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The first edition of the [[National Alliance]] Membership Handbook was issued February 1981 and written by its Chairman Dr. [[William Pierce]]. The handbook was grey, soft cover, approximately 5x4 inches, and contained 38 printed pages. The front cover heading was "'''Membership Handbook'''" with a  two and a half inch [[Life Rune]] centered and the name "'''National Alliance'''" lower semicircular below the symbol. In smaller print "'''A Guide for the National Alliance Member'''" was printed at the bottom of the handbook. The handbook showed no copyright. A 1993 and a 2005 edition were issued later. 

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'''''Membership Handbook National Alliance: A Guide for the National Alliance Member''''' 

==Introduction==
This '''''Membership Handbook''''' contains information which should be helpful to every National Alliance member, both in reaching a fuller understanding of what the National Alliance is and in fulfilling the responsibilities of membership more effectively. It is by no means  comprehensive at this time, and many members will fail to find the answers to some of their questions in it. This defect will eventually be reduced by the publications of later editions, which will contain additional information.

Questions form members about topics which are inadequately treated in this edition and suggestions for additional topics at be added to later editions will be essential to the process of evolutionary development of a '''''Membership Handbook''''' which will gradually come closer to serving every member’s needs fully. In particular, the section of the book dealing with membership activities can benefit form regular, detailed reports form members about their experiences in distributing newspapers, organizing meetings, and other activities.

==Requirements for Membership in the National Alliance==
===Who may be considered===
Any White person, male or female, 16 years of age or over, of good moral character, who is in agreement with the goals and the program of the National Alliance, and who is willing to support that program may be considered for ''supporting'' membership in the National Alliance.

A person who, in addition to the foregoing, is willing to participate actively  in the National Alliance program may be considered for ''active'' membership.

Country of residence or citizenship is not a membership criterion, although more that 90 per cent of National Alliance members live in the United States. 

Although a person as young as 16 may apply for membership in the National Alliance, he should only do so if he is exceptionally mature; very few members are under the age of 18.

An inmate of a penal institution will not be considered for membership during the period of his imprisonment, except in the case where the offense for which he is imprisoned casts no shadow on their moral character (i.e. an economic offense against the System, such as tax evasion; a purely political offense or an act of racial self-defense).

No person who is homosexual or bisexual, who has a physical or psychological dependence on any intoxications substance other than tobacco, or who has a non-White spouse is eligible for membership. 

For purpose of membership eligibility, a White person is any non-Jewish person of wholly European ancestry. The National Office of the National Alliance, or an officer designated by the National Office, will make the final decision as to whether or not any member or applicant satisfies this criterion.

===Remaining in good standing===
A person admitted to membership can remain a member in good standing only by paying his dues promptly, by continuing to be of good moral character, and by maintaining his willingness to support and/or participate in the program of the National Alliance.

Occasionally a member may encounter changed personal circumstances which makes it necessary for him to reduce the amount of his monthly dues or to be late in paying them. In such a case the member should inform the National Office of his problem, so that it can be taken into account in evaluating his standing.

===Revocation of membership===
The issuance of a membership card to an applicant bestows no right to permanent membership. The membership status and privileges of any member may be revoked at any time by the National Office, if the member fails to maintain his good standing, or for any other reason. Among the more common reasons for which membership is revoked are: (1) failure to pay dues; (2) the determination by the National Office that a false statement or misrepresentation has been made in the membership application; (3) the commission of any act, intentional or unintentional, by a member which casts discredit on the National Alliance or which is hostile to the National Alliance; (4) the determination by the National Office that the continued association of a member would be harmful to the interests of the National Alliance.

In all cases the National Office will make the final decision on revocation of membership.

==Membership Benefits and Obligations==
===Benefits===
Each member in good standing is entitled to wear the National Alliance membership pin, to attend Local Unit meetings and the Annual General Convention, to be sent each issue of '''''National Vanguard''''' and the '''''Bulletin''''' via first class mail, to participate in National Alliance group activities, and to share the comradeship and good will which exits between National Alliance members.

In addition each ''active'' member receives a free allotment of '''''National Vanguard'''''s for recruiting purposes each time a new issue is published.
===General obligations===
Each member of the National Alliance is expected to be a ''full-time'' member. Whether a supporting or active member, he should be conscious of his membership in the National Alliance and of the task to which he has thereby committed himself, not only when he mails in his dues check each month or engages in an organized Local Unit activity, but during every waking hour. At home or on the job, at school or in the office or shop, a member should be aware that he is a representative of the National Alliance and should conduct himself accordingly.

He should remember that most people relate much more readily to other people than they do to ideas. And that they will, therefore, judge the National Alliance by the character and behavior of a member they know personally as much as they will by the words in any publications that member gives them. It may be relatively seldom that a member will be able to persuade a new person to take the step of applying for membership in the National Alliance, but every day can be a recruiting day for every member, in the sense that he can influence those persons with whom he comes into contact, causing them to develop positive impressions of the National Alliance. 

Unlike other organizations, the National Alliance does not seek “warm bodies” or persons with only a slight of temporary commitment as members. Persons whose interest in the National Alliance is lukewarm should not become members. Nor does the National Alliance encourage hobbyism. A member should give the National Alliance his full attention. If he cannot resist joining two or three other racially oriented groups and dabbling in their affairs, then he should resign form the National Alliance.

There is no task more important, no mission more vital for the future of the White race than that of the National Alliance, and it is essential to the success of this mission that those engaged in its execution regard their efforts which the seriousness they deserve. A member who regards his organizational activities as a lark or a game cannot expect non-members with whom he is acquainted to take the National Alliance seriously, and he cannot, therefore, be a proper representative of the National Alliance.

===Other obligations===
In addition to being a full-time, conscious, committed member of the National Alliance who regards his participation seriously and endeavors to generate positive impressions of the National Alliance in other persons, each member also has other obligations:

:1. He must refrain from gossip and other loose talk about fellow members or organizational activities which may be damaging to moral or provide information to the enemies of the National Alliance. If a personal problem arises between members which cannot be settled by the individuals directly involved, the matter should be taken up with the Local Unit Coordinator or the National Alliance. It should not be spread around among other members.

:2. He is expected to inform the National Office of all developments of which he becomes aware which present either an opportunity or a danger for the National Alliance. Individual members are the eyes and ears of the National Office, and it  cannot plan effectively unless it is fully informed at all times.

:3. If he is an ''active'' member, he should distribute each shipment of recruiting material received form the National Office as effectively and expeditiously as possible. An ''active'' member who cannot regularly satisfy this obligation should ask the National Office to change his status to ''supporting'' member. He can then purchase recruiting material at such times and in such quantities as he can distribute effectively.

:4. Although no member, active or supporting, is required to engaged in the activities of a Local Unit in his area if he does not so wish and he may instead make his contribution to National Alliance activities on an individual basis, every member should take upon himself the obligation of visiting the National Office at some time, so that he can meet the National Alliance’s officers. The best way to do this is to attend the National Alliance’s annual General Convention. This obligation should not be taken lightly, because only through personal contact between officer and other members can the mutual confidence develop needed to strengthen the National Alliance for the difficult times which lie ahead.

==Organizational Structure of the National Alliance==
===Legal structure===
The structure of the National Alliance may be considered form several viewpoints. From a legal viewpoint the National Alliance is a non-stock corporation organized under the non-profit corporation law of the Commonwealth of Virginia. This corporation is the legal entity which enters into contracts, pays bills, and carries out the other business functions necessary to the operation of the National Alliance.

The Directors and the Offices of the corporation are members who are usually (but not necessarily ) involved in the daily work of the National Office. The Directors appoint the Officers and their own successors each year. The Directors are headed by a Chairman, who holds veto power over all decisions.

No Director or Officer receives any compensation from the National Alliance for his duties as Director of Officer beyond the compensation he would have otherwise received for work done for the National Alliance.

The articles of incorporation of the National Alliance are on file with the State Corporation Commission in Richmond, VA.

===Functional structure===
From a functional viewpoint the National Alliance is a non-profit educational organization, and it is structured in such a way as to maximize its effectiveness in reaching the public whit its message. It consists of a National Office, which generates educational materials (primarily books and newspapers, at this time), advertises and distributes those materials on the national and international levels, raises funds, and provides overall direction and planning; and of the Local Units and individual members, who distribute National Alliance materials on the local level, recruit new members, provide a portion of the National Officer’s support, and implement the educational program of the National Alliance on a person-to person basis.

At a stage in the development of a Local Unit, decided in each case by the Chairman, the Chairman will appoint a member of the Local Unit as a Coordinator, and that member will then be responsible to the Chairman of the activities of the Local Unit and will guide and advise the other members of the Local Unit in all matters relating to the National Alliance. 

Overlapping the functions of the National Office and the Local Units is the National Council, which advise the Chairman and which selects a replacement for him from among its members in the event of his death or permanent disability. The members of the National Council are directors and the Officers of the National Alliance, and those Local Unit Coordinators appointed to the National Council by the Chairman.

===Organizational principals===
From a slightly different functional viewpoint the National Alliance is a revolutionary community which has set itself apart form the larger society within which it must still function. The structure of the National Alliance reflects this in two ways: first, it is based on organizational principles which have their roots in the National Alliance world view and which will one day govern the reorganization of White society everywhere; second, it provides the tactical flexibility and the ability to resist both external attack and internal subversion which will be necessary for survival in the difficult time of struggle which lies ahead.

Thus, mass democracy is rejected as an organizational principle on both these grounds. No member is asked to give an anonymous vote on any National Alliance policy or on the leaders of the National Alliance. Instead, every member is encouraged to express himself freely in reporting his activities to the National Office, in making suggestions for new activities or improvements in existing ones,  in evaluating the performance of his leaders and his fellow members, and in criticizing faulty policies.

Likewise, no member may expect to become a leader though either mere length of membership tenure or popularity. Authority in the National Alliance is based on understanding of and adherence to the guiding principles of the National Alliance, on loyalty, on character, and on demonstrated ability. All these qualities are necessary: no person who is clever but also weak or dishonest; no person who is loyal but also incompetent; and no person who is capable but who also is not fully committed to the goals of National Alliance and to the National Alliance itself as ''the'' organization for achieving those goals can be in a position to determine National Alliance policies or to direct the activities of their members.

The National Alliance structure is hierarchical, in terms of authority and responsibility. But the National Alliance is not a hierarchy of privilege: it is a hierarchy  of service. Every member without exception serves the principles and goals of the National Alliance, and it is organized hierarchically so that each member may serve to the fullest extent of his ability. This is, as leadership ability and the other necessary qualities are manifested in a member, he is given a commensurate opportunity to take a leading role in the affairs of the National Alliance, including the guidance of other members.

It should be noted that the Alliance structure will continue to develop qualitatively as well a punitively, vertically as well as horizontally, as the membership grows in size. That is , new rungs in the ladder of authority and responsibility which leads from the newest  recruit to the Chairman will be added as the growth of the organization calls for them, and not before. The same ''principles'' of organization will be followed, however, whether there are only two rungs in that ladder (as is still the case for members in many areas, where no Local Unit Coordinator has yet been appointed) or a dozen rungs, which might be expected were there are a number of Local Units in the area, perhaps organized into regional groups, and with enough activity to justify sub-leaders under each leader.

In every case, responsibility extends upward, from the lowest rung to the highest, just as authority extends downward. But, it should be stressed, the vertical growth of the structure will proceed organically, not for the sake of conformity to some bureaucratic plan, but to satisfy real and present organizational needs.

===Local Units===
Wherever five or more active and/or supporting members in good standing agree to do so, they may organize themselves into a Local Unit of the National Alliance. As such, they may engage in group recruiting and public educational activities: collaborate on internal programs and projects of the National Alliance: or meet among themselves for discussions, lectures, workshop sessions, or other consciousness-raising and solidarity-building pursuits.

A Local Unit may  direct its internal affairs as its member decide among themselves. The times, places, and frequency meetings and the types of activities shall be matters of mutual agreement, except that all activities must be in accord with the principles and program of the National Alliance and the guidelines set forth elsewhere in this '''''Handbook'''''.

The members of a Local Unit may, if they choose to do so, pay dues to their Local Unit for the support of its activities, but it should be clearly understood by all members involved that such local dues are entirely separate form and may not take the place of any part of membership dues payable to the National Office of the National Alliance.

All members of a Local Unit of the National Alliance must also be members in good standing of the National Alliance; if a member loosed his good standing in the National Alliance, then he may not remain a member of a Local Unit of the National Alliance.

After a Local Unit has undergone a period of testing, development, and accomplishment, of unspecified length the Chairman may, at his discretion, appoint a Coordinator to head it. Only members of exceptional maturity, intelligence, and strength of character will be chosen as Coordinators; each will be a person possessing a proven loyalty and sense of responsibility to the National Alliance, and an understanding and support of its goals and programs. 

Prior to the appointment of a Coordinator, each member of a Local Unit of the National Alliance is responsible directly to the Chairman, and the members are individually accountable for the activities of the Local Unit. After the appointment of a Coordinator, the responsibility of an individual member to the Chairman passes through the Coordinator, and the Coordinator is accountable for the activities of his Local Unit.

Each Coordinator should keep a roster of the members of his Local Unit and should promptly inform the National Office of all changes in this roster.

Although Local Units generally represent the National Alliance in a specified geographical area (typically a city or a portion of a state), they do not do so exclusively. That is, as is mentioned elsewhere in the '''''Handbook''''', an individual member may or many not be affiliated with a Local Unit in his area. Affiliation with a Local Unit is a matter of mutual agreement between the member and the Local Unit. A member affiliated with a Local Unit may decide to withdraw from the  Local Unit and still maintain his membership in the National Alliance, just as the Local Unit may, in the event of personal incompatibility, dissociate itself from a particular member without necessarily jeopardizing that member’s standing in the National Alliance.

==Goals of the National Alliance==
===General===
The National Alliance is defined by its goals, more than by anything else: they give the organization its ''raison d'etre'', establish its uniqueness, determine its membership policies and its program, and provide guidelines for its structure.  Every member should understand these goals toughly, so that he can keep them in mind even in the midst of everyday tasks and problems. 

The National Alliance exists to sever the White race; to uphold its ideals, give voice to its aspirations, promote its interests, improve its quality, maintain its strength, secure its future, guarantee its progress on all material and spiritual  frontiers, and fight its internal and external enemies.

More generally, it is life itself which the National Alliance serves. The White race, as the most highly developed manifestation of life on earth, is the medium through which service is rendered and the agent for the future progress of life, though not an end in itself in its present state of development.

The goals of the National Alliance may be roughly categorized as short-tem, intermediate-term, and long-term, with the first two categories blending gradually into on another. It would be both presumptuous and unrealistic to outline detailed goals more than three or four years in advance, and it should, therefore, be understood that the goals presented here are suggestive only. National Alliance planning will always remain flexible, and intermediate-term goals cannot be specified in detail before shot-term goals have actually been realized.

===Short-term goals===
Before the National Alliance can serve the race effectively, it must develop a number of functional capabilities. Its most immediate goals, therefore, are related to building its own strength.

It must continue to increase the circulation of its publications, and it must increase the frequency, quality, and diversity of those publications. To increase circulation it must recruit more members, whose distribution efforts are essential to that purpose: and to increase frequency, quality, and diversity it must develop more members with the requited skills into cadres whose activities are directed toward those ends.

The National Alliance must also develop capabilities for functions not directly related to its publications. Among these are agitation, propaganda, and organizing among the general public (i.e., "front" activity); self-defense, both legal and physical; information gathering ; and certain other functions related to continued effectiveness under a wide range of operating conditions.

In more concrete terms, the National Alliance’s short-term goals (i.e., goals which can be substantially achieved during the next decade) are:

:1. Circulation of a serious, uncompromisingly fundamental periodical ('''''National Vanguard''''' or a successor) on a wide enough scale so that every intelligent, racially conscious, adult White person in the English-speaking world is aware of its existence and its general stance and knows were to find a copy if he so desires. This means a paid circulation of a least 100,000copies, plus a free circulation of at least another 300,000 copies, per issue. Such a publication should appear often enough to provide an up-to-date analysis of current events--i.e., at least once a week.

:2. A book-publishing facility capable of producing and distributing 100,000 books a year among the White population.

:3. A full-time organizational staff of at least 200 trained, disciplined cadres, supported by a general membership o at least 10,000 persons, with half of them active in distribution and recruiting.

:4. The physical, financial, and organizational resources necessary for continued viability during a period of growing racial, social, economic , and governmental disorder. Specifically, this means the ability to continue publishing an distributing printed materials when transportation, electrical power, supplies of newsprint, and even postal service may be disrupted; the ability to continue supporting all necessary cadres during periods of massive economic dislocation; and the ability to continue recruiting and building organizational strength in the face of determined governmental efforts at repression.

===Intermediate-term goals===
It should be understood that there is no sharp distinction from short-term goals, but instead a shift of emphasis from building educational capability to using that capability. The principal intermediate-term goals are: extending an awareness of the salient points of the National Alliance message form the intelligent, racially conscious segment of the White population to the bulk of that population; dissemination ideas and facts widely enough among the general public to cause significant shifts in attitudes on certain issues: and developing the capability of activating substantial masses of people though single-issue "front" groups.

The time rang for these goals is the next two to three decades, and they cannot be measured as quantitatively as the short-term goals: whether or not a given shift in public attitude will be "significant" will depend upon social, political, and economic circumstances beyond the present ability of the National Alliance to predict.

At the same time these intermediate-term capabilities for educating and activating the public are being achieved, the organizational growth of the National Alliance will continue. Although public education must be achieved though different media--popular fiction; comic books, cartoons, and other graphic appeals; music; and perhaps even cinema--than cadre recruitment, the serious publications of the National Alliance will be expanded and enhanced even as new, popular media are being developed.

===Long-term goals===
The transition between intermediate-term and long-term goals will come at such time as the values and world view of the National Alliance have a determining role in the affairs of the White race over a significant geographical area. Whether this transition will be abrupt or gradual will depend in part upon whether the future course of political developments is revolutionary or evolutionary.

Following this transition the National Alliance will endeavor to extend the geographical extent of its influence: to root out all racially destructive and retrogressive influences: and to begin building a new consciousness, a new order, and a new people. This last, the long-term building goal of the National Alliance, can be specified only in broad outlines at this time, because no one knows under what circumstances it will be achieved. Virtually all the civilized social and political institutions of the West,  a very substantial potion of the White race, and much of the natural environment may , and probably will, have been lost before the National Alliance can begin its large scale building task.

Building a new consciousness means instilling in the entire population the values and the outlook of the National Alliance. It means an entirely reconstituted educational system, in which all instruction of the young is given from a race-conscious and life-conscious viewpoint. It means news and entertainment media whose purpose is to inform, to inspire, to strengthen, to educate, and to illuminate. It means a whole race which is conscious of its identity and its mission and which, within the limitations of human nature and individual idiosyncrasy, thinks and acts accordingly in its dally life.

Building a new order means establishing the new social, economic, and governmental institutions appropriate to a new consciousness: institutions which serve a racial purpose. As mentioned above, it is an idle pursuit to attempt, at this time, to specify in exact detail the forms which all these new institutions should take. Suggestive examples can be given, however. In the training of children and young people, for instance, the aim will be not only the development of the intellect but also the strengthening of the various aspects of character--especially  willpower. Strong, self-reliant, emotionally and physically healthy young men and women--not clever weaklings--should be the products of the new institutions. It is clear that the pampering, the over-protectiveness, and the encouragement of self-indulgence which characterizes today’s child-raising and educational practices must go, regardless of the restructuring of life-styles necessary.

In the realm of government the guiding principle must be that all governmental institutions and policies exist to serve the race and promote its progress, and for no other purpose. All taxation and regulation, all legislation and judicial process, all expenditures and providing of services, all selection of leaders and officials must be based on this principle. The responsibility of government and of those who direct and administer it must be to the long-term interests of the race, not to the momentary whims of the shortsighted masses or to the ambitions of the greedy few.

Building a new people means setting in motion once again the process which leads, generation after generation, to a White population which is stronger, healthier healthier, brighter, more beautiful, and more spiritually sensitive. It means eliminating every source of racial pollution, through whatever means are necessary, whether rigid immigration barriers or mass resettlements. It means weeding out of the White population the accumulated results of centuries of miscegenation and dysgenic breeding, a task which will take may generations to complete. It means establishing genetic standards and applying hem rigorously, using the knowledge which we now apply to the breeding of horses, dogs, and cattle to the improvement of our own species.

These three building goals are interdependent: long-term racial progress requires that instilling of a sense of racial mission in the whole population and the institutionalizing of that mission in a restructured society, as already described, so that the work of racial building will continue as long as that society endures.

==Program of the National Alliance==
===General===
The plan or course of action for the achievement of the National Alliance’s goals has two aspects: education and organization. By education is meant the dissemination of facts and ideas among the public, which the aim of influencing general attitudes, generating awareness of future possibilities, and awakening suppressed aspirations and instincts. By organization is meant the recruiting of selected individuals from the public and using them to increase the National Alliance’s capability for carrying out both the educational and the organizational aspects of its program.

This dual program is necessary. Organization-building should not be an end in itself; the National Alliance does not recruit simply to have a larger and larger organization, which does nothing but wait for an opportunity to engage in action at some future date. Rather, it recruits in order to build an organization which is able to carry on its present educational task more and more effectively, thus preparing the way for future action--action which cannot be successful unless the preparatory work already has been done well and thoroughly, so that a widespread understanding of the necessity of such action exists. 

Likewise, the mere education of the general public cannot be an end in itself. Understanding is by itself insufficient for the attainment of great goals: direction and will are also necessary. Furthermore, in any undertaking involving large numbers of people that must be a force to coordinate individual actions, so that they enhance and support one another. That is why organization-building must accompany the education of the public.

One of the tasks of programmatic planning is the proper dividing of emphasis between these two aspects of National Alliance activity at all times. While the organization is still so small that its public-education effort affect a relatively small portion of the public, it is proper to place the greater emphasis on recruiting and organization-building. As the growth of the organization’s educational capabilities proceeds, however, it is proper that there be an increasingly greater shift in emphasis to the effective use of those capabilities.

===Program for public education===
In this area of activity the National Alliance must compete with the government, the churches, the schools, and the controlled news and entertainment media. Misinformation and degenerative ideas and attitudes fostered by these agencies must be countered, and truth and progressive ideas and attitudes must be propagated in their place.

Unfortunately, there is no one-shot was of doing these thing effectively. The nature of public opinion-- and of the mind of the average man-- is such that prolonged repetition is required in order to impress any new fact or idea on the public consciousness. That is why no single revelation, no single appeal, no single book or flyer or broadcast can succeed in transforming public opinion by itself. A sustained effort lasting years is necessary. Such an effort can be made only through the careful, step-by-step development of a mass-educational apparatus capable, eventually, of competing effectively with that of the enemy.

Effective competition by no means requires an apparatus as massive as the enemy’, however. For one thing, it is not necessary to bring about a total conversation of public attitudes before proceeding with the achievement of most of the National Alliance’s goals. It should be remembered that the great majority of the public is almost entirely passive and will not take an active role on either side of the coming struggle. It is sufficient to win the active support of perhaps one per cent of the White population, if at the same time another ten per cent have been persuaded to give their confidence in the System shaken. Furthermore, the portion of the population whose support the National Alliance strives to win is that portion whose good instincts incline it in the correct direction anyway. There is not much hope of weaning away from the System those TV-addicts who are regularly thrilled by the faith-healing "miracles" of evangelical broadcasters or who hang on every word of the situation comedies and soap operas designed to instill alien values in White audiences. Even they, however, can be influenced to a certain extent by a persistent, large-scale educational campaign--more so as the social, racial, and economic effects of System policies become more marked in the years ahead.

For mass education the extremely limited powers of understanding, the brief attention span, and the narrow range of interests of the average person must be governing factor: the facts and ideas presented must be few, simple, and manifestly related directly to his material welfare--and they must be repeated to him over and over before they will penetrate his consciousness. It is for these reasons that the National Alliance’s mass-educational effort focuses on such basic things as the Jewish monopoly control of the mass media and the selfish use of this control to dominate governmental policy, domestic and foreign, to Jewish benefit and White detriment. With the growth of the National Alliance’s capabilities for organizing single-issue "front" groups, which will appeal to selected segments of the public, the mass-educational effort can take up somewhat more complex and detailed topics. Even then, however, simplicity, immediate personal relevance, and endless repetition must remain the guiding principles.

The governing factors stated above suggest that education and persuasion on a truly mass scale can, perhaps, be effected as well or better though indirect means than through a direct, ideological educational effort. Thus, fiction and other types of recreational reading should play a larger role in the National Alliance educational effort as the size of that effort increases. In addition , capabilities for education through non-print media will become increasingly important.

===Recruiting and organization-building===
In contrast to mass education, the recruiting effort of the National Alliance is aimed at exceptional individuals, whose perceptiveness, racial consciousness, idealism, and sense of responsibility are substantially above those of the average person. The average White person may, after a sufficient educational effort, be persuaded to vote in a way which is in accord with the interests of his race, withhold his support form a church which promotes racemixing, or take some other easy, non-sacrificial action. Only the exceptional person, however, can be persuaded to undertake a ''program'' of actions, lasting many years, which will not only entail considerable personal inconvenience, expense, and perhaps even danger, but will result in no material benefits to him.

The aim of mass education is to modify  the attitudes and opinions of a substantial portion of the public; the aim of recruiting is to persuade individuals to make an active commitment to the National Alliance and then to participate in the educational and organization-building work of the National Alliance. For these reasons, the appeal for recruits differs substantially in tone and content from appeal and educational material directed to the average person.

The importance of the organization-building task of the National Alliance cannot be emphasized too strongly. This task is absolutely essential to the National Alliance program and distinguishes the National Alliance form right-wing and other racially oriented White groups, whose goals are much more limited, whose world view does not differ fundamentally from that promoted by the System, and whose programs are concerned almost entirely with influencing or winning electoral contests. The National Alliance alone understands the necessity for institutionalizing its values and its goals in a strong, versatile, self-perpetuating organization in order to achieve long-rang, far-reaching goals.

==Membership Activities==
===General===
The types of participation by members in the work of the National Alliaince may be divided roughly into three categories: Support, non-public activity, and public activity.  

By ''support'' is meant the providing of money, land, equipment, supplies, or facilities to the National Alliance in order to make its work possible. Every member participates in this way by paying as much dues as he can afford on a regular basis and by making additional contribution from time to time, as his circumstances permit.

By ''non-public activity'' is meant primarily the type of work carried on by the National Office: planning, writing, editing, preparing mailings, etc. A number of members outside the National Office, especially those who have needed skills, also participate in non-public activity. Thus, artwork, editorial research, computer programming, some types of mail preparation, writing, translating, and a few other activities are carried on by members quite distant form the National Office.

As the National Alliance grows, the range of such activities which can be coordinated directly with the work of the National Office will grow. In order for the National Alliance to take advantage of a member’s skills or experience in this regard, however, it is necessary for the member to inform the National Office as to what he or she is willing and able to do in the way of non-public activity. Every member should have a Membership Skills and Resources Inventory form on file at the National Office. Furthermore, any member who believes he or she can do something useful for the National Alliance should communicate directly with the National Office about it, without waiting to be asked.

By ''public activity'' is meant either mass-education or recruiting activity in which the member interacts with non-members by talking  to individual or groups, distrusting publications, helping  with the organizing of public meetings, etc.

===Public activity===
All members who participate in the National Alliance program beyond the support level will engage in public activity of one kind or another. A member who affiants with a Local Unit which has a Coordinator will be guided in his public activity by his a Coordinator. In addition, all members, whether acting independently or in concert with a Local Unit, should follow the guidelines giver here: 

:1. National Alliance publications should be used for both mass education and recruiting. They carry the educational message which the National Alliance wants to spread among the public, and they attract recruits of the type the National Alliance needs. The publications of other organizations should ''not'' be used. Occasionally an individual member or the members of a Local Unit may wish to prepare educational material to suit a special, local situation. A sample of the intended material must be approved by a Local Unit Coordinator or by the National Office before it is used.

:2. National Alliance publications can be used in many different ways. A few of these are described below:

::a. '''''National Vanguard''''' can be sold in the streets, either by hawking or by use of coin-operated newsracks. In general, no license or permit is required for such sales on public property. (Many municipalities still have ordinances intended to regulate newspaper sales, but the courts have repeatedly held that such ordinances  are in conflict with the First Amendment to the U.S.  Constitution and are, therefore, invalid and unenforceable.) '''''National Vanguard''''' can also be sold (if permission is obtained beforehand) at semi-public events, such as gun shows and meetings, rallies, or demonstrations of patriotic groups. Occasionally permission for such sales may be denied, and the member should confer with a Local Unit Coordinator or the National Office before deciding whether to sell without permission. A variation on selling '''''National Vanguard''''' is giving away copies and asking for donations.

::b. '''''National Vanguard''''' can be distributed free to a neighborhood or an entire community by placing copies on porches or door steps. This technique is much  more effective if a follow-up canvass to sign up subscribers is made a few days after the free distribution. (Local ordinances may prohibit such canvassing on private property. Check first.)

::c. '''''National Vanguard''''' or other National Alliance materials (leaflets, stickers, etc.) can be placed in public and semi-public areas where they will be accessible to interested passerby: library magazine racks or tables, free-literature areas which are set aside on most college and university campuses for student publication, and telephone booths are a few examples.

::d. '''''National Vanguard''''' can be mailed to persons whose letters are published in newspapers. The address of these persons are usually not difficult to find in telephone directories, except in the largest cities. In general, it is better to use the Special Issue (No. 68) of '''''National Vanguard''''' for these mailings (as well as other distributions to the public) instead of the regular issues, because the former deals with topics of especially wide interest and has been written with the newcomer in mind. Also, mailing the Special Issue requires less postage, as it weighs only half as much as a regular issue.

::Such mailings are more effective if the '''''National Vanguard''''' is accompanied by a cover letter  ("I saw you letter about busing in the ''Daily Tribune'', and it occurred to me that you should be interested in the enclosed publication. . . .").  The National Office’s introductory letter, which is geared to the Special Issue, can be photocopied or reprinted for the is purpose.

::e. '''''National Vanguard''''', either alone or in combination with one or more National Alliance books, can be used in person-to-person recruiting efforts. Every ''active'' member, whether he engages in other public activity or not, is under obligation to represent the National Alliance to his friends and to any other person with  whom he comes in contact who maybe a reasonable prospect for recruitment as a member or a subscriber. For this purpose, where extended personal discussions of various topics are possible, the regular issues of '''''National Vanguard''''' may be more suitable than the Special Issue. One pitfall to avoid in person-to person recruiting is allowing passivity to develop, where a potential recruitee will accept free issues of '''''National Vanguard''''' month after month without feeling any need to become a subscriber or member himself. If a reasonable effort fails to move such a person to make a commitment, the member should direct his recruiting efforts toward new prospects.

:3. The National Alliance, unlike many other organizations, does not employ sensationalism in an effort to generate publicity in the controlled media. The tone of such publicity is nearly always hostile, and it seldom presents to the public an accurate image of the National Alliance; consequently, it does not attract the type of recruit the National Alliance seeks, nor does it aid the careful, sound growth needed for carrying out a long-term program. The time, therefore, for seeking mass publicity through any medium other than the National Alliance’s own publications lies in the future. No member, other than a Local Unit Coordinator, may give a statement or an interview to the controlled media on behalf of the National Alliance without prior clearance form the National Office.

:It is possible, however, for the National Alliance member to use the mass media in various ways for disseminating the National Alliance message without violating the foregoing rule. For example, a member should take every opportunity to have letters published on the editorial pages of his local daily newspaper and to express himself on radio "call in" programs. Several members acting in concert can effectively take over such radio programs. Citizens’ band radio also offers a medium for reaching the public, but the member should be aware of laws regulating the use of this medium.

:4. New members often assume that the best places to find new recruits for the National Alliance are among the members of right-wing organizations or in comminutes which are especially heavily impacted by forced busing or Black rioting. In general, they are mistaken.

:The right-wing outlook is quite different from that of the National Alliance. Right wingers may be reasonably good prospects for subscribing to '''''National Vanguard'''''. But very few of them are capable of becoming valuable National Alliance members. The latter is also true of the general population, of course, and right wingers should not be excluded for consideration. 

:A person whose principal concern is an acute problem affecting his neighborhood, employment, school, or the like may be a good prospect for front activity related directly to his problem, but, like a right winger, he is not much more likely than a member of the general public to have the characteristics needed in a National Alliance member. Those characteristics are racial consciousness, sensitivity to the decadence of the present order, and an impersonal concern for the future. 

:Men and women having those characteristics are, unfortunately, the exception rather than the rule everywhere, and they are to be sought wherever they can be found: universities, factories, farms, offices, large cities and small town, board rooms and tiny shops--''and'' in right-wing groups and racially impacted areas.

:5. Public meetings are the oldest and still one of the most effective ways of spreading ideas. They call for considerably more care and forethought than newspaper or leaflet distributions, however. Because of the necessary preparatory work, most National Alliance meetings open to the public will be held by Local Units rather than by isolated members. Nevertheless, a member who has had previous experience organizing meetings and speaking in public--or even a member who wants to learn how to do these things--may consider holding a meeting in his community and inviting the public. A few things to keep in mind when planning a meeting are the following:

::a. Public apathy and ignorance are far worse than most members realize. Consequently, most inexperienced members will be disappointed by the size of the turnouts at their first few meeting. In view of this , one should not be too ambitious in the choice of facilities for a first meeting; better an overcrowded small room the first time than a nearly empty large room.

::b. For a meeting in a small community or focused on a particular neighborhood in a larger city, a hundred or so posters tacked or pasted to power poles, construction fences, and bus-stop shelters may be adequate advertising to assure reasonable attendance. To draw a larger number of people one may try "spot" radio advertisements, but this is not recommended for an inexperienced meeting organizer. Probably the best advertising is word of mouth, which works well only when one has a large group of people, as on a university campus or in a large factory, in contact with one another, and the meeting deals with a topic of special interest to the group.

::c. The announced meeting topic should always be specific, not general. One will nearly always draw a larger crowd to a meeting on "What We Can Do about Forced Busing at River City High School" than to one on "How We Can Deal with Worldwide Challenge Facing the White Race." After the people came to the meeting, of course, the speaker can be as general or as specific as he wants.

::d. The necessity for security at every public meeting should always be kept in mind. Attempts at heckling or disruption will seldom occur in most areas, but the meeting organizer should always be prepared to handle such an attempt in a forceful  and effective manner if it does occur.

::e. An alternative to the public meting, generally advertised and open to any White person, is the semi-public meeting, in which invitations are sent only to persons on a local mailing list: members, persons who have attended previous meetings, friends and acquaintances of the members organizing the meeting, etc. The key to a successful semi-public meeting is convincing each person who is invited to bring one or more new persons with him, and this should always be emphasized in the invitations.

::f. Unless one is prepared to invest an enormous effort in organizing meetings over an extended period of time, their educational effect is quite small. Persons  who attend a single National Alliance meeting will quickly lose whatever impression they gained form it, unless that impression is repeated over and over again or is followed up in other ways. Therefore, the principal object of holding public or semi-public meetings at this time is organization-building. A meeting serves no useful function unless it results in a local strengthening of the National Alliance. The success of a meeting, then, is to be measured not just in terms of the number of people attending, but in terms of concrete results: new membership applications, new '''''National Vanguard''''' subscriptions, books sold, contributions taken in, names and addressed collected for invitations to future meetings. Every meeting should be aimed specifically at maximizing these concrete results.

:6. The only gains for the National Alliance which count in the long run are those which last. The National Alliance is not interested in any activity, no matter how exciting or how much attention it attracts, unless its net result is a stronger National Alliance. If it does not satisfy this criterion, the activity is wasted motion. Some organizations thrive on sound and fury, with lots of people running hither and yon, statements issued to the press, and excitement in the air. The National Alliance thrives on real progress: increases in the numbers of members of the required quality, gains in useful experience by members or in their level of activism, increases in the circulation of '''''National Vanguard''''' and other National Alliance publications, acquisitions of new facilities. Those are the things that count when the dust has settled.

===Reporting of activities===
All activities, public and non-public, should be reported regularly and in detail to the National Office.

Each Local Unit Coordinator has the responsibility for sending group reports on the activities of all the members in his Unit.

Each member not affiliated with a Local Unit has the responsibility for sending his own reports to the National Office. Furthermore, each member, whether affiliated with a Local Unit or not should send a report whenever he has an idea, a suggestion, or a criticism relating to National Alliance activities.

The Member’s Monthly Activity Report form, a copy of which is included with each '''''Bulletin''''', is recommended as a convenient medium for individual reports of activities, as well as for comments and questions. Remember, activity reports not only aid the National Office in evaluating the effectiveness of various activities, but they also make it possible to pass on the experience gained by one member to others engaged in similar activities.

Of especial value to the National Office are photographs of National Alliance activities. They should accompany activity reports whenever it is feasible.

==Miscellaneous Information==
===History of the National Alliance===
The National Alliance was organized in February 1974. Many of its first members came form another organization, the [[National Youth Alliance]], which had been founded in 1970 by Dr. [[William Pierce]], a young physics professor who left a career of teaching and research at Oregon State University to devote his life to the service of his race. Although the ideologies of the two organizations were identical, membership in the National Youth Alliance was restricted to persons under 30 years of age, and that group focused its activities on college and university campuses. Thus, the formation of the National Alliance effected a broadening of the appeal of the National Youth Alliance to include White persons of all ages and occupations.

Because the early 1970s were a period when Jewish communists were organizing massive anti-American demonstrations in the streets of America’s cities, bombing and burning U.S. military installations with alarming frequency, and openly preaching communist revolution, the National Youth Alliance deliberately took a militant stance in opposition to this activity. The name of the group’s newspaper, '''''[[ATTACK!]]''''', reflected this stance. As Dr. Pierce and his co-workers came to appreciate more fully the magnitude and the time scale of the task facing them, their approach became more fundamental. By the time the National Alliance was formed, the emphasis had shifted form a superficial confrontation with the racial enemy to a though re-education of White Americans and the building of the necessary foundation for a final victory over the enemy.

By 1976 the National Alliance had accepted its first members living outside the United States. In April 1978 it changed the name of its newspaper from '''''ATTACK!''''' to '''''National Vanguard'''''. In September 1978 the first General Convention of the National Alliance was held. The year 1978 also marked the beginning of a period of greatly increased membership growth.

===Membership pin===
The National Alliance membership pin is a silver-and-black enameled [[Life Rune]], similar in design to the one the logotype of '''''National Vanguard'''''. It is ¾ of an inch high and is intended for wearing on a suit lapel, shirt, or blouse, over the left breast. It is sold only to members of the National Alliance, and all members are urged to wear it at all times. The membership pin not only provides a means of instant recognition among National Alliance members, but is serves as a constant reminder to the wearer of his obligation and responsibilities as a member.

===Bulletin===
The membership '''''Bulletin''''' is mailed each month to all active and supporting members. Its purpose is to keep the membership informed on developments and events inside the National Alliance, to provide information and suggestions on activities, and to deal with other matters of special concern to National Alliance members.

===Wills===
Each member should be aware of the long-term nature of the National Alliance’s task, and he should, to the extent possible, insure that his participation in this task continues beyond his own lifetime. He can do this by making  the National Alliance a beneficiary in his will. If he does not have a will, he should make one: if has already has a will he should insert a new clause in it. The following wording may be used as a guide: “I give the National Alliance, a Virginia corporation, the sum of _____________dollars (or the following described property) to be used of the general purposes of the corporation.”
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