Ligue vaudoise

The Ligue vaudoise is a conservative political organization and think tank active in the Swiss canton of Vaud .

history

• In the 1920s, the Ordre et Tradition organization was first established under the driving force of Marcel Regamey .
• In 1933 the Ligue vaudoise was founded to fight the wine tax and join the front movement .
• In 1938 the Ligue vaudoise fought against the introduction of the penal code .
• 1940 La Nation magazine was published ; the organization had around 100 employees and around 1,000 members.
• In 1986 and 2002 the accession of Switzerland to the UN was fought.
• In 1992 they fought against Switzerland joining the EEA .
• 1993 Together with other organizations, the Ligue vaudoise submitted a referendum against the racism penal norm .

Political orientation

Until the 1940s the Ligue vaudoise was not hostile to National Socialism and was strongly anti-communist . The canton of Vaud is seen by its members as a nation . Today the Ligue vaudoise is fighting the centralization of Switzerland, it is strongly federalist oriented.

literature

• Catherine Arber: Frontism and National Socialism in the City of Bern. Much ado, but little success. In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte 65/1, 2003 ISSN  0005-9420 , pp. 3–55 (PDF; 342 kB; based on a licentiate thesis written at the University of Bern ).
• Roland Butikofer: Ligue vaudoise. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Roland Butikofer: Le refu de la modernité. La ligue vaudoise: une extrême droite et la Suisse, 1919–1945. Payot, Lausanne 1996, ISBN 9782601031935 .
• Beat Glaus: The National Front. A Swiss fascist movement 1930–1940 . Benziger, Zurich / Einsiedeln / Cologne 1969 (also dissertation at the University of Basel ).
• Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movements in German-speaking Switzerland 1930–1945 . Flamberg, Zurich 1969 (also dissertation at the University of Zurich ).

Web links

• Ligue vaudoise website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Wolf: Front movement. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
2. ↑ Susan Boos: What takes a long time has to end well - Switzerland messed up its accession to the anti-racism convention for over twenty years. (No longer available online.) The weekly newspaper , formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 10, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.