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  British Union of Fascists
The activities of the BUF was checked by the the passing of the 1936 Public Order Act.
On the 30th May the BUF was dissolved and its publications were banned.
Young men may join the British Union of Fascists by writing to the Headquarters, King's Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. David Low attended one of the public meetings held by the British Union of Fascists in 1936.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Pfascists.htm   (1731 words)

  
  British Union of Fascists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom.
The party was a union, comprised of several smaller Fascist parties, such as the British fascisti.
The BUF's flag was later adopted (and slightly amended) by the People's Action Party of Singapore, under Lee Kuan Yew, who was an acquaintance of Mosley while he was studying in the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Union_of_Fascists   (797 words)

  
 British Fascists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The British Fascists name was subsequently taken by the movement in an attempt to Anglicise their aspect, and underline their patriotic credentials.
The emergence of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) severely damaged the fortunes of the British Fascists, as did the passing of a series of public order laws in the 1930s that banned uniforms and curtailed the right to demonstrate.
The BUF claimed the bulk of the old movement's membership in 1932, when Neil Francis Hawkins split from Lintorn-Orman and moved towards Oswald Mosley, with the few remaining struggling on until the death of Lintorn-Orman in 1935 when the movement was wound up.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Fascists   (468 words)

  
 British Union of Fascists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The flags of the British Union of Fascists were discussed by Lucien Philippe in an article in Flagmaster years ago (Lucien Philippe: "Movements of the extreme right in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries.
In 1935 the movement is renamed "British Union of Fascists and National Socialists" and the fasces is replaced by a bolt of lightning (similar to a Sieg rune) within a circle.
If the BUF used the same blue as the blue used in British flags, that might explain the fl appearance of the blue element in the photograph: that particular blue is a reasonably a deep shade, and I recall hearing that early photographic film was often not very good at reproducing blue.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb}bfp.html   (1432 words)

  
 A century of British fascism -- Searchlight Feature
On 1 October 1932 the New Party's successor, the British Union of Fascists (BUF), was formally inaugurated, ostensibly as an attempt to unify all British fascist groups (although BUF members were soon addressing the IFL and other rival factions in the "fraternal" language of truncheons and knuckledusters).
BUF thinking was expounded by Mosley (the "Leader"), and the likes of W E D Allen, A K Chesterton and Alexander Raven Thomson, in books and party journals (in the early years Blackshirt and Fascist Week).
The fascists threatened to poison the political atmosphere in Britain by pushing onto the mainstream political agenda the antisemitism that was all too prevalent in inter-war British society.
www.searchlightmagazine.com /features/century/cbf.php?include=page3   (2031 words)

  
 Oswald Mosley in Scotland with a Short History of the Blackshirts
Central to the fascist philosophy was the need for a higher form of civilisation, built by a new type of man; the Greater Britain built by the Blackshirt.
BUF branches were formed all over the British Isles as thousands of people heeded Mosley's call for a New World Order of politics.
British Union recaptured the spirit of the trenches; the spirit of comradeship and unity, with many World War veterans joining the movement.
www.heretical.com /British/mosley2.html   (1958 words)

  
 British Fascist movements up to 1940
The best-known British fascist of the period is
British fascists tended to pronounce it 'fassist', though not always.
At the start of 1936 the BUF was renamed the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists but the new title was rarely used, and instead it was mainly known as the British Union.
www.angelfire.com /ak2/newmanbyrne/brfasc.html   (2719 words)

  
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The fascist leader is portrayed as an opponent of venal anti-semitism and a promoter of big ideas, while being surrounded by unimaginative politicians and dull opponents who failed to understand him.
Mosley's British Union Of Fascists was the first political party in Britain in 1949 to call for a European Union.
The fascist dream was and remains a "comprehensive policy for the new Europe"- "the complete Union of Europe with an European Government is now a necessity...an entirely free system, in a large and viable area such as Europe-Africa, could solve the recurrent crises of the present European countries..."
www.poptel.org.uk /against-eurofederalism/mosley.html   (625 words)

  
 Red Shirts and Black; fascism and anti-fascism in interwar Oxford
This follows from the author's main interest, an account of fascist activity in the city (although mostly confined to university members) and the successful efforts by various groups and individuals to combat the British Union of Fascists.
One major reason for the loss of support for fascism was the violence that accompanied a fascist meeting at Carfax in November 1936, the culmination of a trend towards violence at such meetings.
Sir Oswald Mosley, the BUF leader, was reported in the local newspaper in May 1933 as condemning the Nazis' anti-Semitism and Jew-baiting and even opposed the anti-Semitism of the Imperial Fascist League.
www.dkrenton.co.uk /books/1930s.html   (2834 words)

  
 History of British fascism, from the British Union of Fascists (BUF) to the British National Party (BNP)
But the BUF was also almost unique among Fascist movement in that its origin was marked by the publication of a coherent political programme and doctrine, in Oswald Mosley's The Greater Britain in October 1932.
The BUF argued that the principles of British Fascism were embedded deep in British history, and that it was the dominant Whig interpretation that had distorted the historical textbooks.
Mosley's Union Movement was emboldened by the so-called Nottingham and Notting Hill 'race riots' of 1958 and in 1959 Mosley stood in the North Kensington constituency and, for the first time in his career, lost his deposit with 8.1% of the vote.
www.dkrenton.co.uk /anl/trent1.htm   (13157 words)

  
 www.bills-bunker.de
The British Union of Fascists rank and file in the thirties were not anti-semitic, although I will grant that some of the speakers were.
Holmes.the police inspector, said "The Fascists were not to blame, as nothing was said or done to provoke the crowd." The police collected the weapons that the communists had left on the field after the battle.
In reality the Fascist march was redirected and the clash was between police and communist razor gangs bussed in from all parts of the country for the event.
www.bills-bunker.de /63090.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*   (3955 words)

  
 BRITISH FASCISM
He was blessed with a supreme self-confidence, often mistaken for arrogance, and this, combined with courage, intelligence and tenacity, made him one of the greatest public orators of the twentieth century.
The BUF was founded on October 1, 1932, at their headquarters in Great George Street.
British fascism was a revolt against an old world that had failed to solve the problems of the 1920s and 1930s.
www.nationeuropa.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /page2.html   (910 words)

  
 Spies at Work, CHAPTER 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The British Fascists continued to exist (alongside the British Union of Fascists and Imperial Fascist League) until the late thirties.
By the time of the General Strike the British Fascists were claiming a membership of one million and although this is an exaggeration even a cautious estimate would have to number them in tens of, or perhaps a couple of hundred, thousands.
Though in essence fascist, the writers who were paving the way for the attempted coup were particularly concerned to distance themselves from the British fascist parties.
www.1in12.go-legend.net /publications/library/spies/chap5.htm   (3243 words)

  
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Later that year Mosley approached several fascist groups with a view to their amalgamation/merger into the British Union of Fascists, and naturally due to his own status Mosley was insistent upon subordination and acceptance of himself as leader.
The biggest claim to fame for the British Fascisti was the kidnapping in March 1925 of Harry Pollitt, the leader of the British Communist Party.
When the LEL later merged with the British National Party and the Racial Preservation Society in the formation of the National Front in 1967, Chesterton became its first chairman, although he was later resign both from the leadership of the and the National Front in 1970.
members.lycos.co.uk /mere_pseud_mag_ed/History/MadDogs1.htm   (4666 words)

  
 British Union of Fascists
British Union was opposed to both Finance Capitalism (the private ownership of industry) and State Socialism (the state ownership of industry) and sought to reorganise economic life along the lines of the Corporate State.
Whilst never a movement of pacifism, British Union declared that it was opposed to British involvement in any war whatsoever - unless the interests of Britain or her Empire were directly threatened.
The increase in membership was assisted by support given to British Union by the Daily Mail newspaper and numbers rose to reach 40,000 members by 1934.
www.oswaldmosley.com /buf/buf.html   (1092 words)

  
 Select Bibliography -- Works on Oswald Mosley and British Fascism
"The British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley, and Birmingham: An Analysis of the Content and Context of an Ideology." Unpublished M.Soc.Sci.
Clarke, E.G. The British Union and the Jews.
"The British Union of Fascists in Yorkshire, 1934-1940." Unpublished anon.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v05/v05p175_Stimely.html   (4094 words)

  
 British Israel, The Hidden Hand Behind The 'Kingdom of God on Earth' Deception (July 10, 2005)
The Union Jack, is posted below in its entirety thanks to the assistance of a thoughtful reader who supplied the previously missing chapter and addendum notes.
The Union Jack was initially published somewhere around 1970 and later updated by the anonymous author in 1985 and again in 1988.
British Israel and The Nuclear Bomb (Aug. 7, 2005)
educate-yourself.org /cn/britishisraelhiddenhand10jul05.shtml   (1065 words)

  
 battle of cable street - players
Initially the BUF gained support both from the working class and from members of the establishment such as the press baron Lord Rothermere who was attracted to the Italian style of fascism Mosely wished to imitate.
The BUF did not establish itself in the East End until comparatively late the Bethnal Green Branch was established towards the end of 1934 along with the Shoreditch branch, the borough of Stepney did not have a branch until one was established in Limehouse in July 1936 (The Fascists in Britain - Colin Cross 1961).
The fascist rally turned into a fiasco 150,000 people rallied to oppose the Blackshirts, the fascists entered the park in the early evening, none of their speakers could be heard, after an hour they gave up and behind a cordon of police left the area.
www.csb-berlin.com /berichte/battle_of-cable-street_players.htm   (1175 words)

  
 David Turner's Home Page
Brewer, John D, "The British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley and Birmingham: An analysis of the Content and Context of an Ideology" (University of Birmingham MSocSc, 1975)
Miettinen, Juha, "From the British Union of Fascists to the National Front: an analysis of the sporadic development of British fascism, 1923-1994" (Tampereen yliopisto [Finland] [PhD?], 1995)
Mitchell, Andrew, "Fascism in East Anglia: the British Union of Fascists in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1933-40" (University of Sheffield PhD, 1999)
www.canterbury.u-net.com /page27.html   (735 words)

  
 Free eBooks to Download - OswaldMosley.com
A life-long supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley, he served in the original British Union of Fascists (BUF), and the post-war Union Movement (UM), later to become Oswald Mosley's personal secretary and one of Union Movements leading figures.
To launch the British Union of Fascists in 1932, Mosley published a book, The Greater Britain outlining his radical solutions to resolving the economic and political problems that were facing the British people during the "great depression".
Details of British Union members who were interrogated and imprisoned without charge or trial by the British Government under the notorious Regulation 18b during WW2.
www.oswaldmosley.com /downloads/free_ebooks.htm   (842 words)

  
 Special collections
Scope: The administrative files of the Dorset West District of the British Union of Fascists and of the Dorchester Constituency of Union Movement, and other correspondence of Robert Saunders, mainly 1935 to 1952; together with some books and pamphlets.
In the extent of its coverage this collection appears to be a unique survival: it includes the almost complete administrative files (at least for the period 1935 to 1952) of a District of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and of its post-World War II successor Union Movement.
Files relate both to pre-war and post-war administration in the Dorset West District of the BUF, later the Dorchester Constituency of Union Movement, and include correspondence both with the local membership and with the National Headquarters administration.
www.shef.ac.uk /library/special/saunders.html   (498 words)

  
 British Union of Fascists - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In actual fact this features the masthead of a copy of 'The Fascist' which was the newspaper of Arnold Leese's 'Imperial Fascist League'.
Unlike Mosley, Arnold Leese was a British racial Nationalist, he had first become aware of world jewry and its agenda through HH Beamish who was the founder of a 1920's group called "The Britons".
In fact the BUF used to attack IFL meetings regulary, the Jewish chronicle even aknowledged that the biggest help in combating the IFL was Mosleys BUF.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=6227   (686 words)

  
 Freenations
The death in Paris of Lady Diana Mosley the wife of the leader of the British Union of Fascists and supporter of the European Union, helps to illuminate the true nature of European politics not just in the 1930s and 1940s but in the modern age.
Captivated by the Nazis, married to the leader of the British Union of Fascists which she helped to finance, a friend of Hitler, a committed fascist, someone who married in Goebbels house with Hitler as a guest, she was overjoyed at the destruction of Czechoslovakia (not just under the Nazis but today!).
Her husband Sir Oswald Mosley founded a fascist newspaper called The European and Lady Diana Mosley's total support of the European Union up to her death demonstrates the true nature of that organisation and shows the grave crisis into which spineless "leaders" of the Tory, Liberal and Labour Parties have led the British people.
www.freenations.freeuk.com /news-2003-08-20.html   (616 words)

  
 Special collections
Scope: Documentation recording the activities of the Kingston-upon-Thames Branch of the British Union of Fascists from 1932 to 1941.
It is intended "to record and study the activities of the Kingston-upon-Thames branch of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists during the period of its existence from 1932 to 1940".
Includes a short biography of Oswald Mosley and his part in the British Union of Fascists movement.
www.shef.ac.uk /library/special/bshirts.html   (268 words)

  
 Centre for Jewish Studies, Fascism in Manchester, Yaakov Wise
The British Union of Fascists was a union of numerous smaller extreme nationalist parties, Mosley instituted a fl uniform, gaining the party the nickname the Blackshirts.
The BUF was anti-Communist and protectionist, claimed membership was as high as 50,000, and the millionaire publisher Lord Rothermere and his Daily Mail group were early supporters.
The BUF was completely banned in May 1940 and Mosley and 740 other senior Fascists were interned for much of WW II.
www.mucjs.org /fascism.htm   (3494 words)

  
 Battle of Cable Street: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was a clash between the police, overseeing a lawful march by the British Union of Fascists (British Union of Fascists: the british union of fascists (buf) was a political party of the 1930s in the united...
In spite of the East End at that time having a large Jewish population, and the anti-Semitic nature of the B.U.F., the government refused to ban the march.
Although the police attempted to clear the road to permit the march to proceed, after a series of running battles between the police and anti-fascist demonstrators, the march did not take place, and the B.U.F. marchers were dispersed.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/battle_of_cable_street   (427 words)

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