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Post by Bonobo on Apr 30, 2017 14:32:32 GMT 1
Two major radical national organisations in Poland are National_Radical_Camp and All Polish Youth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Radical_Camp_(1934)The National Radical Camp (Polish: Obóz Narodowo Radykalny, ONR) was a Polish extreme right,[1][2][2] anti-communist,[2] and nationalist political party, formed on 14 April 1934 mostly by the youth radicals who left the National Party of the National Democracy movement.[2] The party was influenced by the ideas of Italian fascism,[3] and tried to mix the ideas of totalitarianism with limited parliamentarism and pluralism. Some authors do not consider it to be a fascist political movement,[4] while others suggest that its ideology had fascist elements,[5] or even consider it as a 'nazified' movement.[6] The party was created on the insistence of former members of the Camp of Great Poland (Obóz Wielkiej Polski),[2] most notably Jan Mosdorf, Tadeusz Gluziński and Henryk Rossman. The organization proclaimed changes in the government based on the nationalist ideology.[2] It supported class solidarity, nationalization of foreign and Jewish-owned companies and introduction of anti-semitic laws.[2] At the same time it supported defense of private property and a centralized state. The party favored aggressive eliminationist[clarification needed] action against Poland's minorities.[5] The leading members of ONR-ABC included Henryk Rossman, Tadeusz Gluziński, Stanisław Piasecki, Jan Jodzewicz, Wojciech Zaleski, Tadeusz Todtleben and Jan Korolec. The leading members of ONR-Falanga included Bolesław Piasecki, Wojciech Wasiutyński, Wojciech Kwasieborski and Marian Reutt. The ONR was popular mostly among the students and other groups of urban youth. ONR openly encouraged anti-Jewish pogroms, and became the main force in the organization of attacks against Jews.[7] Because of its involvement in boycott of Jewish-owned stores,[8] as well as numerous attacks on left-wing worker demonstrations,[9] the ONR was outlawed after three months of existence, in July 1934.[2] Several leaders were interned in the Bereza Kartuska Detention Camp, where the organization split into two separate factions: the ONR-Falanga (Ruch Narodowo-Radykalny) led by Bolesław Piasecki, and the ONR-ABC (Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny) formed around the ABC journal and led by Henryk Rossman.[2] Both organizations were officially illegal.[2] During World War II, both organizations created underground resistance organizations: ONR-ABC was transformed into Grupa Szańca (Rampart Group), whose military arm became the Związek Jaszczurczy (Lizard Union),[2] while the ONR-Falanga created the Konfederacja Narodu (Confederation of the Nation). They were not supportive of the mainstream Polish Secret State related to the Polish government in exile.[2] During the Nazis' occupation of Poland, many of the former ONR activists belonged to National Armed Forces resistance groups. Some former supporters, on the other hand, actively collaborated with German Nazis,[10] seeing Jews, not Germans, as the main threat to Poland. After World War II, the forced exile of many ONRs was made permanent by the communist regime, which branded them enemies of the state. It was reactivated in 1993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Radical_Camp_(1993)The National-Radical Camp (Polish: Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny, ONR) is a far-right nationalist non-political movement in Poland associated with the Polish National Movement. It considers itself an ideological descendant[1] of the political movement which existed before World War II, sharing the same name. As of 2012 it is registered as a common-interest association[2] and cooperates with the National Movement electoral alliance. ONR march in Kraków, July 2007 ONR attracted publicity in 2005, 2007, and 2008 for unauthorized marches during the anniversary of the anti-Jewish riot in Myślenice in 1936.[3] In 2005 the group had a couple of hundred members.[4] An illegal rally held on June 30, 2007 resulted in a court case, in which the ONR leader, Wojciech Mazurkiewicz, was acquitted only because the magistrate warning was issued too late, according to the presiding judge.[5] The 2008 rally led by the same ONR leader was taped by police with the intention of sharing the video with the local prosecutors office according to Lesser Poland Police.[3][6] ONR members at a 2008 rally in Myślenice made a Roman salute before disbanding. When questioned by reporters at the scene, the ONR leader claimed it is different from the Nazi salute.[7] The association has also been known as initiators of marches during the National Independence Day of Poland. One of them (in Warsaw), as a co-initiative of several different nationalist movements in 2010, evolved in 2012 into one of the biggest events during the day, which now attracts more diverse community.[8] Since 2012 it has been organized by a registered association,[9] which ONR is still part of.[10] Demonstrations take place on Independence Day and on anniversaries of the old organisation.                       |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 13, 2017 20:24:36 GMT 1
The second organisation is The All-Polish Youth (Polish: Młodzież Wszechpolska) is a Polish youth organization based on nationalistic doctrines, formerly affiliated with the League of Polish Families, with a Catholic-nationalist philosophy. Its agenda declares that its aim is to raise Polish youth in a Catholic and patriotic spirit. It currently plays a major role as part of the National Movement party.
Its manifesto from 1989 states, for example, that "one's country is the greatest earthly good. After God, your foremost love belongs to the Homeland, and foremost after God you must serve your own country," and declares itself opposed to "doctrines promoting liberalism, tolerance, and relativism. The earliest roots of Polish Youth reach back to 1922, the organisation was delegalised in 1934 and the present incarnation was created on December 2, 1989. Polish Youth was affiliated with the League of Polish Families, but was never officially its youth wing.[1]
In recent years, All-Polish Youth have been widely condemned as homophobic by various organisations including Amnesty International,[2] Human Rights Watch,[3] and the United Nations.[4]
Contents
1 Pre-war All-Polish Youth
2 Modern days
3 See also
4 Footnotes
5 References
6 External links
Pre-war All-Polish Youth
The organisation, properly the Academic Union "All-Polish Youth" (Związek Akademicki "Młodzież Wszechpolska"), was founded in 1922 as an ideological youth organisation with a strong nationalist sentiment,[5] and was the largest student organisation in the Second Polish Republic. The Founding Convention of the All-Polish youth took place in March 1922, with Roman Dmowski being selected honorary chairman.
The term "All-Polish" is intended to represent a desire to unify all Polish lands, and accentuate national ties and the equality of all people of Polish origin regardless of their wealth or social status. The idea for creating the organization occurred when Poland was partitioned and not officially on the world map, therefore it aimed to unite Poles from all three partitions. In the inter-war period, members of the organisation participated actively in academic life, and became the heads of many student organisations. The All-Polish Youth was the largest student organization in Poland during the 1930s. The goals of the organization were mainly focused on three issues:[6]
Defending the autonomy of universities against centralising forces of the government
Campaigning for lower tuition fees
Limitation of non-Polish, especially Jewish students, from higher education to prevent exclusion of Polish students from the countryside
All-Polish Youth was the least radical of organizations of the National Democracy camp.[7] Nevertheless, some of its members praised Mussolini and his Italian fascism for its hardline stances towards the left and realisation of "national revolution".[8] Part of the members, including Jędrzej Giertych, also praised Hitler's Germany[9] economical changes, but understood that it is with the contradiction with Polish national interests and changed his views a year after NSDAP obtained power in Germany.[10] Most leaders of the All-Polish Youth criticized Hitler for racism and radicalism. According to Jan Mosdorf, a pre-war chairman of All-Polish Youth who died in Auschwitz for saving Jews, the organization was against fascists and Hitlerites.[11] Some Members of the All-Polish Youth also praised authoritarian regimes of the Mediterranean, Salazar's Portugal and Franco's Spain.[citation needed]
They also favoured economically boycotting the Jews, limiting their access to higher education (numerus clausus)[12] in order to equal the chance of children from countryside families who had very limited access to education to the chance of the children of Jewish families living in the towns and cities.[13] The All-Polish Youth also actively campaigned for ghetto benches, segregated seating for Jewish students [14]
Modern days
The modern incarnation of the All-Polish Youth was founded in Poznań in 1989, on the initiative of Roman Giertych, the former leader of the League of Polish Families (LPR). Continuing the tradition of its precursors, the organisation maintains its aim of raising youth with their ideology, and operates across all of Poland, working with high-school and university students.
In 2006, the Polish Public Prosecutor's office launched an investigation after a video recording from a private party was leaked to the Polish press. It was considered that All-Polish Youth members including Leokadia Wiącek, a personal assistant of Maciej Giertych (member of the European Parliament), were seen fraternizing with Neo-Nazi skinheads, listening to Neo-Nazi bands, and saluting the swastika.[15][16][17] Following the incident, Leokadia Wiącek was expelled from All-Polish Youth,[18] and the League of Polish Families cut ties with the group.[19] As it was later determined, during the private party Leokodia Wącek was not a member of the organisation and the main Polish television channel Telewizja Polska apologized to All-Polish Youth for accusing them of neo-nazi connotations.[20]
All-Polish Youth have declared that it is only by making Poland a Catholic state that its future will be secured, and chairman Konrad Bonisławski has stated "We do not want to become like Holland with its free drugs and gay marriage. Since joining the European Union we have seen attempts to destroy our Catholic values."[21]
All-Polish Youth have gained considerable press coverage due to their staunch opposition of abortion and, particularly, homosexuality (which their website condemns as "unnatural behaviour" and describes gay rights marches as "militant homosexualism").[22] This has led to (sometimes violent) clashes with pro-choice and gay rights demonstrators.
All-Polish Youth have been widely condemned as homophobic by various organisations including Amnesty International,[2] Human Rights Watch,[3] and even the United Nations (which, in their Universal Periodic Review, describes All-Polish Youth as an "extremist homophobic grouping"),[4] as well as a multitude of Gay Rights organisations such as OutRage! and the Polish Campaign Against Homophobia. In 2004, 2005, and 2006, All-Polish Youth members and sympathizers violently attacked people who were taking part in pro-gay demonstrations, throwing eggs, bottles and rocks at them,[23][24] and were reported to have shouted "Send the fags to the hospital", "Perverts, get out of Kraków", "Let's gas the fags" and "We'll do to you what Hitler did to the Jews".[3]
From 2012 onwards, the organisation has been heavily involved in playing a major role as part of the National Movement party, a party which the organisation was one of the several co-founders.
The nationalist march on Independence Day made the news worldwide again. Thousands took part. Paradoxically, their motto this year was "We want God." I am not sure God is happy with what they do, especially when they chant: Death to enemies of motherland. Some Western media called them Nazis, probably because many of their slogans supported the supremacy of the white race. Ruling politicians call them a healthy part of the society and order the police to protect the march againts anti-fascist activists. www.cafemom.com/group/99198/forums/read/21747512/Polish_Nationalist_Youth_March_Draws_Thousands_in_Capital_Crowd_Chants_Europe_Will_Be_White_and_Clea           |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 22, 2017 20:59:06 GMT 1
Inquiry into 'racist', 'fascist' Independence March banners
21.11.2017 08:30
Warsaw prosecutors have launched an inquiry into the alleged public promotion of fascism and racism following a controversial Independence March in the capital on 11 November.
To mark the 99th year of Polish independence, roughly 60,000 people marched through the streets of the capital, some of them carrying banners with allegedly racist and fascist slogans.
According to prosecutor Magdalena Sowa, the prosecution is still collecting police evidence, including footage from security cameras.
Under Polish criminal law, the public promotion of fascism and racism carries penalties of up to two years in jail.
The annual Independence March was organised in cooperation by the National Radical Front and the All-Poland Youth organisations, which both call themselves nationalist.
In 2017, the march's slogan was “We Want God” but some banners carried by a number of marchers bore other phrases, including: “All different, all white” and “Europe only for whites”.
According to reports, some of the marchers chanted: “Seig Heil”, “White power”, “Jews, get out of Poland” and “Remove Jewry from power”.
Polish President Andrzej Duda and leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party Jarosław Kaczyński condemned such slogans, adding that only a small fraction of the 60,000 marchers were responsible for the offending banners.
Independence March spokesman Damian Kita said that some 50-60 people were behind banners at the march which referred to “pure blood”.
He added that the event's organisers wanted people who called the march “fascist” or “Nazi” brought to justice.
The 11 November event was widely commented both domestically and abroad, with some news organisations and public figures calling the march “racist”, “fascist” or “Nazi”. (vb/pk)
Source: PAP
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 12, 2018 10:52:19 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 28, 2019 22:00:04 GMT 1
www.euractiv.com/section/central-europe/news/far-right-protest-overshadows-auschwitz-camp-liberation-commemoration/ Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (C) at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism during the ceremonies marking the the 74rd anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi-German concentration and extermination camp KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, 27 January 2019. [EPA-EFE/Andrzej Grygiel]
Far-right protest overshadows Auschwitz camp liberation commemoration
EURACTIV.com with Reuters
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Dozens of Polish far-right nationalists gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Sunday (27 January) at the same time as officials and survivors marked the 74th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in an annual ceremony.
The two parties gathered in different parts of the camp, now an open-air museum, and did not encounter each other. It was the first time the far-right has held a protest at Auschwitz during the annual event, which at the same time is also International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day.
At the official ceremony on Sunday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and other government officials were joined in prayer by some of the last remaining survivors of the death camp.
In another location at the site, far-right protesters wrapped in Polish flags, some stamped with the words “Polish Holocaust”, laid flowers and sang the Polish national anthem.
“The Jewish nation and Israel is doing everything to change the history of the Polish nation,” said Piotr Rybak of the Polish Independence Movement, who led Sunday’s protest. “Polish patriots cannot allow this,” he added.
Asked by an opposition politician on Twitter how long it would take the government to react to such situations, Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski wrote: “React to what? To the fact that someone is not in their right mind and blames all the evil in this world and his frustrations on a particular nation?”
“If you are trying to blame this government for anti-Semitism in the heads of seriously crazy (I believe) fools, it is indecent and unwise,” he added.
More than 3 million of Poland’s 3.2 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, accounting for about half of the Jews killed in the Holocaust. Jews from across Europe were sent to be killed at death camps built and operated by the Germans on Polish soil, including Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor.
According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Nazis also killed at least 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians.
The protest comes at a time of surging anti-Semitism in parts of Europe and as critics accuse the ruling LAw and Justice party (PiS) of trying to build a nationalist sense of grievance among Poles by seeking to minimise Polish complicity in the Holocaust.
During decades of communist rule, Poles were taught to believe that, with a few exceptions, the nation had conducted itself honourably during a war that killed a fifth of the population.
Many still refuse to accept research showing thousands participated in the Holocaust – in addition to the thousands that had risked their lives to help the Jews – and feel the West has failed to recognise Poland’s own wartime suffering.
Diplomatic relations between Poland and Israel were strained last year after the PiS government sought to impose jail terms for suggesting the nation was complicit in the Holocaust.PS. The article didn`t mention the words of the main organiser: It is time to fight against Jewry. My commentary: Now, imagine that some patriotic Poles come to Katyn Massacre cemetery in Russia to honour executed Polish officers and some fiercely nationalist Russians come, too, and stage a protest demonstration. Everybody knows that Russian Polish relations are tense so such a situation is quite probable. I can imagine what international scandal would break out - Polish and world media would go virtually mad, accusing all Russians of rabid Polonophobia, lack of any morals, ignorance of basic values etc etc. That is why I consider that yesterday`s Polish radical nationalist protest in Auschwitz Birkenau as utterly stupid. I can understand their motifs. Yes, the Polish contribution and suffering during WW2 has been forgotten and neglected for decades - first, during communist times, and later too. When asked about a rising in Warsaw during the war, most people in the world point to Warsaw Ghetto Rising 1943, instead of much more important Warsaw Rising 1944. But it is not the fault of Jews that their Ghetto Rising and general suffering is better remembered and popularised in the world. It is the fault of Poles who can`t propagate their cause - either they don`t do it at all or they do it ineffectively. Or - another option - they have no convincing arguments to present? Trying to make people in the world aware of the Polish cause during the WW2 can`t be done by means of such dirty methods as demonstrations on such a special day when we should commemorate the death of a nation. 90% Polish Jews were exterminated so we can say that the whole nation was doomed to perish. Dear nationalist Poles, get down to work and start making the world aware of important facts through positive information campaigns. Such demos as yesterday don`t help, quite the opposite, they tarnish the image of all Poles which is unfair because most of us aren`t radical nationalists. You should eventually understand that doing what you have done actually makes you similar/close to German perpetrators, and that`s certainly not what you are intent on. Instead of spitting into somebody`s face and demanding the world to accept it as a method of solving problems, do sth positive instead. Propagate the Polish cause in wiser and more appropriate, culturally acceptable ways. Like I and other members do in this forum and elsewhere.     
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