Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 31, Number 42, October 29, 2004 obstacles,” in the words of Noua Dreapta’s website. The National Alliance is the main Nazi organization in the U.S. and was created by the late William Pierce, author of the Turner Diaries, a copy of which was found with Timothy The Growing Danger of McVeigh when he was arrested, and which was—according to some accounts—the basis for the Oklahoma City Synarchism in Germany bombing. LaRouche also pointed out that there are Ibero-American by Claudio Celani networks that are part of this operation. “It’s a revival of the Nazi International, explicitly. The oligarchy runs it on the basis of having combustible material. And the combustible The electoral successes of extreme right-wing parties in the material is constituted by these idiots, who get sucked into Sept. 19 state elections in Germany, with the right-wing na- this blood-and-soil ideology of Hispanidad, like the case of tionalist German People’s Union (Deutsche Volksunion, the Cristeros in Mexico,” in the first half of the 20th Century. DVU) getting 6.1% in Brandenburg, and the openly pro-Nazi “We know they were Nazis. The Nazi Party officially walked National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationaldemokrati- in, and took over the Cristeros.” sche Partei Deutschlands, NPD) surging to 9.2% in Saxony, LaRouche pointed to various turncoats from his organiza- should ring an alarm bell. Although it is not the first time that tion in Central and South America, such as the Carrasco clan, such parties have scored high percentages in local and state Ricardo Olvera, and Fernando Quijano, who have been re- elections—the DVU holds seats in Brandenburg, while this cruited into this international fascist network. They are typical is the first time the NPD has won seats since 1968—this oc- of those associated with Spain’s Blas Pin˜ar et al. LaRouche curs in a changed international and national context: emphasized that intended attacks against him and his move- 1. Since December 2002, the NPD has been an active part ment, would naturally come from these fascist circles, and of the recently formed international alliance centered around often virulently anti-Semitic networks and their controllers Spanish synarchist-falangist Blas Pin˜ar, which represents a operating from behind the screen of certain factions of reli- terrorist potential dating back to the days of the “Strategy of gious bodies functioning in the tradition of the post-World Tension” in Italy and internationally. War II Nazi “rat line” networks. 2. Immediately after the Sept. 19 elections, the DVU and the NPD—traditionally engaged in a mutually destructive An Example: The Carrasco Case competition for hegemony over the right-wing political spec- Both Marivilia Carrasco and her brother Lorenzo Car- trum—have joined in an electoral alliance. rasco, broke with LaRouche in August 2003 explicitly over 3. Both the NPD and the DVU have been deployed in an his attack against Synarchism, while loudly defending the attempt to discredit the mass protests, especially the Monday cause of the Cristeros. Fernando Quijano was promoting Demonstrations in eastern Germany, which were called Hispanidad and related fascist worldviews from the late against the government-sponsored “Hartz IV” austerity bud- 1980s on. Similarly, Ricardo Olvera, whose departure from get cuts; prominent supporters of the Hartz IV budget-cutting the LaRouche organization followed on the heels of a 1992 policies suddenly promoted anti-semitic, neo-Nazi NPD lead- speech he delivered, which concluded with “Viva Cristo ers to the status of credible interlocutors, and engaged in a Rey!”—the trademark cry of the Cristeros—today is the dialogue with them. editor of the Spanish-language El Heraldo Cato´lico, pub- In light of such facts, it is not merely hypothetical to see lished by the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, for all a scenario in which traditional elements of German politics of northern California. In the October 2004 issue of that are being redefined, such that radical right-wing and outright paper, Olvera penned a lengthy defense of the “armed re- neo-Nazi organizations are activated not only in terrorist sistance of the Cristeros,” and the 1920s Synarchist ideo- functions, but also as a political factor, in view of the self- logue Jose´ Vasconcelos, while promoting the cause of discreditation and potential disintegration of mass-based par- Hispanidad. ties, such as the Social Democratic Party (SPD, Chancellor LaRouche explained: “As for Olvera, the Carrascos— Gerhard Schro¨der’s party), or the Christian Democratic we know these are people, who, when they were told at the Union (CDU). Such a scenario is clear to any sane political close of the 1980s that LaRouche was going to be crushed observer who knows the lessons of history, forecasting the by certain U.S. government circles, went over to join the inevitable result of those parties’ blind support for Schachtian Nazis. So, they followed the cowardly self-proclaimed U.S. economic policies imposed on Germany by international syn- agent Fernando Quijano, who had already degenerated mor- archist banking interests.1 ally and intellectually in joining the same fascist networks associated with right-wing U.S. families such as the 1. By the term “synarchist,” we mean here a faction of the international neo- Buckleys.” liberal oligarchy, which is committed to authoritarian, fascist-like systems 16 Feature EIR October 29, 2004 © 2004 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. As an Italian looking at German developments, this writer is forced to draw the lessons of the 1992-93 history of Italy, where the process called “Clean Hands” helped to eliminate, almost overnight, traditional anti-communist and anti-fascist parties. Nobody suggests that history will repeat itself in ex- actly those forms in Germany. But those readers who reject as unthinkable the idea of Brownshirts again assuming a polit- ical role in Germany, should reflect on the fact that someone who was still, in 1989, publicly praising Mussolini’s Fascism, is now Deputy Prime Minister in the Italian government. Sure, Gianfranco Fini has made quite a conversion, including for- mally abjuring both Fascism and Mussolini’s Social Republic last year; however, what counts is that such forces, even when they take off their black shirts, and swear democratic alle- The central figure giance, offer themselves as viable instruments to enforce stra- in the re-emergence of an international tegic and economic policies which are fascist in substance, fascist movement is whereas traditional political parties fail by their nature to sell Spain’s Blas Pin˜ar. out to such policies, even though their leaders may want to The former minister do so. of the Franco Let us examine the elements briefly mentioned above. government is forming an alliance of neo-fascist The New Synarchist-Terrorist Alliance parties from On Nov. 16-17, 2002, an international meeting in Madrid Europe and South launched the new Synarchist International. Among the groups America. Udo Voigt and individuals participating, co-hosted by former Franco of the German National Party is minister Blas Pin˜ar’s Fuerza Nueva and Falange Espan˜ol, part of Pin˜ar’s were: Roberto Fiore of Forza Nuova, Italy, who was a featured project. speaker; Thibault de la Tocnaye, of the French National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen; Udo Voigt of the German National Party (NPD); a representative of Final Conflict-Third Position Duce’s granddaughter. Ms. Mussolini was then appointed of Great Britain, a collection of neo-Nazi organizations affil- lead candidate for the new bloc, called Alternativa Sociale, iated with the Romanian Iron Guard; and Argentine retired and was eventually elected to the European Parliament in Army captain Gustavo Breide Obeid, representing the Popu- May 2004. lar Party for Reconstruction (Partido Popular por la Recon- Such a regrouping on the national and international levels struccio´n, PPR). implies a terrorist potential. As Lyndon LaRouche warned, On Jan. 26, 2003, a follow-up meeting took place in Ma- before the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings, we are drid, drawing a reported crowd of 3,000 people, addressed by dealing with veterans of the Italian “Strategy of Tension” Fiore and Voigt. On that occasion, Blas Pin˜ar presented a new terrorist operations, controlled by synarchist factions in mili- alliance of Spanish right-wing parties, including his Fuerza tary and intelligence circles, who are now being reactivated Nueva, called Frente Espan˜ol. This was the first of similar in the context of new terrorist scenarios. One such scenario alliances to be pursued in all European countries, indicating was laid out by Harvard’s Prof. Samuel Huntington, who, that money was now available for an operation which other- in an article in Foreign Policy in March 2004, promoted a wise would not have been possible, and that such formations civil war in the Americas between Hispanics and what he would play a new role in the post-Sept. 11 strategic picture. called “the distinct Anglo-Protestant culture” of the United The Spanish example was followed in mid-December States. Huntington invoked a “white nativist” fascist move- 2003 in Italy, where Roberto Fiore announced a new electoral ment to be born in the United States against Hispanic immi- bloc with several other neo-fascist splinter parties, including grants. the virtually one-woman party of Alessandra Mussolini, Il The hatred of Hispanics promoted by Huntington, is one ingredient of an explosive mixture, together with the virulent anti-Americanism of the Blas Pin˜ar/Roberto Fiore (and NPD- as their political philosophy, in the tradition of Martinist philosopher Joseph DVU) apparatus.