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the merger of a section from the press conference of the BM with John significant of the Ted Eames analyses Tyndall's NNF.

VERE CONSPIRACY "HANG the Tory traitors!" was the great rallying call held to launch the most new fascist groups to emerge during the current realignment of the far right Britian.

The 'British Nationalist Party' is the new name to watch for - an amalgam of John Tyndall's New National Front with a large section of the British Movement under Leicester Nazi Ray Hill.

This "new dynamic nationalist force" (lyndall's words) also comprises elements from the League of St. George, the whole of the tiny Nationalist Party, and the ageing Fuhrer Colin Jordan.

The remainder of the British Movement under Michael McLaughlin has changed its name to the British National Socialist Movement.

Apart from the line-up and the names, very little else has changed. The BNP is committed to the same old Nazi politics and the same old methods of rabble-rousing, propagandising and streetfighting.

It remains to be seen how long Tyndall and Hill can stick together. Hills rise within the BM was because of his success in drawing in skinhead youth combined with an ability to build links with the more upper middle class fascists of the League of St. George, and with characters like Anthony Reed-Herbert (with whom he was involved in gun-running operations).

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Tyndall, for his part, has been openly contemptuous of skinhead youth, though he has been happy to recruit them recently from the NF of his former pals Andrew Bruns and Martin Webster.

The call w intruduce capital punishment for Tory traitors such as Carrington for letting Argentina into the Falklands and Whitelaw for being "soft' on blacks!) is clearly designed to appeai to layers so demoralised and brutalised that they can be brainwashed into believing that the Tories have not gone far enough in their attacks on the working class.

The launching of the BNP must also be seen against a background of rising racist attacks and further attacks on young nonnlalo rinhto vio VADO peupies igio via IVIo and the social security system.

In the more middle class and 'respectable' areas of fascist politics the launch is also mirrored by the rise of ultra-right groupings such as WISE (Welsh; Irish, Scottish, English) and David Irving's Focus Policy Group.

Irving's move into active politics has been imminent for some time and represTindall ents a significant development of which all socialists should take note. He is a dedicated Nazi with a network of carefully nurtured contacts around the international fascist movement.

Whether fascists organise under the name of a Focus Policy Group of or a British Nationalist Party, socialists must fight within tha lahour maramant to laboul movement to build a class response.

The fascists must be opposed and exposed wherever and whenever they show themselves.

Anti-racist groups must draw in young workers, black and white, and draw in the unemployed to fuse the nucleus of the defence squads which will be needed to cope with attacks from the Nazis and from the state.

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Socialist Organiser no.83 May 6, 1982 Page 12

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