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British fascism also claimed the legacy of Oliver Cromwell, who dominated the British Isles in the 1650s; Oswald Mosley claimed that Cromwell brought about "the first fascist age in England". [14] English political theorist Thomas Hobbes in his work Leviathan (1651) systematised the ideology of absolutism that advocated an all-powerful absolute ...
The British Fascists (originally called the British Fascisti) were the first political organisation in the United Kingdom to claim the label of fascism, formed in 1923. The group had lacked much ideological unity apart from anti-socialism for most of its existence, and was strongly associated with British conservatism .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. 1932–1940 political party British Union of Fascists Abbreviation BUF Leader Oswald Mosley Founded 1 October 1932 Banned 10 July 1940 Merger of New Party British Fascists (majority) Succeeded by Union Movement Headquarters London, England Newspaper The Blackshirt Action Think tank ...
The National Fascisti (NF), renamed British National Fascists (BNF) in July 1926, were a splinter group from the British Fascisti formed in 1924. In the early days of the British Fascisti the movement lacked any real policy or direction and so this group split away with the intention of pursuing a more definite path towards a fascist state. [1]
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A flowchart showing the history of the early British fascist movement. The British far right rose out of the fascist movement. In 1932, Oswald Mosley founded the British Union of Fascists, which was banned during World War II. Following the ban, Mosley founded the Union Movement. It was following this that far-right groups became more prevalent.
A Riz Ahmed documentary released earlier this year, may have shed light on the hidden history of British-Asian resistance to the violence of the 1970s and 1980s – Britain’s era of “P ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... British fascist movements (1 C, 17 P) N. Neo-Nazism in the United Kingdom (2 C, 11 P)