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No 17 Winter 2015 Don’t Mainstream - An Assessment Of Nationalist Strategy And Tactics This article was authored by Nation- alternative to young, naive stu- alist Alternative and was posted on dents who refuse to realise that it its website on March 23 2015. is they who are the establishment now. Parties which may be opposed When you become a Nationalist ac- to immigration (except Australia tivist, you step out of what appears First), still make the necessary pro- to be the mainstream. Humans are pitiations towards multiracialism social animals, so this action is nat- and assimilation. urally uncomfortable. The tempta- tion to go back to the safe arms of It is precisely for this reason that mainstream politics, mainstream none of these parties can change ‘safe’ opinion stays with you, and anything in Australia, and it is for some of us may eventually yield. this reason that Australia (and the We find reasons to drop our beliefs West) seems to continue to decline or convince ourselves that we can without deviation or without break- change the system from within. We ing stride. Our problem, ultimately, might decide to join the Labor or is that socio-political path that we Liberal parties, perform the neces- are taking, the one that we have sary liberal ‘Politically Correct’ obli- been taking since about World War gations and convince ourselves that 2 or shortly thereafter, the one that one day, some day, we may change all mainstream political thought Golden Dawn demonstrates its activist power— everywhere, these parties from within. This may considers ultimately correct - the street, workplace, study-place. be worthwhile, but the evidence so path of Political Correctness, also far is against this as an optimal known more descriptively as cultur- -ion causes the outcome to not be As Sun Tzu in the Art of War strategy. al Marxism. so. A ‘respectable’ party has to states… agree that Australia would function The Nationalists in Europe have Mainstream politics therefore all the same if populated mostly by found greater success going their falls under the umbrella of the reli- Third World immigrants instead of He will win who knows when to own way with their own parties, gion of Political Correctness. Sure, Anglo-Europeans. fight and when not to fight. He will than in reforming existing parties there are schisms, but the primary win who knows how to handle both from within. We’ve seen parties like schism is between liberals and In short, to be ‘respectable’ and superior and inferior forces. He will UKIP (not officially Nationalist, but “conservatives”, with “conserv- mainstream, one has to commit to win whose army is animated by the closer), Jobbik, Svoboda and Gold- atives” being nothing more than being ineffective and accepting the same spirit throughout all its ranks. en Dawn grow, but have witnessed liberals who are about one genera- path we are on now, and lying He will win who, prepared himself, little of any corresponding shift in tion behind. Conservatives believe about what we all see and observe. waits to take the enemy unpre- parties such as the LNP or the Re- that liberalism was good and prop- You can criticise how we travel pared. He will win who has military publican Party or the UK Tories, er up until some point in time, at down the path, but don’t question capacity and is not interfered with parties which are perceived by which then they decided it all went the destination and the ends. It is- by the sovereign. many of us to be the most suitable wrong. As time goes by, that point n’t that there is little tolerance for to be subject to change from with- in time which they agree that liber- discussion of the demographic is- in. alism was good moves forward, sues facing whites. There is no tol- In the last decade, we have wit- therefore rendering the conserva- erance. It isn’t that there is little nessed more and more overt mes- The demonstrated successes have tive movement as a movement tolerance for rejection of multira- sages against cultural Marxism, been with parties which haven’t which does nothing more than cialism. There is none. against the anti-white brigade and been afraid to express their opin- eventually agree with everything their program of turning Western ions, and haven’t been afraid to of- liberals ever did. This is the harsh reality for Nation- nations into a diverse morass at the fend the centrist politicians. alists. If you want to be expense of the continuation of our This is the essence of why we are ‘mainstream’, to have your political people and culture. The PEGIDA Nationalist Alternative stands out- what we are. We reject cultural views respected by ‘mainstream’ marches, the rise of Golden Dawn, side of the mainstream comfort Marxism entirely, and with that, is politicians and the media, you have the popularity of Front National and zone, but we take care to ensure the rejection of the cultural Marxist to ditch them and un-see that UKIP. While they may not be overt- that stepping outside the comfort ideas which have made their home which has been seen. Period. There ly “politically incorrect” and may at zone does not mean stepping into in Western civilisation. It isn’t how is no being accepted politically by face value still argue they are not the crazy zone, as one who enters Political Correctness or cultural mainstream politics and protecting fighting the fight, the fact remains Nationalist politics can so easily do. Marxism is being implemented, or your people and your heritage. The that within these ‘far right’ move- the degree which it is being imple- former is working to destroy the ments, the ideas which we think We talk about race. We discuss the mented that we argue against, it is latter. most would find unpalatable and implications of multi-racialism and that is being implemented at all in objectionable are coming to the we openly state that the anti-white the first place, in any form whatso- This doesn’t mean however that fore more and more. It won’t be brigade is working towards our de- ever. Multiracialism, the ideal of you have to explicitly lay down that long before our politics is no mise, and that we reject it. Yes, we Western self destruction, forced your political views completely to longer “fringe”, but part of public are people who want to preserve equality of outcome, the dissolution everyone all of the time. It is one discussion, echoed by many groups our race, among other goals, such of the family, of society, of the na- thing to avoid dealing with contro- and people. as reaffirming the Australian identi- tion and of the race. We reject the versial issues and run from them, ty and protecting our sovereignty. charge of ‘racism’, as the term and another to selectively choose Until then, all we can do is facilitate ‘racist’ is itself invented by Marxists the time and places which you this transformation, and set an ex- These facts place us outside of the in their thoroughly debunked and bring it up. It is one thing to com- ample to the many others out there political world that Clive Palmer, discredited social theory. mit to fighting for your identity and that one can discuss and address Jacquie Lambie or that even Pauline people but choose times when it is these issues and still maintain a Hanson find themselves in. With the To make such a point, one cannot prudent to do so even if the oppor- greater integrity and image than exception of Australia First, which be so called “mainstream”. No tunities are rare, and another to the mainstream sell-outs and trai- performs the impressive task of “respectable” party or organisation shirk the duty altogether. tors. maintaining themselves as a feder- can argue that there is a demand ____________________________ ____________________________ ally registered political party and that white people be assimilated addressing the issues that we ad- out, and that this is wrong. A European Nationalists Decline ‘Mainstream’ dress, all other parties fit within the “respectable” party has to be neu- liberal mainstream. The Sex Party, tral on the issue and not care about THE parties of European national- itics. the Australian Motoring Enthusiasts whether white societies continue or ism have formed a co-ordination and even the Greens stand within not. No “respectable” party can ar- body which unites them to fight the Each party is true to its people and the same political sphere that Labor gue against Leftism, because to forces of globalization. builds according to the issues avail- and Liberal stand in. The politics of argue that there is a demand that able. Each party recognizes the cul- liberal democracy and the politics of white people be assimilated out, Known as the European Alliance For tural things which bind. We might the status quo. Socialist Alliance and that this is wrong. A Peace And Freedom, it includes say that this Alliance is the begin- may consider themselves as “respectable” party has to be neu- parties in a dozen countries with nings of a 'Nationalist Interna- ‘alternative’, but their platform, gay tral on the issue and not care about more to join. tional'. rights, refugee rights, mass immi- whether white societies continue or gration, the end of national identity not. No “respectable” party can ar- There are several defining markers Australian nationalists serve the and an economy managed by bu- gue against Leftism, because a for these parties and one is their Australian Nation and People.
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