Like in other nations across the world, there are several far-right organizations in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. Public support of these parties is marginal, as they received 2.8% of the popular vote in the 2007 parliamentary elections. There is also a limited amount of nonparliamentary far-right extremism. Poland's neo-Nazi skinhead scene was estimated at some 2,000 active members in 1995. The political organization associated with that movement is the National Revival of Poland, with an estimated 500 members, raising some 0.6% of the popular vote.

The neo-fascist Polish Nationalist Union was one of the larger groups active in the early 1990s, numbering some 4,000 members and making international headlines for its rare attacks on Jewish property and on the Catholic Church.
The current major neo-fascist movement is the NOP under the leadership of Adam Gmurczyk. The organization "Niklot" was founded by Tomaz Szczepanski, a former NOP member, in 1998, promoting Slavic supremacy (a Slavic übermensch

Übermensch

The Übermensch is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche posited the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra ....

). Since the mid 1990s, the ultra-Catholic Radio Maryja

Radio Maryja

Radio Maryja is a Polish religious, conservative, anti-post-Communist and pro-life Roman Catholic radio station and media group, describing itself as patriotic. It was founded in Toruń, Poland, on December 9, 1991 and has been run since its inception by the Redemptorist rector doctor Tadeusz...

 station has been on air with an anti-modernist, nationalist and xenophobic program.

In 1995, the Anti-Defamation League

Anti-Defamation League

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 estimated the number of far-right skinheads in Poland at 2,000, the fifth highest number after Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the United States.

History of some groups in Poland according to Minkenberg

Liang (2007:265) groups the organizations mentioned by agenda, as follows:

Agenda	Party or campaign organization	Social movement organization	Subcultural association
Fascist/Autocratic Right		NOP, Niklot, ONR	neo-Nazis, black metal skinheads
Ethnocentrist/Christian Right	LPR	PWN-PSN	neo-Nazis, far-right skinheads

• Polish Nationalist Union (PWN-PSN)
• National Rebirth of Poland (NOP) is a minor nationalist political party in Poland, reaching 0.6% of the popular vote in regional elections (as of 2006). It is a member of European National Front
  European National Front
  European National Front is a coordinating structure of European Third Positionist, anti-communist and nationalist parties. Sometimes members of the ENF also use anti-capitalist rhetoric...
  
   and a co-founder of International Third Position
  International Third Position
  International Third Position ' was a neo-fascist organization formed by the breakaway faction of the neofascist British National Front and Italian neofascists led by Roberto Fiore....
  
  .
• Association for Tradition and Culture "Niklot" (Stowarzyszenie na rzecz Tradycji i Kultury "Niklot
  Niklot
  Niklot or Nyklot was a pagan chief or prince of the Slavic Obotrites and an ancestor of the House of Mecklenburg. From 1130 or 1131 until his death he was chief of the Obotrite confederacy, the Kissini, and the Circipani. At the same time he was Lord of Schwerin, Quetzin, and Malchow...
  
  ") (pl:)

Recent facts

• Krew i Honor is a branch of Blood & Honour, involved in Redwatch
  Redwatch
  Redwatch is a British website associated with members of the far-right British People's Party. It publishes photographs of, and personal information about, alleged far left and anti-fascist activists. It typically targets activists in political parties, advocacy groups, trade unions and the media...
  
  . Combat 18
  Combat 18
  Combat 18 is a violent neo-Nazi organisation associated with Blood and Honour. It originated in the United Kingdom, but has since spread to other countries. Members of Combat 18 have been suspected in numerous deaths of immigrants, non-whites, and other C18 members...
  
   has also a small group in Poland. These groups are illegal in Poland. Their servers operate from abroad, one of them has been closed after an US-Poland police operation.
• National Radical Camp (1993)
  National Radical Camp (1993)
  The National Radical Camp is a Polish nationalist movement. The group attracted publicity in 2005, 2007, and 2008 for demonstrations during the anniversary of the anti-Jewish pogrom in Myślenice in 1936....
  
  

External links

• The Left Wing, the Far Right and the Kaczynskis Der Spiegel
  Der Spiegel
  Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
  
  (2007)
• Letter from Europe: Shaping the agenda of Poland's drift to the far right International Herald Tribune
  International Herald Tribune
  The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories...
  
  (2007)