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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 ...
The National Socialist British Workers' Party was largely the work of one man, G.R. Jenin, whose National Observer published Nazi Party material in the early 1970s. [29] Trade Unions Against Immigration (TRU-AIM) was a joint initiative of the National Front and British Movement. Led by Bill Whitbread it hoped to infiltrate the mainstream trade ...
The interwar fascist group that left the most indelible mark on Britain was Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF), founded in 1932; but Britain's first avowedly fascist group, the British Fascists (BF), [78] formed a decade earlier, in 1923, a matter of months after Mussolini took power in Italy.
The London Forum emerged in 2011 [1] as a split from the New Right (UK), a series of far-right meetings in London that took place in the first decade of the 2000s. It describes itself as "the home of the UK alt-right". [2] Searchlight, a magazine that focuses on the British far-right, says the group bridges "the fascist and Tory right". [3]
The National Front (NF) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom.It is currently led by Tony Martin. A minor party, it has never had its representatives elected to the British or European Parliaments, although it gained a small number of local councillors through defections and it has had a few of its representatives elected to community councils.
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.
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]
The riots were also supported by the neo-Nazi organisation British Movement and the far-right political party National Front. [8] Rioters clashed with local Muslims and counter-protesters, who were mobilised by Stand Up to Racism and other anti-fascist and anti-racist groups. [27]