National Democratic Youth

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National Democratic Youth Nationaldemokratisk Ungdom




Chairperson	Patrik Forsén

Founded	February 2, 2002

Mother party	National Democrats

Website	www.ndu.nu

National Democratic Youth (Swedish: Nationaldemokratisk Ungdom, NDU) is the youth organization of the Swedish political party National Democrats (Swedish: Nationaldemokraterna).

1 History
2 Organisation
3 List of chairpersons
4 External links

[edit] History

NDU was formed during spring 2002 and early became notable as one of Sweden's most radical youth organisations against multiculturalism, communism, homosexuality and feminism striving for a nation characterized by Nordic culture, tradition and national solidarity. The organization is on the extreme right, their politics are antisemitic, homofobic and racist, though they seldom use those terms to describe their own politics, they prefer to be referred as "Swedish nationalists."

In 2003 the organisation performed a violent attack against the Gay pride-festival in Stockholm, were they begun throwing bottles and beating the participators of the parade. Members from Antifascistisk aktion that also participated on the festival answered by throwing stones and glassbottles towards the aggressors. This resulted in riots between the anarchists of Antifascistisk aktion and the far right-wingers of NDU , which later resulted in the imprisonment of the chairman Marc Abramsson on the terms of battery and rioting.

NDU now suffered from internal conflicts and started a period of reconstruction when Andreas Wallentin replaced the leadership. A year later he resigned to have time for studies and to work as a writer for the party's newspaper Nationell Idag (National Today). Robert Almgren took over and continued the reformation, leading it out of all the setbacks and making it a prominent and rapid-growing youth organisation again, creating new divisions all over the country.

[edit] Organisation

The members of NDU concentrate most of their work on the local level, in their respective municipal organisations. These divisions are grouped togheter in regional districts with an organizer controlling the district's combined effort. The number of members is kept secret for safety reasons.

A congress is held annually to elect a chairman as highest authority of the youth league. In turn he appoints organizers and representatives for the regional groups. All the representatives together form a national advisory council. In consultation between the chairman and the council the political manifesto and stance in factual matters is decided, in accordance with the parent party's ideological guidelines.