National Alliance (United States)

The National Alliance is an American white supremacist political organization labeled "white separatist" by supporters and "neo-Nazi" by critics. It is believed to be the best-financed and best-organized white separatist organization in the United States, with its membership in 2002 estimated at 1500 and its income at over $1 million annually.

The Southern Poverty Law Center reported in 2003 that paid membership declined "to fewer than 800."

History

The group in its current incarnation was founded in 1974 by the late Dr. William Pierce, a former physics professor, rocket scientist, cosmotheist, and author of a speculative novel about White supremacist revolution, The Turner Diaries. The National Alliance grew out of the National Youth Alliance, an earlier group which had been under the control of Willis Carto, a rival on the far right. As the National Youth Alliance dissolved due to infighting, Pierce gained control of the largest faction and reorganized it as the National Alliance. Official National Alliance literature today generally does not mention any history of the group prior to 1974 and credits only Pierce with its founding.

Pierce had been an employee and an associate of the American Nazi Party before leading the National Alliance, and the group is often sometimes linked with the militant group called The Order through members that both groups briefly shared, and because of the fact that "The Order" had the same name as that of the group depicted in The Turner Diaries.

Pierce died in April 2002 and was succeeded by Erich Gliebe.

Politics

"White Nationalist Separatism" is the core political position of the National Alliance. It hopes to secure what it calls "white survival" by recreating an all-white homeland. It claims that whites are the most gifted, kind and spiritually beautiful race which nature has thus far produced and thus worthy of their own homeland. According to some sources, the 'homeland' is to be the continent of Europe and most of North America and Australia.

The group defines its views as constituting "white racial love." In 2004, the National Alliance launched a program of flyers urging all people to "Love your race."

Members of the National Alliance maintain that its program is "white racialist separatism," rather than white supremacism or neo-Nazism. The group's beliefs, however, do not support this characterization; for instance, in a 1989 editorial from National Vanguard, a National alliance celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Hitler:

"April 20 of this year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the greatest man of our era ... And so the National Socialist philosophy of life corresponds to the innermost will of Nature ... We National Socialists know that with this conception we stand as revolutionaries in the world of today and are branded as such."

Anti-Semitism

The National Alliance is strongly anti-Semitic. It claims that the world is controlled by Jews; they have a monopolistic hold on world media and finances; they maintain a fanatical loyalty only to each other; and that their historical strife worldwide is mostly their doing, in order to destabilize and obliterate all non-Jewish nations, races or ethnic identities via their mutual miscegenation. [1]

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the National Alliance claimed that these attacks were caused by the U.S.'s support of Israel. The National Alliance also claimed that Israeli Jews were advised not to report to work at the World Trade Center that day. [2] (See also Zionist conspiracy theories regarding the September 11, 2001 Attacks.)

Business

In 2002, the organization had a paid staff of 17. It runs a White Power record label called Resistance Records. It also runs a radio show, American Dissident Voices.

External links

Official

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Critical

Explosion of Hate (report on the National Alliance by the Anti-Defamation League)
A more recent ADL report on the National Alliance
Against the Wall (report on the National Alliance by the Southern Poverty Law Center)

Commentary

As He Lay Dying (James Ridgeway, The Village Voice, September 4-10, 2002)

Books

Robert S. Griffin, The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce, 2001 (ISBN 0759609330)