Ruuben Kaalep's Blue Awakening takes a stand against European cuckservatives.

Submitted by Ruuben Kaalep

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On June 12, the Estonian nationalist youth movement Blue Awakening (Sinine Äratus) sent a letter to the leading board of European Young Conservatives (EYC) and all its member organizations, demanding the expulsion of Turkish AK Party Youth from the organization. They pointed out how the EYC has been constantly moving away from ethnonationalism, including both Turkish and Israeli government parties among its members and replacing anti-immigration politics with free market capitalism. The Blue Awakening announced it will leave the organization if the Turks are not expelled by next Monday, June 19.

The EYC was originally founded in 1993 by the youth wings of the British Conservative Party, Danish Conservative People’s Party, and Icelandic Independence Party. Over the years, it came to include the youth groups of many right-wing European parties, some of them explicitly nationalist, some almost liberal. Within the last year, the organization saw inner turmoil as more principled members began to feel uncomfortable with Erdoğan’s party youth among its members. The first organization to leave were the Finns Youth Party on May 18.

The Blue Awakening is an Estonian youth movement affiliated with the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (7 MPs of 101). It was founded in November 2012 by Ruuben Kaalep who is also its current leader. The movement is perhaps best known abroad for organizing the annual Independence Day torchlight marches in Tallinn, Estonia, that take place on February 24 every year. The latest torchlight march was the fourth since the tradition was established and it had around 3,500 participants, including a number of White nationalists from around the world such as Ramzpaul and Reactionary Tree.

In many ways, the Blue Awakening has been inspired from Generation Identity. It has declared its goal to be a new national awakening of the Estonians and it uses political activism, metapolitics, as well as memetic warfare to work towards it. The Blue Awakening has cooperated with many nationalist groups mostly in Northern and Eastern Europe. It became a member of the EYC in 2016.

Following is the letter sent by the Blue Awakening to the European Young Conservatives: