RY ITALISM LEADS TO SOCIAL E the population the National s, all the usual paraphernalia of 1 forms designed specifically for ced with particular emphasis for ed Trade Unionists' - deal with redundancies, Immigration and Ireland. It is important to analyse this social agitation of the fascists and understand the ideas which underpin It The principle theme of fascist agitation, past and present, is nationaiism. This is the calculated fostering of identification hy individuals to the nation state which rules them, Fassism is therefore able to play on long standing and deep-rooted cultural traditions which flourished long before fuscism emerged.
BRITISH NATIONALISM In the 18th and 19th centuries the upsurge of capitalism transformed the political map of Europe. The feudal kingdoms were swept away.
The modern capitalist "nations" and their imperialist acquisitions were created. Inevitably, the accompanying philosophy was centred on nationalism. Internationalism - be it that of working class socialiam or even that of the multinational capitalist enterprises - challenges and undermines that ideology.
Fascism is part of the response that reacts against this challenge to the old values and it clings desperate ly to the worn-out patriotism of yesterday, Describing its alms the NF says: "The NF is a party of British Nationalism, being pledged to work for the restoration of full national sovereignty... it stands strongly for the preservation of Britain's national identity. The NF recognises that International Monopoly Capitalism is as great a menace to the freedom of the nation as International Communism and that in fact the two represent different means to the same end - a world CONSPIRACY These words, taken from the NF'S Statement of Policy, Jumps Bolshev ism, the United Nations, Swiss Financiers, and the Common Market as one great conspiracy. This notion, common to every fascist movement from Hitler to Tyndall, is reflected in the NE's social agitation. "British" workers, students, businessmen are all called to resist jointly the ideas of 'alien' peoples, Tied into this appeal to patriotit interests is a pronounced raciniam.
A logical extension of identilying with one's nation is nostility to other, oiten rival nations or other social groupings. Such hostilities to other social groupings developed before the appearance of the capitalist 'nation-states'.
Much of current racialist ideas further increased if representation of the Six Counties is expanded to 20 MP's instead of the present 12, Powell is also attracting support from the right wing of the Conservative Party, from the 70 or so Tory MP's in the Ulster Group, and even from have their origins in pre-capitalist society and have been re-adopted for modern exploitation by the fascists. Hatred of the Jews was Christian Church seeking to win in the 4th century.
in the crusades and promoted a first encouraged by sections of the converts against Jewish competition The stories used for Jew-baiting re-appeared hundreds of years later alrendy.
Spearhead ica's deep South, That same racialism fuels many reactionary and fascist movements in the USA today The NF styles irself as "racialist' Its agitational material exploits the racial hostilities nurtured by British imperialism in its era of power.
Sentences like: You knew you feel strongly about immigration' - mind. Three million Afro-Asians here "recall the racial superiThose Immigrants:
tenant.
A problem for the NF arises from the fact Chat the past prosperity of British capitalism allowed it to grant is subjects a significant measure of liberal democracy: Parliamentary traditions are well established. Notions of "freedom' and 'tolerance' figure prominently in the public "HUMANITARIANISM' In its attempt to build a mass fascist movement in Britain the NF cannot ignore this. The NF therefore bends its racialist and otber propag anda to strew the Front's 'bumanitarianism. Spearherd - paper of the NF - in its August issue whines ahout the seventy five year-old widow bullied by the Race Board". In a heart-tugging article it tells of how an old white woman has stopped letting rooms and is now 'poor. She has refused to let her rooms after being interviewed by the Race Relations Board who had found out she had refused to let to a black The old widowe's care-worn anxious face is on the front cover. The excluded tenant is ignored. If the NF grow no doubt it will put more emphasis on the uglier and real side of its racialism. Likewise their endless references to 'healthy, decent, opinions and fairness to all will quietly evaporate, Now it concentrates mostly on white fears and insecurities.
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