After end 1996 the CP'86 ripped in a neo-Nazi wing and a more moderate wing of the neo-Nazis were the party name in hands. The other group was initially continue as 'People's Nationalists Netherlands' (VNN). But after the ban on CP'86 in 1998 was publicly introduced the discussion of the VNN should not be seen as a successor to the party. That would bring the VNN in big trouble and the board criminally liable. The VNN waited it out and not the rank and founded a new party: New Nationalist Party (NNP). Initially know the party to gather many former supporters of the Centre Party and Centre Democrats, but great achievements remain off. Vanaf 2002 the party to participate in elections, but is completely overshadowed by the successes of Pim Fortuyn and (after his violent death) The LPF. However, the NNP remains active for some time and try to enter into a partnership with the New Right. However, the New Right is not on collaboration, but to the members and followers of the NNP. After this failed experiment, the NNP is lifted.
This text is part of the quarterly research results 3 23 In June, Ronald van der Wal was arrested in Poland. He was about to purchase five firearms with ammunition. They would be intended for an attack in the Netherlands. Van der Wal is an old acquaintance within the extreme right of the Netherlands. Among other things, he was active… Read more
In this article we will look back on the past decade. The reason is that in our opinion, there is currently a transition period, perhaps even the end of an era. Some organizations are on the verge of disappearing, many far-right activists have recently been dropped. At the same time there is a party in… Read more
When the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard in 2005 made a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, he will undoubtedly have no idea what made this drawing would loosen. Let alone that he thought that the cartoon would lead to the creation of a new far-right organization… Read more
As if there are not yet enough elections, inhabitants have a number of counties in late November to the polls for municipal reorganization elections. Both in Zwijndrecht in Oss are exciting developments. Livable Zwijndrecht in Zwijndrecht joins the NNP and submitted a list of eleven candidates. The list itself has few surprises: a… Read more
In maart behaalt de NNP bij de deelraadsverkiezingen in Rotterdam-Feijenoord voorlopig haar enige succesje van dit jaar. De partij doet met twee zetels haar intrede in de deelraad. Oudgediende Jan Teijn wordt de fractievoorzitter en partijvoorzitter Florens van der Kooi wordt tweede man. Besides the membership of the council Jan Teijn also takes the editorship… Read more
In Rotterdam, doing both the Dutch People's Union (NVU) as the New National Party (NNP) mee. Moreover, the NNP kandi decodes also in the council Feyenoord. Beide partijen blijken hierbij in hoge mate een beroep te doen op voormalige leden van de CP’86. The Dutch People's Union list of NCE is comprised of four names. Constant Kusters,… Read more
De Amsterdamse lijst van de NNP geeft een beter beeld van de partij, dan de partij waarschijnlijk lief is. Het gaat om een waslijst van overtuigde anti-semieten, geweldplegers en mensen met criminele antecedenten. De lijst wordt aangevoerd door Hendrik Sybrandy, die ook lijsttrekker is in Leeuwarden. (See in Leeuwarden for more information about him). De… Read more
Zaterdag 13 January 2001 werd Henk Ruitenberg voor de tweede keer in zijn politieke carrière verkozen tot voorzitter van een extreem-rechtse partij. Was hij medio jaren negentig nog voorzitter van de CP’86, inmiddels is hij de leider van de NNP. Ruitenberg bracht de extreme vleugel van het Nederlandse fascisten-landschap iets waar grote behoefte aan was:… Read more
Het CDA-Eerste Kamerlid Van den Hul-Omta zal “bij wetgeving waakzaam zijn betreffende het door Taalverdediging bepleite”. Haar collega Woldring steunt Taalverdediging van harte en hun partijgenoot Visser-van Doorn, die in de Tweede Kamer zit, kan de meeste doelstellingen onderschrijven. They respond to a letter campaign to the campaign group Taalverdediging all national political parties for their support… Read more
Michel Hubert is al jaren een zeer actief lid van de Nederlandse fascisten-gemeenschap. Begin jaren negentig was hij actief in de CP’86 en vanaf 1996 in Voorpost en de daaraan gelieerde studentenbeweging. Hubert wordt binnen extreem-rechts gezien als intelligente jongen. Qua opleidingsniveau is dat ook zeker waar, but its political and organizational insights are so… Read more
Hans Janmaat verschijnt de laatste tijd regelmatig in de media. Omdat hij niet meer als gevaar gezien wordt, vinden allerlei televisieprogramma’s het amusant om hem als voormalig enfant terrible van de vaderlandse politiek te portretteren. Inderdaad stellen zijn Centrumdemocraten (CD)niets meer voor. Het laatste partijblad is in oktober 1998 verschenen en na het verkiezingsverlies in… Read more
Michael Alexander Bos (1967) almost ten years in the extreme right flank of Dutch politics. He began his career with the CD and the CP'86 and today is mainly concerned with the mapping of his political opponents. In 1989 Michiel Bos member of the CD Janmaat. He… Read more
Any party who is in a representative body shall be entitled to all kinds of fees for its work, research and training, propaganda, etc.. These fees are beyond the wages of members such as a city council or parliament itself. When CP'86 in 1994 was elected to the city council of Rotterdam and Martijn Freling for… Read more
In november 1996, around the time of the schism within the vicissitudes CP'86, saw a new far-right organization view: The Dutch Student (NLSV(1)) before: The Dutch Student, see box at bottom of article. She posed as a 'regular’ student, but that is certainly not. The NLSV calls himself a conscious association for Dutch students… Read more
Some time before the municipal elections 1998 Some active fascists began discussions on the future of the extreme right in the Netherlands. Involved included the People's Nationalists Netherlands (VNN), some CD'ers and Outpost. Wim Vreeswijk of Dutch Block was just the party. On the one hand expecting a severe loss in elections and… Read more
The candidate of the CD in South Holland gives a hurry familiar image: Janmaat as Lijstduwer and beyond all people who walk around for some time with the CD. That it is now incumbent parliamentarian Pieter de Jong no candidate has undoubtedly something with his age (82 jaar) to make. The list includes eleven candidates, two… Read more
The list includes twelve candidates, most of whom have long walk around with the CD. Remarkably, the current parliamentarian Wim Elst Wood from Haarlem is in second place. The region Kennemerland represents the strongest on the list. This probably has something to do with the circle of success Haarlem. Haarlem… Read more
De Nieuwe Nationale Partij (NNP) occurs only in municipal elections in Breda note. The party is in July 1998 founded by the People's Nationalists Netherlands (VNN), CD'ers apostate and non-party-aligned right-wing extremists. On behalf of the VNN were especially Marcel Hoogstra and Marc de Boer involved in setting. Chairman is former board member Egbert CP'86 Peree (1924), Secretary VNN former board member… Read more
Marcel Hoogstra and Marc de Boer This time an article is not one, but two right-wing extremists. Not because these gentlemen were not interesting enough for an individual consideration, but because both of their doings and so closely intertwined. We are talking about Marcel Hoogstra and Marc de Boer, in far-right circles… Read more
Havoc 3 april 1998 The Municipal elections are behind us and the extreme right has passed through the mincer. Only two seats were won there: One by the CD in Schiedam and one by Dutch Block in Utrecht. There are also some local political parties with right-wing sympathies, but for now the battle seems to be over and… Read more
After the local elections of March municipal anti-fascists took a sigh of relief. Here and there, there was even a pronounced jubilant: Extreme right won two seats at 88 in 1984. Utrecht remains Wim Vreeswijk keep behalf Dutch Block seat on the city council and in Schiedam Ad Beerhouses returns for a second term of office back. Were further… Read more
Marcel Rüter is undoubtedly one of the most prominent people in extreme right in the Netherlands. The stranger so that no one has ever heard of him or has any idea how he looks. This has to do with the other side of Rüter. In addition to his political activities, he also has a successful social career,… Read more
Young beggars in Al 1983 the then Centre Party (CP) a youth movement called Young Centre Democrats, with, inter alia, a section in Rotterdam. This is probably the same as the Young beggars who are active at that time as a youth organization of the CP. CD The current youth Young Centre Democrats or CD youngsters come in handy in 1992… Read more
Tibor Rudolf Mudde was on 23 februari 1965 born in Amsterdam. He has long been one of the most important figures within the extreme right in the Netherlands. As a teenager, he becomes involved in the extreme right circuit and he is a member of the Dutch People's Union. In 1985 he is on the mailing list of the Consortium of the Tree of Life… Read more
In the public discourse dominating the Netherlands after 1945, anti-Semitism and racism – two of the basic elements of (“classical”) right-wing extremism – have tended to be seen as uncharacteristic of Dutch society.1According to many experts, this is attributed to Dutch experiences in the Second World War, as the Netherlands saw the largest percentage of national Jewish populations in Europe killed, after Poland. A guilt complex related to Dutch behaviour during the War has led to what is often called “the basic consensus” on what is “bad” and “good” in Dutch society.
In the fifth reporting Monitoring racism and the extreme right are the years 2001 and - where possible - 2002 central. The attacks on the United States 11 september 2001 and the murder of Pim Fortuyn 6 May 2002 have had a significant impact on the overall picture of this reporting period. Both events have left deep marks on the interethnic relations in the Netherlands. These traces can be found in the fifth reporting. It is questions like: increases or decreases the number of racist violence in Netherlands? Which right-wing political parties have disappeared and which come in its place? The number of discrimination cases that reaches the public prosecutor or decreases? And what be provided there for business and to what extent that lead to convictions? The initiative for the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right is the mid-nineties taken by the Leiden University. The monitoring project is now jointly conducted by Leiden University and the Anne Frank. This report was made possible with support from the Management Integration and Coordination Minorities of the Ministry of Justice.
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Is there in our country evidence of increasing or decreasing racial violence? How is it with the tolerance in the Netherlands? Has the local policy against discrimination catering success or keep the number of complaints? To answer these questions it is important that research is conducted to periodically monitor the manifestations of racial discrimination and extreme right. This interest is mid-nineties recognized by the University of Leiden and there is the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right developed. Currently the project is implemented by the Leiden University in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation and with support from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Research Monitor is an internationally recognized tool for the detection of racism and discrimination, and developing policies against. In 1999 was in Vienna the European Monitoring Centre on Racism
Xenophobia and start. The Vienna Observatory seeks to follow developments in the European Union and analyzed using national monitoring centers. The project Monitoring racism and the extreme right is an important source for the supply of data to the European Monitoring Centre. In the European Directive 29 juni 2000 equal treatment of persons on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin is also included a monitor provision: after the conclusion of the national regulatory (physical appearance) 2003 shall, with effect from 2005 every five years report to be done on the effectiveness of those national measures.
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With extreme right parties in government in Austria and Italy, and Jean-Marie Le Pen contesting the run-off in the 2002 presidential elections in France, few people will dispute their continuing relevance in the politics of Western Europe. Indeed, ever since the first small electoral successes of parties like the Centrumpartij in the Netherlands or the Front National in France in the early 1980s, the extreme right has been the most discussed group of parties both in and outside of the scholarly community. Thousands of newspaper articles and hundreds of pieces of scholarly work have been devoted to extreme right parties, predominantly describing their history, leaders or electoral successes, as well as proclaiming their danger. Remarkably little serious attention has been devoted to their ideology, however. This aspect of the extreme right has been considered to be known to everyone. The few scholars that did devote attention to the ideology of the contemporary extreme right parties have primarily been concerned with pointing out similarities with the fascist and National Socialist ideologies of the pre-war period. If the similarities were not found, this was often taken as ‘proof ’ that the extreme right hides its (true) ideologies, rather than as a motivation to look in a different direction.
The Extreme Right has always been weak and fragmented in the Netherlands. It lacked an
ideological tradition as well as a solid social base. A landowning aristocracy no longer played
a significant role in Dutch politics in the nineteenth century – power had shifted to a patrician
bourgeoisie already in the Dutch Republic (1588-1795). Moreover, the Dutch did not have to
deal with a national question that could have given rise to a nationalist movement with
extremist tendencies. It is true, reactionary anti-democratic forces did emerge in the late
nineteenth century, but they were divided between Liberal, Catholic and Calvinist parties.
Only has survived until today, the Reformed State Party (Reformed Political Party ,
SGP). This party has come to accept democracy in practice, but not in theory. It would like to
replace universal suffrage by ‘organic suffrage’, I.E. give the right to vote only to (male)
heads of households.3 However, it is not a nationalist, racist or xenophobic party.4 Since 1925
it has occupied two or three seats in parliament.
How intolerant towards native Dutch immigrants? Almost
25 year assesses the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) public opinion on
immigrants and publishes regularly about. In the late eighties, early
ninety we see a slight hardening of the climate of opinion, but according to the
SCP there are generally few changes. Just About 80% of the
population thinks that natives and immigrants should have equal treatment
have at distribution issues, such as housing and employment.
Just About 13% of the indigenous population rejects
immigrants. Just About 50% of the indigenous population is against immigration
opposed.
Regarding this last NIPO found in 1998 a different outcome:1 not
half, but three-quarters of the native Dutch against further
Immigration opposed. There is - according to the NIPO - a growing support for
immigration restrictions while confidence in integration and
adjustment of immigrants decreases. NIPO found this trend going on
Polls in the years 1993, 1995 en 1998.
Eind 1999 showed another NIPO survey, one third of the Dutch
opposes the granting of asylum to political or economic
vluchtelingen.2 thirds of the Dutch have supported policies
government for political refugees who fear for their own country
their lives to give asylum. About half of the respondents felt that
seekers give nuisance. Further thought about forty percent that asylum seekers
on average, are more criminal than Dutch.
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Extreme right was in the elections 1998 almost completely wiped out.
After the local extreme right shows yet 2 of the 88 seats
having maintained: 1 for the CD in Rotterdam Schiedam and 1 for the
Dutch Block in Utrecht. In the parliamentary elections of May lose
only representative of the extreme right, the Centre Democrats are three
seats. This does not mean that all known far-right organizations
overview of 1998 still exist and – some more than others – active
zijn, except CP'86 in November 1998 was banned.
Dr. J. Donselaar goes into its third monitoring report published this month
elaborate on the map of the extreme right in the Netherlands. Far-right
parties are the Centre Democrats, de Nieuwe Nationale Partij (NNP) and
Nederlands Blok, De CD nam in 1999 the European elections with
a combined list: CD / Conservative Democrats. Conservative
Democrats was an attempt by CD leader Janmaat to a new name
CD again to revive. The NNP is trying to "clean’ extreme right
slogans the extreme right framework to unite among themselves. The NNP
then arose after the schism within CP'86 extreme right threatened to set
to fall.
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The Dutch National Security Service (BVD) finds in his
Annual Report July that extreme right-wing organizations in the Netherlands in meaning
decrease. The loss of the extreme right-wing parties in the municipal- en
Parliamentary elections in March and May are an expression of. There are in
Netherlands more than fifty organized neo-Nazis. In recent years, were
that more than one hundred.
The far-right parties in the municipal elections of March 1998
lose virtually all of their seats. In Rotterdam-Schiedam preserve Center
Democrats (CD) 1 seat and one seat in Utrecht goes to Dutch Block.
The extreme right had 88 seats: 78 for the CD, 9 and for CP'86 1 for the
Nederlands Blok.
In the parliamentary elections of May 1998 lose their extreme right
main representation, nl. the three seats the
Centrumdemocraten.
In the Leiden University does Jaap van Donselaar investigating extreme right.
He cites several reasons for the loss of the extreme right.
Important is the changed electoral law. For the first time, each party 570
signatures required scattered throughout the country to join in all constituencies
to be able to do.
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This is the second report of the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right, that was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The monitoring project has two main objectives:
1. monitor racism and the extreme right: the observation of these phenomena in the Netherlands, as well as the government response to these phenomena; periodic reporting, in two ways:
(a) 'General report': a general reporting on the basis of a fixed pattern;
(b) a floor battle ': reporting to a special subject is exposed.
2. The periodicity of the project means that displays a general report in one year and the other a 'floor battle'. The first report of 1997 was a general, which involves a broad picture of the phenomena of racism and the extreme right in the Netherlands, as well as government responses. Also those of the coming year (1999) a general report will be. This present second report is devoted to a special’ subject matter: the relationship between the media and also racism and the extreme right.
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This is the first report of the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right that was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior. Under 'racism’ are also understood: antisemitisme, rasvooroordeel, Xenophobia, xenophobia en rasdiscriminatie. The monitor works are not exclusively focused on racist, but also to combat these phenomena.
The project has two objectives:
1. Permanent monitoring of racism and anti-racism
2. periodic reporting on the key findings
The utility of periodic reporting has many. Annually took stock based on a fixed pattern of the main manifestations of racism and right-wing extremism, and the development of strategies to combat. The reports can contribute by their systematic and periodic character of accumulation of knowledge and insights. It provides insight into developments that occur in the longer term. This applies not only to the past period but also the future.
The monitor can contribute to early identification of relevant, new developments.
The overall research question is:
1. How are expressions of (racist) right-wing extremism (in Nederland) developed?
2. which patterns of response have been there?
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