[3rdEye]

National Democrats (Nationaldemokraterna) in Sweden are quite credible, and the term movement is actually rather fitting for them, since they work on so many different levels and in so many different ways, and still they maintain a decent ideology with all these efforts. Some examples of what they're up to:

-Preschools for Swedish children. There are specific rules for preschools and the approach they use is simply to conform to the requirements. There is sufficient demand for the project, and so, unless the authorities decide to break their own laws, this project will soon become a reality.

-A newspaper that they are trying to get governmental funding for. They will get it as soon as they meet all the criteria, and the number of subscriptions seems to be the critical issue.

-Watching the watchmen: They recently reported some Swedish schools who broke the constitutional law in not admitting the youth organisation to have info sessions in the schools like any other party. They also report the authorities on racism, discrimination etc. The next example might seem odd, but their consequence and persistence might come across sooner or later: The authority named Center against Racism officially complained that a traditional Massai dance show at a wildlife park "creates an image of Africans as something primitive". ND reported this as the racist statement it was, and since they are ethnopluralist, it was actually a way for them to get their own message across. Another example, they also reported the authorities for allowing a care facility for elderly Jewish, while ethnic Swedes are denied not only such facilities, but were also legally deprived of their ethnic rights in toto in 1997.

And then of course, they participate in elections, and have been on a steady increase, although the support is still small. They are represented in a few communes, where they work actively to influence local policy. In the last election for the parliament, they became the 14th greatest party with 3064 votes (0,06%). There are seven parties in parliament at the present and there is a 4% threshold to get in. The 8th party with 2,93% is a populist restricted immigration and assimilationist party, from which ND originally split off when they took an even more populist turn, as late as 2001. With that in mind, ND are doing rather well.