National Party "Fatherland"

National Party "Fatherland"
Stronnictwo Narodowe „Ojczyzna” (Polish)
AbbreviationSN„O”
LeaderBogusław Rybicki
Bogusław Jeznach
Founded28 March 1992
Dissolved15 December 1996
Split fromNational Party (1989)
Merged intoNational Democratic Party
HeadquartersWarsaw, Poland[1]
NewspaperOjczyzna[2]
Membership (1993)3100[3]
IdeologyNational Democracy[3]
National Catholicism[3]
Left-wing nationalism[3]
Left-wing populism[3]
Anti-capitalism[3]
Political positionLeft-wing[3][4]
National affiliationFatherland - Polish List (1993)
Colors
  •   Scarlet
  •   Orange gold
  •   Deep blush
    (Fatherland – Polish List)
SloganBe proud to be Polish
Polish: Bądź dumny z tego, że jesteś Polakiem[5]

The National Party "Fatherland" (Polish: Stronnictwo Narodowe „Ojczyzna”, SNO or SN„O”) was a political party in Poland was formed in March 1992 as a result of a split in the National Party (1989) (so-called "senior party"). The party leaders were Bogusław Rybicki and Bogusław Jeznach. The newspaper of the party was the weekly magazine "Ojczyzna". National Party "Fatherland" pursued a coalition with left-wing populist and nationalist parties such as the Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland, but was unsuccessful in doing so.[3] The party participated in the 1993 Polish parliamentary election, creating an electoral committee Fatherland - Polish List. However, it failed to win any seats, earning 15.958 votes, which amounted to 0,12% of the popular vote.[6] The party rapidly declined after 1993, and in 1996 it dissolved to join a right-wing National Democratic Party.[3]

SN "Ojczyzna" represented the left wing of the national camp (known as "pink endecja"), proclaiming a populist socio-economic programme. It distanced itself from the right and ignored cultural issues, going as far as mocking the Polish right for being out of touch with the problems of common people, stating that Polish right-wing parties prefer "magic incantations about Jews" and "haunted conspiracy theories" to addressing the poverty and suffering of ordinary people. The party was anti-capitalist and strongly attacked liberalization and privatization measures, especially the neoliberal Balcerowicz Plan that introduced capitalist free-market economy to Poland. The party called neoliberalism "economic genocide". It also criticized social-democratic models of capitalism as insufficient, arguing that they would nevertheless lead to the situation where "the rich control the state".[3]

  1. ^ "Tygodnik Wyborczy" (PDF). Tygodnik Płocki (in Polish). 37 (1091): 4. 14 September 1993.
  2. ^ Sikorski, Tomasz; Wątor, Adam (2008). Narodowa Demokracja XIX-XXI wiek : (koncepcje - ludzie - działalność) (in Polish). Szczecin: Zapol. p. 150. ISBN 978-83-7518-109-8. Nakład organu Stronnictwa - tygodnika "Ojczyzna" - w ciągu roku miał wzrosnąć z 3500 do 6000 egzemplarzy. [The circulation of the party's newspaper, the weekly Ojczyzna - was to increase from 3,500 to 6,000 copies within a year.]
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Sikorski, Tomasz; Wątor, Adam (2008). Narodowa Demokracja XIX-XXI wiek : (koncepcje - ludzie - działalność) (in Polish). Szczecin: Zapol. pp. 150–172. ISBN 978-83-7518-109-8.
  4. ^ Tomasiewicz, Jarosław [in Polish] (2003). Ugrupowania neoendeckie w III Rzeczypospolitej (in Polish). Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek. p. 198. ISBN 83-7322-668-0. Polemizowano tu z lewicowo-endecką „Ojczyzną", która napisała: „To na polach Grunwaldu doszło do wielkiego starcia polskiego nacjonalizmu ze zdziczałym chrześcijaństwem Europy [...]". [This was polemicised with the leftist-neoendecja "Fatherland", which wrote: "It was on the fields of Grunwald that the great clash between Polish nationalism and the feral Christianity of Europe took place [...]". ]
  5. ^ Radomski, Grzegorz (2015). "Ochrona kultury narodowej w koncepcjach współczesnej prawicy narodowej w Polsce" [Protection of national culture in concepts of the contemporary National Right Wing in Poland]. Sprawy Narodowościowe/Nationalities Affairs (in Polish). 47 (1): 22. doi:10.11649/sn.2015.061.
  6. ^ Parade, Marcin. M. Kowalski; P. Śleszyński (eds.). Wybory Parlamentarne 1993, [in:] Atlas Wyborczy Polski. Warsaw: Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania PAN. pp. 55–64. ISBN 978-83-61590-56-9.