National Socialist Liberation Front
The National Socialist Liberation Front (NSLF) originated as the militant youth wing of the US-American National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP).
History
In 1969, Dr. William Pierce--at the time an official in the NSWPP--conceived of the NSLF as a combative front against radical leftist political groups on college campuses.[1] Joseph Tommasi was chosen as the group's leader. Tommasi took the NSLF independent in El Monte, California on March 2, 1974. Under Tommasi's leadership he organized the NSLF as a revolutionary group willing to engage in "armed struggle" to advance National Socialism. In early 1975 the NSLF's militancy was limited to three bombings of communist headquarters in the Los Angeles area.[2]
The NSLF first published a paper called The Liberator when it was part of the NSWPP. Other publications which followed were Siege! and NS Review. Tommasi was killed at the Los Angeles NSWPP headquarters on August 15, 1975. After his death Donald Rust and Karl Hand led the organization. In 1974, a break-away faction of the NSLF became the National Socialist Movement. In time this group became one of the largest National Socialist organizations operating in the United States.
Manifesto
STRATEGY FOR REVOLUTION
On March 2nd, 1974, forty-three National Socialist Revolutionaries met in a hall in El Monte, California. At the meeting the National Socialists declared their lack of faith in the losing strategy of the mass movement idea. The National Socialists abandoned the mass strategy and adopted the revolutionary concept of the guerilla underground.
-- No longer would we think in terms of obtaining political power through the electorate; but instead, of hurting the Enemy through force and violence. We would build the armed struggle.
-- We would no longer adhere to a mass strategy but would instead cultivate those already committed to the National Socialists World View. We have limited ourselves to only the best among the Movement.
-- We have abandoned petty bourgeois, bureaucratic hang-ups and have developed the idea that the end justifies the means. What works is good!
-- We recognize that women have played a vanguard role in most revolutionary efforts and involve them in every aspect of the NSLF.
-- We recognize the fact that the masses of Whites will never rally around radical politics. White people no longer have the ability to even recognize the enemy, so how could Movement adherents think the masses could ever involve themselves in revolution? The White masses don't recognize their enemies, they don't even care, and they don't have the guts to shed their bourgeois hang-ups.
-- We view armed struggle as the only effective means of forcing political change.
The White man has lost! We are an occupied people in our own land who must now develop a totally different outlook on revolution.
We must build the underground. We are making it an effective, hard-hitting National Socialist Revolutionary Army.
Publications
See also
- National Socialist Youth Movement
- National Youth Alliance
- Lineage of American Nationalist organizations and individuals
- James Mason
- Silent Brotherhood
External links
References
- ↑ The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization, edited by Jeffrey Kaplan, Heléne Lööw, page 241
- ↑ Power Struggle: Today for the Movement, Tomorrow for the World, page 15
