{"id":334648,"date":"2017-11-12T07:51:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T06:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/polish-nationalist-youth-march-draws-thousands\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T06:51:32","slug":"polish-nationalist-youth-march-draws-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/polish-nationalist-youth-march-draws-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Nationalist Youth March Draws Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Tens of thousands of Poles marched across downtown Warsaw on Saturday, in an independence-day procession organized by a nationalist youth movement.<\/p>\n<p>The largely young crowd shot off roman candles and many chanted \u201cfatherland,\u201d carrying banners that read \u201cWhite Europe,\u201d \u201cEurope Will Be White\u201d and \u201cClean Blood.\u201d Some of the marchers flew in from Hungary, Slovakia and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people in the crowd said they didn\u2019t belong to any neo-fascist or racist organization but didn\u2019t see a problem with the overall tone of what has become Poland\u2019s biggest independence day event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are of course nationalists and fascists at this march,\u201d said Mateusz, a 27-year-old wrapped in a Polish flag, \u201cI\u2019m fine with it. I\u2019m just happy to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The march, organized by a group called\u00a0the National Radical Camp, underscores the rightward politics of a growing section of Polish youth. The Radical Camp presents itself as the heir to a 1930s fascist movement of the same name, which fought to rid Poland of Jews in the years just before the Holocaust. A second group, All Polish Youth, also named after an anti-Jewish interwar movement, co-organized it.<\/p>\n<p>The Radical Camp has been holding independence-day marches since 2009. Until several years ago, it struggled to attract more than a few hundred people. In the past three years, it has become the largest independence-day occasion in Poland, and one of the largest nationalist marches of its kind anywhere in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/polish-nationalist-youth-march-draws-thousands\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of Poles marched across downtown Warsaw on Saturday, in an independence-day procession organized by a nationalist youth movement. The largely young crowd shot off roman candles and many chanted \u201cfatherland,\u201d carrying banners that read \u201cWhite Europe,\u201d \u201cEurope Will Be White\u201d and \u201cClean Blood.\u201d Some of the marchers flew in from Hungary, Slovakia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-334648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}