National rebirth of Poland

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National rebirth of Poland
Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski
Green flag with symbol of falanga.svg
abbreviation NOP
founding November 10, 1981
Alignment Right-wing extremism
Website nop.org.pl

National Rebirth of Poland (NOP) (Polish Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski ) is a right-wing extremist party in Poland . It strives for a " national revolution ". It can be classified as a clerical (neo) fascist organization and represents Catholic-conservative, nationalist and anti-Semitic positions.

In economic policy, the NOP represents a “ third way ” between capitalism and communism . The European unification it rejects fundamental.

history

The NOP was founded in 1981. It operated as an illegal anti-communist organization until 1989, and has been officially registered as a party since 1992. In its symbolism (see flag) and its political demands, the NOP ties in directly with the national radical camp of the 1930s. The chairman of the NOP is Adam Gmurczyk. The organization is represented by regional associations in almost all voivodeships and publishes the magazine Szczerbiec (the name of the Polish coronation sword ) with a circulation of up to 8,000 copies. This published a number of articles in the 1990s that denied the Holocaust , including an essay by David Irving . In 1997 the party was also the editor of a book entitled "The Myth of the Holocaust". The NOP is associated with right-wing extremist skinhead groups and with the neo-Nazi music group Legion .

The NOP was also one of the founding parties of the neo-Nazi network International Third Position and - with other nationalist movements from Germany, Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - the European National Front (ENF). She left the ENF after conflicts with the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).

In the 2007 general election , the NOP won 42,407 votes.

Web links

Commons : Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aleksandra Moroska, Anna Sroka: Extremism in Poland. In: Extremism in the EU countries. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, p. 288.
  2. ^ Miroslav Mareš: Right-wing extremist parties in East Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. In: Totalitarianism and Transformation. Deficits in consolidating democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, p. 170.
  3. ↑ Stephen E. Atkins: Holocaust Denial as an International Movement. Praeger, Westport CT 2009, p. 138.
  4. ↑ Moroska, Sroka: extremism in Poland. 2011, p. 295.
  5. ↑ Tomasz Konicz : The Second World War in the historical image of the Polish right. In: The Dynamics of the European Right. History, continuities and change. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, p. 82.
  6. ↑ Cas Mudde: Political extremism and radicalism in Western Europe - typology and inventory. In: Threats to Freedom. Extremist ideologies in comparison. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 99.
  7. ^ Mareš: Right-wing extremist parties in East Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. 2009, pp. 161-162.
  8. ↑ Konicz: The Second World War in the historical image of the Polish right. 2011, p. 77.