Serbian Action

Serbian Action (Serbian: Србска Акција / Srbska Akcija) is an ultranationalist and clerical fascist movement, active in Serbia since 2010.

Ideals of Serbian Action are largely based on teachings of saint Nikolaj Velimirović and Serbian politician Dimitrije Ljotić, leader of the fascist movement ZBOR. Orthodox Christianity is seen as one of the main pillars of society and they are strongly against secularism, advocating for the restoration of Orthodox monarchy that would be "expressed through the testamental Serbian vertical: God - King – Homekeeper". Greater cooperation between Christian Orthodox nations are presented as alternative to EU integrations. Serbian Action also holds strong anti-democratic views and expresses the idea of Parliament made up of representatives of professions rather than representatives of political parties. Considering themselves as pan-European and anti-Zionist, their actions are against multiculturalism, promotion of LGBT rights and drug legalization and for preservation of Serbian people and their biological survival.

Furthermore, Serbian Action presents itself as third positionist and as an Orthodox Christian revolutionary nationalist movement, asserting that nationalism and fight for social justice are linked.

Activists of Serbian Action are encouraged to improve themselves spiritually and physically, all in purpose to become a "political soldier".

The organization is often described in the media, by political opponents and certain observers as neo-fascist or neo-Nazi. However, other academics suggest that accusations of neo-Nazism are based on the fact that Serbian Action uses the celtic cross and shows sympathy for Dimitrije Ljotić and Milan Nedić, although its ideology is primarily clericalist and Christian nationalist; so that Serbian Action would rather be comparable to Obraz, with some neo-Nazi aspects within the organisation.

Serbian Action was founded by a young lawyer who graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in early 2010.

Serbian Action became more known to the public in late 2014, when authorities arrested some of their members for hate speech, for distributing flyers against illegal settlements of Romani people and inviting to lynch them. The hate propaganda of Serbian Action was strongly condemned by the Serbian political class, and at the top of the state by Kori Udovički, vice-president of the government. In this year 2014, the far-right group gathered around fifty members and sympathizers, students aged 20 to 32 for the most part.

After the outbreak of the war in Donbas, a couple of activists from Serbian Action volunteered and fought on the separatist side. They have criticized the Serbian government for tolerating the volunteering of people to ISIS, but persecuting volunteers from Ukraine.