Alliance for Peace and Freedom

Alliance for Peace and Freedom
President Roberto Fiore
Founded

4 February 2015

(14 September 2014 unofficial)
Ideology Ultranationalism[1]
Third Position
Anti-Zionism
Euroscepticism
Anti-globalism
Political position Far-right
International affiliation None
European Parliament group Non-Inscrits
Colours      Red      Black      White
Website
http://apfeurope.com/

The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a far-right European political party.

It was founded on February 4, 2015. The main member parties had been involved in the now defunct European National Front. The party is strongly Eurosceptic.

The APF maintains contacts with conservative circles in Russia and supports the policies of Vladimir Putin, especially in the Ukraine crisis.[2] It maintains friendly relations with the Syrian Baath Party government.[3] The party also maintains contacts with the former leader of the French National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen who was expelled from the FN in 2015.[4]

Name

There is an article written to APF's webpage on 6 April 2016, explaining the meaning of the concepts 'Peace' and 'Freedom' to its name:


" Why Peace and Freedom?

Our name wasn’t just picked out of a hat! It’s about the things that matter most!

When we speak of ‘peace’ we refer in particular to the urgent need to counter the all-pervasive neo-con/Main Stream Media warmongering against Russia and her allies. We seek to do this through the exchange of ideas, combating dehumanisation propaganda and spreading the truth about Main Stream Media smears through social media.

We oppose ‘Western’ meddling and destabilisation in the Middle East. We are against the Islamisation of Europe through mass immigration, liberal appeasement and Wahhabi petro-dollar evangelism, but we also oppose neo-con imperialism and Zionist aggression in other peoples’ countries, particularly in the ancient lands of Islam.

We speak out against sanctions against Syria and Russia; these are not only morally wrong and counter-productive, they also cost jobs and add to the impact of austerity measures imposed to make ordinary people pay the price of the Bankers’ Crisis.

To us, ‘peace’ is also about the healing of divisions within our own lands and communities, with the ending of the exploitation of the productive classes by finance capitalism, and the establishment of a just society ordered according to traditional Christian and European values.

‘Freedom’ is of course about political sovereignty and breaking free from the chains of the various institutions of globalization. It is also about the freedom to be ourselves in our own lands, freedom from bondage to a fundamentally corrupt banking system and from the theft of our national common wealth through privatization.

And, to us, freedom is about free speech and freedom of association – it’s about true democracy which respects and defends freedom not just with cheap and easy words, but in reality, not just for those who say what is ‘acceptable’, but for those who dare to say what is right and true! " [5]

Member Parties

Country Party Abbr. European MPs National MPs
 Belgium Flanders Identitists VLI
0 / 12
0 / 87
 Belgium Nation Movement Nation
0 / 8
0 / 63
 Czech Republic Workers' Party of Social Justice DSSS
0 / 21
0 / 200
 Denmark Party of the Danes DP
0 / 13
0 / 179
 Germany National Democratic Party of Germany NPD
1 / 96
0 / 630
 Greece Golden Dawn ΧΑ
3 / 21
18 / 300
 Italy New Force FN
0 / 73
0 / 630
 Slovakia Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia ĽSNS
0 / 13
14 / 150
 Spain National Democracy DN
0 / 54
0 / 350
 United Kingdom British Unity Party BUP
0 / 73
0 / 650

Affiliated Parties

 Cyprus | National Popular Front (ΕΛΑΜ)

Former Member Parties

 Sweden | Party of the Swedes (SvP) (In May 2015 party dissolved)

Individual Members

Member Position Country Political Party
Roberto Fiore President/Chairman  Italy FN
Artemios Matthaiopoulos Deputy Chairman  Greece ΧΑ
Nick Griffin Deputy Chairman  United Kingdom BUP
Stefan Jacobsson Secretary General  Sweden -
Jens Pühse Member  Germany NPD
Tomáš Vandas Member  Czech Republic DSSS
Gonzalo Martin Garcia Member  Spain DN
Daniel Carlsen Member  Denmark DP
Hervé Van Laethem Member  Belgium Nation
Olivier Wyssa Member  France -

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Kremlin ‘hosts’ the European extreme right". OSW. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  2. ↑ "To Russia with love, from Europe’s far-right fringe". FT.com. 2015-03-22. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  3. ↑ "Alliance of Peace and Freedom delegation: Europe must take Syria’s side and fight terrorism". Syriatimes.sy. 2015-06-06. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  4. ↑ Success for APF conference in Paris
  5. ↑ Why Peace and Freedom?, APF's name.

External links

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