Nation Revisited # 106

Nation Revisited # 106, August 2013

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Defence

British armed forces are being restructured in line with the 2010 Defence Review but they will still be highly trained, well-equipped and funded by the fourth largest defence budget in the world. The army will consist of 82,000 regulars and 30,000 Territorial Army reservists. The Royal Navy will consist of 36,000 personnel, including 7,000 Royal Marines and 5,200 men and women of the Fleet Air Arm. The Royal Air Force will have 33,000 personnel.

Our Type 45 destroyers; Daring, Dauntless, Diamond, Dragon, Defender and Duncan are the world’s most advanced warships. They displace 8,000 tonnes and are equipped with the Sea Viper missile system and Sampson radar. After much speculation our 65,000 tonne aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are due to enter service in 2017. Each ship can carry 36 Lightning Joint Strike Fighters, 4 helicopters and a crew of 1600. Two Astute class submarines, Astute and Ambush are in service and five more will follow. These 7,000 tonne nuclear-powered submarines are armed with Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

The RAF’s main aircraft is the formidable Panavia Tornado fighter-bomber. This is being replaced with the even more advanced Eurofighter Typhoon – probably the world’s best multi-role aircraft. The Hercules fleet is being replaced by 22 Airbus A400 transporters.

Our nuclear deterrent depends on Trident missiles supplied by the US under the 1958 UK-US Mutual Defence Agreement. They are carried aboard four submarines; Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance. Each vessel displaces 16,000 tonnes and carries 16 Trident ballistic missiles with multiple warheads. The future of Trident will be decided in 2016. The cost of upgrading the submarines, missiles and warheads is estimated at £20 bn by the government and £100 bn by Greenpeace. The true figure is somewhere in between.

We are more than capable of defending ourselves and in cooperation with our European partners we are developing affordable domestic materiel. Typhoon multi-role aircraft, Augusta Westland combat helicopters, Sea Viper and Storm Shadow missiles, Spearfish torpedoes, Sampson radar, and Airbus A400 transport planes put us in the forefront of military technology and provide valuable jobs for British workers.

The Housing Crisis

It cannot be right that the seventh richest country on earth has a desperate housing shortage. There are 4.5 million people in the UK waiting to be housed and 3,960 families living in emergency bed and breakfast accommodation (National Housing Federation). Between 1951 and 1954 Harold Macmillan the Minister for Housing in Winston Churchill’s government built 300,000 houses per year. But we only managed to build 7,090 houses in 2012 (National House Building Council). In 2007 Gordon Brown pledged to build one million affordable houses but at the present rate of progress this will only amount to 400,000, less than half, by 2020 (The Guardian).

The UK housing shortage has been made worst by immigration and the financial constraints on local authorities. But with interest rates at rock bottom now is the right time to be building; and it would be cheaper than keeping people in B&Bs. There is no reason why social housing should not be profitable. Houses built at volume and sold or rented at realistic prices should cover the cost of construction and maintenance.

When Margaret Thatcher started selling off council houses the Labour Party protested but it soon became obvious that Labour Councilors were at the front of the queue. The Labour Party is good at talking socialism but it took a true-blue aristocrat like Harold Macmillan to set the record for house building. He is hated by Labour for saying that we had “never had it so good”, and he is hated by the Tories for his “Winds of Change” speech. In fact, he had an understanding of geopolitics and a rapport with the people that is sadly lacking in Dave Cameron.

A national house building programme would get families out of inadequate and expensive accommodation, get unemployed construction workers off the dole and give the economy a boost. Defenders of the free market are against government intervention but the private sector has completely failed to provide affordable homes. Banks are restrained from granting mortgages by new rules governing lending and property developers are hampered by planning permission. 

Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement had an extensive range of policies including housing. These were set out in their many books and pamphlets and all of them were covered in Mosley: Right or Wrong - (available from www.amazon.com  at £9.00).

“Housing must be treated as a national problem. To leave it in the hands of local authorities is another case of stage-coach politics. You do not fight wars by farming out the job to local authorities. Why will present government never take anything seriously except fighting a war? It is only then that we have a national effort. The housing of the people should be taken seriously, and treated like a problem of war. Many of the same slums disgrace us today (1961) as when I entered politics. We have got to clean up the British housing problem in double quick time.”

Ukip blames the housing crisis on our membership of the European Union. They claim that the housing shortage is caused by immigration and pledge to solve the problem by getting Britain out of Europe. But this is simply not true. Apart from Citizens of the Irish Republic who are covered by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1923 the majority of immigrants come from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Quitting the EU would do nothing to control them.

The less respectable nationalist parties follow the same line. They are dedicated to the mantra that was carved in stone when the National Front was founded in 1967: “Stop immigration, start repatriation, and get Britain out of the Common Market.”

We have had a housing shortage since the Second World War but apart from Harold Macmillan’s commendable effort in the fifties not enough has been done about it.  People bought their own houses during the boom but now they can’t get mortgages and the present government is torn between its duty to provide housing and its commitment to reducing the budget deficit.

Immigration did not cause the housing problem but it has aggravated it and continues to do so. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown imported 2.5 million immigrants in pursuit of their dream of a multiracial Britain; and in the hope that they would vote Labour. They never considered the availability of houses, jobs, schools and hospitals. They should have been charged with criminal negligence instead of being rewarded with prime ministerial pensions. Some say they should have been charged with treason.

When we built 300,000 houses per year just after the war we were short of materials, money and manpower. With modern construction methods, and rock bottom interest rates, we could build enough affordable houses for all our people. It would take a great national effort and it would upset profiteering bankers, landlords and estate agents but it can, and must be done.

The Dismantling of a Democracy

(Reprinted from The Flame August 2011 – http://theflameuk.com

People are claiming today that Britain has become an obedient poodle at the beck and call of the United States. This is nothing new Winston Churchill put us in this position in the 1930s.

In 1948 the British government signed away more of our freedoms when it signed the United Nations Charter and bound us to its terms. Alger Hiss, an American convicted communist and Soviet agent, together with Andrei Gromyko, a senior Soviet official, saw to it that Britain became embroiled in this trickster’s charter. The UN Act binds Parliament to a body over which it has no control.

Politicians must be the world’s greatest illusionists; for while they tell the public they are doing something good, they are usually getting away with the reverse, and few spot how this is done. Since 1937 plotters have been at work methodically getting rid of all the public safeguards which were built into our constitution. For instance they have gradually reduced the ability of the Sovereign (Crown) to defend her subjects, while dismissing all free and independent critics from the House of Lords. This has for the first time given Parliament a free hand to do just as it wants.

A letter from the Home Secretary dated 31^st May 1988 appears in the Independent newspaper on Monday 17^th June 1988. This document made it clear that her Majesty the Queen is prepared to place at the disposal of Parliament of her remaining prerogatives, including the power to make war or peace. The letter was signed by Douglas Hurd, while serving in Margaret Thatcher’s government. This has left Parliament and their non-elected partners the ability to decide where and when they deploy our armed forces.

With neither the Queen, nor the House of Lords able to place restraints on the government – or to be precise, the cabinet and their advisers – we now have a virtual elected dictatorship. Which is why, Tony Blair felt free to drag Britain into an unjustified and illegal assault on the sovereign nation of Iraq. To make matters worse he involved us in another illegal attack, by allowing American warplanes carrying bombs for the devastation of the Lebanon, to pass through the UK.

As there is no effective opposition party in the House of Commons, it is now left to journalists and the public to try and keep Parliament in check by using whatever means remain. Families who had their sons illegally killed while serving in Iraq have called for a public enquiry into the justification for war. It is possible that Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith may, one day have to give evidence under oath. The Iraq conflict was not only morally wrong, but the reasons given for the engagement were fabricated.

However, a more pertinent point not generally raised is that servicemen sign up to fight for the defence of our nation, not to be lent out as mercenaries and placed at the disposal of that private organization that calls itself “The New World Order”. In fact our armed forces were commandeered in 1939 by a world government group led by Winston Churchill, and as yet they haven’t been returned. This is why our army and air force are constantly being used in wars which have absolutely nothing to do with us, while our shores and airports are continually used as points of arrival for an illegal invasion.

Editor: The United Kingdom has been militarily dependent on the USA since 1917 and economically dependent on them since 1944. We need to seriously consider our links with America, Europe and the rest of the world.

Five Questions Answered by Claire Khaw

We asked our readers the following five questions. Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could direct government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you regret? How would you like to be remembered? Interested readers should e-mail their replies to: nationrevisited@gmail.com

So far we have had replies from John Bean of the British Democrats # 76, Robert Edwards of European Action # 77, Bill Baillie of Nation Revisited # 78, Michael Woodbrige of Western Springs # 96, Eddy Morrison of the NF 97, Robert Best of the League of St George # 98, Arlette Baldacchino of Viva Malta # 99, Alex Morana from North America # 100, Rufus of News from Atlantis # 101, Pete Williamson of The White Way Home # 103. Here is Claire Khaw of The Voice of Reason.

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Who are you?

 

We are defined by; (1) our sex, (2) our religion / political beliefs, (3) our class, (4) our race, (5) our nation. I am a non-white British middle class female social conservative.

What do you believe in?

I believe that; (1) representative democracy, (2) liberalism, (3) feminism, (4) the desecration of marriage, (5) atheism; will be the death of Western civilization.

 If you could direct government policy what would you do?

(1) Repeal the Equality Act 2010. (2) Repeal the European Communities Act 1972.

(3) Repeal the Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965. (4) Repeal the Human Rights Act 1998. (5) Make it a requirement for couples to agree a marriage contract before they can marry.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

I am proud of my understanding of the hearts and minds of the British people as well as my knowledge of their history, culture, religious differences and class system.

It is too early to say if I have any regrets. I will have a better picture of the regrettable things I have done in my life on my deathbed.

How would you like to be remembered?

I would like to be remembered for not being afraid to say what I believe to be the truth and for saying what I feel needs to be said, rather than what is merely socially acceptable to say. A mediocre politician is economical with the truth, while a great politician is generous with the truth and also praised for the telling of it. I hope I will at least be something in between.

Bill White: Enemy of the State

The former leader of the American National Socialist Workers’ Party is back in prison for giving an unauthorized radio interview to the American Free Press.  Bill White, a 36 year-old psychology graduate, has been in and out of federal prisons for the last five years although most of the original charges against him have been dropped. He is accused of provoking violence by addressing an audience that is “inherently violent”. His website used to get 150,000 hits before it was shut down under legislation intended to protect America against terrorism. His former lawyer dropped out when she was advised that representing him could be a federal offence. And a subsequent state-appointed lawyer failed to turn up. Nobody knows how long he will be detained, or even where.

The Washington Post was so determined to incriminate Bill White that they tried to blame his website for the Columbine High School massacre of 1999. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot dead twelve students they suggested: “some police hate crime experts say privately it is not inconceivable that the teen-age gunmen in this case visited the site.” In fact White had merely said that the state education system endangered the mental health of its students. Even the FBI admitted that there was no evidence against him.

The British government used Defence Regulation 18B in 1940 to detain opponents of Churchill’s war without charge or trial. This emergency legislation was introduced to fight the IRA but it was used against Oswald Mosley and his supporters. The present government is preparing new legislation in response to recent terrorist outrages but they already have plenty of repressive laws at their disposal. Colin Jordan and Nick Griffin were prosecuted under the Race Relations Act and Simon Sheppard and Luke O’Farrell were given punitive sentences after being refused political asylum in the US. The British and American governments fully co-operate in locking up “enemies of the state.” The Atlantic Alliance is stronger than ever.

Bill White’s opinions are forthright but harsh words do not actually kill people. President Obama, on the other hand, speaks softly but backs the rebels in Syria and orders the killing of thousands of people throughout the world with missiles, bombs, heavy artillery and gunfire. The dissident writer is held in prison while the Commander in Chief enjoys all the comforts of the White House. Democracy is supposed to guarantee freedom of speech but criticizing the Money Power is obviously a freedom too far. In defence of “freedom” plutocratic governments are using all the instruments of oppression at their disposal.

You can access Bill White’s former website www.overthrow.com by visiting Way Back Machine at http://archive.org/web/web.php

The Great Divide

Those of us who opposed communism, global capitalism and unrestricted immigration in the fifties and sixties gravitated towards parties holding those views. But a clear division soon emerged between Oswald Mosley’s vision of Europe a Nation and the limited horizons of the petty nationalists. I wrote in Nation in 1973: “We are divided on Europe but agreed on the need to stop immigration and control the Money Power. We stand on the threshold of success.” Apart from the Panglossian final sentence the statement is still true.

Individuals and parties come and go but ideas are indestructible. We who believe in Europe are still divided from those chasing the fantasy of “national independence.” We know that the EU will not destroy the individual nations of Europe any more than the United Kingdom destroyed England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Nations are not destroyed by federation. France, Germany and Italy have been in the EU since it was founded by the Treaty of Rome in 1957, but they are still indisputably French, German and Italian.

This debate was revived by an article on Marine Le Pen by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard the dystopian business editor of the Daily Telegraph. He welcomed Marine Le Pen’s promise to destroy the euro by withdrawing France from the eurozone. Even its strongest critics acknowledge that the collapse of the euro would be catastrophic; not just for the eurozone but for the UK and the rest of Europe. But Ambrose Evans-Pritchard thinks it’s a good idea. No wonder the Daily Telegraph’s circulation has halved in the past decade. If the Barclay Brothers want their ailing newspaper to survive they should dump him and embrace reality.

The Front National did well in recent elections, but after 41 years of campaigning they only have 2 seats in the National Assembly and 3 in the European Parliament. They will probably do well in the coming European election; as will Ukip in the UK and the Freedom Party in the Netherlands. They will pick up protest votes but their only answer to the worldwide economic crisis is protectionism. This did not work in the 1930s and it will not work now. France will not prosper on her own and nor will Britain or the Netherlands; we are bound together by ties of blood, culture and historical inevitability. Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage may delay European unity but they will never stop it.

Markets always respond to changing circumstances. Rising wages and expectations in China and a reduction in spending power in Europe and North America will rebalance the economies of the world. The future is looking good for our expanding high-tech industries but an isolated Britain hiding behind protective tariffs and lacking dollars to buy gas and oil is not something to look forward to.

Views on the News

Veteran campaigner and Nation Revisited subscriber Roger Clare was briefly interviewed outside Charing Cross Station on Andrew Neil’s Daily Politics TV show on Thursday 27/06/13. Adam Fleming asked him what he thought about George Osborne’s spending review. Roger replied that the Chancellor should have looked at the foreign aid budget. He told me later that he is not completely opposed to foreign aid but doesn’t see why it should be ring-fenced.

Eric Pirie died in a Nottingham Hospital on 8^th July 2013. He was the younger brother of Denis Pirie. Both brothers were members of the original British National Party who followed Colin Jordan into the National Socialist Movement in 1962 and survived the riot that ended their inaugural rally in Trafalgar Square. RIP Eric.

Ted Davey died of cancer in a Bournemouth hospice on 8^th July 2013. He was an active member of Union Movement in the fifties, a supporter of the original BNP and later Colin Jordan in the sixties and a regular at Friends of Mosley socials in the eighties and nineties. He was an avid letter writer with many contacts at home and abroad. RIP Ted.

Ten years after the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly a group of doctors led by radiologist Stephen Frost are calling for an inquest. The Hutton Inquiry found that he had committed suicide but this has been widely disputed. Courts of Inquiry usually find in favour of governments. But in the age of the Internet and the Freedom of Information Act it’s getting harder to manipulate the truth. Recent inquiries have uncovered corruption in high places. The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War is due to report next year but the government is still refusing to release official documents. Lord Hutton’s verdict may be right but only a proper inquest by a trained coroner will settle the matter.

Dave Cameron has announced a crackdown on child pornography and plans to force Internet providers to install filters to stop children from accessing porn sites. But filters can be switched off by computer savvy children; and perverts can send pictures by e-mail. This is yet another empty Tory gesture to go with charging foreigners to use the National Health Service and advising illegal immigrants to go home. We need vigilant border guards to stop illegal immigrants and we need courts ready and willing to convict criminals. We cannot turn Internet providers, social workers, doctors and nurses into policemen. This government is addicted to gestures. They have promised a referendum on Europe to appease Ukip but they have no intention of acting on it. They promised to combat terrorism but openly supported the rebels in Syria. And they talk about stopping immigration and then tell us that we need another 7 million immigrants. Almost everything this government does is a deception involving smoke and mirrors. It’s time we got rid of them.

 

Nation Revisited # 105, July 2013

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The Woolwich Murder

The killing of Drummer Lee Rigby was the latest in a long line of murders of British soldiers. They have been targeted by terrorists from the Stern Gang, the Malayan National Liberation Army, EOKA, Mau Mau, FLOSY and the IRA. We fought countless colonial wars in the days of Empire and now we are fighting them again as auxiliaries to the Americans. We joined in their attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and we are now threatening Syria. Dave Cameron and William Hague are prominent members of the Conservative Friends of Israel who want to destroy every state in the Middle East that’s capable of defending itself.

Obviously we should deport foreigners who threaten our security. The European Court of Human Rights upholds laws passed by politicians. We must enact suitable laws and ditch outdated ones. The UK is not alone in wanting to reform asylum and immigration laws. But we will not do it by turning our back on Europe. We need to take the lead.

Of course, many of these criminal lunatics and their apologists were born in this country but if we offered them a one-way ticket to their ancestral homeland, or a stiff sentence in a maximum security prison, the majority would take the first option.

We also need to replace our fragmented police forces with a well-armed, well-trained national police force. The destruction of Croydon during the riots of 2011 showed what happens when the police hold back. And the failure to arrest child molesters is partly attributed to police forces not sharing information. All criminal data should be on a national database and underperforming officers should be retired. We should also relocate police officers from their place of birth to discourage the “friends and family” syndrome.

Those who object to security measures and identity cards should emigrate somewhere less complicated than the UK. CCTV and state surveillance is a fact of life. No matter how strongly governments deny that they are implicated we all know that they routinely spy on our e-mails and telephone calls. This may be a violation of our civil rights but it has been going on since the invention of the telephone. We would all like to live in a country without armed police, or catch a plane without being searched, but we live in dangerous times and must be protected. We remember atrocities like the murder of Lee Rigby but we don’t always know about terrorist plots that are foiled by the security forces. Some loss of personal liberty is a necessary trade-off for our security.

Vote Ukip: get Labour

Ukip was founded to get the UK out of the EU but they are now winning votes by calling for immigration controls. The trouble is that they support a capitalist system that depends on minimum wage workers. Nigel Farage is probably sincere but the media barons promoting him will never allow cheap labour to be restricted. Public opinion is heavily influenced by newspapers and television channels. The Daily Mirror is gushing with socialist propaganda but, until recently, it supported open-door immigration policies that drive down wages and conditions. And at the other end of the spectrum the increasingly delusional Daily Telegraph waves the Union Jack and dreams of Empire but it is totally subservient to NATO and the WTO.

Ukip have captured 23% of the popular vote in England but they have not taken off in Scotland, and they will not change anything. As long as we belong to the global capitalist system our troops will be under NATO command and our commerce will be regulated by the American-led World Trade Organization. We will still buy our oil with dollars and our courts will adhere to the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

Nigel Farage wants an “independent” UK to negotiate trade deals with the EU like Norway and Switzerland. But Norway has a tiny population of 5 million, huge energy resources and a sovereign wealth fund of £330 bn. Switzerland has 8 million people, massive gold and dollar reserves and the highest per capita income in Europe. We are not in such a good position: we have an immigrant-swollen population of 63 million, a national debt of £1.2 trillion and fast depleting gas and oil reserves.

Ukip make astronomical claims on the cost of EU membership but we would still have to comply with regulations if we left the EU and we would not necessarily increase our trade with the rest of the world. In fact, many international companies would relocate if we quit the single market. The real cost of our EU membership is 1% of Gross National Income – slightly more than we give in foreign aid. But Ukip are more motivated by nostalgia than economics

In a letter to The Independent 19 UK business leaders including Richard Branson of the Virgin Group stated: “The benefits of membership outweigh the costs, and to suggest otherwise is putting politics before economics.”

The Tories will not help matters by jumping on the Ukip bandwagon. Their suicidal obsession with Europe destroyed John Major’s government in 1997 and resulted in 13 years of the Blair/Brown circus. The worst government in Britain’s history deliberately imported 2.5 million immigrants and left the country on the verge of bankruptcy. We are still trying to recover from that disaster and few of us want to go down that road again. But every vote for Ukip will help the Labour Party to get back into power. If you vote Ukip don’t be surprised if you get Labour.

Storming the Bastille

According to the House of Commons Library membership of the political parties has declined to 1% of the electorate. The Labour Party have approximately 193,000 members, the Conservatives have 130,000 and the Liberal Democrats 49,000. In the early fifties the Conservatives claimed 3,000,000 members and the Labour Party had more than 1,000,000.

The minor parties are also in decline. The BUF had 40,000 members in the mid thirties. In July 1939 they filled the Earls Court arena with over 30,000 cheering supporters. And in May 1948 Oswald Mosley marched 1,500 Union Movement members through the streets of Camden. But apart from a period in the late fifties and early sixties his post-war movement never became a significant political force.

The National Front peaked at 20,000 members in the mid seventies but they never recovered from Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election statement that she understood people’s fears of “being swamped” by immigration. The Tories won the election by a landslide and the NF was decimated.

History repeated itself thirty years later when the BNP disintegrated following the 2010 general election. They had 2 Euro MPs, a member of the London Assembly, more than 50 local councilors and 14.000 members. But now their numbers are seriously depleted and they have been eclipsed by Ukip.

Ukip are doing well at the polls but they need to capture the mood of the moment. When Enoch Powell made his “Rivers of Blood” speech in 1968 he was hugely popular but by 1974 he was finished as a Tory MP. The following quote is from Martin Walkers book The National Front:

At Smithfield meat market, the response for Powell was equally spontaneous. It was exploited, but not initiated, by one of the porters, Big Dan Harmston, a member of the Union Movement and a fervent supporter of Mosley, Harmston has never tried to organize the market politically. ‘I’ve got too much respect for the blokes there. The whole thing just happened. When the lads were all together and the blokes were getting up and having their say they got me up there as well’ Harmston recalls. ‘There was a mood about the place – if that day I’d have said “Pick up your cleavers and knives and decapitate Heath and Harold Wilson” they’d have done it. They really would – but they wouldn’t have done it next week. It was just the mood of the moment – like storming the Bastille I suppose.’

Joining a political party used to be the only way for people to express themselves but now that we have Facebook and Twitter they are going the same way as newspapers and organized religion. We no longer depend on them.

British Nationalism (abridged from Nation No 1 Dec 1973)

 The plutocratic press, radio and TV do not report objectively on the National Front. For the last two years they have held a service of remembrance for the Rhodesian War Dead. This follows the official wreath-laying service by the Queen and fills Whitehall with supporters from Parliament to Trafalgar Square. This mass demonstration goes unreported but the antics of Tariq Ali and a handful of demonstrators are guaranteed to dominate our newspapers and TV screens. The NF is the biggest and most successful British nationalist movement. On May 24^th 1973 Martin Webster their candidate for the West Bromwich by-election achieved 16.2% and saved his deposit for the first time. The NF is led by John Tyndall who also edits the monthly magazine Spearhead. They want to stop immigration, start repatriation and get Britain out of the Common Market. They call for a reconstructed British Commonwealth.

Action Party stands for the union of Great Britain with Europe and the White Dominions. It is opposed to non-European immigration and the Money Power but in contrast to the NF it is pro-European. It was founded as Union Movement in 1948 by Sir Oswald Mosley the leader of the pre-war Blackshirts. His vision of Europe a Nation does not stop at the Common Market but embraces the entire Continent; a self-sufficient union of 400 million Europeans that would be economically, politically and militarily independent of both Russia and America.  A fortnightly paper Action is published in support of the party.

British Movement is led by Colin Jordan who was forced to resign as a schoolteacher by the pro-communist school authorities. BM is the successor to the controversial National Socialist Movement of the early sixties. It competes with the NF but in view of Colin Jordan’s uncompromising views there will be no merger between them.

The National Independence Party is a breakaway movement led by John Davis. Their policies are virtually the same as the NF. They have done well in the London area but remain a much smaller party than the NF.

Candour is a nationalist journal that was edited by AK Chesterton until his death in August 1973. He founded the League of Empire Loyalists in 1954 to resist the carve-up of the British Empire, and he was the first chairman of the National Front.

The Racial Preservation Society is concerned only with the conservation of our race. They draw support from nationalists and from members of the Old Gang parties who have not been brainwashed into accepting miscegenation.

The Britons Publishing Co dates back to before WW1 when the first wave of aliens made their presence felt. Most nationalist movements have used their publishing facilities. They are led by Tony Gittens a lifelong fighter against subversion.

Tru-Aim, led by Bill Whitbread, is working within the trade union movement to counter the menace of uncontrolled immigration. They have caused panic in left-wing circles and “democratic” union leaders have called for them to be banned.

During the war patriots were detained without charge or trial under Defence Regulation 18B. In the fifties another round of imprisonment followed race riots in Kensington sparked by black gangsterism.  And in the sixties the Reds temporarily dominated the streets with a campaign of violence. But a philosophy that survived the horrors of war will not die. We are divided on Europe but agreed on the need to stop immigration and control the Money Power. We stand on the threshold of success.

Comments

Bill, Most of us on the so-called radical right (a misnomer if ever there was) oppose the control of nations by the international financial system, which is far removed from the high street bankers of UK, US, EU or the Plaza de Mayo Buenos Aries. It is the former I have always opposed and – like you – not the latter. However, it now seems you are happy with the international bankers which in former days you always opposed?

I would refer you to NR No 96 (not 12 months ago), the section under heading “Making Money”. I agree with virtually everything said here. I suppose if we go back 39 years one is allowed to change viewpoints a little (Nation No 5 Apr 74, end of opening section), but it still sounds good advice to me!

“Democracy is supposed to be government of the people for the people and by the people. It is in fact a dictatorship of the people, for the bankers, by crooks, liars, fools and failures.” I suspect you were inspired by a Mosley passage for this – and why not. John Bean.

Editor: OK John, since you liked “Making Money” so much, here it is again.

Making Money

The Fractional Banking system currently allows banks to lend 25 times what they hold in deposits. The difference is supposed to be covered by assets, repayments and dividends. But if too many customers take their money out at the same time the bank is broken. That’s what happened to Northern Rock and Lehman Brothers; and it’s why banking regulations are being tightened to stop overtrading.

People, countries and banks are granted loans according to their status and collateral. This may seem unfair but it’s the way that capitalism works. At some time in the future we will hopefully break away from deficit spending and dollar dependency and start issuing money based on productivity. But for the time being we are stuck with the Rothschild model.

The banks make money by charging interest on loans but people stop buying cars, furniture and houses during recessions and the banks have to be bailed out by the state. The government can’t let them go broke because people would lose their savings, their homes and their pensions.

A viable banking system must be maintained. But first we need a sustainable economy. Britain only produces 60% of her food and 40% of her gas and oil. Within a genuinely united Europe we would be self-sufficient because Danish bacon, Norwegian gas, German cars, French wine and Italian fridges and washing machines would all be part of an internal market. But if a go-it-alone Britain tried to restrict imports we would break the rules of the World Trade Organization and our exports would be blocked. A country that depends on imported fuel and food is in no position to start a trade war.

Most currencies are backed by gold and dollar reserves. The UK holds $130 billion and the Eurozone holds $883 billion. The US also maintains gold and foreign exchange reserves but their currency is effectively backed by oil. Since the US came off the Gold Standard in 1971 the dollar has been exclusively used to buy oil under the petrodollar agreement with OPEC. The dollar accounts for two thirds of all official foreign exchange transactions and half of all the world exports are denominated in dollars. This arrangement gives the US a massive commercial advantage over the rest of the world. It was challenged when Iran started selling oil for euros in 2003, and seriously threatened when she abandoned the dollar altogether in 2009. This is the driving force behind American foreign policy. The status of the greenback as a world reserve currency depends on its tie to oil. They do not want Iran, or any other oil producer to break their monopoly.

This is the global system that our politicians are committed to. It’s what NATO is all about. It’s what we pay our taxes for and it’s why our boys are fighting and dying in Afghanistan. Forget about the “War on Terror” and Iran’s controversial nuclear programme. There is nothing complicated about US foreign policy. It’s not a conspiracy by ‘hidden forces’, it’s about maximizing profits for the giant corporations; the same old-fashioned commercial imperialism that sustained the British Empire.

Arnold Leese

A number of readers have questioned my assertion in NR # 104 that Arnold Leese (1878-1956), leader of the Imperial Fascist League, pledged his allegiance to King and country at the outbreak of war. In 1934 he wrote in The Fascist:

There is one thing that no member of the Imperial Fascist League will do; he will not join the British forces to fight the battle of the Jews against men of his own Nordic race. (Colin Cross, The Fascists in Britain p 190).

But by 1940 he was deeply critical of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939. And he opposed Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Norway; a fellow Nordic country. This is not conjecture; it is backed up by documentary evidence. The following Wikipedia extract is based on Richard Thurlow, Fascism in Britain p 170, and Robert Benewick, Political Violence and Public Order p 46-47.

The outbreak of the Second World War caused the small group to fall apart as Leese declared loyalty to King and country and renamed the group the Angles Circle but his stance was rejected by some pro-German members such as Tony Gittens, Harold Lockwood and Bertie Mills. It proved to be academic however as in 1940 Leese was interned under Defence Regulation 18B and although he continued to be politically active after the war the IFL was not reformed.

Arnold Leese’s disenchantment with the Fuhrer was picked up by Alexander Baron commenting on Gerry Gable’s contribution to “Neo Fascism in Europe”:

On page 249 Gable mentions the pre-war Imperial Fascist League, whose main theme was an “almost hysterical anti-Semitism”.  However, he is not quite right when he says it was pro-Hitler. According to documents at the Public Records Office Arnold Leese spoke at an IFL meeting on 19^th April 1940, “stating his disgust at the German action in Norway.” He was said to have thought Hitler should retire in favour of Goering.

Leese was critical of rival fascist movements. He denounced Rotha Lintorn-Orman’s British Fascists as “Tories with knobs on” and Oswald Mosley and William Joyce as “Kosher Fascists”. The following report appeared in The Fascist in October 1934:

Mr Joyce, a speaker of the “British Union of Fascists”, brought an action against the Daily Worker for alleged incitement. According to the Daily Herald of 25^th August, his lawyer was to have been Mr St John Hutchinson, whose daughter recently married a Rothschild, but he was prevented from attending through illness. “Yes, we have no Jews.”

Apologists for the Nazi regime either deny that the Holocaust ever happened, or blame it on an unnecessary war. But Arnold Leese had no such reservations; as early as 1935 he pondered the use of gas chambers (Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tydersley:  p 183).  And he celebrated the end of the Second World War in 1945 by publishing his magnum opus The Jewish War of Survival.

Leese and the entire leadership cadre of the IFL were interned under Defence Regulation 18B. After the war he founded the short-lived National Workers Movement but his main effort went into his newsletter Gothic Ripples and the encouragement of his protégé, a promising young Coventry schoolmaster called Colin Jordan.

Have Faith in the Future

The established political parties in the UK are so similar that it’s difficult to tell them apart. They used to represent labour and capital but over the years they have adopted the same liberal consensus. The Tories still have the remnants of aristocracy about them but most of their activists are middle class people who work for their living. The same people who support the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats: unquestioning believers in the politically correct policies of parliamentary democracy; multiculturalism, free trade, social equality and the Atlantic Alliance.

Beyond the democratic consensus we have the communists who cling to a dystopian vision of a world run by committees. They had their golden age in the fifties and sixties when they took over schools and universities. Unfortunately for them their juvenile rebellion led to depression, drug addiction, suicide and infection with sexually transmitted diseases. Those that survived spend their twilight years in affluent white suburbs far from the inner-city ghettoes that they helped to create. Apart from a handful of trade union leaders and a diminishing band of academics they are clapped out and forgotten.

At the other extreme we have an assortment of political nonconformists. Most of them identify the Money Power as the principle enemy but some of them subscribe to a bewildering catalogue of conspiracy theories. Their guru is the American exhibitionist Alex Jones who recently disrupted the Andrew Neil television show with an embarrassing tirade against the Bilderbergers.

Our long suffering country urgently needs a modern political movement. We do not need suicidal Spenglerians wallowing in self-indulgence.  And we don’t need nostalgic nationalists who look back in anger. Young people starting out in life do not need chauvinistic rhetoric they need jobs and houses. A country like the UK that pioneered the Industrial Revolution and conquered half the world is more than capable of creating a just society with a sustainable economy. We have the technology and the human resources but first we need to recognize political and economic realities. 

If we tried to create a new movement from the bones of an existing party it would inherit the fatal flaws of insularity. The British Empire has gone and nothing will bring it back. Those who invoke the spirit of Winston Churchill and the Battle of Britain are missing the point. We cannot compete in the modern world by waving Union Jacks and living in the past.

Modern industry needs international markets and adequate funding. Rolls Royce makes the Trent XWB turbofans for the Airbus 350. And GKN Aerospace provides engineering design and analysis. This exciting project will guarantee thousands of British jobs at Derby and Bristol and keep us at the forefront of aviation. But the development costs for the new aircraft came to a staggering £10 billion. Our hi-tech industries depend on capital investment that can only come from joint ventures.

Despite a worldwide recession British industry is starting to grow but its recovery is threatened by the negative propaganda of the anti-EU campaigners. People who consider themselves to be patriots are damaging their country. The recession will not last forever; we must invest in the latest technology to be in poll position when the next boom comes. The future will be bright so long as we keep our nerve and stop listening to the Jeremiahs.

Attitudes to Race

John Bean has posted an article on the British Democratic Party website about Peter Sutherland, the former Irish Attorney General, who is a close friend of David Rockefeller the international banker and founder of the Trilateral Commission. These powerful men are multi-millionaires. They believe in the global capitalist system and they think that Third World immigration is the way forward for Europe and North America.

They want to replenish declining populations by bringing in more immigrants. They argue that this is necessary to provide an industrial workforce to pay taxes and keep our social services going. They do not hold these views because they are Marxists or Jewish – they are neither. Peter Sutherland is a Jesuit-educated Irishman and David Rockefeller comes from the American Protestant aristocracy. But like so many liberal people they attach no importance race.

National identity stems from cultural, religious, linguistic and geographical roots as well as ethnicity. Most people support immigration controls but they are not motivated by racial hatred. They just want to be left alone and they feel threatened by a seemingly unending invasion.

In an effort to absorb millions of blacks and Asians the UK government has passed draconian laws and introduced “positive discrimination” but most of the immigrants have stayed in their own areas and the whites have moved out. The liberal dream of a successful multi-racial society has largely failed because it takes no account of the social and political impact of mass migration.

People like Peter Sutherland and David Rockefeller are so far removed from the masses that they no longer share their fears and hopes. Ordinary people do not see the world in terms of balance sheets. They worry about their jobs, homes and children and they fear a future dominated by unfamiliar languages and customs. This does not make them “racists” but they are not interested social engineering or the grand strategy of the super rich.  

 

Nation Revisited # 104, June 2013

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Ukip: an unnecessary distraction

The UK has an annual deficit of £120 bn and a national debt approaching £1.2 trillion. We would not owe one penny less by leaving the EU. We are facing years of hardship and desperately need a Government of National Unity that’s above party politics and empowered to act. But Ukip got 25% of the votes in the local elections.

They are spreading alarmist propaganda about a Romanian invasion but most immigrants are from outside the EU. The largest groups of people coming to the UK are from Ireland, India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean. By conflating immigration with the EU they are threatening to cast us adrift in a global recession.

When interest rates inevitably go up Britain’s debt will become unsustainable and we will run out of credit. But we are not a peripheral economy like Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, Greece or Cyprus that can be bailed out by the IMF or the ECB. We are a major economy dependant on imported food and oil with 63 million mouths to feed.

Ukip is an unnecessary distraction at a time of unprecedented national danger. They are trying to push the Tories further to the right but by stealing votes they will guarantee a Labour Party victory in 2015. They are currently obsessed with the EU but their roots go back to the 17^th century.

The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed most of the city and a scapegoat was quickly found. Robert Hubert was a French watchmaker who admitted, under “interrogation”, to starting the fire on the orders of the Pope. He was hanged at Tyburn on 28^th September 1666 and the fact that he only arrived in London two days after the fire started was not allowed to interfere with British justice. The evidence was conclusive; he was not only a foreigner but also a Catholic. There was much celebrating at Robert’s hanging. Londoners expressed their patriotism by getting drunk, screaming sectarian abuse and throwing rotten fruit at the scaffold. The execution of a foreigner has always been a crowd pleaser.

Today’s outraged patriots are more sophisticated. Their leader Nigel Farage is married to a German woman; many of them enjoy a glass of Burgundy, and some of them have retired to Spain. They insist that they are not anti-European but their protests are as unconvincing as the figures they pluck out of thin air. Their real motivation is good old-fashioned xenophobia – a fear and loathing of foreigners. They are not as violent as the mindless thugs that shout obscenities at football matches but they share some of the same attitudes.

Their hostility is founded on ignorance and fanned by prejudice. If they knew that we are Europeans by race and culture they might understand how the United Kingdom came about and realize that federation with our neighbours is mutually beneficial. They would see the possibilities of unity and stop worrying unnecessarily about losing their nationality. But instead of trying to educate them the popular press encourages tribalism and unscrupulous politicians compete with each other in displays of gratuitous flag waving. Dr Samuel Johnson was right when he said: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Ukip call the EU a capitalist racket but their progenitor was Jimmy Goldsmith, a cousin of the Rothschilds; and they are promoted by the billionaire press barons Rupert Murdoch, Richard Desmond, Jonathan Harmsworth and the Barclay Brothers. They are as confused about capitalism as they are about immigration. Dave Cameron’s promise to limit immigration is reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 statement that she understood people’s fears of “being swamped”. But soon after she said it she let in the Vietnamese boat people. Only a few weeks ago Dave Cameron was in India on a recruitment drive but now he is promising immigration controls. There is no difference between the “mad swivel-eyed loons” of the Tory Party and the “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” of Ukip; they are the massed ranks of reaction that we are pledged to fight against.

Peter Ferguson RIP

We regret to announce the death of our comrade Peter Ferguson. He was a former officer in the Royal Navy, a lifelong supporter of Union Movement and a dedicated Mosley man. He was born on 26^th January 1930 and died in Brighton on 19^th April 2013. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him.

 Conspiracies

The victims of the Boston bombers were not yet buried when the cloak and dagger enthusiasts accused the security forces of their murders. This is not the first time they have blamed the American authorities for mass murder. In his 1997 book “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard the imaginative business editor of the Daily Telegraph claimed that the Oklahoma City bombing was the work of the FBI: an allegation that was quickly accepted by the conspiracy theorists.

The 9/11 atrocity competes with the JFK assassination and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as the mother of all conspiracy theories. They have spawned an industry and produced enough books and videos to stock a library.

Not to be outdone an American called Bill Kaysing has written a book called “We Never Went to the Moon.” According to him the Apollo programme was a hoax to bamboozle the American public into accepting higher taxes. This insane drivel has been aired on several right wing websites on both sides of the Atlantic. Bill Kaysing and his supporters maintain that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and the other nine Astronauts who went to the Moon are all telling lies.

For the record: the Second World War was a direct result of the unfair terms and conditions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. It resulted in the deaths of 60 million people worldwide including the European Jews.

The Oklahoma City bombing which killed 168 people and injured over 800 was the work of Tim McVeigh a 33 year-old decorated Gulf War veteran who was rejected by the US Special Forces on psychological grounds. He was found guilty and executed.

In 1963 President John F Kennedy was shot dead and Texas Governor John Connelly was wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald who was himself shot dead by Jack Ruby. The Warren Commission found that both assassins had acted alone.

The Apollo programme employed thousands of operatives, cost over $30 billion from 1961 to 1972 ($200 billion in today’s money) and brought back 382 kg of moon rock.

The 9/11 atrocity of 2001 was carried out by 19 Arab terrorists led by Mohammed Atta a 43 year-old Egyptian. All of them were killed along with 3,000 innocent victims. Osama Bin Laden who allegedly planned the operation was reportedly killed in Pakistan by American Navy Seal commandos in 2011.

We can’t completely rule out conspiracies but most things have simple explanations and a suspect holding a smoking gun at a crime scene is often the guilty party.

The Mad Major

The popular author Alan Sillitoe was one of the “Angry Young Men” who wrote kitchen sink dramas like “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” and “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.” But his 1972 book “Raw Material” plumbed new depths of class-war propaganda when he accused Lt Colonel Graham Seton-Hutchinson of murdering deserters during WW1.

All of the British fascist leaders had distinguished military careers in WW1. Oswald Mosley served in the Lancers and the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front. Arnold Leese served in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in France and the Middle East. And Rotha Lintorn-Orman drove ambulances under fire and was decorated for her part in the Serbian campaign. But Graham Seton-Hutchinson captured the imagination of his readers with glowing accounts of his wartime exploits.

He was born in 1890. After serving with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in Africa he joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1914 and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the Machine Gun Corps. He was opposed to retreat under any circumstances and was linked to an incident in March 1918. In his published memoir “I Was There” he explained his actions:

“We discovered at the Belle Croix estaminet a crown of stragglers, fighting drunk. We routed them out and with a machine gun trained on them we sent them back towards the enemy. They perished to a man.”

He was mentioned four times in dispatches and awarded the MC and the DSO. In 1921 Kenneth Alford penned his stirring march “The Mad Major” in his honour.   

He stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Party candidate in Uxbridge in 1923 but soon became disillusioned with democracy. He flirted with Rotha Lintorn-Orman’s British Fascists, Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and Arnold Leese’s Imperial Fascist League before founding the British Empire Fascist Party in 1933. This was renamed the National Socialist Workers’ Party and modeled on the German Nazi Party.

In 1936 he accused Labour Party leader Clement Attlee of being a Jewish warmonger. Attlee sued for libel but withdrew the action when Seton-Hutchison apologized.

He was given privileged access to the Nuremburg rallies and his sympathetic articles were published in German and Austrian newspapers.

The NSWP was a tiny movement compared to the BUF but it was active in the East End of London and joined Maule Ramsay MP and the other fascist parties in the peace campaign co-ordinated by the Nordic League. That ended in 1940 when Winston Churchill used the threat of invasion to round up most of the leading fascists under the infamous Defence Regulation 18B. Graham Seton-Hutchinson wrote to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden volunteering for active service and offering to reorganize the Machine Gun Corps, but his offer was not taken up. He survived the war and died in 1946 at the age of 56.

The fascist leaders can’t be dismissed as traitors because they fought bravely for the British Empire in the First World War. In 1939 Oswald Mosley ordered his followers to fight for King and Country, and so did Arnold Leese. AK Chesterton and Graham Seton-Hutchinson volunteered for military service but William Joyce and John Amery actively supported the Axis cause and paid with their lives.

When the German lawyer Horst Mahler was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for Holocaust denial in 2009 he was asked why he changed from supporting the Baader Meinhoff terrorists in the 1970s to trying to revive National Socialism. He replied that his politics had changed but he still had the same enemies.

The same is true of the pre-war British nationalist movements. There was a world of difference between the interventionist policies of Oswald Mosley and the obsessive racism of Arnold Leese - but they had the same enemies.

Comments on NR # 103

Dear Bill, Thank you once again for an interesting NR. It was refreshing to hear the views of Sid Williamson who I met once on a “Free Ernst Zundel,” demo. I say “refreshing” because there was no polish or pretence; not that pretence characterises your Blog of course.

I would take issue with you about the German M.P.s during Hitler’s time. It’s worth remembering that the National Socialist government was established in a completely different era and, although there’re bound to be exceptions, can’t be viewed with the same cynicism as we view our own.

Kind regards, Michael Woodbridge – www.westernspring.co.uk

 
Hi Bill, Many thanks for the latest NR, very well written and thought through as usual.
But I have at last found something to disagree with you on and it’s in the first article.
I don’t believe that our large welfare budget is caused by a large percentage of the British unemployed being work shy. I think that the answer is far simpler than that – there are 2,500,000 unemployed and only 250,000 vacancies. This is thanks to the way recent Governments were too busy fiddling their expenses to notice the bankers had their fingers in the till.

The overwhelming majority of British people would jump at the chance of a job: their aspirations go far beyond the £70 a week Jobseekers plus Housing Benefit. But 2,500,000 into 250,000 simply won’t go.

In order to get the welfare budget down, the Tories have started a snide campaign of demonization of all people on benefits. They’d like to shame genuinely unemployed and disabled people who can’t find a job into forgoing their rights to benefits, either voluntarily or by force.

The very small number of real scroungers who refuse to work but take benefits should be hunted down by the Police and punished like the criminals and thieves they clearly are. So why hasn’t the Government done this already?

Deliberately throwing people out of work and then stigmatising them when they apply for benefits to feed themselves and their family is dishonest and reprehensible. But gradually people are coming to accept the scrounger line.
 

Regards, Jeff Wallder – www.oswaldmosley.com

The Open Eye of Paul Collins (From Action No 81, October 1992)

This is the 60^th anniversary of the founding of the Mosley movement. For all but sixteen of those years – eight if one includes the war years and their immediate aftermath – its policies have been built around the political union of Europe.

Mosley was the first British leader of prominence to beckon his countrymen towards their European inheritance, a corollary of having been the first to have concluded that the war had destroyed the British Empire and with it any prospect of an independent Britain.

If it is the drama, emotion, pageantry and mass appeal of British Union which commands the most attention, the courage, tenacity and vision of all those who fought the post-war cause of Union Movement deserves a special place in our esteem.

For while British Union was a mass movement of the “Now”, Union Movement was a mass movement in embryo, advancing imperceptibly across a complacent, inhospitable terrain, broken here and there by sudden rushes. It was a long hard slog performed against an uncompromising backcloth of full employment, frustrated by the legacy of wartime propaganda, and an almost total Establishment smother on meetings and marches. Perhaps never was that quality so admired by Mosley, the power to endure, more tested or more proven.

The great policies for which Union Movement stood – British leadership in the union of Europe a Nation, a massive rehousing programme, government partnership with industry, worker participation, no coloured immigration, and the encouragement of separate white and black nations in Africa south of the Sahara – stand in starkest possible contrast with what has come to pass at the hands of the old parties. As for the awakening of the great national spirit of brotherhood and endeavour for which Union Movement, like British Union, stood, and for which they were a microcosm, the reality of contemporary Britain provides a counterpoint of degradation and shame.

I do not believe this decline is limitless or irreversible. The spirit lives, the rest will follow.

Editor: Oswald Mosley died in 1980 and Action Society was wound up in 1994 but its policies are as vital as ever. The world has changed in the last twenty years; the threat of Soviet Communism has gone away and Africa has exchanged European for Chinese colonialism. The crisis of capitalism predicted by Oswald Mosley has come to pass and the first steps have been taken towards geopolitical union. At present the reactionary right is capturing the headlines and the Tory coalition government is in trouble. As WB Yeats wrote: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” But we still fight for “Europe a Nation” and an end to non-European immigration.

Julius Evola – The Mad Monarchist - http://madmonarchist.blogspot.co.uk/

It was on this day (May 19) in 1892 that the thinker and writer Julius Evola was born; a staunch monarchist, ultra-traditionalist, anti-egalitarian and an ardent believer in a great deal of hocus pocus. He is often credited with introducing the concept of the “radical traditionalist” or (contradictory as this may sound) the “conservative revolutionary.” However he is not so controversial because of any of that, most people having never read his books and those who have, few have probably been able to grasp their meaning – especially when he started getting into all of his mystical mumbo-jumbo. No, what makes Evola controversial is his association with Fascism and even National Socialism (especially the dreaded SS). That however is unfair and could probably have been put to rest long ago were it not for the neo-Fascists and neo-Nazis constantly quoting and citing Evola to try to provide something that sounds intellectual for their political agenda which usually lacks any real agenda anyway besides “we want what we want” and can never be consistent. The fact is that Evola was never a member of the National Fascist Party nor the Nazi Party with whom he had some major disagreements. In fact he often described himself as an anti-Fascist at a time when this was not popular.

Evola was a very complex and somewhat odd man but if one were to label him one thing more than any other in political terms it would have been “monarchist.” In fact, one of his problems was the division created between the Duce and the King. Eventually, of course, the King was ejected by the Italian Social Republic. Evola wrote that, “We can reasonably affirm that a true Right without the monarchy ends up deprived of its natural centre of gravity and crystallization, because in almost all traditional states the principle reference point for realizing the independent and stable principle of pure political authority has been the crown.”

Despite his name being used these days by people calling themselves the advocates of a “third way” or “third position” Evola was nothing of the sort. He was never trying to be something other than “left” or “right” but rather more “right” than most people had become used to in the post-revolutionary world.

Both the Fascists and the National Socialists were originally republican. The Fascists dropped republicanism (only to re-embrace it in their twilight) while the Nazis remained devoted to it. Evola had a big problem, not only with the mentality that brought it about. His idea of leadership was based on a spiritual sort of authority, not the leadership of a champion of the great mass of the public, advanced by popularity. He said, concerning his idea of leadership that. “This ideal implies the affirmation not only of the concept and right of the nobility, but also of the monarchy. It must be renewed, strengthened and dynamized as an organic, central absolution function that embodies the might of power and the light of the spirit in a single being; then the monarchy is truly the act of a whole race, and leads beyond all that is bound by blood and soil. Only then is one justified to speak of an Imperium.” This was, of course, contrary to what ultimately came about with the efforts to compartmentalize and diminish the monarchy whenever the higher, ancient, sacred institution became inconvenient for the government. At most Evola can be said to have viewed the Fascists as the least objectionable alternative and a movement which could be purified and adjusted to become something better than it started out as. He was never happy with is as it was nor did he ever even view it as complete.

Parrot Fashion

Years ago the Jolly Gardeners pub had a parrot that shouted “time gentlemen please” all day long. This was disconcerting for visitors but the regulars took no notice of him; he was just a brainless parrot who didn’t know what he was saying. Some people remind me of that old bird because they constantly shout “Marxist” - just like a parrot.

Karl Marx was a baptized Lutheran who despised Jews and famously accused his fellow countryman Ferdinand Lassalle of being “part nigger.” But despite Marx’s bigotry any sign of multi-racialism is met with cries of “Marxist,” and advertisements featuring people of different races are frequently denounced as “Marxist”.

The academics of the notorious Frankfurt School may have been colour blind but so are the account executives and sales managers of Coca Cola and Benetton who want people of all races to buy their products.

It’s nonsense to blame Marxism for race mixing when the mulatto populations of the world were established hundreds of years before the birth of Karl Marx. Multiracialism may be approved by left-wing academics but few of the white mothers pushing black babies have ever read Das Kapital.

It is perfectly legitimate to want to preserve the white race and to encourage the resettlement of non-Europeans. But it’s ridiculous to keep shouting “Marxist” at people who have never heard of Karl Marx. The best way to defend our race and culture is to promote European consciousness. Racial hatred is cruel and destructive but the study of our history is entirely positive. Sensible people can take a pride in their race and nation without denigrating others.

Marxism called for nationalization and central planning. Infrastructure services lend themselves to this solution but most industries benefit from competition. Marxism was a failed experiment. It did not depend on multi-racialism; that’s essentially a modern phenomenon linked to liberal democracy and global capitalism. Immigration is driven by the supply and demand for labour. It will be controlled by dialogue between nations but not by using outdated political abuse.