Nation Revisited # 193 November 2022

The Hitler Test

In his classic work 'Hitler: A Study in Tyranny' Alan Bullock described Hitler as: "A mountebank, an opportunist adventurer devoid of principles, beliefs or scruples whose actions throughout his career were motivated only by a lust for power." In the August issue of Nation Revisited I was not so harsh; I wrote of Hitler: "He ended unemployment and lifted Germany out of poverty, but his obsession with Race was his downfall." Jim Rizoli took exception to this and commented that I had failed the 'Hitler Test'. When I asked him to explain he posted several thousand words from General Leon Degrelle's book 'With Hitler'.

Leon Degrelle (1906-1994) was the leader of the Belgian Rexist Party who founded the Walloon Legion which fought with distinction on the Russian Front as the 28th Division Waffen SS. For his outstanding service he was awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves. After decorating him Hitler took his hand and said: "If I should have a son I would like him to be like you." At the end of the War he was sentenced to death by the Belgian Government but he escaped to Franco's Spain where he continued to campaign for a National Socialist Europe.

Degrelle glossed over the millions of dead from WW2, like many others he admired Hitler without question, but I take a more objective view of the Fuhrer. He did great things in the early days but his expansionist policy was doomed from the start. After the military disasters in North Africa and Russia in 1943 the war was unwinnable, but on Hitler's orders the Germans fought on for another two years. Historians have undoubtedly distorted the truth about Adolf Hitler but even his most devoted admirers cannot rehabilitate him. 

A Scrap of History

The following scrap of history was sent to me by John Millican, author of 'Mosleys Men in Black'. It concerns Carl Harley (1930-2020) the man who recruited John Bean to Union Movement in 1950. This is the final point of a memo from Alexander Raven Thomson, Secretary of UM, to Oswald Mosley concerning a spat between UM Treasurer Maurice Pacey and Carl Harley. Mosley replied in his distinct hand: "Harley, as Youth Officer is of the revolutionary wing of the Movement: hence his attitude."

I met Carl Harley at the 1962 BNP Camp at Andrew Fountaine's estate in Norfolk. He was a window dresser who used his artistic skills to make platforms, placards and banners for the movement.

In those days there was a certain amount of traffic between Union Movement and the BNP. Bill Webster left the NLP, the forerunner of the BNP, to join Mosley, and John Wood left UM to join the BNP. Carl was one of several defectors from UM;

some objected to Mosley's move to Ireland, others left when National Secretary Alf Flockhart was found guilty of 'indecency' for the second time, and some couldn't accept 'Europe a Nation' because they were insular nationalists. In his book 'Memoir of a Fascist Childhood', Trevor Grundy recalls the words of his father Sidney Grundy: 

"The silly buggers are giving away India, and next it will be Africa but there's still Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Who's going to be interested in union with the French or Spanish? Germany yes, but not with the Greeks or the Portuguese. My God, what a thought."

I know former UM supporters who voted for Brexit. They agreed with Mosley about the Money Power, and the need to control immigration, but they simply couldn't grasp the concept of 'Europe a Nation'. The European issue is complex and divisive. Mick Lynch, the impressive head of the RMT trade union, recently told James O'Brien of LBC radio that he voted for Brexit but he would have supported our membership of the old EEC, before it developed into the EU.

This fear of the EU becoming a superstate is widely held, but we are already part of a global empire - the United States. Harold Wilson kept us out of the Vietnam War but every UK prime minister since has supported the US in their various wars. We bombed Serbia into submission, we helped to destroy Iraq on the pretext of finding 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', and we invaded Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 atrocity that was committed by a gang of Saudis led by the Egyptian Mohamed Atta. Now, despite our precarious economic position, we are supplying arms and money to America's client regime in Ukraine. British 'sovereignty' is an illusion.       

Priorities

All political parties in the UK are committed to keeping the National Health Service as a state-run provider of health care that's free at the point of use. Nevertheless, commercial companies are slowly but surely taking it over. Agency nurses and doctors are being used to fill the manpower shortages caused by generations of reliance on imported labour. It was cheaper to import medical staff from abroad rather than training them in this country. Medical professionals wanted to come to the UK because we have excellent training hospitals, so there was no problem recruiting them. But recent changes in our immigration laws have restricted the free movement of labour on which we depended.

In addition to the use of agency doctors and nurses the NHS is subcontracting medical proceedures to private hospitals, and many services, such as; ambulances, blood testing, surgical after care, research and development, pathology, cleaning, laundry, property maintainance, and security are being done by outside companies.

The NHS is the victim of its own success. The more medical advancements they make the more expensive it becomes. Modern hospitals are full of high-tech equipment that has to be maintained by qualified engineers and used by trained technicians. The days of nurses being bedmakers and cleaners are long gone. Today's nurses are degree graduates who should be properly paid.

At present we are in the grip of an economic crisis, but one day the pandemic will be over, the war in Ukraine will be ended, energy prices will stabilise, and we will reach a proper trade agreement with the EU. Then we can decide the best way to fund our public services; the NHS, the police, the fire service, the prison service, education, social services, and the armed forces. The right-wing Tory philosophy of 'small government' can't work in a civilized country. It belongs to the days when only the rich could afford medical treatment and good housing while the poor lived in hovels and died like flies. Today, we expect the state to look after us and we are prepared to pay for it.

It's all a question of priorities. We are wasting billions of pounds on vanity projects such as the Trident missile system and our two giant aircraft carriers. And we are wasting the taxpayers' money by giving arms and money to Ukraine to fight America's proxy war with Russia. We should mind our own business and tailor our armed forces for the defence of our islands. We are never going to use Trident missiles that are under NATO control, and aircraft carriers are not much good for stopping inflatables in the English Channel.

Five Questions Answered # 18 Nick Maybury

The Five Questions are; Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could change government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you regret? How would you like to be remembered?

The following have replied; John Bean, Robert Edwards, Bill Baillie, Michael Woodbridge, Eddy Morrison, Robert Best, Arlette Baldacchino, Alexander Morana, Rufus, Pete Williamson, Claire Khaw, Jane Edwards, Vic Sarson, Jez Turner, Michael Walsh, Seth Tryssen, Ahmed. 

To participate email your replies to Nation Revisited at: nationrevisited@gmail.com

Who are you?

I am Nick Maybury the author of Nationalist.co.uk and Nationalism.co.uk

What do you believe in?

Christianity and Apollonian Philosophy. Apollonian philosophy is the embodiment of order, moderation, reason, culture, harmony, restraint, practicality, honour, truth and light and a belief in reincarnation. I also believe in uniting the world in Jesus Christ and the final destruction of Evil at his second coming.

If you could change government policy, what would you do?

Tear it all up and start again with the aim of getting at the truth and the best solutions. Some examples would include making property cheaper by doing away with private landlords so only those living in a property can own it. The only exceptions being government and council owned housing.

Another major change would be a low level of taxation at 20% to encourage enterprise. Limits would be put on the number of employees or outlets certain businesses would be allowed, in order to prevent predatory business practice. Large chains will be broken up and sold to staff.

Banks would be nationalised but kept separate and independent. Some things can be done more efficiently by a monopoly. Gas, electricity, water, trains and the Royal Mail would all be nationalised and run for the benefit of the people. The amount the public would pay for these services would be enough to cover costs including infrastructure investments.

We would have a silver backed currency. One Pound would be worth one pound weight of 925 Sterling Silver. To keep things simple one Pound will consist of one hundred Schillings and each Schilling one hundred Pence.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

I'm proud of my websites and regret that they haven't always been as good as I should have liked.

How would you like to be remembered?

As someone who tried to make a difference.

Global Capitalism - John Bean - 'Beanstalk' April 2001

We of the radical right are supporters of the small businessman and free enterprise. Nevertheless, we can have sympathy, if not empathy, with certain aspects of the militant campaign against global capitalism, even if we draw the line at attempts to do a "twin-towers" job on the Stock Exchange building and other City of London finance houses. Finance should serve the business of the country; not control it.

In this 21st century finance has set its horizons far beyond the nation state: it is now controlling the global market, and the interests of individual nations, whether it is Britain or Brazil, count for nothing. As one British manufacturing base after another has been closed down and manufacturing transported eastwards to "take advantage of cheaper labour costs", New Labour - with support from other PODs (Parties of Decay) has told us in Britain that the jobs are being replaced by jobs in the service industry. Mark you, there is not much room here for ex-miners, shipbuilders and steelworkers, as most of the new jobs are for women. Perhaps the largest growth sector in the service industry is the call centre. Until recently we were told that it would soon be employing one in five in the UK.

Perhaps the pundits would like to revise that figure with the recent news that Prudential is to close its call centre at Reading and reopen it in Bombay! Those of us who have been to India know that there are countless Indians who have a good command of English. But what an accent! It takes a fortnight to crack the code.

Let us hope that the Prudential get everything that is coming to them and, more important, that the bovine Brits wake up to how they are once again being conned. This time by the menace of global capitalism. 

The latest sell-out of British jobs comes with the announcement that the manufacturers of the famous Dr Marten's boots, RG Griggs, is closing production in the UK, mainly Northampton, with the loss of 1,000 jobs. Production is being switched to China, Vietnam and Thailand. Surprise Surprise! This follows the earlier announcement on 3rd October that US owned company Black & Decker is to close its Spennymoor, Co Durham factory with the loss of 1,000 jobs. In this case manufacuring will be switched to the Czech Republic.

Wishful Thinking

Adolf Hitler seldom listened to advice because he considered himself to be a master of politics, economics and military strategy. A view that he clung to as the Red Army stormed Berlin and he blew his brains out.

But government policies are usually based on information. In the UK the Bank of England guides economic policy, the Department for International Trade deals with trade agreements, and the Intelligence Services advise the government on military matters. The trouble is that all of these departments are manned by human beings with their own opinions and prejudices.

They also tell governments what they want to hear. And there is the ever present danger of wishful thinking. Tony Blair's 'Dodgy Dosier' was compiled by advisors who chose to ignore the overwhelming evidence that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction; which was exactly what Blair wanted to hear.

When prime minister Anthony Eden launched his ill-fated invasion of Egypt in 1956 the Ministry of Defence distributed leaflets to the armed forces warning them that their progress would be impeded by jubilant crowds of Egyptians thanking them for their liberation. No such crowds appeared; instead the civilian population took potshots at our invading troops. Either our intelligence was faulty or Eden believed his own propaganda.

Another military disaster happened in 1961 when the Americans  organised the Bay of Pigs invasion. CIA Director Allen Dulles convinced Jack Kennedy that Castro was deeply unpopular and that an invasion would trigger a popular uprising. The result was that 118 brave Cuban volunteers were killed, 360 wounded, and 1,202 captured. The failed invasion consolidated Fidel Castro's authority and drove him into the arms of the Soviet Union.

But it's not just the West that makes mistakes. Vladimir Putin thought that the Ukrainians would welcome his troops as liberators. Some of them did but the majority rallied to the Zelensky regime. Did the Russian intelligence agencies tell Putin what he wanted to hear or had he already made up his mind? Either way, what he thought would be a walkover turned into a protracted conflict.       

Moon of Alabama

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Nation Revisited # 164 June 2020

Ted Budden's article 'A United Front For Europe' appraised by Ian Freeman

I am coming to agree with this, even if public opinion has shifted since the late and much missed Ted wrote it.

Brexit was for us British Nationalists, a means to an end: recreating Joseph Chamberlain's dream of Imperial Federation, essentially - a union of the White Dominions and Britain, including ideally eventually the US. That was easily doable in 1895, entirely possible in 1935, and just about possible as late as 1970.

Hence what became the NF disagreed with Mosley on this issue, I think at the time an NF Government - in hindsight a vision with Tyndall riding to No 10 on unicorn back whilst squadrons of winged porkers  flew past in salute - could perhaps still have achieved it as late as 1980. Party politics was predicated, as must be, on the assumption the party will be in power to implement it. So I think we were right then to disagree with Sir Oswald. However, the Greater Britain train has now long left the station, and we want, to use a cliche, to be the first of tomorrow, not the last of yesterday. Whether or not Mosley was right in 1948, in today's situation I suspect he would be right now.

There are many reasons to embrace a European future in 2020 if not 1950. Nationalism, moribund here, is rising in Europe. Much of Europe, notably in the East, is Whiter than much of the old White Commonwealth, which seems basically moribund to me. Europe needs to stand together against the hordes now pressing in on us from East and South.

In the post Covid-19 world, globalisation will need to be replaced with regional autarkic blocs, with movement of individuals  and eventually goods between them made as difficult as possible. No more Chinese tourists! Bojo's "Global Britain" is dead in the water now.

Britain is too small and too crowded to stand alone. We cannot feed ourselves. In theory, we could solve this by wielding the British sword to seize land for the British plough in what is now the Irish Republic - the British Isles as a whole could achieve self-sufficiency in food. However, I am not prepared to countenance White nations preying on their brother Whites in this way - Hitler was wrong (morally and, since it largely caused him to lose his war, practically) to try it in Russia and I do not want my Irish relatives ethnically cleansed or enslaved, thank you.

Europe, eventually including Russia, is a potential autarkic unit (as is Australia, North America, and Greater China - everywhere else in in trouble, I fear). Britain alone is not. The logic to me is inescapable. I feel more akin personally to Anglo-Australians, Kiwis and Canadians, but nonetheless we, and they, are culturally and racially Europeans, and we are geographically too.

I think that Europe therefore is where our destiny lies, but am open to persuasion otherwise. Thoughts?

Happy Birthday John Bean

Congratulations to my old friend John Bean who will be 93-years-old on June 7th. John was born in Carshalton, Surrey in 1927. He did his national service in the Royal Navy, worked briefly in India, and studied chemistry at the Borough Polytechnic, now the University of the South Bank. In 1974 he left London with his wife and children, his technical knowledge, and his trusty typewriter for the wilds of West Suffolk, where he spent the next 47 years earning a living. He has now retired to North Yorkshire, to be with his extended family.

In 1995 he wrote 'Ten Miles From Anywhere' which told the story of his adopted village from 1969 to 1994. For 18 of those years he was editor of the parish magazine 'The Wickhambrook Scene'. This fascinating book which really captures the rural remoteness of the area is available from Amazon.

He is better known for his 1999 political memoir 'Many Shades of Black'. An entertaining account of his career as a street corner orator, including getting 3,410 votes (9.1%) in the 1964 Southall general election. At the time it was the best election result ever achieved by a 'patriotic' candidate, and I am proud to have been part of it. 'Many Shades of Black' has become a standard reference book despite JB's occasional lapses into journalistic licence.

In recent years he wrote two historical novels; 'Blood in the Square' and 'The Trail of the Viking Finger'. They got mixed reviews, but to my mind they were not as good as his documentary works.

In 2012 I collaborated with John Bean and Arthur Kemp on the publication of 'Meaning of an Enemy' by Andrew Fountaine (1918-1997). This critical evaluation of Winston Churchill is available from: ostarapublications.com

Until recently JB's 'Nationalist Notebook' was a regular feature on the British Democratic Party website. He started writing politically in 1955 with an article in 'Nationalist Unity' warning of the dangers of uncontrolled immigration: 

With the possible exception of the harnessing of nuclear energy for weapons of war, the political awakening of the Coloured races of Africa and Asia is transcending all other socio-political problems of this age. Accompanying this awakening, is the gradual infiltration of Europe - Britain and France in particular - by Coloured peoples.

Should Western opinion continue to face this problem with the old concept of 'equality of man', it will not be long before Europe as a racial entity ceases to exist, and with it the highly-developed civilisation that Europe has given the world.

Here in Britain we are made daily aware of the increasing resistance that this Coloured influx is meeting, whether it be from busmen or hospital workers who are striking because they fear that the standards their Trade Unions have obtained for them will be undermined by Coloured labour, or from hotel landlords who reserve rooms for White customers only - as the writer has seen done in reverse in hotels and clubs in India.

Whilst this paper opposes the belief that all men are equal, we do not on the other hand contend that biologically any one race is superior to another. The fact is we are all different.

If we are to conserve our country as a European nation, all further Coloured immigration - except for genuine students - must be halted now before its too late. There is little point in creating a race problem where one does not exist.

The Alternative

Since the collapse  of the Soviet Union the Russian Federation has adopted a free market economy, and China has embraced capitalism with enthusiasm. The United States is a superpower with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet, and Europe and Japan are its faithful allies.

The global economy was recovering from the financial disaster of 2008 when the banks sold each other so many worthless mortgages that they ran out of money. Stricter banking regulations and fiscal policies resulted in steady growth and stability. But this has been shattered by a coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands of people and wrecked the global economy. Governments all over the world are spending billions of dollars in rescue operations, but every penny will have to be paid back by the taxpayers. Our world has been turned upside down and we can only hope that it soon gets back to normal.

The global capitalist system will take a battering but it will survive. Human nature never changes; the love of money is the root of all evil and until we adopt an equitable political system, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. But if we move towards a self-sufficient geopolitical system, as first proposed by Oswald Mosley in 'The Alternative' in 1948, we can avoid the worst excesses of capitalism. Mosley envisaged a new order arising from the ruins of the Second World War. Our situation today is almost as grave as it was then, but we have the expertise and the resources to build a better world; all we lack is the will to do it.

'The Alternative' is available from oswaldmosley.com 

Red Terror and The Communist Technique in Britain

Robert Best's booklet 'Red Terror' charts the bloody history of the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution to the Second World War. We must never forget the atrocities committed by Joseph Stalin in this time of revolution and war, but his speech to the Communist Party Congress in 1929 explains his motivation. He was convinced that Germany would attack the Soviet Union and he was determined to be ready for them: 

"We are 50-100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it or they crush us."

To achieve his objective he crushed liberty and condemned thousands to death, but his brutality had nothing to do with Karl Marx who was a middle-class German journalist who never killed anyone. Stalin modernized the Soviet Union, defeated Nazi Germany, conquered half of Europe, and began the program that put the first man into space.

Apart from Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, most of the Bolshevik leaders were Jews, but instead of sticking together they turned on each other. Best records that:

"Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico on the orders of Stalin, Zinoviev was executed by Yagoda, Yagoda was purged by Beria."

 'Red Terror' is available from Steven Books.

'The Communist Technique in Britain' by Bob Darke was published in 1952 at the height of the Cold War. He was an East London bus conductor and an active member of the Communist Party who became a Hackney councillor. He describes the strategy of the Party in the 1940s which used the trade union movement to further its aims. Darke never departed from his socialist convictions but he despaired of the devious tricks of his comrades, who would do almost anything for the Cause. Today, the Communist Party has been replaced by several ineffectual left-wing parties but in 1952 it was force to be reckoned with. Bob Darke explained why he wrote the book:

"I have not written this book because I wish to raise the pile of ex-Communist literature by another inch or two. I have written it in an attempt to get home to my fellow trade unionists the extent to which their interests and their rights are being shamelessly betrayed by the Communist Party.

No country in the world has a greater right to be proud of its working class and trade union history than has Britain. We have built up a movement which is based on man's right to be heard and represented in whatever way he chooses, a movement which is based on man's fundamental belief in the decency of his neighbour.

Communism will replace this with a society based on man's fundamental fear of his neighbour.

Freedom of conscience and will is an inheritance we take too lightly, even after the Nazi war. We are in danger of having it taken away from us as much by the extreme anti-Communists as by the Communists themselves."  

'The Communist Technique in Britain' is available from Amazon.

Jeffrey Hamm Speech to Colin Jordan's Birmingham Nationalist Club - from 'Union' January 1951

(The divide between British nationalism and European unity dates back to the immediate postwar years. Jeffrey Hamm knew Colin Jordan from his British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women which was one of the groups that formed Union Movement).

On the evening of Wednesday 17th January, members of the Birmingham Nationalist Club were addressed by Jeffrey Hamm of Union Movement (with the club's organiser Mr JCC Jordan in the chair).

Hamm opened his address by suggesting that although members of the club might not be prepared to accept European Union as the alternative to internationalism, they would at least agree with him in his condemnation of the international system. He proceeded to recall the widespread unemployment which had been caused in pre-war Britain by the activities of International Finance, which had been free to exploit the East and to flood Britain with produce of Oriental sweated labour. The natural reaction to this had been the emergence of the nationalist movement of British Union, which under the leadership of Oswald Mosley had advocated the development of Britain and of the British Empire as a self-contained unit.

Anti-European Nationalism Obsolete

In foreign policy, the speaker continued, the internationalists had disarmed Britain dangerously and then dragged our country and our people into a war which was not in our interests. British Union had advanced the nationalist policy of making Britain strong enough to defend herself against any country in the world and had advocated withdrawal from European entanglements in order to concentrate on the development of Britain and the British Empire.

Today, the speaker suggested, anti-European nationalism was obsolete. No longer could "the former British Empire" be economically independent while, in the age of the rocket and the atom bomb, we could not shut our eyes to the danger of Europe being overrun by Communism from the East. We should, therefore advance beyond our pre-war nationalism to the new idea of "Europe a Nation".

Hamm said he sympathised with the nationalists in the desire to see an independent Britain arise again, but if they were realists they would agree that she could not do so as an isolated unit. The world today is dominated by the two forces of American Capitalism and Soviet Communism. It was, therefore, necessary, if we were to regain our independence, for us to create a "Third Force". That force was Europe, united as one nation in a common faith and idea.

Europe united could save the peace and win back the lands seized by the Soviet Union. Then, by turning to Africa, we could win our own foodstuffs and raw materials and thus regain our economic independence.

The speaker dealt with a number of questions covering many aspects of Union Movement policy, and it is hoped that as a result of this meeting several of the Birmingham Nationalists Club will have advanced beyond their nationalism to the new conception of "Europe a Nation".

Bernard Franklyn writes:

The educational system and virtually everything else was messed up with the 1960's cultural revolution. I had a first class A stream Secondary Modern Education leaving school in the Summer of 1958. Two years later the school was closed. The massive well equipped science lab was removed along with well equipped large metalwork and woodwork shop. Fabians, Zionists and Freemasons had taken control of teacher training. A new breed of delinquent Marxists, do as you like teacher were ready to send into schools, with the result that the first class old teachers left in disgust.

Since then we have regularly seen in newspaper reports of our children leaving school barely able to read, write or do simple mathematics. Parliament will not do anything about it as it changed education to suit their nation-wrecking programme. Just as they refuse to listen when we complain about fluoride being added to the water supply when it causes a reduction in the thinking ability and causes cancer. To find out more go to my website - theflameuk.com


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Nation Revisited # 161 March 2020

A United Front For Europe

The Roots of Radicalism website has posted a fascinating article by the veteran nationalist Ted Budden from 'Vanguard' magazine 1990. http://rootsofradicalism.com

Ted Budden is mainly remembered for his satirical writing. He was against the Common Market for all the usual reasons, but he was one of the first to question the National Front's policy of trying to revive the British Empire. He also noted the Third World population explosion and the rise of China as a world power. His political acumen no doubt stemmed from his youthful membership of the BUF.

Today the National Front is a shadow of its former self but its insular policies are now Government policy. The Tory Party has been hijacked by extremists and Britain has formally left the EU. We are now in Limbo and we will finally leave at the end of the year. 

But who knows what the future holds? The Tories have kept their election promise by introducing yet another Immigration Act, but it remains to be seen if this is a genuine measure or just another cosmetic exercise. There have been a dozen Immigration Acts since 1948 but none of them have worked.  

Ted's article concludes:

Charles de Gaulle's vision of a united Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals may well come to pass eventually. It may need to be unified, as in the days of old, in the face of the threat offered by the exploding populations of the non-White world and the burgeoning economic and military power of the East against which the Russian Empire was once a bulwark but soon may no longer be. Europe may offer the impetus to racial nationalism that it so badly needs. A racial nationalist policy for Europe is one that many may well consider sound, rational and, above all, credible.

Are we forever to continue muttering impotently on the fringe or will we strive to achieve a newer, bolder vision?

The Will of the People

Britain has been a democracy since the Great Reform Act of 1832. We elect Members of Parliament to represent us but they belong to political parties and follow the party line which is enforced by threats and intimidation. The Will of the People is therefore the Will of the Party. 

The last general election has left much of the North and the Midlands in the hands of the Tory Party. Traditional Labour voters were persuaded by the mass media to vote Tory when all of their instincts were against it. Such is the power of the press that only Liverpool, where 'The Sun' newspaper is not sold, resisted the propaganda. The Scousers turned against 'The Sun' following its shameful misreporting of the Hillsborough football disaster of 1989.

We now have a Tory government with a massive majority of eighty seats. Working people have elected a government that is likely to dismantle the Welfare State and drag us back to the workhouse. The Tories resisted almost every social improvement from retirement pensions to the National Health Service. If we had never had the trade unions we would still have children working in factories and families living in hovels. But the confused voters of the post-industrial areas have cast their votes for the mill owners and landlords who oppressed them for centuries.

Some unfortunate countries are ruled by force and kept in check by vicious policemen, but the Tories have refined the system to the point where the voters do not need to be threatened - they simply obey.

Boris "fuck business" Johnson is now installed as an elected dictator who is determined to turn the clock back. He wants to return to the days of Empire when the workers knew their place and foreigners feared British bayonets. He is a deluded despot who will destroy this country if he is not stopped. We hope that he will be brought down by unforeseen events because we cannot rely on the Will of the People. 

A letter to the Newport County Times from Milton Ellis

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are both cracking down on free speech.

Trump has signed an executive order that empowers the US education department to penalise college campuses by withholding federal funds from those who are deemed to be tolerating anti-Semitism by allowing debate critical of Israel.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's new government is to pass legislation banning public bodies from imposing their own boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions (BDS) campaigning against foreign countries, including Israel on the grounds that these 'undermine' community cohesion.

While public bodies should not be pursuing their own foreign policy there has been no public approval regarding the foreign policies of successive UK governments - see Iraq war - and no 'coherent approach' or 'community cohesion' regarding this.

Also, this at a time when the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Futou Bensouda has recently said that she would launch a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories.

The Conservatives have promised to champion the rule of law, human rights, free trade, anti-corruption and a rules based international system - all of which Israel refuses to comply with.

The Conservatives are tying themselves up in knots and contradicting themselves, due to the fact that the top people in the party, Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Savid Javid and Michael Gove are member of the Israeli lobby's Conservative Friends of Israel. Donald Trump is under pressure from the Israeli lobby also, and we have seen this in his removal of the American Embassy to Jerusalem and his recognition of the Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel - he has no right to grant one nation's territory to another. We have also seen the influence of the Zionist lobby in the Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitism row.

Much of this anti-Semitism guff is just a ploy to justify suppression of legitimate concerns about the fate of the Palestinians and the investigation of war crimes.  

Regulation 18B - Britain's Taste of Stalinism
(From 'Action' October 1992)

Britain declared war on Germany on September 3rd, 1939, entering the fight as one of the leading nations of Europe and coming out of it a second-class power, America's dependent for years to come. The days of the British Empire were numbered. But we had to fight for democracy, protested Mr Chamberlain who declared war. His party won the last pre-war general election in 1935 on a peace policy, but changed to a war policy in 1939 without any attempt to consult the people. So much for the Tory idea of democracy. So much for the British voter.

Mr Chamberlain was also the Chancellor in 1932 who had cut the nation's defences to the bone, putting Britain's very life at risk. By 1939 he had swung right round but his rearmament was so inept and muddled that British troops were sent to war short of almost every modern weapon. The result was defeat at Dunkirk. On all counts Chamberlain was unfit to run a tripe shop. 

Mosley's stand was very different. Unlike Chamberlain he had seen the horrors of war at first hand, and he went into politics in 1918 to spare the next generation another bloodbath. When this was threatened late in the 1930s he opposed it root and branch, especially as it was a war in no real British interest. "Mind Britain's Business" said Mosley. "Keep out of foreign quarrels."

But he was also a realist. The dangerous 1930s demanded a Britain that could look after herself. From British Union's first day he called for the full defence of these islands and the Empire, but to stay out of quarrels on the other side of Europe which were no concern of ours.

Thanks to Chamberlain meddling in Germany's quarrel with Poland, however, we found ourselves at war. There was only one thing to do then, and Mosley did it. Two days before the war began he instructed all members called up for the Services to obey their orders in all circumstances. As Andrew Roberts has written, "Many Blackshirts served Britain with distinction in the war."

Meanwhile Mosley said that he would exercise the right of every Englishman to campaign for an honourable negotiated peace. Many of them had done exactly the same for the past 200 years. And his campaign gathered such popular support that the government became alarmed.

The war was not popular. HG Wells wrote in his book "New World Order", began after the outbreak of the war: "The British crowd is a sullen crowd. The world has not seen it in such a bad temper for a century and a half. And let there be no mistake about it, it is far less in a temper with the Germans than with its own rulers." What could the rulers do against the British crowd?

Mosley was selected to act as an example to the crowd when the war was going very badly. On May 22nd 1940 a special measure was rushed through Parliament. Habeus Corpus which had guarded the Englishman against unjust imprisonment since the reign of Charles the Second was suspended. Regulation 18B replaced it, and Mosley was arrested the following day under a measure he had not even heard of. Lady Mosley and 800 members of British Union followed him to prison, where they experienced the evil principle of retrospective law, a violation of British justice.

Retrospective law means that you could do something quite legal one day, but on the next day the very same thing was made quite illegal. Under 18B you could be imprisoned without charge or trial. Trial by jury, the Englishman's right, was abolished. There was no legal appeal against 18B. Anyone could be jailed whom the Home Secretary decided must be jailed. He need not give any reason for locking you up. This destroyed British freedom and justice, but government leaders could, and did, make interminable speeches that they were fighting for freedom and justice.

Churchill himself, whose government brought in 18B in 1940, soon had serious doubts about it, and in 1943 went as far as to inform British Union's old enemy Herbert Morrison, who was then glorying in his power as Home Secretary: "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and to deny him judgement by his peers for an indefinite period is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments." Nothing could be more abhorrent to democracy, he added, but as we have seen, British politicians had had no time for democracy since Chamberlain's government, elected on a peace platform, in 1935, went to war in 1939 without a new mandate from the voters.

18B was a piece of totalitarianism which might have been taken from Stalin's orders for The Gulag. Very appropriately, the war ended with Stalinism triumphant. As Major General Fuller wrote: "The western frontier of Russia has been advanced from the Pripet Marshes to the Thuringerwald, a distance of 750 miles, and as in the days of Charlemagne the Slavs stand on the Elbe. A thousand years of European history have been rolled back." Indeed all Western Europe then faced the danger of going inside one vast 18B prison behind an Iron Curtain stretching along its Atlantic coasts.

Thus Mosley's thinking advanced from fascism to provide a new rallying ground against this danger. He wrote soon after the war: "The anguish of our age will not have been in vain if now is born the Idea that shall carry men beyond what is known as democracy, and beyond fascism. From the flames which end an epoch rise the Idea of the Future" - Europe a Nation. It has yet to come.

Qualified Voting

The Tory landslide general election victory has revived calls for qualified voting. Some voters could not find the UK on a map of the world. And few of them could tell you about our population, economy, or history. They read newspapers like 'The Sun' or 'The Daily Mail', and they watch 'reality' TV programs featuring half naked actors fornicating in the jungle. But these halfwits are fully entitled to cast their votes and decide our future. 

Until the Sixties qualified voting was used in Rhodesia and the Southern States of America to exclude the uneducated.  In the UK only lunatics and members of the House of Lords are denied the vote but the mentally-deficient are encouraged to do so.

A friend of mine was canvassing for the Tory Party during a general election when he called on a man who said that he was voting for the National Front, to "get rid of the Blacks." When he told the man that the NF were not standing in his constituency, he replied, "in that case I will vote Labour." This is the level of ignorance that drives our parliamentary system.

People are entitled to their opinions but the present system has saddled us with Boris Johnson, a mendacious bully surrounded by sycophants, and Priti Patel, who could be the first Home Secretary to deport herself.

A School Leaving Certificate should be awarded to all students capable of reading, writing and arithmetic, which would qualify them to vote in elections. 

Carl Harley RIP

Carl Harley died on 22nd February 2020 at his home in Highgate. He would have been 90 years-old on 26th June. He was a member of the Mosley Book Club and joined Union Movement on its foundation in 1948.

Correspondence between Alexander Raven-Thomson and Oswald Mosley cover his appointment as Youth Leader of the Lewisham Branch. Mosley records that Carl was on the revolutionary wing of the Party.

In 'Many Shades of Black' John Bean tells the story of the Communist Party march through Dalston, East London, in 1951, that was disrupted by a smoke bomb attack. Now that he is safe from prosecution we can reveal that it was Carl who pushed the buggy containing the infernal device.

During his time as Youth Leader of the Lewisham Branch of Union Movement he recruited John Bean, who he followed into various nationalist movements. He will be sadly missed by his comrades all over the world.

My tribute to Carl Harley was published in 'European Outlook' # 34, October 2016.   
https://europeanoutlook.blogspot.com/2016/09/european-outlook-34-october-2016.html 

Dave Charlwood RIP - from John Millican

I have just heard of the recent death of Dave Charlwood an old Union Movement comrade. In the mid-60's he was the UM contact in Brighton, later he became an active member of the National Front , and in later years BNP organiser for Brighton. The owner of a decorating business, one of his claims to fame was being the drummer in a pop group that appeared on Top of the Pops. Condolences to his wife Jan and their two daughters.

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