Nation Revisited # 192 October 2022

Before The Internet

When I published my duplicated newsletter 'Nation' in December 1973, I was warned that the article on William Joyce was against the law. In the days before the Internet every pub had a resident paralegal who pontificated on the Law. One such warned me that Joyce's statement was locked up for fifty years as a state secret and that I was liable to be arrested at any minute. I ignored his advice because I had taken the statement from 'The Meaning of Treason' by Rebecca West, first published in 1949 by Macmillan Co Ltd. I'm still waiting for Special Branch to knock down the door.

Without search engines we relied on books for information, but few people read books thoroughly and mistakes were made. One example concerned Carleton S Coon the distinguished American anthropologist. John Bean described him as "a Jewish scientist." When I asked JB where he got that information from he replied: "John Tyndall." In fact Dr Coon was not Jewish, he was of Cornish descent.

I published William Joyce's statement in 1974 because I thought it profoundly moving, and 49 years later I still do.

"I take this opportunity of making a preliminary statement concerning the motive that led me to come to Germany and to broadcast to Britain over the German radio service. I was actuated not by the desire for personal gain, material or otherwise, but solely by political conviction. I was brought up as an extreme Conservative with strong Imperialistic ideas, but very early in my career, namely in 1923, became attracted to Fascism and subsequently to National Socialism. Between the years of 1923 and 1939 I pursued vigorous political activities in England, at times as a Conservative but mainly as a Fascist or National Socialist. In the period immediately before this war began I was profoundly discontented with the policies pursued by British Governments, first, because I felt they would lead to the eventual disruption of the British Empire, and secondly, because I thought the existing economic system entirely inadequate to the needs of the times. I was very greatly impressed by constructive work which Hitler had done for Germany and was of the opinion that throughout Europe as also in Britain there must come a reform on the lines of National Socialist doctrine, although I did not suppose that every aspect of National Socialism as advocated in Germany would be accepted by the British people.

One of my dominant beliefs was that a war between Britain and Germany would be a tragedy, the effects of which Britain and the British Empire would not survive, and I considered that a grossly disproportionate influence was exerted on British policy by the Jews, who had their reasons for hating National Socialist Germany. When in August 1939, the final crisis emerged I felt that the question of Danzig offered no just cause for a world war. As by reason of my opinions I was not conscientiously disposed to fight for Britain against Germany, I decided to leave the country since I did not wish to play the part of the conscientious objector, and since I supposed that in Germany I should have the opportunity to express and propogate views the expression of which would be forbidden in Britain during time of war. Realizing, however, that at this critical juncture I had declined to serve Britain, I drew the logical conclusion that I should have no moral right to return to that country of my own free will and that it would be best to apply for German citizenship and make my permanent home in Germany. Nevertheless, it remained my undeviating purpose to attempt as best I could to bring about a reconcilliation or at least an understanding between the two countries. After Russia and the United States had entered the war such an agreement appeared to me no less desirable than before for, although it seemed probable that with these powerful allies Britain would succeed in defeating Germany, I considered that the price that would ultimately have to be paid for this help would be far higher than the price involved in a settlement with Germany.

This belief was strengthened from month to month as the power of Russia grew, and during the later stages of the War I became certain that Britain, even though capable of gaining a military triumph over the Germans, would in that event be confronted with a situation far more dangerous and complicated than that which existed in August 1939; and thus until the very last moment I clung to my hope of an Anglo-German understanding, although I could see that the prospects thereof were small. I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful  act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have in many quarters aroused. Whatever opinion may be formed at the present time with regard to my conduct, I submit that the final judgement cannot be properly passed until it is seen whether Britain can win the peace. Finally, I should like to stress the fact that in coming to Germany and in working for the German radio system my wife was powerfully influenced by me. She protests to the contrary, but I am sure that, if I had not taken this step, she would not have taken it either. This statement has been read over to me, and it is true." William Joyce 

What is a Nation?

Opponents of 'Europe a Nation' point out that Europe is a continent of many nations. So it is, just as the United Kingdom is a group of islands of four different nations; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Those who proudly call themselves British Nationalists are really British Unionists. But if they are entitled to call themselves British Nationalist then I am entitled to call myself a European Nationalist.

The word 'Nation' is open to interpretation. The so-called Black Muslims in America call themselves 'The Nation of Islam'. In fact, all Muslims around the world constitute the Ummah, the Muslim family, regardless of race or colour.

The Aboriginals were only granted Australian citizenship in 1967. They are slowly emerging from centuries of poverty, but despite living in the desert and being divided into many tribes, speaking different languages, they refer to themselves as the First Nation.

Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1990) the President of Egypt was known as the father of Arab Nationalism. The Arab League has 22 member states stretching from West Africa to the Persian Gulf, but they all embrace Arab Nationalism.

Nelson Mandella (1918-2013) was the leader of the African National Congress, and President of South Africa. The African Union has 55 member states - all committed to African Nationalism.

In view of these examples I maintain that it's legitimate to be a European Nationalist. The future of Europe will almost certainly be based on federation, just like the United States of America; a union of 50 self-governing states with one flag, one currency, one constitution, and one president. 

Fears that individual nations will be wiped out by federation are unfounded. Ancient cultures such as the Welsh and the Bretons have survived incorporation into larger states like Britain and France, and they will prosper under European Federation.

Fighting City Hall

When a huge commercial development started to rise next to Frank Walsh's home in south west London, he took immediate action. I told him that planning permission had been granted by the local authority and that there was nothing he could do about it. But 95-year-old Frank was not listening. He used his skills as an artist and a writer to produce leaflets attacking Wandsworth Council and accusing them of corruption, which he distributed in Putney Hight Street, at his local public library and from a box on his front door. This resulted in him being banned from the library and threatened with prosecution.

This was to be Frank's last campaign. He spent most of his life fighting against mass migration and plutocracy; as a speaker at Speakers Corner and as a writer and blogger. He was often threatened but he treated anti-fascist violence and police harassment with equal distain. He died before he could be prosecuted and the huge development went ahead, but at least he tried.

Those thinking of taking on City Hall are advised to do so as part of tenants' association, and they are further advised not to make accusations of bribery and corruption without proof. Those who break the Law are quick to seek its protection. Millions of pounds are involved in property development and bribes and inducements have kept pace with inflation. With so much money on offer unprincipled politicians and bureaucrats sometimes give in to temptation; as Benito Mussolini said: "You always get rats in a granary."

Total Propaganda

When the invasion of Iraq started I was working with a man called Phil who knew my views. One day he came to me with the Sun newspaper showing a picture of civilians allegedly killed by Saddam Hussein's forces. He said this was proof that the war was justified. Such is the power of the press. The war on Iraq was fought in the interests of rapacious capitalism. Billions of barells oil were stolen by the international oil companies, and billions of dollars were extorted from British and American taxpayers. The Iraqis never had 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', after ten years of crippling sanctions they hardly had any weapons at all, but prime minister Tony Blair convinced Phil, and millions like him, that Saddam had missiles that could reach Europe.

The latest propaganda offensive concerns the war in Ukraine. The CIA engineered a coup that deposed the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych and eventually installed Volodymyr Zelensky a former actor brilliantly cast as an embattled warrior with his unshaven chin and army fatigues. Zelensky then appointed three of his tribal 'cousins' to the government; Denis Shmyhal as Vice President, Oleksii Reznikov as Minister of Defence, and Andril Yermak as Chief of Staff.

Serious commentators such as Prof Andrew Latham predicts a negotiated settlement that will see the country partitioned into Ukrainian and Russian zones - a solution that was offered by Russia back in February.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zCQQe7vWU4&t=1474s

Putin's alleged ambition to recreate the Soviet Union is just another fabrication like 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'. Thousands of Russians and Ukranians have died, and the economy of Europe has been shattered by the warmongers of the CIA and the propaganda of the mainstream media. As Napoleon said: "Four hostile newspapers are more fearful than 1,000 bayonets."

If Phil is still alive I expect he was upset by pictures of Ukrainian women and children killed by Russian rockets. We haven't seen any pictures of Russian victims of the war, but we are thankful that Zelensky's 'democratic' shells and missiles only strike military targets.

Demographics and Economics

The half dozen little parties of the so-called far-right all subscribe to conspiracy theories. These range from reasonable assumptions to completely mad ideas about lizard people running the world. They are also united by a dislike of foreigners, as expressed by the Brexit movement. We have been out of the EU for two years but they are still trying to 'get Brexit done', whatever that means.

We now have a new head of state and a new prime minister but our country is faced with rampant inflation, uncontrolled immigration, and low productivity. The economy is driven by global forces, immigration is completely out of control, and productivity is restrained by low wages and industrial strife.

The declining white birthrate is due to the availibility of contraception and the desire for a comfortable middle class lifestyle with two children and a dog. This has resulted in a labour shortage that is being met by immigration. That's fine, but we must make sure that we get the right kind of immigrants, preferably people who look like us and share our culture. It's all very well talking about boosting the white birthrate but that's easier said than done.

The decline in the birth rate effects the entire developed world; even Israel is having trouble. The state of Israel was founded by European and Middle Eastern Jews, but non-Jews now make up twenty percent of the population. They are trying to repatriate thousands of black refugees who have fled from the Sudan, and they also have black Jews from Ethiopia who are only tolerated because the religious authorities insist they are Jewish.

Many Jews around the world are sympathetic to immigrants because they were immigrants themselves just a generation or two ago. They naturally feel sorry for people who have fled oppression and poverty, but that doesn't mean that they want to undermine the white race. Some Jews, like George Soros, certainly do, but so do some Gentiles. Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi was an aristocratic Austrian who thought that Europe would be better run by the Jews and populated by a mixed race.  

Mass migration is a worldwide problem that can only be solved by international co-operation. Trade deals and foreign aid programs must be designed to alieviate poverty in the Third World, and the armed forces of the great nations must be used to control mass migration. It will not be solved by an isolated and economically depleted UK, or by small paranoid groups quoting passages from obscure books.

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Nation Revisited # 191 September 2022

Proportional Representation

We had a referendum on electoral reform in 2011 in which 67% of the electorate voted to keep the 'first-past-the-post' system. Inexplicably, the BNP, which was still a viable party at the time, campaigned against a change which would have been to its advantage.

Under the present system the Liberal Democrats have 14 seats in parliament but under a proportional representation system they would have over 100. The Tories would lose about 100 seats and the Labour Party would stay more or less where they are.

There are many different electoral systems, from pure PR, which they use in Israel, to the single transferable vote used in Australia. All of them are fairer than our system.

It's argued that PR leads to coalitions, but all parties are coalitions within themselves; there is a world of difference between the 'one nation' Tories represented by Ken Clarke, to the right-wing fanatics following Boris Johnson. And there is a similar gulf between the left-wing of the Labour Party represented by Diane Abbott and the moderates led by Keir Starmer. 

PR would encourage minority parties, but a 5% threshold for parliamentary representation would keep out the Metric Martyrs, Hyperboreans, Anti-Vaxxers and Flat-Earthers, while parties like the British Democrats would have something to aim for. Minority parties have no hope of inclusion in a governing coalition under our present system, but if they had a realistic chance of making a difference it would encourage them to up their game. 

Colin Jordan made a powerful point when he wrote 'Party Time Has Ended' -  https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t693299/

But people have a right to be represented by candidates of their choice. If a general election was held under PR it would probably result in a hung parliament. The Labour and Conservative parties would get the most votes, but the LIb-Dems, the Greens, and the smaller parties would do a lot better than they do at present.

Writers I Have Known

It's nice to have pictures of your friends and family on your sideboard but it's even better to have their books on your bookshelves.

My friend Jeffrey Wallder wrote countless articles for 'Action', the Union Movement journal, and for 'Comrade', the Friends of Mosley magazine, under the nom de plume Gordon Beckwell. He compiled the Blackshirts in Kingston Project at the University of Sheffield, and he collaborated with the late John Warburton in compiling the Defence Regulation18B Detainees List which is  posted on the Friends of Mosley website - oswaldmosley.com  Thanks to his diligent research we know that over a thousand men were detained without charge or trial under the wartime legislation. Under the name JA Booker, he wrote 'Blackshirts On-Sea' (1999), and in 2015, under his real name, he published a novel 'Fragments of Tom'.

I first met Jeffrey Hamm (1915 - 1992) at his office in Rochester Row in 1974. He encouraged me to write for 'Action' which was the principle function of Union Movement at the time, and he introduced me to the works of Oswald Mosley. He wrote extensively for Union Movement publications, including 'Union', 'Action', and 'The European'. He edited 'Lodestar', under the name of Geoffrey Vernon. He wrote his autobiography 'Action Replay' (1983), 'Mosley's Blackshirts', and 'The Evil Good Men Do' (1986).

John Millican wrote the standard reference work on the history, uniforms and insignia of the BUF and Union Movement. 'Mosley's Men in Black' was originally published in 2004 and is now in its third edition. This meticulously researched book with many previously unpublished photographs is a must for students of extraparliamentary politics.

I was introduced to Oswald Mosley (1896 - 1980) and Diana Mitford (1910 - 2003) at a Union Movement dinner in 1976 but I cannot claim to have known them. Mosley was a prolific writer of books, articles and pamphlets. His pre-war works were; 'The Greater Britain', '100 Questions Answered' and 'Tomorrow We Live. His post-war works included 'The Alternative' (1947) 'Europe Faith and Plan' (1958), 'Mosley Right or Wrong' (1961), and his autobiography 'My Life', (1968). 

Diana Mitford wrote for the mainstream magazine 'The Tatler' and she edited 'The European'. She also wrote several books including her autobiography 'A life of Contrasts' which was published in 1997. I can do no better than to quote from the cover:

"Diana Mitford is doubtless one of the most exceptional women of the twentieth century. Perhaps the only friend close to both Churchill and Hitler, she grew up at the heart of the glittering literary and aristocratic group surrounding the Mitfords - Evelyn Waugh was but one who fell in love with her. Divorcing her glamerous husband for the married Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, she notoriously became friends with Hitler, and Magda and Joseph Goebels. As a result she was detained in Holloway Prison. In these witty memoirs she describes her own life in inimitable Mitford fashion. Hers is a rare and extraordinary portrait of the twentieth century that is truly unique and unforgettable."    

Before I saw the light on Europe I was a member of the League of Empire Loyalists. I knew AK Chesterton (1899 - 1973), who edited 'Candour' and wrote his biography of Mosley, 'Portrait of a Leader'(1937) and 'The New Unhappy Lords' (1965). I also knew Rosine de Bounevialle who wrote 'The Candour ABC of Politics' (2016) and Rodney Legg who wrote 'Legg Over Dorset' (2011).

Following my 'apprenticeship' in the LEL I moved on to John Bean's British National Party. JB's first book, 'Ten Miles From Anywhere' (1995) is a selection of extracts from the 'Wickhambrook Scene', the parish magazine which he edited. It describes life in rural west Suffolk and brings alive the characters and the atmosphere of that remote village. His second book 'Many Shades of Black' (1999) was written with a degree of journalistic license but it has become a reference work of the political periphery. His two novels 'Blood in the Square' (2014) and 'Trail of the Viking Finger' (2016) were not to my taste but I guess he enjoyed writing them.

I met Andrew Fountaine (1918 - 1970), the president of the BNP, at their 1962 camp. His critique of Winston Chirchill, 'The Meaning of an Enemy' was serialized in 'Combat' from 1960 - 1965. In 2012 John Bean and I got it published as a book by Ostara Publications. 

I also met John Tyndall (1934 - 2005) who went on to lead the National Front and the contemporary BNP, both of which ultimately expelled him. His first effort was 'The Authoritarian State' (1962), but his magnum opus was 'The Eleventh Hour' (1998), in which he dreams of an empire comprised of the white dominions under the reactionary rule of a Britain purged of foreigners.

I first met Martin Webster in the days of the League of Empire Loyalists. He has written for numerous nationalist publications including 'Spearhead' and 'Choice'. He issues his email bulletins 'Electronic Loose Cannon' and 'Electronic Watch on Zion'. He also writes for the websites 'Anglo-Celtic' and 'Occidental Observer'. His rumoured autobiography is awaited.

I was privileged to know the veteran campaigner Frank Walsh, 'The King of Speakers Corner', who died in 2020 aged 95. He edited a blog, 'Our Folk's Voice', which was a unique mixture of artwork, poetry and prose. He also published a book entitled 'The Justiceans Millenia' (1996) which expounded his views on the Money Power.

I met Robert Best at London Forum meeting about ten years ago. He has written articles for various journals including 'Comrade' and 'The League Sentinel'. And he wrote 'Red Terror: The Crimes of Marxism' (2008) and 'Fascism and Religion' (2009), both published by the League of St George.

There are many other writers of my acquainance who have entertained, informed and influenced me: which is surely the point of reading unless you have a closed mind. All of them shared my opinions on immigration and capitalism but some of them clung to pre-war policies that no longer make sense. Nevertheless I remember them all with affection. 

The Night of Want is Breaking, Day Will Find Their Route

Jackie Morton has written a moving account of the life of her uncle Frank Hamley. He was a Sheffield school teacher and the district organiser of British Union in south Yorkshire. Together with Oswald Mosley, Diana Mitford, and a thousand other political dissidents he was interned in 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B. None of them were ever charged with any crime, they were locked up under deplorable conditions simply for opposing the war,:

"Once at Walton prison, Frank was placed in a room with fifteen other men, with one unclean ill kept toilet and drinking water contaminated by by a pigeon's nest. He was dressed in the clothes he'd been arrested in. The conditions in Walton were generally tougher. The hostility of the prison officers described in Frank's letter to Winnie with one shouting at them "I would shoot the fxxking lot of you...you ought to be bloody well starved." They had porridge for breakfast and a mug of tea, potatoes that were black and meat that they thought was horse and when they asked for a knife and fork to eat their meals, they were told to 'use you fxxking fingers' which was difficult when given porridge. Many described the conditions as being treated worse than the common criminals. No sheets on the beds only frowsy stained blankets. It was ten days to a fortnight before any of the men could shave and by that time, their beards were thick. Each blade had to suffice for at least a dozen persons, so it was a painful and bloody operation."

Female members of British Union and so-called 'enemy aliens' were treated just as badly. The following report from a German woman is from Hansard September 1944:

"Many of the internees had spent three months in Holloway prison, and there the most appalling things happened. For instance, all young children and babies were taken from their mothers on arrest. The mothers were not told of their whereabouts, and in spite of repeated promises by the Government that they would be restored to them, they did not see them again until the end of August , when what was called the 'Children's Transport' arrived at Port Erin. I spoke to one mother whose child was then eight month old and weighed less than when she was taken away three months previously. The child's diet was written down and pinned to her coat, and read: 'Two tablespoons of water and two of milk four times a day.' I cannot say if the instructions included the child's entire diet, but the lady struck me as quite a sincere and truthful person and full of indignation about her child's treatment. Another internee, English born, who stayed in the same house with me, told me of a young wife in the next cell to hers who was seven months pregnant. She began in labour during the night, and despite her repeatedly ringing the bell no one came to her. The child was born on the cell floor, dead. The mother was taken away on a stretcher, and nobody knew what became of her. All the internees were locked in their cells seventeen hours out of twenty-four, and received only the meanest prison food, all meals served without cutlery. The woman who was then our Camp Commandant, Dame Joanna Cruikshank, OBE, was utterly heartless and cruel. She was notified that the husband of one of the aliens was dying in Douglas Camp, and was asked to allow the wife to visit him, a request which she refused in cold blood. When I was interned, we spent the first night in Drummond Road School, Bradford, sleeping on iron stretchers three inches from the floor. Some mothers had three children and the scenes and cries of fear and panic were dreadful. We were taken to Liverpool early the next day and spent the whole day in Liverpool Boxing Stadium till 8 pm. We were not allowed to take our children to the door for fresh air, and I spoke to one mother with a child eleven days old. We each had a large baggage label on our lapel with a number on it, and as they marched us through the streets in the middle of the road, our babies in one arm and our luggage in the other, the crowds lined the pavements and spat on us as we passed. Then at 8pm we were crowded onto a small Isle of Man pleasure steamer, 1,800 of us, and the great majority of these helpless women and children spent the night lying on the deck without a pillow or a blanket. When one of my English-born acquaintances asked the captain where we were going, he replied, 'If I had my way you would all go to the bottom'. One woman with two children, five and six years old, lost her reason during the crossing, and was taken to Douglas Asylum. When I left, the husband who was interned at Douglas, had not been released, so that he could care for them. They were still at Port Erin alone, and the mother in the asylum." 

Jackie Morton evokes the spiteful brutality of 18B and the desperate campaign waged by Frank and his wife Winnie to get him released. This was not achieved until 1943 after three years of inhuman treatment.

Frank Hamley joined Union Movement when it was founded in 1948 and soon became the Sheffield branch leader. He stood for UM in the council elections in Walkley ward Sheffield in 1961- 63, and in the 1966 general election in Ardwick, Manchester. He died in March 1985.

The book contains transcripts of the tribunals that heard Frank's appeals and copies of the letters he wrote to Winnie during his internment. This is the true story of a brave and dedicated man told by his respectful niece. It is available direct from the author - jaquimorton5gmail.com - price £16.99 + £4.00 postage.

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Nation Revisited # 190 August 2022

Free Speech

I recently attended a meeting of the Four Club in central London at which David Irving was the guest speaker. Many of his book signings and speeches have been cancelled or disrupted in the past due to organised violence, but this meeting was by invitation only and it went off without incident.

The Four Club is an initiative of the author and peace campaigner James Thring (pictured) and filmaker and historian Michele Renouf. It's named after the Four Virtues of classical Greece; Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance. To read about James' efforts to bring peace to the Middle East visit: https://ministryofpeace.org   

The British tradition of free speech is being undermined by so-called anti-fascists who decide who can speak and on what subject. I must admit that in the old days I used to heckle other people's meetings, but I now realise that this was wrong. People have  the right to believe in whatever they like, asking sensible questions is fine but speakers should not be shouted down. 

The National Front held some impressive marches in the 1970s that made them known throughout the UK, but they were usually attacked by screaming mobs of anti-fascists. I only attended one NF march, from Victoria to Red Lion Square in 1974. I disagreed with the NF over Europe but I supported them on immigration. Thousands of militants tried to stop the march but they were confronted by the police who did a magnificent job. Unfortunately, one anti-fascist demonstrator was killed and several were wounded.

Our traditional ways of protesting are in need of revision. Marches and demonstrations are a nuisance to the public and a danger to the emergency services who need free access to the roads. Marches, disruptive heckling, and forced cancellations threaten the very idea of free speech.

We don't need new laws to remedy the situation. There are plenty of laws dealing with obstruction and threatening behaviour that could be used. It would require a politicaly neutral police force to enforce them, but our politicised police are committed to the Liberal Consensus. This was clearly demonstrated when police officers 'took the knee' in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. This sounds harmless enough but BLM is not a pacifist civil-rights movement it's an extreme anti-white organisation that goes in for looting, arson, and attacks on the police. Five police officers were shot dead by snipers at a BLM demo in Dallas in July 2006.

We must have black and brown police officers because they represent the British demographic, but 'political correctness' enforced from above causes more harm than good. We can't improve race relations by humiliating the police, and we can't make people respect each other by looting shops, setting fire to businesses, and shooting police officers. 

The Law should be applied without fear or favour. It's wrong to discriminate against people because of their creed or colour but it's just as wrong to excuse criminality for the sake of political expediency. Freedom of speech and assembly must be protected. 

Too Much Idealism

Many people have told me that the European Union is not the vision slendid of 'Europe a Nation' proclaimed by Oswald Mosley. For arguments sake I will accept that opinion but the fact remains that Oswald Mosley took an active part in the 1975 European Referendum, and his followers celebrated its positive outcome. Mosley was an idealist but he was also a practical man who promoted the European Union from an economic and security perspective. 

Political activists of the so-called far-right often have trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality. The vast majority of Britons want to end mass migration. That's possible, it would only take an act of parliament enforced by a determined border force. We have the means to do it, all that we lack is the courage to overturn almost a century of open door immigration. But the fantasists are not satisfied with stopping the influx, they dream about rounding up millions of people and sending them back to their countries of origin.

And it's the same with capitalism. We need laws to protect us from unfair employers and service providers, but to talk about destroying the capitalist system is nonsense. Attemps to do away with capitalism ended in failure in the Soviet Union and turned into state capitalism in China.

Political idealists always go too far. Most people want a good life for their families; decent food, housing, education, and health care, but few of them are interested in abstract ideas of 'liberty, equality and fraternity'. A benevolent dictator who provides the population with the essentials of life is preferable to an idealistic leader who does not.

Benito Mussolini transformed Italy from feudalism to modernity. He established a comprehensive health and social security system, he improved education and transportation and he enjoyed the adoration of his people; until he tried to recreate the Roman Empire.

North of the Alps, Adolf Hitler did a similar job, he ended unemployment and lifted Germany out of poverty, but his obsession with Race was his downfall. As well as hating the Jews he believed that the Russians were inferior beings who could easily be conquered. That idea perished in the ruins of defeated Germany. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union was beneficial to both countries, but Hitler's head was full of Wagnerian images of a triumphant master race.

We must defend our culture and improve social conditions but we should beware of too much idealism. Better to have your feet on the ground than your head in the clouds.

Letter From America - Robert Lyons

Bill, Happy to hear your 'weak heart' is behaving itself, hopefully mine will also continue to do the same. Funny you should mention David Irving, I was just thinking about him. Irving used to speak at nearby hotels on a regular basis every couple of years but I haven't seen him on a US tour in at least 4 or 5 years. Irving takes lots of precautions and I've never known any of his speaking tours in this country to be disrupted or even picketed. I usually get their early and he's usually in the lobby , I walk up to him and shake his hand and he would send me off to the meeting room where he would appear after ushering everybody to the correct meeting site. I remember his first meeting years ago, he had this absolutely gorgeous young lady with him who I greatly enjoyed talking to, the last few times I saw him he was all by himself, crammed into a small car with his books along with his suitcases. He's an amazing person, I wonder if he ever finished his Himmler book?

I was re-reading Dr Goebbels' early diaries the other day where he mentions riding around with Himmler on the back of his motorcycle. The National Socialist movement in Germany in the early days was amazing, how they could have built the movement from scratch with nothing else but hard work and dedication leaves me shaking my head and wondering how they could have done it, to have everything click into place like that, sure wish their luck could have continued to the end. Oh well off on my tangents again, as the saying goes: "If ifs and buts were fruit and nuts what a wonderful party we would have." Bob 

Identity

The LGTB fraternity beleive that people should be allowed to chose their gender instead of being defined by their genitalia. In the same way people of mixed heritage can decide which race or nation they belong to. This will upset the head measurers who worry about such things, but most people accept that we are a multiracial country.

David Kurton is the leader of the Heritage Party. His father was Jamaican but he is a true-blue Englishman with distinctly nationalistic opinions. He is by no means our first dusky patriot.

Otto Abbeysakera was an active member of Union Movement in the1950s. I used to drink with him and a group of National Front supporters in the 1970s, and there was never a problem with his Sri Lankan ancestry.

Michael Johnson was elected to the local council in Blackburn for the England First Party in 2006. He had an African grandfather but he is a proud British ex-serviceman.

Sharon Ebanks was the Birmingham organiser of the British National Party. She won a council seat in 2006 but the result was overturned. The Birmingham Mail reported that she had a Jamaican father but she denied it.

Jack Sen is an Anglo-Indian who was expelled from Ukip for making anti-Semetic remarks, and from the BNP for challenging the leader. He currently runs the European Knights Project.

                              

Claire Khaw is a writer and thinker of Malaysian origin who acheived notoriety as a member of the BNP. She promotes a patriachal philosphy with her website the Voice of Reason. 

These people are genuine patriots who have stood for their beliefs; Otto Abbeysekara fought the Reds on the streets, Michael Johnson risked his livelyhood by standing for the EFP, Sharon Ebanks faced crippling legal fees when she contested her election result, and Jack Sen's heritage was exposed on national TV. 

The hard-liners of the far-right think that Race is everything, but identity is mainly determined by culture. Even the Nazis acknowledged this fact. When Field Marshal Erhard Mich was accused of being Jewish by the Gestapo, Herman Goring came to his defence, saying: "I decide who is a Jew in the Luftwaffe."

Identity is all about acceptance. During the Apartheid era in South Africa people were classified by race but if there was any doubt about it their acceptance by the community was taken into account. When the Nationalists came to power in 1948, any Whites married to Cape Coloureds were classified as 'Coloureds'. Of course, it's easy to tell a European from a black African but the Cape Coloureds can be anything from black to white. Even Jan van Riebeeck, the father of White South Africa, was reputed to have a Malay mother.

I am not advocating race mixing. I have opposed non-European immigration all my life, but it's too late to do anything about it now. We should defend our culture, deport illegals, stop any further influx, and encourage repatriation, but those incomers legally settled here must be assimilited. 

Count Potocki

If he was still alive Count Geoffrey Potocki would have taken a keen interest in Ukraine, which was one of his realms. He styled himself Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk, King of Poland, Hungary and Bohemia, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Silesia and the Ukraine, Hospodar of Moldova and High Priest of the Sun.

He was a New Zealand born printer, poet, pagan, and pornographer who was sentenced to six months in Wormwood Scrubbs Prison in 1932 for publishing a collection of erotic poems entitled 'The Lament of Sir John Penis'. In court he took an oath to Apollo while giving the fascist salute. The judge warned the jury that the case was "paricularly filthy."

Before the war he printed literature for William Joyce's National Socialist League. In 1943 he was the first to  accuse the Soviets of committing the Katyn Forest Massacre. After the war he printed leaflets for Sevitri Devi which she distributed in occupied Germany. And in the 1960s he printed literature for Colin Jordan's National Socialist Movement. He published his 'Right Review' throughout the war but he was not interned; perhaps because of his Royal connections?

He always wore a red velvet cloak, shoulder length hair and sandals. Terry Cooper, who was Francoise Dior's teenage lover, reported that when Count Potocki met Sevitri Devi he was wearing his usual regalia and she was dressed in a traditional Indian sari. He said: "I am the KIng of Poland", and she said: "I am a Hindu princess."

He was born in New Zealand in1903 and died in France in 1997. He was a colourful character who despised liberal democracy and bourgeoise morality. In today's conformist and homogenised world we could do with more people like him.

Enduring the Unendurable

When Hirohito the Emperor of Japan broadcasted to the nation in 1945 his people expected him to call for the ultimate sacrifice. They had been brought up and indoctrinated to fight to the finish and they were prepared to do so. So they could hardly believe it when their Emperor asked them to "endure the unendurable" and surrender.

When people have been brainwashed into believing in a cause over many years it's almost impossible for them to change their minds. Only the atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the fire-bombing of Tokyo, made the Japanese people accept their fate.

The same torment is being felt by the Brexiteers who have campaigned fanatically for over forty years to get Britain out of the European Union. They have achieved their objective and we are now suffering the consequences of their folly. Everything dismissed as 'project fear' during the referendum campaign has come to pass; chaos at Dover, economic decline, labour shortages, increased Third World immigration, and the crisis in Northern Ireland.

They must now endure the unendurable and admit that they were wrong. Most of them will claim that they were misinformed, a few will admit their mistake, but the diehards will carry on fighting like Japanese soldiers in the jungle.

When a dedicated anti-European like Lord Hannan states that Britain would have been better off to stay in the single market, and the Daily Mail and the Daily Express begin to question Brexit, it's as traumatic to the Brexiteers as Hirohito's broadcast was to the Japanese people. They should take heart from the Emperor's loyal subjects who did endure the unendurable and went on to achieve unprecedented stability and prosperity.

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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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