Paris Murders
The
terrorist attacks on a Paris newspaper office and a kosher supermarket must be
condemned. But the choice of targets was ironic. Charlie Hebdo is an
“anti-fascist” publication that calls for the banning of the Front National,
and the supermarket caters for customers who generally support Third World
immigration.
French
Jews are fleeing to Israel in record numbers to escape terrorism but it has been suggested that the clampdown on tax-evasion is the real reason.
There
are plenty of psychopaths trying to kill us apart from al-Qaida. David Copeland planted bombs in Brixton Market, Spitallfields and Soho because he hated blacks, Asians and homosexuals. Anders Breivik
slaughtered Norwegian teenagers; Tim Mcveigh and Terry Nichols dynamited the
government offices in Oklahoma City, the IRA bombed crowded pubs, ETA
concentrated on killing holiday makers, and the Chechen separatists attacked
schools and hospitals. All terrorists regardless of race, creed or colour should
be eradicated. Nothing can justify mass murder.
Global Capitalism
Goods
and people have been moving around the world for a long time. When the body of a patrician Roman woman was discovered
in the City of London she was wearing the remains of a gold-embroidered dress
from Iraq and precious stones from Japan. Roman roads and ships enabled them to
conquer the known world. Their legions in Britain were mostly Gauls from what
is now France and Belgium. When they departed our shores, after four hundred
years, we were invaded by Anglo-Saxons and Danes and finally by the Normans. All of these people were white; Blacks and
Asians only came to Britain in significant numbers after World War Two.
Ukip
blame the EU for immigration but from the passing of the British Nationality
Act of 1948 to when we joined the Common Market in 1973 millions of
Commonwealth immigrants came to the UK. In the early fifties we took in an
average of 3,000 a year, by 1956 this had risen to 46,200 and by 1961 to
136,400. The Commonwealth Immigration Act was passed in 1968 but this did not
stop the influx which averaged 72,000 a year throughout the seventies. Nigel
Farage says that he wants to regain control of our borders by quitting the EU
but if we kept out European immigrants, at the risk of seriously damaging our economy,
we would still be taking in the surplus population of Africa and Asia.
There
is growing hostility to global capitalism from nationalists who want to protect
their own industries, from ecologists who favour localism, and from opponents
of immigration. But goods and people will always cross borders so we must have
reciprocal trade deals in place and a managed migration policy instead of a
free-for-all.
The world’s largest container ship, the CSCL Globe, was recently unloaded at
Felixstowe. She is 400 metres long and carries 19,000 containers full of Chinese goods for sale in the UK. It’s easy enough to talk about making our own
cars and computers but a Chinese-made laptop would cost two or three times as
much if it was made in the UK. It’s true that the people making it would be
earning money that could be spent at home. But who will be the first customer
to pay two or three times as much as they need to?
So
far as world trade is concerned the EU is a red herring. In or out of Europe
the UK would still be part of the same global capitalist system. The best we
can hope for is that the EU returns to its founding principle of
self-sufficiency. A market of half a billion people is big enough to defend
itself but an isolated Britain would have no chance. We can train our own
workers and specialize in quality goods but we cannot compete with Chinese mass
production or grow coffee, tea or bananas; global capitalism is here to stay.
With Kitchener to
Khartoum
The
US State Department has offered a reward of $10 million for information leading
to the death or capture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed Khalifa of
the Islamic State in Levant. One hundred years ago a similar war was fought in
Sudan. General Herbert Kitchener’s Anglo-Egyptian army defeated Abdullah
al-Taashi at the Battle of Omdurman in 1892, ending the Mahdist Revolt. The
bravery of the Dervishes was chronicled by several Victorian writers including
Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. Here is an extract from With Kitchener
to Khartoum by GW Steevens.
“And the Dervishes?
The honour of the fight must still go with the men who died. Our men were
perfect, but the Dervishes were superb – beyond perfection. It was their
largest, best and bravest army that ever fought against us for Mahdism, and it
died worthily for the huge empire that Mahdism won and kept for so long. Their
riflemen, mangled by ever kind of death and torment that man can devise, clung
round the black flag and the green, emptying their poor, rotten home-made
cartridges dauntlessly. Their spearmen charged death every minute hopelessly.
Their horsemen led each attack, riding into the bullets till nothing was
left... Not one rush, or two, or ten, but rush on rush, company on company,
never stopping, though all their view that was not unshaken enemy was the
bodies of the men who had rushed before them. A dusky line got up and stormed
forward: it bent, broke up, fell apart, and disappeared. Before the smoke had
cleared another line was bending and storming forward in the same track... From
the green army there now came only death-enamoured desperados, strolling one by
one towards the rifles, pausing to take a spear, turning aside to recognise a
corpse, then, caught by a sudden jet of fury, bounding forward, checking,
sinking limply to the ground. Now under the black flag in a ring of bodies
stood only three men, facing the three thousand of the Third Brigade. They
folded their arms about the staff and gazed steadily forward. Two fell. The
last dervish stood up and filled his chest: he shouted the name of his God and
hurled his spear. Then he stood quite still, waiting. It took him full; he
quivered, gave at the knees, and toppled with his head on his arms and his face
towards the legions of his conquerors.”
GW
Steevens was the Daily Mail
correspondent attached to Lord Kitchener’s Anglo-Egyptian Army. He was an
unashamed imperialist but he respected the Dervishes as fearless warriors. Lord
Kitchener was a great general but he would not have won the Sudanese War
without a military railway, a telegraph system, artillery, Remington rifles,
Maxim guns, gunboats, ammunition barges, field hospitals, an intelligence
network, and all the benefits of modern technology.
The
bravery of the Mahdi’s army was put down to religious fanaticism but soldiers
fight for many different reasons; for their king, for their country, for their
regiment, or simply for their mates. It has been said that patriotism is the
religion of politics.
With Kitchener to
Khartoum
by GW Steevens was first published in 1898, is available from www.amazon.com
Further
to my piece “Two New Books” in European Outlook
# 13, I have been asked for my impressions of the leaders of the patriotic
movements of the sixties. I was only a teenager at the time but I did meet most
of them.
The
League of Empire Loyalists was run by AK Chesterton. He mixed with retired
senior officers and ex-colonial officials but he always had time for a South
London lad with a head full of revolution. I was fascinated by his eclectic
mixture of opinions. He was certainly right-wing in his defence of the Empire
but he believed in social justice. The following passage is from an article he
wrote for the BUF Quarterly; it was
entitled “Corporate State or Crime State:”
“Purchasing power
must everywhere be increased, the demands of our own fellow-countrymen met by
the development of our own industries and our own vast imperial resources:
poverty must be replaced by plenty; flabby defeatism by a virile will to live
and achieve. Thus will the foundations be laid for the long-term policy which
is destined to secure among our people a unity of apperception upon so high a
level of awareness that the social conscience will go step by step with the
changing needs of the times, making it impossible for the essential dignity of
human life ever again to be degraded by the overlordship of profiteers whose
quick-thinking brains and ape-like morals still constitute so large a menace to
our race.”
AK didn’t drink but he enjoyed socialising. I
liked him very much.
Austen
Brooks, his deputy, was a likable and capable man – a typical Royal Navy officer.
The easy going culture of the LEL owed a lot to him. My politics have matured
since those days but I remember the Empire Loyalists with affection. You could
not meet nicer people.
I
met Andrew Fountaine, the president of the 1960 BNP, at the Narford Camp in
1962. I cannot claim to have known him but I got to know John Bean, the leader
of the party, and I have been friends with him ever since. John Tyndall was
straightforward but very old-fashioned. Colin Jordan favoured shock tactics but
he went too far and ended up in prison. We were glad when he and John Tyndall
joined the National Socialist Movement. Following their departure the BNP
became a proper political party that contested elections.
Union
Movement was founded by Oswald Mosley in 1948. The closest I got to him was at his 80th birthday celebration at the Ecclestone Hotel in 1976. He was still an impressive figure and I will always remember him surrounded by his old comrades.
Jeffrey Hamm effectively became leader of Union Movement in 1968 when Oswald
Mosley withdrew from party politics to concentrate on writing and broadcasting. In his 1983 autobiography Action Replay he remembers the attempt to form a
National Party for Europe:
“In March 1962 Mosley
convened a conference in Venice of Europeans from a number of countries, and a
“Declaration of Venice” was issued, stating a common policy on which all could
come together in forming a “National Party for Europe.” Unfortunately, much of
the enthusiasm manifested at the conference evaporated when the delegates got
home and faced criticism that a concrete project of this kind was too precipitate,
and consequently Mosley’s idea never got off the ground. The beating of the nationalist drum is no doubt exciting for those content
to march up the hill and down again bearing a banner with a strange device and
shouting meaningless slogans. But the derisory and falling votes polled by
nationalist candidates in the elections of February and October 1974, and again
in May 1979, prove that nationalism does not win elections.”
It
will be interesting to see if his words hold true for the 2015 general election
when Ukip, the latest nationalist party, is hoping to make a breakthrough.
Jeffrey
Hamm was a brave and honest man who suffered imprisonment, physical injury and personal sacrifice for the movement. He encouraged me to write for Action and he was always optimistic. I cherish his memory.
Marxism and
Capitalism
When
right wingers accuse their enemies of being Marxists they credit Karl Marx with
views that he never held. He was the grandson of a rabbi but he disliked Jews
and vilified them in his essay “On the Jewish Question.” He also looked down on
non-Europeans and described his political rival Ferdinand Lassalle as “part
nigger.” We are told that the Frankfurt School is responsible for
multiracialism but Europeans had already created mulattos long before the
Frankfurters started lecturing us.
Nationalists
maintain that people are naturally race-conscious until they are brainwashed by
left wing propaganda; but just as many people are colour blind until they are
exposed to right wing propaganda. Liberalism may agree with Marxism about Race
but that doesn’t make them the same thing. Marxism is essentially authoritarian
and atheistic whereas Liberalism is democratic and agnostic.
Richard
Coudenhove Kalergi (1894-1972) founded the influential Pan Europa movement in
1923. He was an Austrian aristocrat of part Japanese ancestry who believed
passionately in Europe. But he dismissed the Master Race theory and glorified
great Europeans such as; Saint-Pierre, Kant, Napoleon, Mazzini, Victor Hugo and
Nietzsche. He advocated assimilation but he was a lifelong anti-communist.
Another
bête noire of the far-Right is the former Irish Attorney General Peter
Sutherland. As EU Commissioner and head of the World Trade Organisation he
proposed mass migration to mitigate the impending population collapse in
Europe. He is a former chairman of BP and currently heads Goldman Sachs
International. There is nothing even remotely Marxist about Peter Sutherland,
he is conservative, a Catholic, and a strong believer in the free market
economy. But he doesn’t believe in racism.
A
third contender for most hated public figure is Michael Heseltine; a patriot
who defied Margaret Thatcher over the Westland helicopter affair and championed
British industry as Chairman of the Board of Trade. He is a successful
businessman, a sworn enemy of the militant Left and a “one nation” Tory. But he
is opposed to racism and favours total integration.
These
men may be race mixers but they are not Marxists. They are part of the liberal
tradition stretching back to the French Revolution and the abolition of
slavery; a worldview that predates Marxism and has nothing to do with a great
conspiracy involving Jewish bankers and academics. The dominant creed of the
modern world is global capitalism led by the United States and China. It’s not
surprising that a black man like Barack Obama and a Chinaman like Xi Jinping
are indifferent to the future of the white race. To the capitalists we are
consumers defined not by race but by spending power.
Russian Gas and Oil
Britain
is facing an energy crisis that’s been predicted for years. Many of our power
stations are unfit for purpose. Our nuclear plants will have to be
decommissioned, our coal-fired plants do not meet environmental standards and
we don’t have enough gas-fired plants. Gas is not pollution-free but it’s cleaner
that coal and much cheaper than nuclear.
Gas prices are falling as industrial production slows down
throughout the world and the United States exploits fracking technology. We are
still producing gas from the North Sea and there is plenty available from
Russia and Norway, via existing pipelines, and from Algeria, Qatar and the
United States by tanker.
We
are subsidizing French and Japanese contractors to build a new generation of
nuclear plants. This is the cleanest form of energy when all goes well but the
disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima show what can happen when it goes wrong.
Wind turbines and biomass generators are not serious contenders and coal will
need further research and development to meet new emission standards. The
obvious answer is gas. We should do deal with the Russians to import gas
through existing pipelines. But Dave Cameron and the rest of Europe’s leaders
have signed up to the America’s economic war. All of them, except Tayip Erdogan of Turkey, are just
as cowardly. France has damaged her shipbuilding industry by reneging on the
Russian naval contract. Poland has seriously damaged her agriculture by cutting
off supplies of vegetables to Russia. Germany is paying over the odds for gas
and oil, and the City of London has lost billions of dollars of Russian
investment.
America’s
foreign policy is as dangerous as ever. Barack Obama should remember that the oil boycott of Japan resulted in Pearl Harbor and ended in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Bill White
American
blogger Bill White who is currently serving a 7 year prison sentence has been
given another 17 years in a federal prison for sending threatening emails to
court officials. He has now been given access to the Internet and is posting on
the White Republican blog: http://thewhiterepublican.blogspot.co.uk
Nation Revisited of December 2013
published a letter from Bill White sent from Roanoke City Jail. http://nationrevisited.blogspot.co.uk
He
was replying to an article I wrote for Comrade
of November 2013 entitled “Read Your History.” I blamed the Nazi’s defeat in
WW2 on their underestimation of the Russians.
Bill White rejected my historical analysis and blamed Hitler’s downfall
on bad luck. I published his reply and wished him well. He is a stalwart enemy
of plutocracy who does not deserve to be persecuted for his opinions.
Torture and Threats
at John Polk Correctional Centre
June
24th 2014
Hello,
Harold
Terrible
things are happening, and I only hope that this letter is able to reach you.
I
almost died yesterday, and I’ve gotten one concession – I have been moved to a
larger cell with dimmer lights. As you know, the jail tortured me with terrible
bright lights for 34 days, from May 20 to June 23. On June 17, shortly after I
made the mistake of mentioning I’d sued the jail, they began provoking
confrontations. That night, after being awakened in the middle of the night, I
stopped eating and drinking until six days later when they took me to medical
and let me sleep in a dark room. I lost 18 pounds.
Today,
after eating and drinking water, my blood pressure stabilized. I am still weak,
my innards are in a mess, and I may have kidney or liver damage. I am not
permitted to recuperate in medical, and I am now back in the isolator.
The
day after the jail began its provocations, a Sergeant (name redacted) decided
to physically and sexually threaten me. He threw me against a wall in handcuffs
and threatened me with a drawn taser after describing to me his sexual fantasies
about stripping me and watching me on camera. Then he ordered me to stop
complaining.
While
I lay dying – and if I was not moved, it was entirely my intention to follow
through to death – the jail cut off my communications with the outside world. They
may still be cut off. If this letter reaches you, they are not.
I
have no phone access and only today was allowed to buy stamps. I was told by
the jail that I could only send legal mail and that before I could send it they
would need to determine whether it was about my case or a “personal” letter to
my attorney, i.e. whether I was discussing the mistreatment to which I had been
subjected.
Also,
throughout this entire time the jail was lying about me. A roly-poly buffoon,
one captain (name redacted) sent out an e-mail comparing my lawsuit about the
torture of an inmate complaining that someone else’s piece of cake was bigger.
(It is not clear to whom this e-mail was sent. – HAC). Knowing that I was
dying, this chucklehead just laughed and slouched it off – “that’s inmates for
you.”
What
is happening in this place, Harold, can only be described as pure evil. Yet the
fault for this evil equally lies with those that tolerate it.
I
would like to say more, but I can’t. I am waiting for more news. The lights
have been turned down – a small thing. Things are happening, and I will let you
know of them if and when I can. I don’t know, really, if I am OK or not, or
what they are planning.
Sincerely,
Bill
Rich and Poor States
The UK Press are reporting the result of the Greek general election as a protest against the EU. But most Greeks support the EU and know that their economic troubles result from borrowing too much money before the collapse of 2008. Germany and the
Netherlands also use the euro but they are booming in comparison, and Albania
is even poorer than Greece but they have never belonged to the EU or used the
euro.
The
European Union is a group of states bound together by common purpose. Nobody
expects all the states of the USA to be economically equal. Rich states like
New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts have a yearly income of $65,000 but
poor states like Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi manage on $38,000. But
Americans accept that they are one country, with one currency, one central bank,
one flag and one army. In Europe we are lacking in solidarity and our continent is divided by
mean-spirited nationalism.
The
United Kingdom is another example of “federalism.” Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland are much poorer than England but most of us do not object to our taxes being shared with the Celtic countries
We
need a European Government dedicated to raising wages and conditions to an
acceptable level. With equal pay and social benefits throughout Europe the
problems of free movement of Labour would be solved.
Unfortunately
we will not achieve genuine unity with reactionaries like Dave Cameron at the
helm. He is living in the past and relying on our “special relationship” with
America. Until we break our psychological dependence on the Atlantic Alliance
we will stay on the periphery of Europe.
Alexis Tsipras
A
little country like Greece with only 11.4 million people could easily be
restructured by the European Central Bank. When the UK was bankrupt in 1944 the
United States lent us the money to recover. It took us over half a century to
repay the loan but we did repay it. The ECB should offer the new Greek Government of Alexis Tsipras the same consideration.
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