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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 ...
On racial issues, the various British fascist movements held different—although invariably racist—policies. Mosley's BUF believed that culture created national and racial differences—a policy closer to the views on race by Italian fascism rather than German Nazism. [32] Initially the BUF was not explicitly anti-Semitic.
A flowchart showing the history of the early British fascist movement. The organisation was formed on 6 May 1923 by Rotha Lintorn-Orman in the aftermath of Benito Mussolini's March on Rome, and originally operated under the Italian-sounding name British Fascisti. [1]
Fascist violence under Mosley's leadership culminated in the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, during which anti-fascist demonstrators including trade unionists, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, and British Jews prevented the BUF from marching through London's East End. Mosley subsequently held a series of rallies around London, and the ...
The British Empire Fascists is mentioned in some mid 1920s reports in Socialist Review although details are missing. The advocated cutting wages for the highest earners. [18] The Fascist Movement was another 1920s splinter group from the BF, although little is known about it beyond its name. [18]
Rotha Beryl Lintorn Lintorn-Orman (born Rotha Beryl Lintorn Orman, 7 February 1895 – 10 March 1935) was a British political activist and World War I veteran who founded the British Fascisti, the first avowedly fascist movement to appear in British politics.
The Imperial Fascist League (IFL) was a British fascist political movement founded by Arnold Leese in 1929 after he broke away from the British Fascists.It included a blackshirted paramilitary arm called the Fascists Legion, modelled after the Italian Fascists.
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.