[…] two decades. These books attempt to address this deficiency, Sykes the more successfully. Copsey’s book has a narrow recent focus, the history, ideology and prospects of the BNP from 1982 to the present. While at times chaotic, and describing events more than analysing them, Copsey’s book is useful as much BNP history has never […]
[…] nuclear weapons and airforce bases — and ‘state repression’ — are causes far more associated with the political left than the right. Their British National Party ( BNP) rivals thought so and attacked the NF as ‘Strasserite’.(1) This in turn raises two questions: were the NF actually Strasserite, and even if they were, was […]
[…] are exporting their money-spinning activities here through people like Charlie Sargent and his closest associates in C18. Those in the know say that the row between the BNP and C18 has little to do with ideology and is more about organised drug dealing. ‘According to inside sources, the war between the BNP and C18 […]
[…] but said he admired the Goalies work: ‘I’ve seen their stuff and I think its great.’ Links between Western Goals (UK) and the British National Party ( BNP) are easier to establish, and were openly discussed in the BNP magazine Spearhead. The article described how BNP members had turned up at the Western Goals […]
[…] of alleged state agents within it, and accounts of its current status and purpose. The interpretations examined are those of C18 themselves, the British National Party ( BNP) and others on the far right, Searchlight magazine, and my own. The origins of Combat 18 For its leaders, the origins of C18 have hitherto not […]
[…] situations at a distance, perceiving the whole from the fragments, and not needing the normal kinds of evidence. Take this section from page 43. ‘As for the BNP, Searchlight printed an intriguing story in their August 1994 issue boasting of having obtained a local BNP bulletin, Leeds Patriot, after it had been “left in […]
[…] the police, of which more below. The relative novelty of the NF’s stance, can be gauged by comparing their line on the strike with that of the BNP. After blaming government policy ‘errors’ for the strike, Spearhead went on to helpfully suggest that the state ‘arrest and charge those ringleaders responsible for organising the […]
[…] 1980 after the party refused to grant him dictatorial powers. He formed a New National Front which, by April 1982, had become the British National Party ( BNP), characterised by an increasingly overt Nazism with a British wrapping, and the cult of the leader. (36) The third group was those left in the NF […]
Feedback Re: the apparent post-war interrogation of Heinrich Muller and the purported German intercept of the Churchill-Roosevelt telephone conversation – in Lobster 35 pp. 20/21Chris Othen reports that the alleged intercept is taken from a book by Gregory Douglas, Gestapo Chief (R.J. Bender Publications, 1998). He writes: ‘This is one of those situations where the […]
[…] 1981, it had nothing like that when the renamed British Nationalist and Socialist Movement was disbanded in 1983. Many of them do seem to have joined the BNP; how much of the BM’s decline was due to Ray Hill’s activities is a matter for speculation. I remember, at a meeting addressed by Sir Ronald […]
