All For Latvia! started in 2000 as a non-formal Latvian youth group with a nationalist disposition and became a social organization in 2002. After a ban on symbols similar to the Nazi swastika or the Soviet hammer and sickle in 2003, members of the organization protested outside the Latvian parliament with ethnographic symbols bearing reversed versions of the swastika. All For Latvia! leader Dzintars Raivis defended the protest, arguing that "the swastika is by no means something Hitler thought of." The swastika symbol has featured prominently in Latvian folk symbology for centuries. The organization became a political party in January 2006, running in that year's elections. It received 1.48% of vote and no seats in the parliament. Following that election, All For Latvia! organized remembrance processions of the Latvian legionnaires who fought against the Communist Soviet Unionon the side of Nazi Germany during World War II. For the 2010 elections for the Saeima, All for Latvia! joined forces in the National Alliance with the more established national conservative partyFor Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK to field a common list of candidates. At the election, the list won eight seats, six of them for All for Latvia!. Unity invited the electoral alliance of All for Latvia! and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK to join the coalition, but the offer was withdrawn a few says later after Society for Political Change, one of the parties making up Unity, vetoed such option. On 23 July 2011, the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK Party and All For Latvia! merged to form the National Alliance. In April 2013, All For Latvia! officially established cooperation ties with the National Democratic Alliance, a political association in the Russian Federation, which "aims to create a Russian democratic state, which will break cleanly away from the Eurasian imperial legacy, opting instead for a European cultural and civilizational identity, based on the ideas of freedom and progress" and is "sustaining a course for consistent rapprochement and cooperation with the European Union and NATO".
Ideology
Latvian nationalism
All For Latvia! supports making Latvian citizenship laws more restrictive, by introducing strict limits on the number of people who can be naturalized into Latvian citizenship in one year. All For Latvia! would like to increase the percentage of ethnic Latvians from the current 59% of the Latvian population to at least 75%, by providing financial support to ethnic non-Latvians who would like to leave the country and ethnic Latvians from abroad who would like to return to Latvia. All For Latvia! supports a greater role for the Latvian language and proposes to make it the only language of instruction in publicly funded primary and secondary schools, starting from 2015. The party is opposed to European federalism. All For Latvia! supports protectionist economic policies to increase the role of locally owned businesses. It is supportive of the traditional family, opposed to homosexuality, gambling and favours more restrictive regulation of alcohol sales. It believes that the common interests of the nation have a higher value than the interests of individual people.
Accusations of Fascism and Nazism
, a political scientist and former Latvia's minister for social integration, later head of Council of Europe's Commission against racism and intolerance, described All For Latvia! as racist in 2005. The Independent correspondent Jonathan Nathan described the party as "reportedly neo-Nazi", political scientist Kārlis Daukšts called it "a neo-fascist" organization, and its supporters were called a "fascist legion" by a columnist of a Russian newspaper in Latvia Anatoliy Kamenev. All For Latvia! party leader Raivis Dzintars replied to accusations of Fascism by stating that there were "times when you could be called a fascist only because you replied in Latvian to a question asked in Russian." MEP from Harmony CentreAlexander Mirsky was successfully sued by All For Latvia! and other "National Alliance" members for calling them "Fascists" in public. In April 2013 Mirsky was found guilty by Riga District Court in smearing reputation of the plaintiffs and was asked to pay them damages.
