Political Soldier

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Political Soldier is a

National Front from the late 1970s onwards under young radicals Nick Griffin, Patrick Harrington and Derek Holland of the Official National Front. The term was used to indicate an almost fanatical devotion to the cause of nationalism

, which its supporters felt was needed to bring about a revolutionary change in society.

A faction within the National Front called for the building of a fresh

racialist equality of separate races

History

The idea of the Political Soldier, someone who devotes all his time and energy to the nationalist struggle, was one that had long existed on the

activists

and had set up camps to train Political Soldiers in the 1960s.

Holland published The Political Soldier - A Statement in 1984.

Celtic Cross

the emblem of the Political Soldiers.

The concept of the Political Soldier caused divisions within the British far right as many of its ideas were new and alien concepts. The Official National Front was eventually removed from the NF and the calls for a 'new man' were continued by the International Third Position. Within the UK, the magazine Final Conflict is still devoted to this idea. Holland's book has been translated into a number of European languages (notably into Polish for the National Revival of Poland) whilst the term is still used by the National Democratic Party of Germany to describe its followers.^[2]

References

^ Matthew Collins (15 December 2017). "The National Front at 50: Part II". HOPE not hate. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
^ "Errorpage". Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2006-09-13.

Bibliography

L. Cheles, R. Ferguson, and M. Vaughan, Neo-Fascism in Europe, London: Longman, 1992
N. Copsey, Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
D. Holland, The Political Soldier - A Statement, 1984
M. A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens, London: Warner Books, 1997

External links

Final Conflict
Steve Silver, "A century of British fascism", Searchlight

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