![[Traditionalist Worker Party flag]](../images/u/us}twp.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic,
4 November 2017
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image by Tomislav Todorovic,
4 November 2017
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The Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) is a white nationalist group that advocates for racially pure nations and communities and blames Jews for many of the world's problems. Even as it claims to oppose racism, saying every race deserves its own lands and culture, the group is intimately allied with neo-Nazi and other hard line racist organizations that espouse unvarnished white supremacist views.
In 2013, Matthew Heimbach, leader of the White Student Union at Towson
University in Maryland, joined with Matthew Parrott to found a white nationalist
group they dubbed the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN). Two years later in
2015, they created the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) as the political wing
of the TYN.
In July 2016, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM)
announced that the TWP had joined its Aryan Nationalist Alliance (ANA), a
coalition of white nationalist organizations.
Pete Loeser,
30 August 2017
The flag of the TWP consist of a white cog-wheel with an attached slanted
four-pronged pitchfork placed on a black field. The emblem has a double
fimbriation in yellow and black; the inner fimbriations are very thin, while the
outer black one is somewhat wider and the outermost yellow one is so wide that
it is not really a fimbriation, but a border. The emblem size seems to vary
somewhat, and the same might also be true for the ratio. Some of the photos with
the best view of the flag can be found here:
http://american3rdposition.com/wp-content/uploads/Trad-4.jpg
https://altright.com/
https://itsgoingdown.org/right-wing-watch-virginia/ (image:
https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/img_272295.JPG
Solid yellow/gold or white emblem is also often used, but never on the flags -
these variants decorate the items such as the shirts, shields carried at the
rallies, and the Web graphics. For such uses, it may also be depicted with
reversed colors (black on white or yellow/gold field).
Tomislav Todorovic,
4 November 2017
A lengthy explanation of the symbol is presented here:
https://www.tradworker.org/2015/08/tradworker-logo/
To summarize, the
cog-wheel and pitchfork stand for (white) industrial workers and (white)
farmers, respectively. In addition, the cog-wheel, meant to be the moving
component of a larger device, also symbolizes the individuals as the components
of a nation, as well as the "marching forward" of the logo users in "a
revolution that will never end". The pitchfork also has expanded meaning,
symbolizing the "connection to the soil" (including the references to "blood and
soil" ideas), as well as the revolting against dictatorship, reminiscent of the
peasant revolts (which, actually, were a feature of European history and never
took place in that form in America).
Tomislav Todorovic, 4 December
2017
![[TWP flag]](../images/u/us}twp2.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic,
4 November 2017
The neo-Nazi
man accused of killing a woman at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville
when he ran his car through a crowd of counter-protesters was a member a
sub-branch of Vanguard America named Vanguard America-Texas. VA-T pasted hate
fliers on signs, doors and gates at two Houston-area synagogues in July of 2017
and distributed flyers with similar messages at universities in Houston and
other parts of Texas in January.
The Vanguard America-Texas flag incorporates
the Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) with star of Texas in middle. The Black Sun is
used by a large number of far-right groups who believe in neo-Nazi and/or neo-Volkisch
ideologies.
Sources: Historical Flags of Our
Ancestors (http://www.loeser.us/flags/hate3.html)
Pete Loeser, 29 August 2017
