Presidential Election, if required.

6th June, 2007: Trial in Paris on charges of conspiring to justify war crimes and to deny Nazi crimes against humanity.

20th June, 2007: 79th birthday party, possibly even in prison - he faces up to five years and a Euro 45,000 fine.  Unless, of course ...

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 01:09 PM in European Nationalism
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France and Flemish-France and the little uses of immigrants

Degrading directive painted on a schoolwall in the north of France, the words “Flemish is not allowed”.  They have since been removed.

The Flemish Regional Alliance of France reports that from this year on the Lille Academy, a cornerstone of the educational system in a region of northern France with a population of 4 million, will discontinue its training of Dutch language teachers.  Instead and with what irony, the exotic language of the newly arrived immigrants, mainly of North African Arab descent, will be taught.

Continued...

Posted by Johan Van Vlaams on Friday, September 8, 2006 at 10:33 AM in European Nationalism
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Attempt to kill BNP leader fails

Breaking News.

18:00hrs Breaking news – an attempt by Swedish Communists to murder BNP Chairman, Nick Griffin and his wife has been foiled by Swedish police.

A delegation of BNP officials travelled over to Stockholm to help launch the campaign of the National Democratic Party which is contesting the national parliamentary (Riksdag) elections due to take place in September. Nick Griffin was accompanied by his wife Jackie, Sadie Graham the BNP Group Development Officer and Martin Reynolds to look after their personal security.

The delegation along with several Swedish hosts boarded a commuter train in the capital Stockholm on Saturday afternoon as they travelled away from the election launch venue.

Details are admittedly vague but it is believed that a tip off was made to a Stockholm radio station who alerted Police, who in turn stopped and evacuated the train.

Swedish Police have not yet provided any details of which, if any, group who has claimed responsibility and while, given the amateur nature of the device it is likely Far Left extremists are the most likely suspects, any link to Islamic fundamentalists has not been ruled out.

Further news will be posted as soon as it comes in.

Posted by Phil Peterson on Monday, April 3, 2006 at 10:03 PM in European Nationalism
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Internationalism is the new nationalism (or should that be the other way round?)

I know that a number of both bloggers and readers here are very much taken in by Alexander Dugin and National Bolshevism. Suffice to say, considering the man is casually ignored in his own country, this is more than a little peculiar. I never realized hard-core nationalists were such an exportable product.

This is yet odder still if one considers Dugin’s actual views. He believes in the break up of the whole world into four separate supra-national organizations. These would be the Anglo-sphere, Sino-Japan [don’t mention the war!], Euro-Africa [don’t ask] and Russo-India [please don’t ask!]. And how do national loyalties fit into this?

Um, wait a minute…

Oh yes, they don’t. On any sensical measure- such as supporting rights of national self-determination- Dugin is not a nationalist, but a global governor with his own historically blind plan for a new world order. How on earth does he intend to reconcile the Chinese and Japanese, or, even better, the ever so culturally homogeneous Germany and Madagascar? The Taiwanese react violently to union with China, let alone the rest of East Asia. The most Europhile nation, France, voted against union with Britain and Germany. I can just imagine their unbridled joy at the prospect of uniting with the Sudan or Zimbabwe.

Most nobody apart from his fellow cosmopolitan pitchfork populist, Alan de Benoist, is looking forward to the day his country becomes amalgamated in some pan-timezone empire. Dugin’s utopian program will require a worldwide dictatorship, one which will have to trample wholesale on precisely those rights of association (and disassociation) and that sense of Westerness and Englishness which we at MR.com hold so dear.

Dugin’s alternative to the current world order is no alternative, but rather a bizarre iteration of it. In its universalism and disregard for the wants and opinions of the people who will serve as its Guinea pigs, his philosophy is entirely Bolshevik and not at all National.

European nationalism seems to have become every bit as blinkered as Marxism indulging in its worst ideological excesses, and to have entered a 1984 (or, Alice in Wonderland, if you prefer) universe, in which a French “nationalist” can take advice from a Russian “nationalist” about the need to subsume both his nation and his continent into an Afro-European empire! 

Posted by Alex Zeka on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 09:24 PM in European Nationalism,  Political Philosophy
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Griffin on the JQ

Nick Griffin broke his long silence on the Jewish Question today with a lengthy article you can read here.

He seems to have been goaded into action by criticism from American WN’s, presumably occasioned at the Amren Conference at which he was a speaker.  He makes an interesting case - the right case for Britain, no doubt.

In it he pays some respect, at least, to ethnic genetic interests, which is the first time I have heard these three promising words from any leading BNP official.  He acknowledges the well-known negative aspects of the Jewish philosophical contribution to Western politics.  He stresses very few potential positives to be got from engagement with Jews, so I wouldn’t necessarily put him in the “Taylor camp”.  The attraction seems to be conflict avoidance ... don’t start a war on two fronts.  One of them, against Jewry, you can never win.  And losing that will lose you the other war as well - the war you must win.

My only real criticism of this article is that he directs his fire at obvious and easy targets but declines the most serious and interesting.  Conspiracy theorists and “activists of German descent” come in for most of it.  I am not sure how much he gains by bearding these guys while leaving the MacDonald thesis unaddressed.  He acknowledges that highly intelligent Ashkenazics take leading roles in every political-philosophical argument, not merely those of the left.  This is true, and he cites TBC and the great Richard Hernnstein, for example.  But, Hernnstein was still acting out of his perceived ethnic interests, a factor which Griffin prefers not to mention.

So, if Jewish activism in toto is indeed doggedly ethnocentric and as such a survival strategy, as MacDonald contends, then what possible change can be effected through rapprochement?  The answer seems simply to be “None but it does not matter - it is realpolitik.”

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 11:39 PM in European Nationalism
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Ocean Frontier Fertility: The Global Prospects

The prospects are great for ecologically imposed patriarchy enhancing the fertility of whites via oceanic frontiers.  The majority of the earth’s surface remains not only uncultivated, but not biologically productive despite the presence of adequate sunlight and near-adequate nutrients. If recent experiments in iron fertilization of high nitrogen low chlorophyll oceanic surface regions are any indication, the primary ingredient lacking is the pioneering spirit that led to the cultivation and increased carrying capacity of the Anglosphere’s frontier territories: The United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.  It is reasonable to expect that the Anglosphere alone could increase its numbers by a factor of 10, relatively unmolested by multicultural supremacists, during this pioneering renaissance and maintain if not improve the quality of their populations.  Other, less sea-faring European peoples could enjoy smaller but nevertheless profound population and territorial relief.  Moreover this population increase could be very rapid if the fertility rates of the United States frontier is any guide.  This is a prospect that seems plausible in no other way short of world war.

Continued...

Posted by James Bowery on Friday, March 10, 2006 at 03:19 AM in Demographics,  European Nationalism,  Globalisation,  Libertarianism,  Science & Technology,  White Nationalism
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