The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) strongly condemns the gathering of neo-fascist parties from several European countries, held on May 31 at the Media Center of the Journalists’ Association of Serbia in Belgrade and organized by the far-right Serbian Nationalists Party.
The event was, in fact, a meeting of the neo-Nazi international network “Alliance for Peace and Freedom”, founded in 2015. The leading organization within this grouping is the Italian neo-fascist party Forza Nuova. Its leader, Roberto Fiore, was convicted in Italy for subversion and membership in an armed gang after explosives and weapons were discovered in the premises of the organization Third Position, which he led in the early 1980s. To avoid arrest, Fiore fled to the United Kingdom, where he worked closely with Nick Griffin, former chairman of the neo-fascist British National Party. According to the British magazine Searchlight, Fiore also worked for the British intelligence service MI6 during that period. Notably, in 1986 the United Kingdom refused to extradite Fiore to Italy so that he could serve his sentence. He returned to Italy only after the statute of limitations on the enforcement of his sentence had expired and founded Forza Nuova in 1997.
Fiore, who openly identifies himself as a neo-fascist, was one of the participants at the gathering held at the UNS Media Center.
Among the speakers were Gonzalo Martin, Vice President of Spain’s National Democracy, and Yannis Zografos, representative of the Popular Greek Patriotic Alliance. National Democracy identifies itself with the “New Right,” a tendency within the neo-fascist movement that emerged in the 1960s. The acronym of the Popular Greek Patriotic Alliance is LEPEN, named in honor of one of the most reactionary figures Europe has produced, the French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the notorious National Front. LEPEN leader Christos Rigas was previously a member of the neo-Nazi organization Golden Dawn, whose members brutally murdered the Greek anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas in 2013.
The host of this shameful and appalling gathering was the Serbian Nationalists Party (PSN), whose leaders Miša Vacić, Pavle Bihali, and Goran Davidović are far-right extremists well known to the Serbian public.
Before founding the PSN, Vacić led the organization Serbian Right. In March of this year, as a guest at a pro-fascist gathering in Rome, he greeted those present with a raised right arm. It should be remembered that criminals such as Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Ante Pavelić once used the same salute toward their supporters.
Bihali previously led the Leviathan Movement, which was ordered by Serbia’s Commissioner for the Protection of Equality in May 2021 to cease publishing discriminatory content and remove existing material that incited hatred toward Roma people. In May 2020, Leviathan member Filip Radovanović drove a car into a migrant center in Obrenovac. The movement is notorious for promoting primitive xenophobia and racism.
The third leader of this extremist formation, Goran Davidović, is a former member of the neo-Nazi skinhead band Razor 88 from Novi Sad. Authorities once identified him as the leader of the Hitlerite organization National Formation (Nacionalni stroj), which was banned by the Constitutional Court of Serbia in 2011. He was sentenced to one year in prison for disrupting an anti-fascist forum at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad in 2005.
NKPJ emphasizes that a gathering organized by shameless admirers of Hitler and Mussolini, some of whom are convicted criminals, constitutes an insult to all genuine anti-fascists and patriots in freedom-loving Belgrade and Serbia. Not only should this racist, xenophobic, and chauvinistic event never have been allowed to take place, but proven neo-Nazis should also have been denied entry into Serbia.
It is evident that claims suggesting there is no organized neo-Nazi movement in our country, or that such tendencies are imposed solely from abroad, are completely inaccurate and naïve. A serious mobilization of the anti-fascist public is necessary in order to prevent such events in the future.
NKPJ also takes this opportunity to condemn the editorial board of Informer TV, which on several occasions has provided Vacić, Bihali, and Davidović with a platform to promote their reactionary and regressive views.
NKPJ calls upon the competent authorities to immediately ban all pro-fascist groups operating in Serbia, including the Serbian Nationalists Party, Serbian Action, Zentropa Serbia (Club 451), People’s Patrol, and Club Carostavnik.
It is also necessary to prohibit all public manifestations dedicated to collaborators from the Second World War, such as Milan Nedić, Dimitrije Ljotić, and Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović.
NKPJ Secretariat
Belgrade
June 1, 2026
