Nationalist Organizations of Your Country

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Hello everyone.

The purpose of this thread, for the benefit of us all, is for the good members of stirpes from all corners of Europa to present their educated analyses of the various nationalist movements and organizations of their respective countries, especially focusing on those that they view as promising. Much can be found out on the web but I know that we have many members here with more insight into the political situation within their nations and within the nationalist scene of their nations, insight which is interesting and valuable and definately share-worthy.

I'll start off by giving a run-down of the small nationalist scene here in Finland. Let's begin by going over the mainstream political scene. In Finland, the three traditionally large parties are The National Coalition, who used to be patriotic and even nationalist-orientated but have in recent decades been transformed into a European Neo-Liberal party with some more conservative strains, the Social Democratic Party ('nuff said) and the Centre Party, which is somewhat patriotic and agrarian, but only mildly. The only real party with a somewhat nationalist agenda is the small (5 seats out of 200) and colourful party called the True Finns. The true Finns have been steadily increasing their support in the last few elections, and they have been fielding several distinctly nationalist candidates in the recent elections. The far-left has run a couple of articles (1["True Finns became the far-right's gateway into politics"], 2["Extreme group collects funds for candidates of the True Finns"]) 'exposing' the fact that the True Finns have several members from the Nationalist organization Suomen Sisu in their ranks. The positive development is that finally a distinctly nationalist current has established itself within the True Finnish Party and begin to steer the party line towards a more nationalist orientation. Especially the youth organization of the party seems to be under nationalist control, and the party is quite popular among the young.

I suppose a few words are in order to describe this mysterious group of extremists, Suomen Sisu. As the organization declares on their website:



"Suomen Sisu is a modern nationalistic movement, which aims to strenghten healthy national and cultural self-esteem. We want to protect the Finnish environment and way of life, and to actively work against menaces like unlimited immigration. We believe that every nation and culture has a right to exist and to govern themselves.
There is no conflict between nationalism and internationality. A steadfast identity is not only a major personal resource, but also the key to respecting and understanding other cultures and nations."

I find these are good basic principles for any nationalist organization and I have quite a positive impression about this organization. They have several members I've grown to like over the net and their chairman, Teemu Lahtinen, has convinced me with his balanced and intelligent personality. Once I become more independent economically, I will most likely join this organization. Its membership is quite small (some hundreds, I believe) and very varied, but I like the direction the business is going in. It is a good, solid start for something greater.

Here is some more stuff from their site:

Information about the movement


Suomen Sisu is a reformatory nationalist movement, whose aim is to awaken and strenghten national cohesion and self-esteem.
Nationalism is a selection of values that together form the ideological grounds for the movement. There are many kinds of nationalism and different choices of values and emphasizations vary according to the personal preferences of each. The idea of Suomen Sisu is not to strike the truth into stone but to support a freely growing dynamic idea, to which every nationalist brings their own shade.
Although our thoughts are radical, we are moderate in our actions.
Suomen Sisu believes in active and independent, direct action in the basic structures of society: in families, at work, schools and other social occasions of everyday life. Our community's structure can be characterised with the following words: folk organization, civil network, nationalistic community or by citing a term from Finnish political history: an organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance.

The Finnish societal way of acting, born in the 1990s, is based on people's preference of operating in projects and self-guiding small groups rather than in organizations controlled from above, and more towards practical goals than comprehensive ideologies. So, everyone who accepts its principles or aids achieving them through practical work can be a part of the movement.
The operational organization of Suomen Sisu is based on independently working small groups. These groups work either in special tasks of their own branch or as a general, local gatherer group. The sections of different branches co-operate with similar groups and Suomen Sisu's coordinator of the line of activities. Every small group's actions are guided by a person titled as a "close leader," who also works as a link to organs outside the group. So, a close leader is the one in every group formed by men, who keeps his team in action and lively.
If you are sympathetic to nationalism or its values, ideals or stance, join Suomen Sisu. It doesn't matter even if you do not agree with everything in the current positions. Suomen Sisu welcomes fresh winds and different viewpoints.
However, if you feel more comfortable in working without being a member of Suomen Sisu, that is alright as well; you can form a team from your nationalistic friends around you and realize our program. Nevertheless, consider working with us. United we are stronger.
Nationalistic operation turns into co-operation when you apply as a supporing member and pay an endorsement fee to the organization managing the matters of the movement. In return, you will receive notifications, material and discounts of the movement's products. Supporting members have no obligations besides the fee. Endorsing membership is a very important economical and spiritual support for the registered association that handles the affairs of the movement.


Declaration of Principles


The securing of our folk's existence and development and the preservation of actual and natural diversity

All nations, races and cultures are valuable in themselves, and their long-term progress must be ensured. The eradication of mankind's natural diversity by the deceiving name of multiculturalism must end. Nations must not be mixed together on purpose and historically developed cultures destroyed by replacing them with a global spectrum of subcultures. Nations must not be subjected to supranational economical values.

The basis of nationalism is formed by understanding our place as one link all the way from the very first ancestors to the last successor of descendants. It is because of this that we must honor the work done and cultures created by our ancestors through millennia, and transfer his heritage to our children instead of allowing short-sighted impulses to permanently change it. With the deeds of today, we must secure our desdendants' opportunity for life and a right to a national identity.

We see that these goals are best achieved in a firm national state that encourages its members to a spiritually and physically healthy life and does not sacrifice its people's welfare to the conditions of supranational economy.

Separating the Finnish national state from international coalitions endangering its national interests

Healthy national self-interest and freedom of movement must be preserved in the foreign relations of our land. Joining supranational political, economical and military coalitions may cause unpredictable political risks.

Societal justice and order

We struggle for a just and stable Finnish-national society at the social level. The general civil order must be primarily based on moral values shared by everyone, although the punishments for some types of crimes must be more severe than today. For us, societal justice is not simply a tool for keeping the masses content like it is to the bourgeois, but a real aim. A righteous society is desired to be maintained and taken care of, defended and guarded. Societal justice creates national solidarity and thus reinforces society and enhances the living possibilities of its members.

Righteousness is too often understood as simply an as wide a spectrum of freedoms as possible. Suomen Sisu strives to create a society where every Finn is treated according to their worth on equal grounds, and where everyone has an opportunity to develop and achieve a position suitable for their abilities. The relationship between the community and the individual must be balanced so that neither will exploit the other.

Rule of the People

There have been many approaches and many different types of states in constructing a good society. Since the Antiquity, the ideal of societal philosophers has been a state led by the folk itself, where everyone has a chance to partake in decisions and bear responsibility for their choices. True power of the people is practised in the ideal society of Suomen Sisu, where the people's will is the supreme authority. The only task of the state is to realize the interest of the folk. In a society like this, the people's will isn't being bound by freedom-constraining contracts of few, laws passed on by a small elite or wishes of the reigning propaganda machinery. A democracy that is based solely on parliamentarism is a travesty of democracy.
The accomplishment of real freedom of speech and responsibility in society

Freedom of speech, thought and conscience are valuable even in themselves, but especially so in overseeing social development. Restricting and denying of the freedom of speech causes unnecessary radicalization, thus there must not be any matter that should not be talked about or criticized. The truth must not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.

To counter boundless freedom of speech, everyone must take responsibility for their words. Opinion leaders must not be let go unpunished if they have harmed the society or its members by dishonestly taking advantage of the freedom of speech.

The freedom and obligation of the individual to improve himself mentally and physically

Societal ideologies until now have emphasized either a strong society or an overtly free individual and thus caused distortion in the given structure of the society. Suomen Sisu perceives both the society and individual as equal, synergic collaborators. Neither must abuse the other.

An individual has to have the freedom to develop himself to be a mentally and physically better human but on the other hand, he must also have a liability to do so for the society to benefit from the strenghtening of its individual members. We oppose the kind of dualistic conception by which the physical and spiritual side of the individual are artificially separated from each other. Man is always a whole.
Recognizing gender equality as a part of the northern heritage

Men and women are mentally and physically dissimilar, but intellectually equal and they must have equal opportunities in life. Equality between genders has traditionally been a part of a Nordic society and the civil division of labour has to be changed according to this principle. The development of a natural sexual identity must be secured since childhood.

Actualizing a responsible relationship between man and nature

As with his community, man is likewise in co-operation with nature. A vigorous environment provides for the requirements of welfare and for its part, it benefits the aim of developing oneself.

Man has the power to change his surroundings and shape nature as he wishes. Countering this might is the responsibility of taking care of nature's well-being and possibilities of growth. To secure the future generations' chances of living we must protect nature and it's possibilities of evolving during our own time.
Opposition of unhealthy selfishness and consumer society

Selfishness is a natural trait of the human individual, and at best it makes individuals work better towards ensuring their own prosperity and this way it profits the whole community. Unhealthy selfishness deprives others of living opportunities and exploits weaker ones, nature and the community. In addition, it creates discord and crime and thus weakens the trust and respect towards society.

A way of life centered on materialism has led into exploiting natural resources and the ruin of the environment. It has caused people to forget their spiritual well-being, thus increasing discrimination, social nausea, mental illnesses and indifference towards others.

The greatest menace of consumerism is a society where people, whose spiritual abilities have atrophied due to matter-centered living, are slaves to a small ruling group without being aware of it themselves. Critical thinking must not be replaced with uncritical consuming.

Understanding national culture as the heart of society and an advancing force

Societal influencers with their cultural events have created an image that culture would be something distinct from the life of the folk, detached, something that must be visited separately. Suomen Sisu thinks that culture is prevalent in our everyday life, habits and values. Culture must not be isolated as a separate whole, because it is easy to destroy if the people do not know it as their own.

Culture and it's achievements cultivate the national soul, folk's idea of their own community, and at the same time they help creating identity and upholding national solidarity. Works of art do well to mirror the culture of a given time. In a society where pieces of art live for a short time or where art misleadingly resembles junk, no-one can fare well. Works of art and monuments help people create communality, and it is not always possible with modern art.

The protection of Finnish language's natural evolution, because mother tongue is a part of identity

Native language is the most important spiritual resource of the individual. He uses it to think and to outline his picture of life. Shattering the mother tongue with new terms and double meanings crushes the individual's ability to compose his own, independent thoughts andorwell-esquely denies him the freedom of thought.

During a time when new terms, foreign loanwords and acronyms are attached to the language at an accelerating pace, it is simple to also change the meaning of words. The elite in power has already now altered the meaning of some words so that using normal words is nearly illegal. Simultaneously it has created new words for legal thought - word wizardry and smoke curtains to remove the problems from the scope of critical discussion.
Language must not be stiffened to a certain mould or moment, but allowed to naturally grow in order to correlate with the needs of the time. Establishment of the language's status quo and death may be the response to forceful altering of the language. Neither state of affairs is desirable, and that is why the natural development of the Finnish language must be secured.

Reinforcing national self-esteem and pride

To evade uneven government in the future, Finns must be proud of their own nationality and cultural heritage. The attempts of unsteady rulers to absorb alien influences to "add" to our own culture are crimes against the nation. A short-sighted fad must not replace our ownhistory. We gain national pride from the toil and success of the past and present generations. It is right to respect one's own roots and community.

Generating a society based on an organic folk community

A society working by national principles is founded on a folk community that forms a true social whole. The interests of this folkish entity are best ensured by a Finnish national state.

A modern national state is also internationally active although it holds tight to its own basis, aims and conditions. International co-operation must not restrict the folk's power to govern themselves and Finland can not take part in such activity against a third party.

Supporting worldwide nationalist change

Even though national reform is possible to actualize in just one state, we promote other nations' struggles to change their society towards the national structure and philosophy of state. To realize this aim, we strenghten the "Europe of the Nations" model of thought and build collaborative relationships with nationalists of other countries.

I would say Suomen Sisu and their work within the True Finns is the most important event in the Finnish nationalist scene, but there have also been some other happenings, namely the re-founding of the Isänmaallinen Kansanliike (Patriotic People\'s Movement).



I don't know much about this new party, but they wear the old Blue-Black colour theme (Black shirts, blue neck ties). It was re-established on the ruins of some obscure neo-hitlerian hick party, and as such it doesn't sow a lot of trust, but their chairman appeared on a televisized debate of the smaller parties and he appeared to be quite capable, so who knows. They do seem rather stuck in the trenches of WW2, which is no wonder, considering their name and predecessor. For example, they seek actively to restore Finland's borders as they were agreed in the Treaty of Dorpat. They are also far more traditional European far-right than the more modern Suomen Sisu, with such terms as "Judeo-American Control", etc.

Anyway, I await with interest your replies.