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NPA Presents New Leader
By Yakov Sverdlov
Published: 1580 something
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Nyköping - Ulrick Brandt has been appointed as the new NPA's first political leader at the first and founding Congress of the NPA. Several thousand delegates from all over Nyland, former delegates of the SDAP and the PAN, came to the capital to attend the founding congress of the Nylander Popular Alliance. Ulrick Brandt, a prominent PAN figure who took the initiative in bringing the PAN and the SDAP together has been voted as the political leader of the new movement.
In Nykoping, several thousand members of Nyland's two Socialist parties came together to attend the founding congress of the NPA, a merger between the two. Whatever their past differences, they agree now that the Left must unite in the face of declining election results and the rising tide of what they consider ''Neo-Fascism''. Ulrick Brandt's name quickly circulated as the favorite candidate to lead the new movement that seeks to, in its own words, build a ''social movement from below''. Brandt is a considered a young but talented member of the old PAN, the Marxist sister party of the moderate SDAP. But Brandt was seen as a modernizer within the PAN, whose mission was to drag the PAN out of the radical circles to appeal to a broader audience. This brought him closer to the SDAP, but instead of seeking a confrontation with them, he invited the SDAP to build a broad leftist, progressive, grassroots movement. Brandt is seen as a key player within the NPA, but also as one of its chief ideologues. Brandt was also, allegedly, on very good terms with Agnetha Nørup, the leader of the SDAP since the death of its pragmatic icon Markus Ljungborg. Nørup was mainly known for endorsing the current Nylander president and getting SDAP members into the current government administration. Nørup combined a sense of ideological pragmatism with a form of Socialist Humanism, but she failed to attract voters.
Nørup will return to being a powerful background figure within the NPA, as she had always done prior to becoming the SDAP's leader. Ulrick Brandt's youthfulness, enthusiasm, energy and his idealism will have to set the image of the NPA as a modern Leftist movement. Brandt considers himself a so-called ''pragmatic idealist''. ''I am not naive, I am only one man. I cannot change the world, and I won't change it. I don't know whether the world will be better 20 years in the future. But what I do know, and what I can do, is to roll up my sleeves and try to find solutions to the actual problems that people are having. I want to find those solutions together, with them. The NPA is first and foremost a social movement. Our members must get out on the streets, meet people, listen to their issues, and think with them about what can be done. This is real politics, how politics should be practiced.'' said Brandt in an interview. ''I have been appointed as the political leader of the NPA today. That doesn't make me the boss. I am the lowest-ranking servant. My work is the least important. The work of our activists, our militants in the field, that's what really changes and improves this world. They get things done for the people.''
Whether the NPA is going to present its own presidential candidate or whether it will endorse Tilda Morgen again is still an undecided issue. ''I cannot answer that'', said Brandt. ''The NPA is still divided over the issue, it's too soon to reach a conclusion.'' Brandt and several other key members of the NPA have announced to begin writing an election program, which will then be presented to the NPA Congress and put to a vote. Brandt was however furious about the presented NMP candidate Kasper Jansen. ''The NMP has made a cunning turn. They went from Theocratic Fascism to presenting themselves as a working class party. I want to warn every worker of Nyland: do not fall for their trap. They promise mountains of money for struggling families, just to get their vote and carry out a Theocratic agenda. The NMP is the sword of the Corporate system, promoting a reactionary agenda intended to freeze the existing social hierarchy. The only thing they care about when it concerns workers is to ensure they remain at the bottom of the hierarchy.''
NPA Presents New Leader
By Yakov Sverdlov
Published: 1580 something
Nyköping - Ulrick Brandt has been appointed as the new NPA's first political leader at the first and founding Congress of the NPA. Several thousand delegates from all over Nyland, former delegates of the SDAP and the PAN, came to the capital to attend the founding congress of the Nylander Popular Alliance. Ulrick Brandt, a prominent PAN figure who took the initiative in bringing the PAN and the SDAP together has been voted as the political leader of the new movement.
In Nykoping, several thousand members of Nyland's two Socialist parties came together to attend the founding congress of the NPA, a merger between the two. Whatever their past differences, they agree now that the Left must unite in the face of declining election results and the rising tide of what they consider ''Neo-Fascism''. Ulrick Brandt's name quickly circulated as the favorite candidate to lead the new movement that seeks to, in its own words, build a ''social movement from below''. Brandt is a considered a young but talented member of the old PAN, the Marxist sister party of the moderate SDAP. But Brandt was seen as a modernizer within the PAN, whose mission was to drag the PAN out of the radical circles to appeal to a broader audience. This brought him closer to the SDAP, but instead of seeking a confrontation with them, he invited the SDAP to build a broad leftist, progressive, grassroots movement. Brandt is seen as a key player within the NPA, but also as one of its chief ideologues. Brandt was also, allegedly, on very good terms with Agnetha Nørup, the leader of the SDAP since the death of its pragmatic icon Markus Ljungborg. Nørup was mainly known for endorsing the current Nylander president and getting SDAP members into the current government administration. Nørup combined a sense of ideological pragmatism with a form of Socialist Humanism, but she failed to attract voters.
Nørup will return to being a powerful background figure within the NPA, as she had always done prior to becoming the SDAP's leader. Ulrick Brandt's youthfulness, enthusiasm, energy and his idealism will have to set the image of the NPA as a modern Leftist movement. Brandt considers himself a so-called ''pragmatic idealist''. ''I am not naive, I am only one man. I cannot change the world, and I won't change it. I don't know whether the world will be better 20 years in the future. But what I do know, and what I can do, is to roll up my sleeves and try to find solutions to the actual problems that people are having. I want to find those solutions together, with them. The NPA is first and foremost a social movement. Our members must get out on the streets, meet people, listen to their issues, and think with them about what can be done. This is real politics, how politics should be practiced.'' said Brandt in an interview. ''I have been appointed as the political leader of the NPA today. That doesn't make me the boss. I am the lowest-ranking servant. My work is the least important. The work of our activists, our militants in the field, that's what really changes and improves this world. They get things done for the people.''
Whether the NPA is going to present its own presidential candidate or whether it will endorse Tilda Morgen again is still an undecided issue. ''I cannot answer that'', said Brandt. ''The NPA is still divided over the issue, it's too soon to reach a conclusion.'' Brandt and several other key members of the NPA have announced to begin writing an election program, which will then be presented to the NPA Congress and put to a vote. Brandt was however furious about the presented NMP candidate Kasper Jansen. ''The NMP has made a cunning turn. They went from Theocratic Fascism to presenting themselves as a working class party. I want to warn every worker of Nyland: do not fall for their trap. They promise mountains of money for struggling families, just to get their vote and carry out a Theocratic agenda. The NMP is the sword of the Corporate system, promoting a reactionary agenda intended to freeze the existing social hierarchy. The only thing they care about when it concerns workers is to ensure they remain at the bottom of the hierarchy.''