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When the National Front Promoted Anti-Racism

AS many of you know, I have been wrongly vilified by the liberal-left for many years and it is alleged that I am some kind of ‘neo-nazi’ on account of having been a member of the National Front (NF) in the mid- to late-1980s. As these newspaper headlines attest, however, we were promoting a decidedly anti-racist line back then and the kind of people who had given the organisation such a bad name during the 1970s and early-1980s had been expelled. The propaganda may seem rather crude by today’s standards, but we were not out to promote any kind of hatred whatsoever.

Readers can find more information about this important period by purchasing my book, Nazis, Fascists or Neither: Ideological Credentials of the British Far Right, 1987-1994, or listening to an audio interview I did with Luke Dodson and Adam Ormes back in June 2024:

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In a quiet(-ish) cafe in Porto, just before the recent Commonwealth of Free Spirits Conference that took place in that fine city, Adam Ormes and I sat down to talk with writer, musician and activist Troy Southgate about his life and political work. Troy is a nuanced and original thinker whose ideas challenge established notions held across the left/righ…

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