National Rebirth of Poland
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Leader | Adam Gmurczyk |
Founded | 10 November 1981 |
Headquarters | ul. Kredytowa 6/22 00-062 Warsaw |
Ideology |
Polish nationalism Third position White nationalism Anti-Zionism Anti-globalism Euroscepticism |
Political position | Far-right |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
European affiliation | European National Front |
International affiliation | International Third Position |
European Parliament group | None |
Party flag | |
Website | |
www.nop.org.pl www.nop.org.en |
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National Rebirth of Poland (Polish: Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski), abbreviated to NOP, is a nationalist and national-revolutionary (or Third Position) political party in Poland registered by the District Court in Warsaw and National Electoral Commission. As of the 2011 election, the party had no seats in the Polish parliament. It was a member of the European National Front.
National Rebirth of Poland was founded as a nationalist discussion group for young people on 10 November 1981. It joined the Christian National Union when that party was founded in 1989, before leaving in February 1990. The NOP registered as a political party in 1992. The party is the only far-right organisation to claim to be a successor to the National Radical Camp Falanga (RNR), the pre-war nationalist youth organisation, which was banned in 1934.
NOP publishes the magazines Szczerbiec (the name of the Polish royal coronation sword), which lists neofascists Derek Holland and Roberto Fiore among the members of its editorial board,Młodzież Narodowa (National Youth), Myśl (The Thought), and 17 – Cywilizacja Czasów Próby (17 – The Civilization of the Times of Trial).
In 2009, NOP membership in Poland was estimated at 1000. NOP also has supporters outside Poland, notably among the United States Polish community, including Polish Patriots’ Association residing in New York City, and the revisionist Polish Historical Institute in Chicago.
In 2001, the NOP tried to enter parliamentary politics for the first time. The newly created NOP front organization, the New Forces Alliance (Sojusz Nowych Sił), joined the nationalist electoral bloc, Alternative Social Movement (Alternatywa Ruch Społeczny). Among the NOP candidates were Marcin Radzewicz, the leader of the openly neo-Nazi National Socialist Front (Front Narodowo-Socjalistyczny). ARS gained just below 0.5% of the votes, and the alliance was dissolved.