Nation Revisited #189 July 2022

Climate Change

History has always been driven by climate. When global warming caused the northern ice cap to melt our ancestors left their Iberian refuge and came to the British Isles. We don't know much about them but they couldn't have been savages because they built Stonehenge and similar monuments that required a knowledge of logistics, geometry, astronomy, and engineering.

Thousands of years later the Romans colonised Western Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. At that time Egypt was the breadbasket of Rome. But in 44 BC the Mount Okmok volcano erupted in Alaska causing a two year drought in far away Egypt. This resulted in an economic recession in Rome leading to civil unrest, the assassination of Julius Caesar, the War of Actium and the deaths of Anthony and Cleopatra. These events were attended by all sorts of political intrigues but their underlying cause was climate change.

Napoleon Bonaparte was another victim of climate change. He was defeated at Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington's pan-European army but the weather played a major part in his downfall. A massive volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island of Tambora caused torrential rain throughout Europe, and as the Emperor waited for the rain to stop Marshal Blucher arrived with a Prussian army to seal his fate.  

There is nothing new about climate change. Industrial pollution adds to the problem but nature is influenced by solar and planetary activity as well as gas escaping from fissures, geysers, and volcanoes on land and underwater. We can limit the amount of carbon that we release into the atmosphere but nature will not be constrained. Great volcanic eruptions such as Mount Okmok, Tambora, Krakatoa, and Mount St Helens, produced much more pollution than mankind. All living creatures emit gas from both ends, and landfill sites and sewage treatment works are a major sources of methane. We should certainly try to reduce our emmisions but we will never eliminate them..

As the world gets warmer crops will fail and people will head north to survive. If we don't do something to conrol the influx we will be overwhelmed by climate refugees. The Africans need to develop their agriculture, control their population growth, and instead of growing cash crops such as coffee, cocoa, and tobacco they should grow food that they can eat. It's in our interest to help them to stay in their own continent.

The war in Ukraine has highlighted the problem. Egypt imports 40% of its wheat and grain from Russia and Ukraine to feed its booming population of 106 million. In ancient times Egypt fed Europe but now the situation has been reversed. The Egyptians have made great efforts to improve their agriculture. The US Department of Agriculure estimates that Egypt is reclaiming 1.5 million acres (607,028 ha) from the desert, but they are constrained by a shortage of water and urban encroachment.

Bill Barnes

With the passing of time, members of the pre-war fascist movements have all passed away, and so have most of the supporters of Union Movement and the 1967 National Front. One of them was my old friend Bill Barnes. 

Frederick Charles Cecil Barnes, always known as Bill, was born in London in 1912 and died of cancer in St Thomas Hospital in 1981. He was educated at Dulwich College and Pitman’s College. He was a typical Englishman but he was in fact of Latvian ancestry. His daughter Diana was killed in a road traffic accident in 1975. His second wife, Rita, who belonged to Union Movement in the sixties, died in 2005. His son, Paul, who shared his politics, died in 2012.

Bill Barnes had supported most of the pre-war fascist movements. He admired Oswald Mosley for his intelligence and leadership; Arnold Leese for his radicalism, and John Beckett for his courage. John Beckett was godfather to his son Paul who was born in 1946. Bill Barnes told me that when his friend William Joyce went to Germany in 1939 he was advised by a Special Branch officer that he could not be prosecuted because he was born in America of Irish parents. That turned out to be very bad advice; Joyce was executed for treason in 1946.

Bill managed to avoid being rounded up under Defence Regulation 18B and he took up the fight as soon as the war was over. He supported Union Movement in the fifties, John Bean's BNP and the League of Empire Loyalists in the sixties, and the National Front in the seventies.

In July 1962 Bill was beaten up at the Battle of Balls Pond Road when a group of BNP supporters were ambushed by the Reds, on the same day that Oswald Mosley and his followers were attacked in nearby Ridley Road. But far from discouraging him it only made him more determined. 

Bill fought all his life against the Money Power; he believed in national self-sufficiency, he campaigned against immigration, he dismissed communism as a creed based on envy, he hated the Conservatives, he despaired of the upper classes, and he boasted that fascism was déclassé.

In the seventies he wrote for my newsletter 'Nation' which was distributed from the Bladebone pub in Bethnal Green. His article “From Camelot to Ridley Road” was reprinted in John Bean’s 1999 political autobiography “Many Shades of Black”.

Bill Barnes was an educated man who could talk with ease on any subject. Over the years he knew most of the leaders of the patriotic parties and gave balanced and valuable advice to many of them. He was always well-dressed and well-spoken but he could look after himself and many an “anti-fascist” thug regretted picking on him. He was what Benito Mussolini described as: "the perfect fascist with a book and a musket" - "libro e moschetto: fascista perfetto."

John Gaster

In 2008 the BBC broadcasted an archive recording of John Gaster, a prominent post-war fascist intellectual, on the subject of 'Edward V111: Black Magic and Sexual Yogic Activities'.

"He had been entrapped and enslaved by the king watchers, who knew he was dangerous, and their instrument was one of a group of black magical osteopaths. The head of it was a quack doctor called Dr Alexander Cannon. Original arrangements with Cannon had been established in Austria because Edward needed a dry out cure for addictive drinking. But bit by bit he had become immersed in a world of black magic and sexual yogic activities. Like a sling round the throat of  Edward V111 and which in fact was the mechanism that made it possible for the establishment to dethrone him."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7767919.stm

The following article appeared in Nation Revisited # 100 Febuary 2013:

The inquest into the death of Gareth Williams the MI6 codebreaker who was found dead in a zipped-up holdall in his Pimlico flat, reminded me of another highly intelligent character who had worked for the government and died in unusual circumstances. It seems that not all of our spies are as indestructible as James Bond.

John Marston Gaster was dismissed by Jeffrey Hamm as public relations officer of the British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women for being too openly National Socialist. That was before the League was absorbed into Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement in 1948. He then founded an organization called the North West Task Force under the slogan “Wir Kommen Wieder” – “We come again”; a bold but risky strategy in the immediate postwar period. A few years later he founded a swastika bedecked movement called the British Pan-German League.

His contemporaries describe John Gaster as an impressive character. Roger Clare remembered him as an accomplished pianist, linguist and historian who had worked for the British Foreign Office. John Bean recalled him addressing a meeting of the National Labour Party in an upstairs room of Bill Webster’s pub the Black Horse in Kentish Town; and discussing history and politics with his comrades Frank Leonard, Neville Bealing and Peter Greenslade. Roy Chester told me that John Gaster used to translate directly from the Russian newspaper Pravda. And Vic Sarson remembers a tall, well-spoken man smartly dressed in a railwayman’s uniform.

He was an authority on secret societies and the author of Krumm-Heller in England, a treatise on the German-Mexican Rosicrucian Arnoldo Krumm-Heller who was implicated in the Zimmerman Telegram in WW1 and supported the pro-Nazi Swiss National Front during WW2.

I met John Gaster in the Bladebone pub in Bethnal Green in 1972. He asked me if I knew anything about the Italian “Propaganda Due” Masonic lodge. But I knew nothing about P2 until the apparent suicide of “God’s Banker” Roberto Calvi a decade later. When I heard that he had died following an assault in 1998 I remembered our conversation and I was intrigued when the “anti-fascist” magazine Searchlight blamed Roberto Fiore, leader of the Italian Forza Nova party, for his death: an allegation that Alexander Baron dismissed as just another Jerry Gable fantasy. The Coroner found that his death was caused by an infection and the police made no arrests. 

John Gaster was just one of the many thousands of people who have passed through the so-called far-right movements. But he is remembered as a remarkable man by all who knew him. He was apparently born about 1920 so he would have been nearly 80 years-old when he died. It is not known why he left the Foreign Office and ended his working life on the railways. Or why such a gifted linguist and historian devoted himself to radical politics instead of pursuing an academic career. We can only speculate on the man and his motives and be grateful that we knew him. Not many railwaymen can speak Sanskrit or quote pages of Goethe.

Sam Dickson comments on Douglas Mercer's article "Dark Future" in 'National Vanguard' -https://nationalvanguard.org

These thoughts are directed to the specific and peculiar situation in America but they have some relevance to you in the Old Country too.

All true, well said and some of these arguments we have all used.

But the sad facts as shown by psychologists' studies is that 70% to 80% of the herd will believe what they are told by the authorities even when it is clearly wrong.

And we have to face the facts that for someone to be swayed by such arguments the necessary preconditions are that (a) he thinks long term (50 years out even) and (b) he feels a tie, a connection, and identity for his own race, ethnic group, region, religion.

The majority of people do not think long term. That is why Social Security, for instance, is so necessary due to the fact that most people do not think long term.

I came to the conclussion some time ago that American Whites have the lowest level of group identity of any people on the planet.

They came here because their psychological ties to England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Gtreece, etc. were weaker than the ties connecting their neighbors who stayed.

They were then marinated in an ideology that glorifies individualism.

They live their lives in obedience to the liberetarian Jew Robert Ringer's title of his book: "Looking Out For Number One."

I say these things not to discourage but to direct our thoughts to what we must do if the opportunity ever presents itself.

It is our personas, our hard wiring, that we think idependently of the Regime's System Media and that we are psychologically  connected to our community instead of being individuals.

We could not be other than the way we are.

We are the natural shepherds of the herd I spoke of above.

If our people are to find a way out of their present plight and their future hell, it will be through a small ruthless elite taking charge of them, replacing the System as the voice of authority, hammering down the impulse toward individualism, imposing team allegience and action on our people and doing whatever is required to win.*

We open the eyes of those who have it in them to respond to the arguments set out in the essay you sent. We open their eyes. We open their ears. Our aim is to incorporate them into the ruthless band of brothers we have to have.

But we cannot raise the living dead from their psychological graves.

Anyway, these are my thoughts.

Sam

*This time, for Pete's sake, let us have the Abraham Lincolns and the Shermans and let our enemies be led by the Jefferson Davises and Lees.

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Nation Revisited # 188 June 2022

Traditional Britain Group

Gregory Lauder-Frost is a nationalist and a defender of inherited privilege. As a European Socialist I never expected to have much in common with him, but I agree with the opening lines of his Traditional Britain Group newsletter, March 2022:

Russo-Ukraine conflict

The TBG are completely opposed to any involvement whatsoever in eastern European affairs and the eternal squabbles there. We see no reason to take sides. Everything there has a historical context which 99% of western Europeans know nothing about. We oppose the sanctions of the UK government, who is not at war with Russia and maintains full diplomatic relations with them; we oppose OFCOM's action in revoking RT's broadcasting licence thus denying freedom of the press/media to present an alternative to the biased western narratives. These are the very actions of a totalitarian government, which the UK government claims to oppose. Aggravating a nuclear power to the extent that our government is doing makes the United Kingdom a potential target in any future war. This is something no-one should ignore. Britain is no longer a world power.

The Alien Colonisation

The government has continued to demonstrate clearly that they will continue to take asylum-seekers and 'refugees' on an increasingly threadbare basis into our overcrowded and unwillingly diversified country. Small boats of illegal aliens continue to cross the Channel daily with the open support of the laughably named 'Border Force' and RNLI. For instance, by March 20th over 2,200 illegals had come ashore in Kent. The foreign-origin Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has just today stated: "We want Ukrainian refugees to thrive here, just like the people 'we' (the government) have welcomed from Syria, Hong Kong and Afghanistan. They will have access to public services, from the (free) NHS and specialist mental health services (important), to education and benefits." So there you have it. The government is inviting millions of aliens into our country, without consulting us, the indigenous people, and offering them everything of ours which we have worked for in the past century. If that is not treachery on a mighty scale, what is?

Lastly, continuing reports state that thousands of Africans and Asians are now flooding through Ukraine, despite the conflict there, heading for the European Union (as a first stop) and telling border posts that they were in Ukraine as 'students', despite the fact that they cannot speak or write the language or produce any evidence.

Sam Dickson on Winston Churchill

This much quoted statement shares with a lot of other popular quotes the fact that it is so false, even silly, on its face.

Obviously so.

There is no survival "without victory?"

Really?

How many times in human history have nations suffered defeats and survived?

Contrary to what the drunken egomaniac said, defeats that were so devastating as to cause a nation to disappear almost never occur in history.

Greece has survived for almost 30 centuries. Defeats by the Romans and the Turks did not mean the Greek nation did not survive.

The sad fact of the matter is that Britain (and our larger White European family) may not survive precisely because of Churchill's stupid policy of fighting a war to the last penny and the last drop of blood instead of resolving the matter through a negociated peace...as had been done so often in European history.

One can drop this "Churchillian" eloquence into the toilet and flush it along with so many others, including but not limited to:

"...all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights..."

"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

How many people are swept off their feet by nonsense like these 3 goofball statements remains a mystery to me despite 75 years of trying to figure it out.

Energy and the Green Agenda

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict has highlighted Europe's dependence on Russian gas and oil. The UK gets most of its gas and oil from the North Sea, Norway, or the Middle East; we still buy some from Russia but Germany and Italy are almost totally dependent on Russian supplies.

The UK used to generate electricity from domestic coal but when cheap gas became available in the 1980s the government closed down most of our coalmines and went over to gas. This suited Margaret Thatcher's anti-union policy and made billions of pounds for the newly privatised gas industry. 

It used to be thought that nuclear power was the cheapest way to generate electricity, until the cost of construction, decommissioning and radioactive storage was considered, then it turned out to be the dearest way. Not to mention the risk of a catastrophe like Chernobyl or Fukashima. At present, half of France's 56 nuclear power plants are shut down for safety checks.

We are currently switching to renewable sources of energy to conform to the Green Agenda. But wind turbines, tidal power, solar power, nuclear and other forms of 'clean' energy cannot meet our requirements.

There is no doubt that burning fossil fuels is bad for the environment, but we should copy the Chinese and the Australians by signing up to the Paris Agreement while continuing to use coal, oil and gas.

We are no longer a major manufacturing country and the amount of carbon that we release into the atmosphere is negligible compared to highly industrialized countries like India and China. It would be nice to do away with 'dirty' fuels but we must be realistic. We have a chilly maritime climate and a booming population. Our survival depends on adequate supplies of energy and we would be foolish to ignore the resources at our feet.

"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time." Aneurin Bevan

What is Fascism?

Today, 'fascist' is a political swearword applied indiscriminately to any person or group outside the Liberal Consensus. Vladimir Putin calls the Ukrainian regime 'fascist' because some of its militias are descended from wartime groups that supported the Nazis. The Ukrainians return the compliment by accusing Putin of 'fascism' for invading their country. In fact, the Ukrainian regime is led by a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelinsky, and Putin is the democratically elected president of a federative state with a market economy.

The first fascist group in the UK was the British Fascists. They were unashamed reactionaries, called by Arnold Leese: "Conservatives with knobs on." The BF newspaper British Lion explained their policies.

Arnold Leese quit the BFs to found the Imperial Fascist League, an obsessivly racist movement that hardly bothered with politics. Leese supported Adolf Hitler when he invaded Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, but he objected to the Nazi invasion of Norway: "A fellow Nordic nation."

The main pre-war fascist movement was Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. They were accused of antisemitism, but not by Arnold  Leese who called them "Kosher Fascists". The BUF had a full range of policies based on Keynsian economics and armed neutrality. They were closed down in 1940 under the infamous Defence Regulation 18B, but after the war they resurfaced as Union Movement; devoted to 'Europe a Nation'.

The contemporary populist movements are reactionary rather than fascist. They know nothing about the Corporate State or the advanced social policies of the original Fascists. They cling to pre-war policies that were made redundant by the demise of the British Empire. They are suspicious of foreigners and fanatically opposed to the European Union. The only thing fascist about them is their blustering rhetoric; one of their leaders proposed that the Royal Navy should open fire on refugees crossing the English Channel.

Benito Mussolini wrote in his autobiography:

"In some contingencies violence has a deep moral significance. In our land a leading class was neither present nor living. The Liberal Party had abdicated everything to the Socialists. There was no solid, modern, national unity.

Ignorance was still astride of the workmen and peasant masses. It was useless to attempt to blaze a trail by fine words, by sermons from chairs. It was neccesary to give timely, genial recognition to chivalrous violence. The only straight road was to beat the violent forces of evil on the very ground they had chosen.

With us were elements who knew what war meant. From them was born the organisation of 'Fasci di Combattimento' (fighting bands). Many also volunteered from our universities; they were students touched by the inspiration of idealism, who quit their studies to run to our call.

We knew that we must win this war too, throw into yesterday the period of cowardice and treachery. It was neccessary to make our way by violence, by sacrifice, by blood; it was neccessary to establish an order and a discipline wanted by the masses, but impossible to obtain through milk-and-water propaganda and by words, words, and more words, and parliamentary and journalistic sham battles.

We began our period of rescue and resurrection. Dead there were - but on the horizon all eyes saw the dawn of Italian rebirth." 

Fascism was a revolutionary movement supported by millions of unemployed ex-servicement from the First World War. It emerged at a time of grinding poverty and offered hope for the future. Unfortunately, Fascism as a political creed is forever tarnished by association with the Nazis. It was a product of its time, when discipline and loyalty were normal behaviours. Hence the Fascist slogan: "Credere, Obbedire, Combattere - Believe, Obey, Fight."

Mad Theories

Theoreticians can be dangerous. During the Second World War, when Britain faced starvation due to German attacks on our shipping, Dr Magnus Pyke (pictured), a scientific adviser to the Ministry of Health, came up witht the idea of slaughtering all the dogs in the UK and turning the poor creatures into sausages. Prime Minister Winston Churchill made many mistakes in his time but he was right to reject Pyke's advice.

Churchill's arch enemy Adolf Hitler had ideas about everything. When his soldiers were fighting and dying on the freezing Russian Front he came up with the idea of abolishing their tobacco ration. He rightly said that tobacco was expensive and bad for your health. His generals seldom went against him but this reccomendation was ignored.

When the government started rehousing people in the 1950s, their architects designed tower blocks with shared laundries, kitchens, dining halls, and heating systems. They thought that traditional houses with their own gardens were 'elitist' and anti-social. Thankfully, their communal monstrosities were never built but dangerous tower blocks still blight the landscape, and occasionally burst into flames.

We are currently experiencing the alleged benefits of Brexit, and Jacob Rees-Mogg has been appointed as Minister of Brexit Opportunities. By quitting the EU we were supposed to "get our country back" and be in charge of our borders, our trade and our money. But the truth is that all of these things are subject to the global economy. Illegal immigrants are still crossing the English Channel; energy and food prices are escalating, and the pound buys less in our supermarkets. 

But the the maddest idea is gender reassignment. If little girls play with trains, or little boys play with dolls, it doesn't mean that they need gender reassignment. If adults elect to have major surgery that's their business, but innocent children should be left alone. Of course we are sorry for people struggling with their sexual identity, but no one has the right to confuse children with the latest madness from 'experts' totally lacking in common sense.

Syndicalism

                                Juan and Evita Peron

I was recently taken to task by Geoff Wallder, who writes under the name of Gordon Beckwell. He objected to my contention that Sydicalism had never been tried. He pointed out that the Peronist regime in Argentina implemented syndicalist policies from 1946 until 1955. President Juan Peron nationalized the leading Argentine corporations and involved the trade unions in running the economy.

And as a reforming Minister of Labour, his wife, Evita Peron earned the devotion of the masses. She championed the cause of women and children and defended the poor; when she died in 1952 she was given a state funeral. 

But Peron's confrontation with big business and the Catholic Church led to his overthrow in a coup organised by the CIA. He returned from exile in Spain in 1973 but he died the following year. 

Since the overthrow of the original Peronist regime, Argentina has experienced a series of military dictatorships, several failed democratic governments, and a war that left the country bankrupt. Today, Argentina is still struggling to pay off her debts, even though the country is as big as India, with a population of 46.6 million, and is self-sufficient in food and oil.

Despite the Argentine experiment, I still think that ideas like syndicalism and social credit go against human nature. If the workers are put in charge of industry they will award themselves pay rises until they run out of money. And if the state pays people a guaranteed wage, if they are working or not, most of them will stay at home. 

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Nation Revisited # 187 May 2022

Europe's Borders

Europe's frontiers are defined by the Arctic in the north, the Atlantic in the west, and the Meditteranian in the south. Norway, Finland and the Baltic states are firmly in the political 'West'. Belarus is closely allied to Russia, but Ukraine is disputed between the Russian Federation and NATO. 

Georgia is an ancient Christian state between Russia and Turkey, with a population of 3.7 million. It gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 but lost some territory in the Russo-Georgian War of 2008. Georgia has applied for membership of the EU and NATO.  

Turkey is a vast country in Europe and Asia with a population of 84 million, an economy of $3 trillion, and armed forces of nearly a million. Turkey is a Muslim country with a secular constitution introduced by Kemal Ataturk in 1923. She is a member of the European Customs Union, the Council of Europe and NATO. The Turks have been in Europe since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, they applied to join the EU in 1987 but their application was vetoed by Cyprus and suspended following the attempted coup of 2016.

Cyprus lies south of Turkey but her majority population is Greek. The north of the island is occupied by Turkey and Britain has two small military enclaves in the south. By culture and tradition Cyprus is a European country and a member of the European Union.

Ukraine lies between Russia and the West. The war in Ukraine is the worst conflict in Europe since the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Our government blames Russia but Ukraine has been bombing and shelling the Donbas region since 2014, and NATO has established missile bases on Russia's borders; a reverse of the 1962 crisis when the Soviets sited missiles in Cuba. Ukraine has applied to join the EU. To read the truth about the Ukraine conflict visit the following website - www.moonofalabama.org 

In the wider world, North and South America have been colonised by Europeans, as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Russia from the Urals to the Pacific. All races have contributed to civilisation but Europeans have excelled in every branch of human progress. Europe is much more than a geographical entity, it's also an ideal, an aspiration, a wellspring of human progress.

Marine le Pen

Marine Le Pen the populist Rassemblement National candidate in the French presidential election was defeated by the centrist La Republique en Marche incumbent Emmanuel Macron by 41.46% to 58.54%. 

This result shows that the French people agree with her on immigration but they are wary of some of her policies, even though she has rebranded her party and dropped its opposition to the EU and the euro. She has adopted General Charles de Gaulle's vision of "Europe des Patries." This policy is not "Europe a Nation" but it's a step in the right direction.

By winning so many votes Marine le Pen has forced the French government to take immigration seriously. She now has to improve her party's representation in the June parliamentary election. At present the NR have 6 members of the National Assembly, 252 regional councillors, and 9 MEPs. Bonne chance Marine.

E-mail from Seth Tyrssen                       

Hi Bill, Delighted to hear from you, I've always enjoyed NR. Haven't been too well for a while, to be honest; don't think it's all virus-related, probably about half of it's geezer-related. The last writing I did was for White Voice, which was also a quite a sensible publication; but that of course came to an end when the publisher died, rather unexpectedly. Eddie was a good guy, who cut me a lot of slack - for a British publication (where things are rather tight, as you know.)

Things aren't all that better here; crooks and liars seem to have the inside track on politics, anywhere ya go. And poor ol' Putin, in his grab for a bit more oil (which is all that was about) has made himself the world's most popular villain. I assume there are a lot of reasons behind the scenes, that us dumb sheeple arent supposed to know about, and probably never will.

Sitting out here in my quiet little spot in the Georgia countryside I can pretty much ignore it all, glance at the news and say "fuckin' idiots, all they had to do was listen to me." When I'm feeling up to it, I'll putter around in the garage, where 2-1/2 motorcycles lie in wait; one's nearly done, the other one needs a motor, and of course, all everything needs is cash. Knew I should have taken up counterfeiting or something in younger days ... oh well...

One thing I'll say for Georgia, nice weather here. They're freezing, up in my former home of Michigan, which I don't miss for a moment. Got about 70 degrees here, today. That I can live with! I remember sitting in my folks' place back in Michigan long ago, reading the paper. I got to comparing temperatures around the world (it was a dull day for news) and I saw that it was actually colder in Michigan than it was in Siberia. So glad I moved South!

I, too, can pass on the overt bigotry (which I distinguish from actual racism). I leave that stuff to the dumber Klansfolk in the area. (There aren't many, but a few.) Pride in race and heritage doesn't mean we have to hate or look down on anyone else. We're all different - and that's as it should be. Ah, if only we could all just agree to leave each other alone!

I still hear from British Union, Britain First, and Dave Hayes up in Alaska (now Dr Hayes.) I'm not very gabby these days but I do listen! Always like Nation Revisited, and I hope to see more of it! All my Best! Seth.

NR: Seth Tyrssen founded the American Fascist Party in 2000, a non-racist movement dedicated to social equality. He is the author of many books, including 'The New Fascism'. He answered our 'Five Questions' in 'Nation Revisited' # 146 December 2018.

Rerum Novarum

The worldwide pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the effects of Brexit have combined to cause a cost of living crisis in the UK. As prices rise we can expect more strikes as workers try to keep up with inflation. As I write the London Underground is disrupted by a strike over pensions, but the trade unions and Transport for London aren't talking to each other. This is the kind of situation that Pope Leo X111 was anxious to avoid.

He issued his encyclical 'Rerum Novarum' (On Revolutionary Change) in 1891. Social conditions in the 19th century throughout Europe were terrible. Charles Dickens described the inhuman existence of the working poor in London in his many novels. Labour laws were introduced in Germany and the UK, but things did not get much better until after the First World War.

The introduction to Rerum Novarum begins:

That the spirit of revolutionary change, which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of practical economics is not surprising. The elements of the conflict now raging are unmistakable, in the vast expansion of industrial pursuits and marvelous discoveries of science; in the changed relations between masters and workmen; in the enormous fortunes of some few individuals, and the utter poverty of the masses; the increased self-reliance and closer mutual combination of the working classes; as also, finally, in the prevailing moral degeneracy . The momentous gravity of the state of things now obtaining fills every mind with painful apprehension; wise men are discussing it; practical men are proposing schemes; popular meetings, legislatures, and rulers of nations are all busied with it - actually there is no question which has taken deeper hold of the public mind.

Pope Leo's labour proposals were based on Christian precepts. He acknowledged the rights of employers but insisted that workers be protected and properly rewarded. His manifesto was written 130 years ago but its still relevant. 

The Communist experiment failed in Russia and morphed into state capitalism in China. Fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany failed because they depended on military expansion which inevitably led to war. Other systems such as Sydicalism and Social Credit have never really been put to the test, but modern methods of production and distribution have passed them by. We are stuck with Capitalism which could be reformed by applying the principles outlined by Pope Leo X111:

We now approach a subject of great importance, and one in respect of which, if extremes are to be avoided, right notions are absolutely necessary. Wages, as we are told, are regulated by free consent, and therefore the employer, when he pays what was agreed upon, has done his part and seemingly is not called upon to do anything beyond. The only way, it is said, in which injustice might occur would be if the master refused to pay the whole of the wages, or if the workman should not complete the work undertaken; in such cases the public authority should intervene, but not under any other circumstances.

Pope Leo's system can only work if both parties, Labour and Capital, believe in fair play. This is the basis of the European Social Model which has been abandoned in the UK in favour of the gig economy.

Card or Cash

There is a growing movement for cash to be used instead of electronic bank cards. The objectors are worried that the State knows too much about us already without telling them what we buy. Personally, I don't mind if the State knows what I have for breakfast. We are already tracked by CCTV, debit cards, credit cards, pre-payment cards, loyalty cards. driving licenses, insurance policies, bank accounts, the Inland Revenue, and the National Health Service. I can't see what difference it makes if a few more details are stored by the government.

I have not used cash for at least two years. I pay my rent and utility bills by direct debit, I do my shopping with a debit card, and I pay for online purchases by Pay Pal. Somebody in the Ministry of Snooping is kept busy with a constant stream of my data, but so far, I haven't been dragged off for interrogation.

I recently witnessed an incident in my local supermarket. The customer in front of me asked the checkout girl for £50.00 cashback, but so many people are using debit cards that she didnt have £50.00 in her cash register.

Debit and credit cards can be used to buy anything, but Chancellor Rishi Sunak has proposed a digital currency run by the Bank of England. This is a different thing altogether. By controlling our credit the government could stop us from buying anything they don't like - such as subscriptions to political parties and magazines. China has already adopted 'Social Credit', not the system devised by Major Douglas, but a state bank that rewards citizens for good behaviour'. This is as bad as the system used in the 19th century when workers were paid in tokens that could only be spent at the company store. It's obviously a gross infringement of liberty and a step too far. 

We fondly remember the Good Old Days when those who were lucky enough had pockets full of coins and wallets stuffed with oversize banknotes, signed by LK O'Brien, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England. In those days you could go out with a 'ten bob note' (50p) and have five pints of beer and a glimpse of the barmaid's cleavage. Unfortunately, those days are gone. 

New British Union

When Gary Raikes, the former leader of the BNP in Scotland, founded the New British Union, in 2013, I thought that it was a mistake to copy a pre-war movement complete with uniforms, flags and banners. I still think that uniforms are a mistake, but I now echo the words of Mao Tse-Tung: "Let a hundred flowers bloom," let's advance the cause in any way we can.

Colin Jordan and John Tyndall tried the uniform approach with their National Socialist Movement in 1962. And, at the same time, Kieth Goodall led a nostalgic breakaway from Union Movement called the National Union of Fascists. Both movements were short lived, and I thought that the NBU would go the same way, but they are still campaigning nearly ten years later.

I agree with their policy on immigration:

"Immigration into Britain will be strictly controlled and those immigrants who are work-shy, involved in crime, anti-social behavior and support for terrorism will be deported in double quick time. We have no wish to persecute those of whatever race or religion who are law-abiding, hard-working and who contribute to Britain's economy. Regaining control of our borders will reduce racism and violence and so restore "Britain for the British", "British Jobs for British Workers", and "British Houses for British People".

NBU publish an online magazine called 'The Blackshirt' which  has lifted several articles from 'Nation Revisited' without attributing them, and even worse, it has wrongly attributed some of them to Sam Dickson, the distinguished American lawyer.  I am relaxed about copyright, I don't mind friendly websites and publications using my articles, but I can't speak for Sam. I have contacted Gary Raikes on this matter and he has promised to give the correct attribution in future.  

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Nation Revisited # 186 April 2022

What We Fight For:

When I first got interested in politics, sixty years ago, the main threat was Communism. The Soviet Union was backing guerilla armies in Asia and Africa and financing left wing movements throughout the world. Our fears were fed by American propaganda that warned of an atomic war. Eventually the threat subsided and the superpowers started talking to each other, but thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union the Russians are still seen as the enemy. What President Eisenhower called the Military-Industrial Complex still needs Cold War hostility to stay in business. Arms sales depend on tension.

China claims to be a Communist country but it's really an authoritarian capitalist state. The Chinese have invested massively in the United States and America depends on Chinese exports. The world's two biggest economies are in fact interdependent. 

The next issue was immigration. The UK simply ran out of Irishmen and was forced to look elsewhere for labour. The government found an abundant source of manpower in the West Indies, so they rushed through the British Nationality Act in 1948 to allow Commonwealth subjects to come to the UK. In those days it would have been possible to send them home with fares paid, but now there are too many here to dream of mass deportation. We haven't got the manpower, the ships, the planes, or the determination, and there's no guarantee that their homelands would take them back.

At the same time we realised that the Empire was disintegrating; India became independent in 1947 and  decolonisation was in progress when prime minister Harold Macmillan made his famous "Winds of Change" speech in Capetown in 1960. His speech was recieved with outrage, but he was only speaking the truth. Within a decade the empire on which the Sun never set was no more.      

So, if Communism is a dead duck, immigration is a done deal, and the Empire has passed into history, what exactly are we fighting for? The answer is a complete reform of the capitalist system.  Companies that make an honest profit and treat their workers with respect should be encouraged, but the exploiters must be closed down. 

It's widely held that the Jews are responsible, but some of the worst capitalists are to be found in China and the Gulf States, where Jews are few in number. International capitalists don't belong to any particular race or religion. Bill Gates of Microsoft is an American of Scots and Irish heritage. Zong Shanshan, the richest man in China, has amassed a fortune of $77.5 billion by selling mineral water and Chinese medicine. And King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud is reputedly worth trillions of dollars. But none of them are Jewish. There are certainly many rich and influential Jews, especially in Europe and the US, but the Shylock model is out-of-date. 

The UK is a G7 nation with a high standard of living but millions of our people are living in poverty. The gap between rich and poor is unacceptable. We must build a better Britain where housing, health and education are freely available. And we must reject the worst aspects of capitalism, such as the disgraceful 'Fire and Rehire' policy inflicted on the P&O seamen. Such a  change in society would involve tax breaks for parents and generous allowances for children. It would allow fathers to support their families and mothers to raise their children properly instead of letting them roam the streets. 

We are grateful to America for helping us during the two world wars, but we must stand on our own feet, take pride in our achievements, and protect our European culture.  

We fight for; national pride, cultural survival, social equality, and regulated capitalism.

Vic Sarson

Yes, for many the twenties were hard but the thirties, following the Wall Street crash, were even harder; my father (1900-1976) remembered those days well. The average industrial weekly wage was £1.50 until1938 when war preperations took off. Coincident with that the country went through a period of deflation where prices of goods went down by as much as 25%. That may sound good but deflation, especially when so dramatic a drop, is as bad for the economy as the very high inflation we experienced during the 1970s.

Regarding the war, the cost of a new Spitfire was £20,000, £8,000 for a Hurricane. Training a pilot was £5,000. Government expediture was £1 million per day at the beginning and £3 million by the end. The state of emergency of course was not rescinded until the late Autumn of 1947.

What The Papers Say

In 2005 a new book was published in Britain concerning racial issues. Normally such publications are either an anti-racist rant or a socialogical treatise so boring that bus timetables are more stimulating. This one was different: called The New East End and authored by Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron and Michael Young. In parts it was a quasi-honest attempt to explain what happened to White East London over a 25 year period, circa 1980-2005. Media headlines about this book were interesting: 'Labour's Love Lost, 'London's East End - The Simmering Pot', 'Ignored, Angry and Anxious; The World of The White Working Class'. Candour, August-Sept 2021. www.candour.org.uk 

So, why are we heading for a national crisis? Aside from Covid, there are three key areas. The migration crisis, the looming health crisis, and the cost of living. Those three will trump everything during the coming year. Already we are being told if you want a hip operation, wait another year or go private. The NHS simply can't cope because there are now twenty million more people waiting to use it -  due to post-war Tory and Labour immigration policies - than it was built for. Heritage and Destiny, Jan - Feb 2022  www.heritageanddestiny.com 

Our congratulations to the Danish government for their positive action in taking back their Homeland from foreign invaders. A government spokesman outlined Denmark's new approach to the invaders is: "genuine asylum seekers should register in the first safe country they reach after leaving their war-torn homelands. This is often Italy or Greece. If they attempt to move to Denmark or Great Britain they lose their asylum seekers  status and simply become economic migrants." Congratulations also to the Social Democrat prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, who said: "Denmark will aim to have zero asylum seekers." League Sentinel, Autumn 2021. www.leaguestgeorge.org 

This series (Ridley Road) is based on the 2016 novel by Jewish author Jo Bloom which glorifies the actions in the early 1960s of the violent anti-fascist organisation the '62 Group'. This BBC adaptation is not historically accurate. The portrayal of the character of Colin Jordan by the actor Rory Kinnear is highly negative and not historically accurate nor is the depiction of the NSM and its activist off-shoot the Spearhead. Broadsword, October 2021. www.britishmovement.info  

Enlightened Brexiteers

My attitude to Europe is straight forward. I believe in a united Europe and I see the EU as a step in that direction. Those nationalist groups derived from the National Front are anti-European but there are individuals within them that are in favour of European solidarity. Unfortunately the two examples that spring to mind have recently passed away, but there must be others who share their views.

John Bean was a member of the British Democratic Party which is firmly pro-Brexit, but he believed in a European Confederation which is surely what the EU is; a union of sovereign states bound together by treaty.

Richard Edmonds spoke French and German and travelled frequently to the Continent. He finished his days in the National Front but although he belonged to a pro-Brexit party he never shared their outdated petty nationalism.

I am not the only one to notice this change. Robert Best wrote two years ago:

"Michael Walsh McLoughlin is far more pro-Mosley than he was in the 1970s/80s British Movement, so is Stephen Frost (BM national secretary) and Richard Edmonds (NF) - who all used to support Leese!" 

As Brexit unravels the British public will realise that they have been conned. None of Boris Johnson's promises have been kept: immigration is out-of-control, prices are rising, labour shortages are crippling the economy, and the Northern Ireland problem is unresolved.

If the little parties of the far-right want to be taken seriously they must abandon the dogma of the past and accept the revision of public opinion. As the great economist John Maynard Keynes said: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir."

The French National Rally (Rassemblement National)  formerly the National Front, used to be against the EU and the euro, but they have realised that although the French electorate support them on immigration they are turned off by anti-European rhetoric. Public opinion in France is similar to the UK, but the majority are Remainers. Marin Le Pen (pictured) proposed the rebranding of the party and the change of policy. She announced in 2021 that she wanted to stay in the Schengen Area citing: "an attachment to the European spirit."

Making Money

One of the most cherished misconceptions of the far-right is that banks are all powerful. They are certaily greedy and unsympathetic but they are subject to the rules of commerce and, without government intervention, some of them would fail. If the banks could have created money out of nothing Lehman Brothers and Northern Rock would not have gone broke.

It's true that they lend money in excess of their reserves but since the financial crisis of 2008 governments all over the world have introduced Capital Requirements to prevent overtrading.

The British Government raises money in addition to taxation by selling interest-bearing bonds, mostly to insurance companies and pension funds. Only 27% of bonds are sold to overseas investors, the vast majority go to British buyers.

When the Subprime Mortgage crisis crossed the Atlantic in 2008 the Government lent the banks £137 billion to stop them from failing. This was criticised at the time but a banking collapse would have been catastrophic for the economy. This vast sum of money is being paid back with interest, and when the transaction is complete the Government will have made a profit. 

The same system is being used to compensate companies and individuals affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Our Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been praised for his generosity but he did not become a billionaire by giving money away. Every penny will have to be paid back. 

There is nothing mysterious about the banking industry, no dark arts are involved and bankers are not part of some monstrous conspiracy. 

Usury is universally condemned but few things are free in the real world. Banks take a calculated risk when they lend money and they have legitimate expenses like any other business; rents, salaries, pensions, insurance, and taxes must be paid which is why they charge for their services. It's important that interest rates are strictly controlled but it would achieve nothing to hang all the bankers; except to please their bloodthirsty detractors.

The Money Power consists of huge international corporations like Microsoft and Google, and policy makers like George Soros or Klaus Schuab, that use their influence to control so-called sovereign states; the banks are only part of it. 

A Century of Change

The world has changed almost beyond recognition in the last hundred year but we can trace these changes back to their beginnings.

Cressida Dick the lesbian head of London's Metropolitan Police was recently sacked by Sadiq Khan the Muslim Mayor of London supported by Priti Patel the Hindu Home Secretary. A hundred years ago there were few Asians in the UK but our first Indian MP, Dadabhai Naoraji, was elected to represent Finsbury in central London in 1892. The first female police officer, Edith Smith, joined the force in Lincolnshire in 1915. Homosexuality was illegal in the UK until 1967 but lesbianism was permitted. The Covid 19 pandemic has swept the world killing thousands and wrecking national economies. But this is not the first time that we have faced such an emergency. The Spanish Flu pandemic during and after the First World War killed more people than the War itself. Like Covid it took about two years to run its course.

Microsoft and Google have announced record profits. Radio broadcasting started in the UK in 1920 when the Marconi station 2MT went on the air from Chelmsford, Essex. Television followed in 1936 when the BBC began broadcasting from Alexander Palace in London. Computers were developed during the Second World War, notably by Alan Turing, and the Internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.

The Civil War between the Whites and the Bolsheviks was raging in Russia and Ukraine in 1922. Some of the Ukrainians wanted a separate state but they were incorporated into the Soviet Union. 

The pace of change over the last hundred years has been rapid. American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their first primitive airplane in 1903 in North Carolina. Eight years later Italian pilots were bombing Turkish targets in Libya. British officers Allcock and Brown made the first transatlantic flight in 1919. The Russians launched their first Sputnik in 1957 aboard an R7 rocket designed by Sergei Korelev. The Americans reached the Moon in 1969 and astronaut Neil Armstrong said: "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

It seems that there's no limit to human achievements. I wonder what will happen in the next hundred years?

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"We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people."

    

   

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