A new nationalist party contests German regional election
Posted by admin978 on August 27, 2024 · Leave a Comment
The new, radical nationalist party III. Weg (Third Way – unrelated to the now defunct party of the same name in the UK) is contesting regional elections next month in the German state of Brandenburg.
Two activists from III. Weg attended H&D‘s meeting in Preston last September, and the party leader Matthias Fischer was interviewed in Issue 117 of our magazine.
As Mr Fischer explained, his party are “national revolutionaries … we set our idea of ‘German socialism’ against both the liberal capitalism of the Western world and communism/neo-Bolshevism. …At the European level we are striving for a confederation that will give our continent its own strength as a counterpoint to the imperialist forces of the world powers. It’s not about cosmetically interfering with the system, but rather about creating something completely new. Liberalism is currently the main enemy for us national revolutionaries. We work for the holistic revolution.”
There are significant differences between III. Weg and long-established parties of the “right-wing”. For a start, as noted above, III. Weg are revolutionaries rather than reactionaries. They are therefore the opposite to AfD and the recently launched WerteUnion (Values Union), which both grew out of the Thatcherite, ‘free market’, ultra-capitalist wing of German conservatism.
Moreover, both AfD and the now declining German nationalist party once called NPD (which has renamed itself Heimat but has fallen so far that it doesn’t even have candidates in this Brandenburg election), have grovelled to Vladimir Putin’s neo-Stalinist imperialism. Abundant evidence shows that senior figures in AfD as well as certain other so-called ‘nationalists’ have been funded by the Russian intelligence service to push Putin’s agenda.
In strong contrast, III. Weg has consistently opposed Russia’s anti-European agenda, even before the invasion of Ukraine.
The present German federal republic consists of sixteen regions, three of which are city parliaments, while the other thirteen are Länder or federal states, which each have their own parliament or Landtag.
Brandenburg is one of these, governing a state with 2.5 million residents, just outside Berlin. The state capital is the ancient city of Potsdam.
In recent years Brandenburg has become a typical example of the cynicism of European political elites, governed by a coalition of apparent political opposites: the socialist SPD, conservative CDU, and Greens.
As in the UK and many other European countries, the radical nationalist movement in Germany has had to overcome many obstacles and divisions. By contesting this regional election, III. Weg has entered a new stage of its development. The campaign will be an important experience for party activists, and advances the process of launching a genuine electoral alternative for patriots and true Europeans.
