Noua Dreaptă

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A political sticker displaying the Celtic cross and the words "identitate naţională, revoluţie spirituală" (national identity, spiritual revolution).

Noua Dreaptă (Romanian: New Right; genitive/dative: Noii Drepte) is an extreme right nationalist organization in Romania, founded in 2000.

Contents

1 Beliefs
2 Goals and actions
3 Affiliations
4 Reputation
5 See also
6 Trivia
7 References
8 External links

Beliefs

The group's beliefs include militant nationalism and strong Orthodox religious convictions. Noua Dreaptă's [web site] indicates opposition to sexual minorities, Roma, abortion, communism, globalization, the European Union, NATO, religious groups other than the Eastern Orthodox Church, autonomy for Romania's ethnic Hungarian minority, and foreign cultural influences (including American culture, manele music, and the celebration of Valentine's Day).

The members of Noua Dreaptă revere the leader of the Iron Guard in the 1930s, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Noua Dreaptă members refer to him as "Căpitanul" ("The Captain"), which is what Codreanu's supporters called him during his lifetime.

Goals and actions

The stated ultimate political aim of Noua Dreaptă is to restore Greater Romania, which represented Romania at its greatest geographic expanse before World War II. The group also states it is strongly opposed to the principles of representative democracy, which it sees as an "inadequate" form of government. Some individual members are monarchists.

Noua Dreaptă is not registered as a political party and states it does not wish to stand in elections. Membership is from a few hundred to perhaps a few thousand members.

Among other actions, the organization attempts to attract supporters through publicity campaigns aimed against what it sees as foreign (and therefore negative) cultural influences - such as Valentine's Day, which is not a tradition historically celebrated in Christian Orthodox countries such as Romania.

Affiliations

Noua Dreaptă is part of the European National Front, an umbrella group of far-right nationalist organizations. The Noua Dreaptă web site includes a column of "links of interest" to numerous extreme nationalist organizations throughout Europe, including the following:

Falange (Spain)
National Democratic Party of Germany
Forza Nuova (Italy)
Patriotic Alliance (Greece)
National Renewal Party (Portugal)
Renouveau Français (France)
Srpski Obraz (Serbia)
Nationale Allantie (The Netherlands)
Slovenska Pospolitost (Slovakia)
Mouvement Nation (Belgium)
National Rebirth of Poland
Bulgarian National Alliance (BNS)
Fiamma Tricolore (Italy)
Bloc Identitaire (France)
Bund Freier Jugend (Germany)
Russkii Obraz (Russia)

Noua Dreaptă is also reported^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]} to have ties to the following extremist groups:

Reputation

drawing of a nationalistic stylized Celtic cross

Stamp bearing the symbol of the Iron Guard over a green cross that stood for one of its humanitarian ventures.

Noua Dreaptă embraces and uses clear images of legionarism, the ideology of the extreme nationalist and anti-Semitic interwar Iron Guard, which roughly paralleled the Nazi movement at the time in Germany. The group's symbol, the Celtic Cross usually drawn on a green background, is clearly and identifiably remniscent of the symbol of the Iron Guard.

Noua Dreaptă has aligned itself with organizations elsewhere in Europe with strongly anti-Semitic views[Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism], although it has not focused its efforts against Romania's currently small Jewish community. Rather, and the group has concentrated its rhetoric and efforts against the ethnic Hungarians, Roma, sexual minorities [link] and minority religious faiths [link]. Incidents have been reported involving physical attacks by Noua Dreaptă members against Mormons [link][link] and gays [link]. In May 2006, dozens of Noua Dreaptă members were arrested by police after trying to violently disrupt the GayFest pride parade in Bucharest [link]. Police also used teargas to disperse the counterprotesters led by individuals identified as Noua Dreaptă members ^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}.

Trivia

The organization's leader has his own rock group, Brigada de Asalt (The Assault Brigade), which specializes in ultranationalist and far right Romanian legionaire-oriented songs.

References

External links

[Noua Dreaptă official site]

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