Nordic Resistance Movement

The Nordic Resistance Movement (Icelandic: Norræna mótstöðuhreyfingin; Danish: Den Nordiske Modstandsbevægelse; Norwegian: Den nordiske motstandsbevegelsen; Swedish: Nordiska motståndsrörelsen; Finnish: Pohjoismainen vastarintaliike; abbreviated NRM) is a neo-Nazi organization active in Scandinavia. Several of their members have committed violent crimes and made death threats to left-leaning politicians.

The organization aims to create a Fascist state across the Nordic countries, then expand into the Baltic countries. Created about 1997 by a Swede, Klaus Lund, as the Svenska Motståndsrörelsen, it later gained sections in Finland and Norway as well, becoming the Nordic Resistance Movement in 2016. There was a Danish group for short time, and there was an attempt to expand into Iceland with recruitment from the

In August 2019, some NRM members formed a breakaway group, Nordisk Styrka, so they could be even more violent.

Finland
A 2017 assessment by the found the Finnish Resistance Movement to consist of middle-class thirty-somethings, with approximately 15% of members being women. The number of active members was estimated to be ca. 80–85.

The Finnish Supreme Court ordered the NRM to cease their activity in Finland in March 2019. A new group under the name (Towards Freedom!) began shortly thereafter, with pretty much no one being fooled by the change of name and logo. The new group was barred from demonstrating in Helsinki on Independence Day 2019.

Norway
Norway’s PST (Police Security Service) characterizes the organization as consisting largely of very fine people on both sides high-school dropouts and drug addicts with histories of violent crime, and says their members fit similar profiles to those radicalized into Islamist terror groups.