From Skinhead Music Concerts “Oi!” to YouTube: The Trajectory of the Organization Nova Ordem Social and its Leader Mário Machado

This chapter is about the most prominent grouping of the old extreme right studied in this book. It analyses the skinhead movements, the ones that orbit around Mário Machado, who is, perhaps, the most known skinhead in Portugal. Machado’s network stems from a variety of urban tribes, soccer fans, skinhead groups, motorcycle clubs, and the like. He was also involved with Frente Nacional, the skinhead organization with clear nazi-fascist traits, which competed against Causa Identitária for the protagonism within the pan-European ethnonationalist movements in Portugal. Machado intended not only to organize movements of the extreme-right, but to also penetrate party politics. He was prone to incorporate Portugal Hammerskin as the movement basis of PNR/Ergue-te! party. After enormous polemics in the media, the arrangement was undone, PNR/Ergue-te! remained as an insignificant party in the electoral arena, and Machado returned to the only-movement sphere. Later, Machado focused on the internet, opening web pages of Nova Ordem Social on the main virtual platforms. The use of symbols such as swastikas, SS lightning bolts and Nordic runes was maintained. After his organization was banished from Facebook and dissolved, he opened a YouTube channel where he centers on news about violence committed by minorities and proposes bibliography more typical of the old skinhead extreme right.