Surveillance Against Ethnic Enclaves and Dissemination of the Publisher Contra-Corrente: The Organization Associação Cívica Portugueses Primeiro por Estado e Identidade (Portugueses 1)

Abstract

This chapter covers the organization called Portugueses Primeiro or Portugueses 1 (Portuguese First). Portugueses 1 has a historical link with Causa Identitária, since one of the latter’s founders is an important member of the former. Portugueses 1 is basically an identitarian, ethnonationalist group. Founded in 2015, they tried to create a system of vigilance toward Asian stores where they believed illegal activity to be ongoing. However, they never were prone to establish nuclei of their group outside Lisbon, their numbers were always low and their public manifestations faded away. Finally, Portugueses 1 remained active mostly in the social web. There, they denounce what they interpret as the detrimental facets of mass non-European immigration and propose identitarian bibliography, specifically the books published by Contra-Corrente, the Portuguese affiliate of the identitarian publishing house Counter-Currents. Portugueses 1 can be described as an organization whose members come from the nationalist scenario from the early 2000’s. It remains mostly confined to bibliography distribution, not being able to maintain itself as a group active in the internet and in the streets, as was intended at the time of its creation.