Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs

Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs

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Formation	Est. 2012
Type	German New Right Ethnopluralism Regionalism Anti-globalism Social conservatism
Leader	Martin Sellner
Key people	Alexander Markovics
Affiliations	Freedom Party of Austria National Democratic Party Pegida

The Identitarian Movement of Austria (German: Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs, IBÖ) is an Austrian far-right organization. It has been described as racist, völkisch, muslimophobic, homophobic and americanophobic. It has been categorized as being part of the overall Neue Rechte movement by several government agencies and NGOs, including the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism and the Records Centre of the Austrian Resistance; likewise, close ties to several irredentist Burschenschaften and the neo-Nazi scene have been thoroughly documented. Inspired by the French Bloc identitaire, it belongs to the pan-European Identitarian movement.

The current spokesman of the IBÖ is Alexander Markovics.

Ideology

The IBÖ opposes liberalism, internationalism, NATO membership, Islam and Islamism, multiculturalism as well as the melting pot model, what they allege to be American imperialism, as well as adherence to the international sanctions declared on Russia in the course of the Ukraine conflict. They reject capitalism, comnunism and socialism in favor of essentialist Third Way economics. Instead, they advocate ethnopluralism, White separatism, and ; they promote a syncretic approach to anti-capitalist and anti-globalist politics and favor an independent alliance of sovereign nation states with Russia. On their website and Facebook page, they cite the works of Aleksandr Dugin, Dominique Venner, and Alain de Benoist as major influences.

Activities

• In February 2013, nine members of the IBÖ attempted a counter-occupation of the Viennese Votive Church that had previously been occupied by refugees to protest living conditions within the government-owned and privately administrated refugee camps they've been assigned to. They were arrested and escorted off the premises by SWAT officers several hours later following the pastor's request for police assistance.
• On November 10 2013, the IBÖ briefly occupied a balcony of the Fundamental Rights Agency until police officers arrived to escort them off the premises.
• On May 17, 2014, the IBÖ attempted to stage another rally in Vienna's Mariahilferstrasse shopping street. Despite having been provided with a protective detail by the Federal Police, they were unable to gain access to their planned route as a result of a considerably larger anti-racist counter demonstration. While interaction between the two demonstrations was minimal and largely restricted to a verbal level, State Director Gerhard Pürstl received heavy criticism from both activist groups and national media outlets over the use of heavy-handed riot control tactics. 37 anti-racist protesters were arrested; a banner that Federal Police officers confiscated from a group of activists was later put on display on the IBÖ's website.
• On April 14, 2016, a group of roughly 40 IBÖ activists illegally gained access to the University of Vienna's Audimax (University of Vienna) lecture hall while a Elfriede Jelinek play was being performed by refugee actors, showering the audience and actors with fake blood before physically attacking them while taking pictures. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism reports a total of eight charges of assault with grievous bodily harm filed by both members of the audience and IBÖ activists, which are being processed; the Federal Police has dropped all felony charges and announced that it is merely investigating the possibility of an unlawful public disturbance.

See also

• Ethnopluralism
• Identity politics
• Dark Enlightenment

External links

• Report on the IBÖ by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (in German)
• Official website of the IBÖ (in German)
• Official Facebook page of the IBÖ (in German)

Media

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  IBÖ rally, Vienna, November 10 2013.