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Flag of MSR, two versions - Images by Ivan Sache, 20 November 2018
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The Movimiento Social Republicano (MSR, Republican Social Movement) was
established in 1999-2000 as a national revolutionary movement, rejecting
Francoism but defending a "social" economic program of fascist and
national-socialist orientation.
The main leaders of the party, Juan Antonio Llopart and Jordi de la
Fuente, claimed to be "leftist" and "national-bolshevik", respectively.
Opposed to the traditional, semi-circular classification of political
parties, they defended the "horseshoe theory" that claims that extreme
leftist and extreme rightists parties are contiguous on the social and
economical aspects.
The MSR pushed a centralized Spain, organized as a republic led by a
President elected by universal suffrage and granted extended powers. On
the model of German national-socialism, the MSR bitterly criticized the
banking system and the alleged "Jewish Zionist" lobby.
The MSR's decline started in the 2010s, when the party broke out with
the football ultras who formed most of its youth branch, Liga Joven;
deemed not serious, they established in 2014 Hogar Social Madrid, a
splinter group led by the charismatic Melisa Domínguez. The party also
lost his historical leaders; Llopart formed in July 2014 another
splinter group, Soberanía y Libertad.
On 11 November 2018, the 8th Extraordinary Congress of the MSR, held in
Madrid, decided the disbanding of the party, which had remained inactive
since 2014. The long declaration signed by the "Militant Community of
the MSR", was, however, rejected by other militants of the party, who
claimed on social networks that the MSR was still alive.
[Xavier Rius Sant, 31 January 2018]
Ivan Sache, 20 November 2018
The flag of MSR was black with the party's emblem placed on a white disc (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo).The flag also exists with the central disc flanked by horizontal stripes in the Spanish colors (photo).
The emblem of the MSR, made of a red-white-black flame surmounting the
party's acronym in black letters, is a straightforward reference to the
Italian Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), founded by Mussolini's
nostalgists and for long a reference and inspiration for neo-fascist
parties in western Europe. The similarity in the names of the MSR and
the MSI is, of course, not coincidental. When used on flags, the emblem of MSR features the flame with a raggy border, which is smooth on the party's self-standing emblem.
The similarity in design and colors of the flag of the MSR with the
German Nazi flag is not a mere coincidence, either. In street
demonstrations, the MSR also used a mistaken version of the (illegal) Spanish flag of the Francoist period (photo) and the black flag with a white Celtic cross commonly used by neo-Nazi groups (photo).
MSR also used a white "Carlist" flag (photo).
Ivan Sache, 20 November 2018
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Flag of Liga Joven - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 November 2018
Liga Joven (LJ-MSR, Youth League), the youth branch of the Movimiento
Social Republicano, was self-styled "a youth association created by a group of
young students and workers ashamed by the economical and labor situation
of the times and concerned by our future".
Members of the group were indicted in 2014 following a series of violent
actions perpetrated in universities in Madrid, Toledo and Guadalajara.
[El Mundo, 10 June 2014]
The flag of Liga Joven was red with the league's emblem, made of a black
four-leaved clover placed on a red background and surrounded by a black
ring (photo,
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photo,
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photo).
As for MSR, the similarity in design and colors of the flag of the
league with the German Nazi flag is not a mere coincidence.
Ivan Sache, 20 November 2018
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Flag of Hispania Verde - Image by Ivan Sache, 25 November 2018
Hispania Verde (HV; blog) was registered in 2011 by the Ministry of the
Interior as an environmentalist association. Its activities are centered
around the controversial issue of the reintroduction of the bear in the
Pyrenees mountains. As its motto, Ecology and Identity, states it, HV
opposed to the alleged "leftist" vision of nature conservation of
biodiversity issues.
The opponents to HV have unveiled the close connection of the
association with the Movimiento Social Republicano. Accordingly, 40 collectives have denounced in 2014 HV as a neo-Nazi group and called to boycott and prevent their actions.
[Heraldo, 20 March 2014]
The flag of Hispania Verde (photo, photo, photo) is square, white with the movement's emblem, which features a bear's face on a green background, in the center.
Ivan Sache, 25 November 2018
