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Nordic Resistance Movement
Nordic Resistance Movement | |
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| Abbreviation | NRM |
| Leader |
Fredrik Vejdeland (SWE) Tommy Olsen (NOR) Antii Niemi (FIN) Joakim Johansen (DEN) |
| Founders |
Klas Lund (SWE) Haakon Forwald (NOR) Esa Henrik Holappa (FIN) |
| Founded |
1997 (SWE) 1998 (NOR) 2006 (FIN) 2016 (ICE) 2017 (DEN) |
| Newspaper | Nationellt Motstånd |
| Ideology |
Neo-Nazism Anti-LGBT Authoritarianism Factions: Accelerationism Esoteric neo-Nazism |
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The Nordic Resistance Movement is a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi movement in the Nordic countries and a political party in Sweden. Besides Sweden, it is established in Norway, Denmark and Iceland, and formerly in Finland before it was banned in 2019. Terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp has described the NRM as a terrorist organization due to their aim of abolishing democracy along with their paramilitary activities and weapons caches. In 2022, some members of the United States Congress began calling for the organization to be added to the United States Department of State list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. On 14 June 2024, the United States Department of State designated NRM and its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).
Ideology
The aim of Nordic Resistance Movement is to establish a Pan-Nordic neo-Nazi republic "consisting of the Nordic countries Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and possibly even the Baltic countries".
The organization says its struggle will require bloodshed:
"No man can join the Resistance Movement if he cannot or is not willing to defend himself, his organization, or his comrades with violence.... Weaklings and cowards have no place with us. No one should be able to evade their male duty. The only terrible or shameful thing about young Swedes injuring or killing strangers and enemies is that all other Swedes do not support them when the mass media starts its smear campaigns."
— Excerpt from the NRM's newspaper Folktribunen
The NRM has praised figures such as Adolf Hitler, Corneliu Codreanu, Hugo Chávez, Savitri Devi, George Lincoln Rockwell and Robert Jay Mathews in their publications. Their main tactics are distributing leaflets and making public speeches in inner-city areas in support of neo-Nazism, denouncing immigration. They also publish the Nationellt Motstånd magazine. NRM-affiliated far-right activist Tobias Bratt created the 2017 neo-Nazi propaganda film Europa: The Last Battle.