European Outlook # 20, August 2015

Fiscal Responsibility

We British know all about being broke. We were bankrupt after both World Wars and relied on American and Canadian loans that were not repaid until 2006. But we also ran out of money in peacetime. The Labour government of James Callaghan was forced to go cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund in 1976. The IMF bailed us out on condition that we increased taxation and made cuts in public spending; the same regime that they are now applying to Greece.

The Germans have earned their high standard of living by hard work and discipline. But they have not always been so affluent. In 1953 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer convinced the leaders of the Western World that the West German national debt was unsustainable. The London Conference on German External Debt wrote off half of the debt and rescheduled the remainder. The final payment was made in 2010 following reunification.

When German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble lectures the Greeks on fiscal responsibility he should remember his history. The Greeks ran up their debts by borrowing too much money to fund infrastructure improvements. The Germans incurred their debts fighting two World Wars. But in both cases it was the people who suffered for the mistakes of their governments. Europe is a family of nations and families should not let their own people starve.

Christine Lagarde of the IMF has called for Greek debt reduction. Angela Merkel is opposed to such a move but it now looks inevitable.  When Europe is properly united with one government, one central bank, and an integrated economy, there will be no such thing as Greek debt, or German debt, and no talk of throwing out whole nations.  

Rewriting History

Ukip try to present the British as a separate race of people who have nothing to do with those foreigners on the other side of the English Channel, but history, geography, culture, language and biology tell a different story.

The British Isles were repopulated at the end of the Ice Age by tribes from mainland Europe. The Celts arrived during the Bronze Age. In the first century we spoke Welsh at home and Latin when dealing with the Romans. By the tenth century the country was occupied by Germanic tribes; Anglo-Saxons and Danes. In 1066 William the Conqueror invaded and French became the language of government. In 1154 the Plantagenet King Henry II united England with parts of France; this lasted until we lost Calais in 1558. Our language today is a mixture of German and French.

England has been united with Wales since 1536, Scotland since 1707 and Northern Ireland (officially) since 1922. In 1714 George Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg became King George 1 of England. His Hanoverian dynasty was Anglicised in1901 in preparation for the First World War. The Royals started wearing kilts, shooting pheasants and attending the Church of England. So at various times in our history we have been united with the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans, French, Germans, Welsh, Scots, and Irish.

Christianity has been our religion ever since Emperor Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan in 313 AD. People who only attend Church for weddings, baptisms and funerals are nevertheless upholding an influence on our morals, manners, politics, law, music, art and architecture. Christianity has declined in modern times but it’s still a powerful cultural force.

Britain has absorbed the best of the Iberians, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes and Normans. We carry in our DNA the collective genius of Europe. We are in every sense European and no amount of propaganda can alter the fact. Nigel Farage cannot rewrite history.

European Union

“Confederation” and “federation” both mean the union of several states but confederation is preferred by cautious pro-Europeans who propose a group of sovereign states held together by treaty.

There are 47 member states of the Council of Europe – not counting Belarus which is suspended for being undemocratic. The European Union, including the allied states of Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, is only half of Europe. The physical centre of Europe is in Ukraine, which we think of as Eastern Europe but our continent reaches the Urals and culturally it spans the vast territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The European Union and the EFTA states are united by treaty and committed to “ever closer union.” But if we include Russia and her allies we clearly have a long way to go. Europe’s defence forces belong to NATO; an instrument of American foreign policy that is still fighting the Cold War. The return of the Crimea to Russia was decided by referendum and justified by history. There is no reason for the hostility being promoted by NATO.

A confederation would have trouble holding together. The Swiss and Canadian confederations have a central government, a national army, and a single currency. A union of sovereign states would inevitably develop into a fully-fledged federation like the United States or Russia. This has been the experience of the great states of Europe. The United Kingdom is a union of four states; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Germany is a federation of sixteen states and Spain and Italy both have autonomous regions.

A few “nationalists” are open-minded about Europe but most of them are opposed to any sort of union. They would do well to study the works of Guillaume Faye. In “From Dusk to Dawn” he argued for total union:

The Europe of the future must no longer be envisaged in the mushy, ungovernable forms of the present European Union, which is a powerless Medusa, unable to control its borders, dominated by the mania of free-trade, and subject to American domination. We need to imagine a federal, imperial Grande Europe, ethnically homogenous (that is, European), based on a single autonomous area, and inseparably linked to Russia. I call this enormous continental bloc 'Euro-Siberia.' Having no need to be aggressive toward its neighbors because it would be inattackable, such a bloc would become the premier world power (in a world partitioned into large blocs), self-centered, and opposed to all the dangerous dogmas now associated with globalism. It would have the capacity to practice the 'autarky of great spaces,' whose principles have already been worked out by the Noble Prize winning economist, Maurice Allais. The destiny of the European peninsular cannot be separated from continental Russia, for both ethno-cultural and geopolitical reasons. It’s absolutely imperative for America’s mercantile thalassocracy to prevent the birth of a Euro-Siberian federation

Julius Evola anticipated the caution of conservatives in his essay “Spiritual and Structural Presuppositions of the European Union”:

Circumstances have rendered the need for European unity imperative on our continent. Until now, this need has been fuelled principally by negative factors: the nations of Europe seek a defensive unity, not so much on the basis of anything positive and pre-existing, as because of the lack of any other choice in the face of the threatening pressure of non-European blocs and interests. This circumstance makes it difficult to see the inner form of any possible real European unity very clearly. Thought seems not to go much beyond the project of a coalition or federation, which, as such, will always have an extrinsic, aggregative, rather than organic, character. A unity which would really be organic could be only conceived on the basis of the formative force from inside and from above which is peculiar to a positive idea, a common culture, and a tradition. If we look at the European problem in these terms, it is clear that the situation is painful, and that problematic factors prevent us from indulging in an easy optimism.

It is natural to be wary of change. We are comfortable with the familiar and suspicious of change. But change is inevitable if we are to avoid fossilization. The fainthearted must confront their fears and embrace European unity. We have already had the Greek crisis and we are bound to have trouble in Ukraine. But these are teething problems that will be overcome. We already have the political infrastructure of the European Union; the Parliament, the Commission and the European Central Bank. All that is necessary for the triumph of unity is our courage and determination.

Democracy

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and China's conversion to market capitalism, most of the world is governed by parliamentary democracy. There are a few exceptions, such as North Korea, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States but even they have assemblies that represent the ruling classes. The USA, UK, France and Germany are supposed to be model democracies but they are totally in the grip of big business. The great international corporations fund the political parties and provide the advertising revenue that keeps the mass media going, and their corporate taxes are essential to national budgets.

Democracy is therefore denied. It’s not the will of the people that prevails but the will of big business. Rupert Murdoch was not exaggerating when he claimed to have won the 1997 UK general election by backing the Labour Party with his newspapers and TV channels. In the age of the Internet the big business stranglehold on the media is fading but popular newspapers still have a decisive influence on public opinion.

Switzerland uses referendums to decide political issues but as democratic exercises they are just as suspect as elections. People who buy cars, washing machines and insurance on the prompting of advertisements are likely to be influenced by government propaganda.  

Perhaps in the future we might have representative government based on information technology. We could have daily referendums using our phones or PCs, but at present we are stuck with parliaments controlled by international corporations.

It is our duty to educate the public. Some of them still believe that their MPs represent them when in fact they are doing the bidding of big business. Policies made in the boardrooms of New York are implemented by Westminster. The electorate chose the government but matters of importance are decided by the unelected officials of international banks and oil companies.

Democracy is further undermined by the "War on Terror", the increasing use of referendums, the proposed cap on government spending, and the disgraceful misconduct of parliamentarians. Labour peer Lord Sewel, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, was recently filmed snorting cocaine with prostitutes. 

There will be no true democracy or national sovereignty until global capitalism is be made more transparent and accountable. This cannot be done by individual nation states that lack the necessary political and economic power but a geopolitical bloc like the European Union, with the right sort of government, could achieve democracy. The Eurosceptics see the EU as a tool of big business but it may be our only hope of escaping from plutocracy.

Letter From America

                         Robert Lyons

01/07/2015

Thanks for another interesting issue of European Outlook. Reading your publication keeps me updated on what’s actually happening in the UK and Europe these days. It seems we’re all waiting for the next foot to drop that will send us all spiralling into the abyss. That fella shooting the blacks in South Carolina was like the foot dropping for the Confederate historians and sons and daughters of Confederate Veterans, now there’s a rush to banish or destroy anything related to Southern history. It’s like what followed the tearing down of the Iron Curtain when all symbols of communism were banished, it’s happening here now with all symbols of the Confederacy and the Old South. In their efforts to destroy all thing Southern they forget that slavery existed under the US flag many more years than the four short years of the Southern Confederacy.

08/07/2015

Thanks for the very sad news of Beryl Cheetham’s death. I may have mentioned to you that I was in touch with Beryl and had been for many years, we last communicated at Christmas. I was hoping to visit her in Erding one day but could never make the connection during any of our trips, now I wish I had tried harder. I knew she was in very poor health, Beryl wrote about her failing health quite often. Beryl had put me in touch with Colin Jordan and I was able to speak to him shortly before his death. Thanks again for the sad news, all the old comrades it seems are now crossing over the river and resting under the shade of the trees, to quote Stonewall Jackson’s last words. Thanks again for the sad news. I really appreciate receiving it.

09/07/2015

The march of time is relentless and too many of our old comrades have left us. You’re so lucky to have your old pals club of former members of Mosley’s movement who meet twice a year. Unfortunately we have no such group as you do, but if we did it would make the transition so much easier when you’re able to discuss the situation with old comrades. Being able to talk it out with old comrades over a beer or two seems to lessen the pain. I’ve noticed the loyalty of former members of the Mosley movement and how you all have remained together as a support group for each other through thick and thin, I think that’s wonderful.

Beryl remained true unto death to her beliefs just like Savitri Devi and many others did from that time, too many to mention who are now no longer with us. I noticed a change in her very long note of this past Christmas, its tone was harsher, I could tell she was suffering. National Socialism was all that really mattered to her because she was a true believer. Savitri Devi as well as Rockwell have quite a following, more so now in death than they did in life. I’m proud to have known both of them in life and I still share their National Socialist beliefs.

                             Beryl and Savitri

Paranoia and Confusion

As soon as Dylann Roof was arrested for mass murder in Charleston the conspiracy theorists began posting their nonsense on the Internet. Never mind that he was caught red handed and made a full confession; they still said that it was a false flag operation by the American government. Faith is beyond reason and the conspiracy theorists are steeped in their religion; for that is what conspiracy theory is, a religion that answers every question and provides a guide to world history.

The basic premise of CT is that nothing is what it seems. Everything that happens is the result of a conspiracy and behind it all are the usual suspects. They vary slightly according to nationality. In the UK, and most Protestant countries Catholics feature prominently but in France and the Catholic states it’s Protestants and Freemasons that are in league with the Devil. The one thing they agree on is the Jews. They are blamed for everything from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to the Kennedy assassination, the 9/11 atrocity, and the death of Princess Diana.

In fact the hit list is endless. No prominent person has ever died from accidental or natural causes according to the CT cult. General Paton was allegedly murdered to stop him invading the Soviet Union. Rudolf Hess was killed to facilitate the sale of Spandau Prison to property developers. Robert Maxwell was assassinated by Israeli intelligence agents because he knew too much. And Louis Mountbatten was blown to bits by the IRA, not because he was the Queen’s cousin but because he was involved in secret pedophile ring.

Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklyn D Roosevelt were Gentiles that were falsely accused of being Jews by conspiracy theorists who assume that anyone who offends them must be Jewish. 

They accuse people of terrible crimes without a scrap of evidence, and if you ask them for proof they usually say “but it’s a well-known fact.” Conspiracy theorists are not just harmless cranks. They spread malicious gossip without a though for their victims, and they tarnish the reputation of the dead who cannot defend themselves.

Accusations must be backed by solid evidence. Anecdotal evidence is worthless and so are unattributed quotations. They might say that Winston Churchill said he “wanted to exterminate the Germans” but they should tell you where and when he said it. Conspiracy theorists are driven by paranoia, informed by hearsay and sustained by confusion. They constantly warn us of impending disaster but, like the naughty boy who cried wolf, nobody will believe them if one of their conspiracies turns out to be true.

Patriotism

According to the Oxford Dictionary a patriot is a “champion, or lover of his country." That’s simple enough but first we have to define “country.” Britons of my generation were brought up to be British. Our flag was the Union Jack representing the four nations of the British Isles and the wider British Empire. We were proud to belong to a mighty empire and find it difficult to take “Little England” seriously.

Today the great expansive spirit of imperialism has been replaced by insular nationalism. The Scottish Nationalists have captured Scotland but most Brits are still in favour of the United Kingdom, including half the population of Northern Ireland.

Patriotism can therefore be the love of one country, or in the case of the United Kingdom, of more than one country. Those of us who support the European Union are merely extending our patriotism in the same way.

Anti-Europeans haven't got a monopoly on patriotism. Pro-Europeans are as patriotic as those who think that “Wogs begin at Calais.” It is not true that political and economic federation leads to loss of national identity. It has not happened in the 42 years since we joined the old Common Market and it will not happen in the future.

Ted Heath, the prime minister who took us into the Common Market, is a hate figure to the far-Right. He is accused of a catalogue of crimes but there is not a shred of evidence against him. What we do know about him is that he was the son of a maid and a carpenter who was educated at his local grammar school and won a scholarship to Oxford. He was a captain in the Royal Artillery who took part in the Normandy Landings and was mentioned in dispatches for his gallantry during the North West Europe Campaign of 1944-5. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946. Ted Heath was hated by the Tory aristocracy for being a working class boy who achieved high office. And he is accused of treason by some people who have never served their country or faced enemy action.

We are all entitled to our opinions but it’s unfair and inaccurate to call people “traitors” when they love their country. There is nothing patriotic about risking Britain’s future by breaking away from the EU. And there is nothing treasonable about wanting Britain to be at the heart of Europe.

Patriotism need not be confined to a small territory. Americans love their huge federation from "sea to shining sea"; they do not confine their loyalty to their home state and nor should we.

European Outlook # 19, July 2015

Racial and Religious Hatred

Dylann Roof the baby-faced assassin killed nine innocent worshipers in Charleston as an act of political protest. His manifesto expressed his fear that America is being taken over by the blacks and his willingness to die for the cause. He is a disturbed young man who has wasted his own life and the lives of his victims. Fortunately, most people do not hate members of other races but they marry within their own ethnicity and hope to have children in their likeness. 

In Tunisia another young man called Seifeddine Rezgui killed dozens of mainly British tourists in the name of the "Islamic State." He was motivated by religious rather than racial hatred but the result was the same. Dylann Roof and Seifeddine Rezgui slaughtered innocent people for nothing.

We are the product of our race, culture and nationality. In the UK most of us are British by nationality, European by race and Christian by culture. It is wicked and counter-productive to hate people because of their race or religion but we have every right to defend our heritage and we are not responsible for the actions of psychopaths.

The Changing Face of British Politics

In times past the Conservative Party looked after the landed gentry, the Liberals represented the middle classes and the Labour Party was for the workers. Scotland was solidly Labour and so was the North of England. The Lib Dems were strong in the Southwest and the Highlands and Islands, and the Tories dominated the Home Counties. But now all of this has changed. The Labour Party has been wiped out in Scotland by the Scottish National Party. The anti-EU party, Ukip, was expected to pinch Tory votes in the South but they pinched Labour votes in the North. The Lib Dems have been decimated and the Tories are back in power with a small majority.

The political parties are the victims of change. The old landowning dynasties have been broken up by taxation and the cost of maintaining stately homes. And the servants who used to work for a pittance are now earning proper wages.

The working class has merged with the middle class in the South but not in the North. The heavy industries have all gone but the former coal miners and steel workers have hung onto their resentment and class hatred.

The referendum on Europe will reopen the division between the mainstream Tory Party and its "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists." Dave Cameron is wasting his time trying to appease them; he should sack them now before the referendum.

The Tories are in power but deeply divided over Europe. Labour has been wiped out in Scotland and battered in England. The Lib Dems are reduced to eight MPs. The Greens still have one MP. Ukip have failed to take off and are reduced to one Tory defector, and the scattered remnants of the BNP performed badly at the polls. A sad state of affairs for a country desperately in need of a modern party standing for European unity and social justice. But we live in changing times and anything can happen.

Beyond Nationalism

                                              Oswald Mosley

Oswald Mosley and Francis Parker Yockey eventually fell out with each other but they were the first men to pioneer the European concept in the English language. Mosley wrote The Alternative which set out his policy of "Europe a Nation" and Francis Parker Yockey gave us Imperium – a testament of hope for war-torn Europe.

Other writers throughout Europe shared their vision. This took a leap of faith in a continent divided between the Red Army and the Americans but the founding fathers of the European Union overcame all obstacles to build the new Europe.

Mosley and Yockey both went beyond nationalism. Mosley wrote in the Alternative:

“Such was the ideology and such the teaching from which the National Socialist or Fascist creed reacted so naturally and so vehemently. The tragedy was that the revulsion produced too narrow a nationalism.

The real idea, which must become the creed of the future, is surely to reject the old Internationalism on the one hand and on the other hand, to transcend an exclusive nationalism which divides natural friends and relatives. Man moved from the village to the nation in the natural process of uniting with his nearer kinsmen as his mind and spirit grew. Now the time is come to move from the nation to the continent, or even beyond it, under the same natural impulse and process of next uniting with those nearest to us in blood, tradition, mind and spirit.”

                                           Francis Parker Yockey

Francis Parker Yockey reached the same conclusion in Imperium:

“The former nations, the religions, the races, the classes – these are now the building-blocks of the great Imperial structure which is founding itself. Local, cultural, social, linguistic differences remain – it is no necessity of the Imperium-Idea that it annihilates its component ideas, the collective products of a thousand years of Western history. On the contrary, it affirms them all, in a higher sense it perpetuates them all, but they are in its service, and no longer in the centre of History.”

Those of us committed to "Europe a Nation" reject the misguided patriotism of Ukip. Britain abandoned national sovereignty when we accepted American financial and military assistance in both World Wars. Our only hope of “independence” lies in the collective security of united Europe. On our own we would be hostages to fortune because we import half of our food and fuel, but in Europe we are part of the world’s biggest single market – a geopolitical union of half a billion souls stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals.

We will soon have the chance to vote in the in/out referendum. The European Union is by no means perfect but it’s a step in the right direction. The alternative would not be the "freedom" promised by Ukip; it would be our total absorption into the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Changing Minds

Politicians find it easy to change their minds. Enoch Powell imported West Indians for the National Health Service in 1962 as Minister of Health but later made his infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech. And Maggie Thatcher, the scourge of Brussels, actually started out as an enthusiastic European.

The Labour Party was founded on the principle of common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange. This was enshrined in Clause Four of the 1918 Labour Party Constitution until it was dumped by Tony Blair at the 1994 Conference. He figured that nationalisation made them unelectable, and he proved his point by rebranding the Party as New Labour and winning the next four elections in succession.

A true socialist could not have dumped Clause Four. It would have been like a devout Christian denying Christ, or a Tory boss paying more than the minimum wage. Tony Blair broke the hearts of genuine socialists but he made his party electable.

On the other side of the Thames from the glass skyscraper that houses the Labour Party is the headquarters of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. They operate from a little shop in Clapham High Street. They are genuine socialists who have believed in common ownership since they were founded in 1904. They have never had any political success but they have remained true to their principles.

The Eurosceptics are facing a similar choice as public opinion moves in favour of Europe. They can stick to their principles and remain unelectable or they can embrace Europe and make themselves electable.Some of them are incapable of change but others are more realistic.

I asked John Bean and Richard Edmonds, "What will you do if the referendum result is clearly for Britain to stay in the EU? I suggest that the current EU with 28 sovereign states held together by treaty, with Norway, Iceland and Switzerland in close alliance constitutes a confederation. Isn't that what you want?

John Bean replied: "Yes I would now go as far as agreeing that the current EU with 28 sovereign states held together by treaty would satisfy me as a confederation - as long as the states keep their sovereignty."

Richard Edmonds replied: "As somebody who understands the dangers that the White Race is facing - threats from all sides, then Yes, there absolutely needs to be a deep understanding between the peoples of Europe, including Britain, that we need to face these existential threats together. No more divisions between us. No more Brothers' wars..

Quite how this is to be achieved, and quite what political arrangements need to be made and agreed to, I leave to the future. However some form of mutual respect and support amongst fellow Europeans is absolutely vital if the White Race is to survive.".

Letter from America

I have known Bob Lyons since 1961. He is a well travelled American who is proud of his European heritage.

04 December 2014

For some reason during my travels I’ve always felt that Brits and Europeans in general are much more in tune with history and current affairs, much more so than Americans. Older Americans are greatly influenced by what they see on television news which is very slanted especially on the hot issues of the day like gun control, Ferguson, the Middle Eastern situation, Ukraine, woman’s rights, etc. Lately BBC News America has gotten in on the act, along with the major networks of controlling what people think and I feel that Americans are more susceptible to this approach because there’s little in the way of independent thought process between the ears to begin with.

26 February 2015

I enjoyed your latest issue of European Outlook; as the saying goes: “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” How the world conveniently forgets that violence or terror to achieve political ends has been used by some of our allies including Israel. Israel and the Zionists practiced terror against the British and Arabs with terror groups like the Stern Gang and Irgun among others. Massive state terror bombing was practiced by the US and the British against German civilians in WW11. The winning side gets to make the rules and write the history and that’s exactly what happened, so state terror conveniently became “fighting for freedom”: just meaningless words.

09 April 2015

Thanks for your latest issue of European Outlook, it was excellent as always. I think I enjoy the “reminiscences” best, probably because I’m at that stage of my life. The family is due in from Hawaii next week then we’re off to Paris for a few days of sightseeing then we’ll be joining the Seine river cruise which we’ve done before but figured the grandkids would like it and it was cheap since we’re paying for everybody.  It will be fun walking about Normandy (D-day) with the grandkids. When we return we will only have a few days before heading to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas where our son is getting married, another pocketbook meltdown. Since we’re not much on sun and heat we’ll only spend a few days there but this has been such a cold and miserable winter the sun and heat will feel good.

11 May 2015

A map of the London bombings has been going around, it doesn’t appear to be very comprehensive, it shows all the bombings in London during WW11 but nowhere else in England. I know I’ve been in other cities in England and Wales that were bombed. In some cases I spoke to eye witnesses including where we were staying on a farm and with a farmer and his family in Wales. The farmer said the German bomber dropped his bomb load in a nearby field close to where he was plowing and scared the daylights out of him but no one was hurt, he assumed the bomb load was being jettisoned before returning home after a failed bomb run.

11 May 2015

I had a German friend, Wolfgang, who lived in Baltimore years ago; he grew up in Kroneburg, a town north of Frankfurt. His house was near the train station, he said he would watch from his bedroom window the bombing of Frankfurt, off in the distance but that soon became too dangerous and they would all go to the air raid shelter that was tunnelled into the central park in Kroneburg. On a visit Wolfgang showed me where everything once was including his old house, the people living there were kind enough to invite us in and Wolfgang could see his old room.

As for us we survived our son’s wedding in the Bahamas and we also survived the trip to Paris. Happy to say we had beautiful weather everywhere, the only rainy day was in Normandy when we visited the D Day beaches. The grandkids loved it all. Hope my son’s marriage works out better this time; she’s a nice lady of Welsh ancestry.

We’ve been travelling to Europe for years and since the EU we’ve noted a remarkable change in the attitudes of especially the French; they’re so much friendlier now, more in line with the rest of Europe.

Funny note, we followed the riots on CNN while we were over there. Now everyone knows where Baltimore is. These riots weren’t near as bad as the riots of 68, they were much worse! Baltimore has always been known for riots going back to the war of 1812, the city was nicknamed “mob town” back then.

The Good Old Days

We like to remember the good times and forget the bad. Childhood memories are about long hot summers, family holidays and school outings. We forget about the bad times but sometimes it pays to remember them. Nigel Farage and his supporters remember the Good Old Days. They have convinced themselves that things were better years ago but their memories are false. They say that Britain was an independent country in those days but the truth is that we were bankrupt after six years of war and totally dependent on America. The only time we acted independently was when we joined Israel and France in attacking Egypt in 1956. The result was a humiliating American ultimatum forcing us to withdraw. That was the first and the last time that we acted without American permission. Even the Falklands conflict was given the green light by a disinterested America.

They say that people were more respectful in those days. The working class were certainly in awe of their superiors. If a doctor gave you a letter for the hospital it would be in a sealed envelope because you had no right to know about your own health. Doctors, magistrates, schoolteachers and politicians were treated with an exaggerated respect that few of them deserved. I remember a teacher telling us that he was wasting his time trying to educate us because a third of us would work in the Surrey Docks, a third would go into the building trade, and the other third would end up in prison. He was not to know that the docks would be done away with. But his attitude showed the contempt of the middle classes. None of us were expected to go to university or break out of our socio-economic group. We were factory fodder in peacetime and cannon fodder in wartime.

The Ukippers remember a time of British military might when the Royal Navy ruled the waves and the Sun never set on the British Empire. The truth is that from the end of World War Two we fought a succession of colonial wars every one of which ended in our withdrawal. Our armed forces fought bravely in Palestine, East Africa, Malaya, South Arabia, and Cyprus to hang onto an empire that was already lost when we surrendered to the Japanese at Singapore in 1942. 

The standard of living for the vast majority of people in the UK is better now than it has ever been. Londoners used to go hop picking in Kent for a holiday but now they fly all over the world. Our local doctor had a car and so did the Vicar but they were beyond the reach of most people. Before the coming of the Motorways our roads were inadequate and the railways were clapped out and inefficient. Today our transport system is world class and constantly improving. Anybody who thinks that things were better years ago is deceiving himself.

There are plenty of things wrong with this country. The housing crisis is a disgrace and the constant flood of Third World immigrants is a national disaster but almost everything else is a vast improvement. We no-longer doff our caps to the bourgeoisie and politicians are treated with contempt. Nigel Farage can have the “Good Old Days.” 

The Trouble with Europe

It’s not Dave Cameron’s petulant wish list that should concern us but the total lack of European solidarity over the Greek crisis and the invasion of boat people from Africa and the Middle East.

Greece is a small nation of 10.8 million people that borrowed too much money during the boom. Since the near-collapse of the banking system they have been trying to pay their debts by selling off national assets and slashing benefits. They have suffered years of hardship but they need the support of their fellow Europeans. We cannot stand by and watch them starve.

Helping a little country like Greece will be much easier than saving Ukraine – the biggest country in Europe with 45.5 million people. Since Ukraine has detached herself from Russia she has become our responsibility; a vast country desperately in need of investment after years of Soviet mismanagement. If we can’t help 10.8 million Greeks how will we help 45.5 million Ukrainians?

The most urgent problem, however, is not economic but demographic. Since NATO air power destroyed Colonel Gadaffi’s regime Libya has been run by gangsters who are flooding Europe with sub-Saharan migrants. Malta, Italy and Greece have been overwhelmed but the rest of Europe has tried to keep out of it. Apart from taking some migrants and supplying naval vessels they have displayed a shameful lack of solidarity. Europe should mount a joint operation to destroy the trucks that transport refugees across the Sahara and the boats that bring them to Europe. We bombed Libya to bring about regime change so we should not hesitate to protect our borders. 

We will not solve the Greek crisis, the Ukrainian crisis, or the African invasion by pretending that they are nothing to do with us. Nor will we escape their consequences by quitting the EU; in a global economy debts are not written off they are re-allocated, and refugees will inevitably find their way to Britain. It is in our own interest to be good neighbours.

Alfred George Barker 1932-2015

Obituary by PT originally published in Comrade the magazine of the Friends of Mosley - www.oswaldmosley.com 

Alfie Barker died on 18^th April 2015 aged 83 in Hackney, London E9.

He joined Union Movement in the late nineteen forties and became an active member. In 1950 Alfie was conscripted to do his National Service. He served in the Royal Ordinance Corps and was posted to Malaya, where he was stationed throughout.

After his National Service Alfie again became active in Union movement and, among other engagements, was in the drum corps.

He became a cabinet maker instead of the expected undertaker, which was the traditional family business. He started a cabinet making factory in East London which he ran for forty years.

Alfie was instrumental in running the Union Movement branch and premises in Fieldway Crescent, North London, along with Fred Shepherd, during the late fifties and sixties and he excelled at producing banners and printing leaflets on his old printing machine.

Alfie will be much remembered, along with the image of him and Bootsy his fluffy dog by his side. Six veteran members of Union Movement attended his funeral, alongside of his family and his many friends in East London.

Alfie was married and is survived by his wife Maria and his three children to whom we extend our deepest sympathy.

European Outlook # 18, June 2015

European Solidarity

In total 641,000 immigrants came to Britain in 2014 and 323,000 people emigrated. We received 268,000 from the EU and 290,000 from outside the EU; mostly from India and Nigeria.

Dave Cameron has introduced a new Immigration Act to reduce the influx. But our border guards are inadequate and the police are not interested. If they come across illegal immigrants or bogus asylum seekers they simply ask them to report to the immigration department. A token number are deported each year but many of them find their way back.

The last Labour government tried to introduce identity cards but they were bitterly opposed. People who already carry all sorts of identification objected to a simple ID card. The result is that we have no idea who is in the country. The government has just started checking the passports of people going abroad but it would be more useful to know who is coming in.

So much propaganda surrounds immigration that it’s difficult to discuss the subject without being accused of racism. It was not until the arrival of the Poles that immigration became a subject for debate. Gutless newspapers like the Daily Mail never said a word about blacks and Asians pouring into the country for fear of the Race Relations Act, but they attacked the Poles because they are white and therefore fair game. Petty nationalist parties like Ukip and the BNP never showed a scrap of solidarity with our fellow Europeans. They joined in a shameful campaign for the sake of a few votes.

We must promote solidarity instead of division. Free movement of labour benefits everybody providing that national governments set decent wage rates and guarantee employment rights. Ukip prefer English-speaking blacks and Asians but it's the blood of Europe that has made our civilization and it will be the people of Europe who reclaim our destiny.

New Dawn

Britain is a founder member of the United Nations and a signatory to the UN Charter of Human Rights. The UN is anathema to the far-Right but it helps to feed and educate mankind and its charter is the basis of international law. America manipulates the UN to impose trade embargoes on any country that defies them. Iran, North Korea and Burma have all been targeted and the Apartheid regime in South Africa was brought down by economic sanctions. It would be foolish for any country to flout the UN but this means little to the New Dawn Party; a far-Right faction led by Bernadette Jaggers. Their policy 

statement reads:

                                     Bernadette Jaggers

“We recognise that the UK is a Christian nation, as such, we will only allow the promotion of Christian denominations; no other religion will be allowed to be promoted in public.”

They have every right to support Christianity but their restriction of religious freedom violates Article 18 of the UN Charter of Human Rights.

“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”

New Dawn is a tiny party that will never come to power but they should still practice fair play and common sense. The Bevis Marks Synagogue in London was founded in 1699 and the Shah Jehan Mosque at Woking was opened in 1889. New Dawn would be taking away rights of worship that had been enjoyed for hundreds of years.

The National Front was founded in 1967 to stop immigration and keep Britain out of the Common Market. Today there are half a dozen groups with the same agenda but they have all been overtaken by Ukip. Now that the Tories have won the general election we will get an in/out referendum that will almost certainly confirm our membership of the EU. Then they will have to accept reality and we can build a movement committed to European solidarity and common sense.

Letter from America

I have known Bob Lyons since 1961. He is a well-travelled American who is proud of his European heritage.

06 August 2014

I guess the UKIP movement is similar to our Tea Party, sort of kosher conservatives and all Israel supporters. It’s amusing how the liberals are always touting immigration as the way to build our economies and make financial progress but what they’re forgetting is that our nations were built on the backs of the industrious white European immigrants, certainly not the flotsam and jetsam of the Third world that is flooding our borders today and has been since WW11. Certainly no good can come from a multi-racial society, sadly in the end it will merely lower our countries to the abysmal level from which there will be no return.

07 October 2014

When my daughter and her family were here she managed to us a special tour of the US Supreme Court building in Washington, a building I had never been in.  During the tour I told her that back in the old days I was the defendant in two landmark free speech cases decided for our side in the US Supreme Court. Both cases were in the 60s, the first was when Dr Fields and I were arrested representing the National States Rights Party in Fairfield, Alabama and the second was in Princess Anne, Maryland and was also with the NSRP. In both cases we were attempting to speak. Strangely enough when I was going to law school back in the 60s both of these cases came up for study in our Constitutional Law class but nobody connected the defendant Robert Lyons in the two cases with the student Robert Lyons who was in their class although I remember it did give me a chuckle at the time. Needless to say my daughter was really surprised.

04 November 2014

We had an excellent trip to Europe and like in the US once a traveller gets outside of the big cities and into the country the population is still very white so I guess if we have any future it lies outside the populated areas. With each trip back to Europe I see that Europe is becoming more and more one people. On the other hand I can see where Europe is becoming more and more Americanized which I don’t feel is necessarily a good situation in many respects but I guess it was inevitable. As the Disney saying goes: “It’s a small world.” I think the small world is becoming a smaller world; the one worlders are having their day.

21 November 2014

Thankfully we didn’t get the big snow here in Baltimore, only some very cold weather. The worst snow I can ever remember getting here is about 3 feet back in about 2006 or so. The snow was so deep I couldn’t get out of my front door and had to unscrew and remove the storm door and crawl out of it. From there I shovelled and shovelled for days trying to clear the house and cars in order to get out and that’s when it was still working. Since my operations I don’t have the strength to shovel like that now so if we get a storm like that again I don’t know what I am going to do. I can’t imagine what I would do with 6 feet of snow, it makes me nervous thinking about it. Heating bills are always a problem here in winter, we keep our house about 62 Fahrenheit all winter, I can’t imagine what it would be like around the Great Lakes or in Montana where the temps reach far below 0 Fahrenheit, the lowest temps I can recall around these parts is in the teens and single digits Fahrenheit.

I grew up on a farm where there was no central heating; all we had were wood stoves in a huge old Victorian home. In the unheated bedrooms (old fireplaces were sealed up) we had to pile on quilts and in the mornings and nights run from the fire in the living room to the bedrooms and jump into bed. In the 40s we still had the outhouses and they were like iceboxes so most of the older folks had chamber pots under their beds that were emptied in the morning. Young boys simply used the window for relief. Those were the days, now gone forever.

The “Nationalist” Challenge

Dave Cameron has started negotiations with the EU leaders in preparation for an in/out referendum on Britain’s membership. We will be asked if we want to say in the EU or leave it. The “yes” camp is currently in the lead but a lot will depend on the Europhobic press. Those of us who campaigned for a “yes” vote in the 1975 referendum never thought that we would have to do it again. But Dave Cameron has been pushed into holding another referendum by his dissident right-wingers.

The sad thing is that many of those supporting the “nationalist” position have been misled into believing that our nationality is at stake. With the best of motives they are pursuing a policy that would see us isolated and marginalized. Some of them have seen the light but most of them are living in the past.

Is it even worth trying to convince the “nationalists” that they are wrong? Jeffrey Hamm thought that it was. Writing in Action in November 1990 he had this to say:

“I sometimes receive literature published by “nationalist” groups, including one which claims to have put its internal house in order and to be rising phoenix-like from the ashes of former glories.

They rightly condemn the results of the immigration policies of successive British governments – but offer no practical solution to the problem thus created.

Terrorists should suffer capital punishment, they proclaim, ignoring the historical fact that the public hangman has always proved the best recruiting-sergeant for organisations which thrive on martyrdom.

“Grass grows green on the battlefield, but never on the scaffold.”

Well-meaning, patriotic people are led astray by such rhetoric, and it is the duty of “Action” to sign-post the road which all true “nationalists” should follow.

The earliest issues of “Action,” whether those of the New Party of 1931 or the British Union Movement of 1932-40, advocated “nationalist” policies based on the development of the then British Empire.

The Second World War destroyed that mighty Empire and necessitated a radical advance in “nationalist” thinking.

It was necessary to replace the lost Empire with a new viable economic unit, self-contained and insulated against the cut-throat competition of the outside world.

The new “Empire,” we urged, was that of a truly united Europe, embracing not only the mainland of our continent but “Europe” overseas in the form of the old white Commonwealth.

Argue our case in “nationalist” circles, debunking the myth that European unity implies any loss of our British national sovereignty or a dilution of our patriotism.

We would remain as British as the French would be French – or the Germans German, but what are we all?

Let us respect the languages and culture of other continents – but let us never forget that we are not American, Africans or Asians!

We are Europeans, inheritors of a culture which has survived for at least three thousand years, speaking languages derived from Latin and Greek, diverging into a variety of tongues, but still intelligible to the truly European man.

That is our message of hope for the future, to those increasingly disillusioned with the old parties of failure.

John Bean 88

Eighty-eight is not a secret Nazi codeword but the age reached by John Bean on June 7^th. He started his political writing career in the pages “National Unity” in 1955. He edited “Combat” in support of the National Labour Party 1958-60, the British National Party 1960-67 and finally the National Front 1967-68. He published “Ten Miles from Anywhere” in 1995 and “Many Shades of Black” in 1999. He ran the “Beanstalk” online blog from 2002-04. He edited the contemporary BNP’s magazine “Identity” from 2004 to 2010. He published “Blood in the Square” in 2015 and currently writes the “Nationalist Notebook” column for the British Democratic Party website.

Happy Birthday John..

Ukip and Union Movement

A day before the general election Robert Blay the Ukip parliamentary candidate for North East Hampshire was dropped by his Europhobic party for threatening to kill his Tory opponent. Ranil Jayawardena, who is of Sri Lankan extraction, has been tipped to become Britain’s first Asian prime minister but Robert Blay is determined to stop him. He was filmed by a Daily Mirror reporter saying: “if this lad turns up to be our prime minister I will personally put a bullet in him. That’s how strong I feel about it.”

There is a world of difference between the homicidal ranting of Ukip and the vision splendid of Mosley’s Union Movement. This rare picture of Oswald Mosley with a group of his followers shows Otto Abeysakera standing to the left of Jeffrey Hamm. I remember him as a well-spoken, educated man devoted to the cause of European Socialism.  He was of Sri Lankan heritage but that was never a problem to his comrades.

Mosley wrote in Union in May 1948: “Race is the first reality of European Unity...This unique stock of men in Europe, has in fact produced the culture, the values and the achievement of the West. This race in their family of Europe, have produced most things that matter on this globe. This achievement has been the result of their character, which in turn was the result of their race.”

But whilst recognizing the importance of race Mosley and his followers were primarily interested in economics. We saw the influx of non-European labour as another capitalist racket. If they couldn’t export the job they would import the labour. We never held the immigrants responsible for the situation and proposed humane repatriation where possible.

I didn’t know Otto when he was active in Union Movement in the fifties and sixties but I used to drink with him in the seventies together with former UM members Carl Harley and Terry Savage. The Register of Births and Deaths shows that a Francis Otto Abeysakera was born in 1925 and died in Wandsworth in 1985. If that is the Otto that I knew I hope that he rests in peace.

  

Dumbing Down Education

When I asked a friend if he supported the Labour Party’s proposal to reduce student fees he denounced the entire educational system and said that too many people are going to university because education has been “dumbed down.” He went on to suggest that most degrees were of no practical use.

This criticism was made by UK Minister of Education, Margaret Hodge in 2003. She said: “a university degree of slight intellectual substance, which the student earned by simply stacking up numbers on Mickey Mouse courses is not acceptable.”

But 2003 was twelve years ago and commercial pressures since the financial crisis of 2008 have transformed our educational system.  Some years ago I worked at Imperial College at South Kensington. At the time the image of students was one of hippies, dope smokers and layabouts. But the youngsters at IC were hard working students who obviously valued their education. One group were working on a car that ran on a minimal fuel supply. They designed and built the vehicle from scratch and their enthusiasm was obvious. I do not believe that they were there because of a lowering of standards.

In 2014 there were 435,000 foreign students in the UK each paying £22,000 in university fees. We compete with the United States and many other countries for their custom, and they certainly wouldn’t come here if there was anything wrong with the degrees they earned.

We are training the scientists and engineers that we need to compete against the rest of the world but we wouldn’t be so successful if the entrance exams were impassable. Our universities are not “dumbed down;” they are centres of excellence with proud records of achievement.

Higher education is not an elaborate conspiracy but a practical response to the demands of industry. The days of boys going down mines, or into shipbuilding or heavy industry are at an end. Today’s jobs revolve around Information Technology and require a scientific education. Apprenticeships are increasingly available but we still need university graduates capable of running high-tech industries.

There is a serious problem with an illiterate underclass produced by generations of unemployment and handouts. This is a separate issue that is being resolved by linking benefits to training. This will not help the subnormal but most benefit recipients are capable of learning. 

We have survived the Hippy era. Those professors that peddled utopian nonsense in the sixties are now sitting in shit-stained wheelchairs with drug-scrambled brains. A new generation of teachers is motivated by commercial reality and their students are more likely to vote Conservative.

Side Effects

When the Tories are in power the far-Right parties go into decline and the hard-Left starts attacking political meetings and provoking the police. These side effects were seen in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher won a landslide victory by saying that she understood people’s fears of being “swamped.” The National Front collapsed and the Red street army seriously challenged the forces of law and order. The Poll Tax riots of March 1990 in central London left 45 police officers injured and 113 civilians.

This time the Reds have the internet at their disposal and the police are desperate not to be filmed beating up bystanders. Nowadays there are cameras everywhere and pictures of policemen cracking dissident heads open will be broadcast around the world. The Tories are bringing in fresh legislation to protect us against terrorism but it’s not clear what they can do to stop rioters without using armed might.

In the 2015 general election the patriotic parties averaged a pathetic 1%. We were getting better results half a century ago. Oswald Mosley got 7.5% in North Kensington in 1959 for Union Movement. John Bean got 9.1% in Southall in 1964 for the original BNP. Colin Jordan, fresh from prison, got 3% in Birmingham Ladywood in 1969 for British Movement. And Martin Webster got a sensational 16% for the National Front in the 1973 West Bromwich by-election. Yes, I know that Union Movement was never a right wing party but we campaigned against Commonwealth immigration. Now Ukip, a populist party led by a City broker and backed by The Daily Express has taken over. They got one MP elected and won nearly four million votes from people hoping to upset the system. But in the finest tradition of nationalist parties they are threatening to split..

The Tories, free from the restraining influence of the Liberal Democrats, are determined to tear up the Human Rights Act and clamp down on benefits. They have lurched dangerously to the Right and are spoiling for a fight. The police will need their riot shields and batons during the next five years.