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Volksfront
This article is about the defunct American racial separatist fraternal organization. Volksfront is also the German word for "peoples front" (usually left-wing, see also: popular front), or for the right-wing Afrikaner Volksfront in South Africa.

Volksfront, also known as Volksfront International was an American racial separatist organization founded on October 20, 1994, in Portland, Oregon. According to Volksfront's now defunct website, the group described itself as an "international fraternal organization for persons of European descent." Volksfront had approximately 50 members in the United States split between four chapters designated as Pac-West, Central States, North East, and Gulf-Atlantic, and an additional 50 members dispersed in other countries including Germany, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Spain. In August 2012, the United States organization of Volksfront announced their dissolution via their website. Citing harassment and investigations by the authorities, the group said it was disbanding.

The Anti-Defamation League claimed that Volksfront was "one of the most active skinhead groups in the United States." The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) included Volksfront in its list of hate groups. The group has been called " neo-Nazi" and a "racist-skinhead group" in press reports.

Volksfront (Alsace)

Volksfront ('People's Front') was a political coalition in Alsace, France. Volksfront was formed in 1928 by the Popular Republican Union (UPR), a group of communists led by Charles Hueber, Progressives led by Camille Dahlet and the Autonomist Landespartei. The goal of the Volksfront was to seek greater autonomy for Alsace; safeguards for the German language, promotion of the Alsatian economy and administrative autonomy for the region. Largely Volksfront represented a continuation of the defunct Heimatsbund. The Volksfront showed some similarities of the 1911 National Union, which also had been a loose coalition. Cooperation between Alsatian communists and clerical autonomists had begun with the Bloody Sunday events of 1926.

Regarding the sensitive issue of state-church relations, Volksfront avoided to publicly take a clear stand.

The Volksfront launched two candidates in a parliamentary by-election in 1928 (the election had been called as two elected autonomist assemblymen, Eugène Ricklin and Joseph Rossé, had been refused to be able to take their seats), Marcel Stuermel and René Hauss.

Volksfront won the 1929 municipal election in Strasbourg, defeating the incumbent socialist mayor Jacques Peirotes (who was backed by an anti-clericalist and assimilations coalition). Volksfront won twenty-two seats in the municipal council. They formed a municipal government with Hueber as mayor and Michel Walter as deputy mayor. The coalition also gained a strong presence in the municipal election in Colmar. After the election, the group around Hueber was expelled from the French Communist Party. They formed the Opposition Communist Party of Alsace-Lorraine, which became a new constituent of the Volksfront.

As the Landespartei moved closer to National Socialism, with an increasingly anti-semitic and anti-democratic discourse, divisions began to appear in the Volksfront. UPR deserted the coalition (which were alienated by the anti-religious postures of the National Socialists), followed by Dahlet's Progressives in 1933. Volksfront was dissolved in 1935.