The New Face of the Radical Right?
April 01, 2014
Amerikas Would-be Pravy Sektor
The New Face of the Radical Right?
by ALEXANDER REID ROSS
Enter the National Anarchists
In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Political Research Associates agreed that Anarchist Nationalism could become the new face of the radical right in the USA. Attempting to mix subcultural anarchist mores with a cross-cutting class analysis that hinges on racial separatism and ancestral traditions, such as tribalism, Anarchist Nationalism demonstrate a worrying tendency of reactionaries to co-opt radical language in attempts to gain control over large popular fronts.
Although Anarchist Nationalism has been kept at bay in the US, it is growing around the world through the efforts of antifascist organizing, and continues to attempt inroads into radical scenes. In an interview with the fascist Dutch magazine, Green Nationalist, the head of National Anarchist Tribal Alliance (NATA), Craig Fitzgerald, boasts that NATA is continuing to collaborate with groups as diverse as We Are Change, Occupy Wall Street, Earth First, the Libertarian Party and others.
NATA is utilizing a long-term strategy, known as Entryism, which the SPLC defines as the name given to the process of entering or infiltrating bona fide organizations, institutions and political parties with the intention of gaining control of them for our own ends. According to a pamphlet written by British National Anarchist, Troy Southgate, entitled, The Case for National-Anarchist Entryism, national anarchists must join political groups and then misdirect or disrupt them for our own purposes or convert sections of their memberships to our cause.
While Earth First! denies any collaboration with the National Anarchists, both EF! and OWS have seen the white power movements attempts to use leftist and ecological movements for its own purposes threaten broader attempts at organizing. The white power movement attempted to intervene in OWS via debates surrounding the potential of Ron Pauls libertarianism and its connections to de-centralized, anti-statist ideology. EF! has actively struggled against the late JT Ready, Sheriff Arpaio and his police gang, the KKK, and so on. With rising racial tensions and economic stagnation in the US, the integrity of struggle against racism and, more generally, oppression, must be maintained across all social movements.
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/01/the-new-face-of-the-radical-right/
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)White Power Anarchism?
Among articles celebrating the rise of fascism in Ukraine, whitepower.us published an article last month called Ron Paul, Libertarianism, and The Anarchist Connection. Celebrating an unlikely combination of Murray Bookchin and former speechwriter for Barry Goldwater, Karl Hess, the article proposes an anarchic struggle of the individual against institutions. Ron Paul then becomes a jumping off point for a possible national front under the guise of libertarian promises of freedom.
[W]hether Ron Pauls campaign machine would now consider an outreach to include a visible left componentperhaps the OCCUPY movementis probably not in the cards However, it is tempting to imagine a new fangled party styled on Libertarian lines: principled, but with fresh blood, a refreshed agenda and a something-we-can-all-agree on platform. Down the road this sort of movement might gain some real political traction; especially if we keep racing down the path towards more muscular restraints on personal freedom.
Explains the racism that has poked its head into DU, of late.