Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Methodology
A fascist minimum?
Post-war fascism?
Recidivists or radicals: ‘neo’-fascism?
Continuity in the British fascist tradition
Milieux and groupuscule
Notes
1 Arnold Leese: The ‘anti-jewish’ camel doctor
Kitson and Beamish
Imperial Fascist League
Leese and Mosley
The lure of Nazism
The Nordics
Anti-Semitism
IFL in the East End
‘Leese for Peace’
Internment
Post-war
Judgement at Nuremberg
Rat lines
Rebuilding the anti-Semitic international
Yockey
‘Keep Britain White’
Legacy
Notes
2 Sir Oswald Mosley: From ‘Britain First’ to ‘Europe-a-Nation’
Post-war politics
Europe-a-Nation
Mobilising against immigration
Notting Hill
Post-mortem
‘The First Reality of Europe’
A. James Gregor
The revival
The Conference of Venice
Punch-up politics
South Africa
The ‘expert forgetter’
Notes
3 A.K. Chesterton: From ‘Fascist Revolutionary’ to ‘Jew-wise’ conspiracy theorist
Early life
British Union of Fascists
The Fascist fringe
Other literary endeavours
League of Empire Loyalists
Anti-Immigration
Kenya
Decline
The Jeffrey largesse
Rhodesia
South Africa
National Front
Enoch Powell
Fountaine
Disillusionment and death
Legacy
Notes
4 Colin Jordan: Dreaming of the Nazi ‘Vanguard’
League of Empire Loyalists
White Defence Force
White Defence League
British National Party
Spearhead
National Socialist Movement
Françoise Dior
Leyton
Synagogue arsons
British Movement
Party time is over
Legacy
Notes
5 John Tyndall: In pursuit of the ‘Anglo-Saxon Reich’
Early activism
National Labour Party
British National Party
‘The SS state is now our aim!’
Greater Britain Movement
National Front
Chairman
The Ugandan Asians
The Monday Club
‘March and grow’
The ‘populist’ challenge
1976 split
Lewisham
The 1979 general election
Transatlantic travails
Resignation
British National Party
Tyndall and Islam
1991 visit to USA
‘Rights for Whites’
Combat 18
End game
Legacy
Notes
6 Nick Griffin: From the ‘Third Position’ to anti-Muslim‘ populism’… and back again
Early years
Young National Front
Ideological recalibration
Political soldiers
Ideological inspirations
Rising star
Webster’s removal
Reich ‘n’ Roll
‘No to Cruise, No to CND’
Ulster
‘Europe of a hundred flags’
The 1986 split
‘The New Alliance’
Libya
International Third Position
Joining the BNP
The Rune trial
Moderniser
‘New Leader, Same Cause’
Oldham
‘Hard talk, Hobbyism and Hitler’
Keighley
The London 7/7 attacks
An amicable divorce?
Trial
The Emperor’s new clothes
Griffin’s Götterdämmerung
Legacy
Notes
Conclusion
Continuity and change on the British fascist fringe
The quest for relevance
Notes
Select bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary literature – Books
Index