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When the Powellite dockers marched in 1968, many students and anti-fascists got hurt. Above, their boots land on a young protester. Prime mover of these fascist mobilisations was Dan Harmstone — an active T h e u l t r a r ig h t IN BRITAIN TODAY Rhodesian debacle, and the puritanical, grouping was the National Front, a worked in several right wing organ­ your birthday”. The Fuhrer came back, cultural backlash, provide a political fanatical, racist coalition, then headed isations, he has always got to the top, and the TV stayed on. climate which is trying to by A.K. Chesterton, implacable right­ and they have always started to Perhaps the most pathetic figure exploit. Its most odious prejudice, winger, and literary dilettante. But after crumble. But perhaps it’s just because associated with the National Front is racism, can be manipulated when there a recent internal putsch, John O’Brien, a he’s thick”. Bill Whitbread. He used to sit on the are a million out of work, and economic former horticulturist, ended up Chair­ Anyway, whether or not O’Brien National Executive as Trade Union conditions are hard. man, and Chesterton, piqued, left for likes to be called a Nazi, some of his closest associates were once in Colin organiser, and was the Front’s main link Next Saturday TRU-AIM (Trades South Africa. O’Brien has not been an Jordan’s National Socialist Movement — man during the inauguration of TRU- Unions Against Immigration) will unqualified success for the Front. Its active at the time when Jordan was AIM. Organisational meetings for the march through Oldham in Manchester, membership, which topped 9,000 in convicted for running “Spearhead”, a march were often held at Jordan’s an area hit by critical unemployment as Chesteron’s heyday, is now sliding fast. para-military organisation of quasi headquarters. (He once VER since the demise of one mill after another closeddown. The It cannot mobilise anything like as stormtroopers, which landed him in the operated in Princedale Road, London, organisers, a coalition of right wing nick. Mosley’s Trade Union Move­ many men as it could in 1968/69. Then, but moved North soon after his last sectarians,intend to exploit the idea that it was turning out several hundred Take John Tyndall. He writes a lot of prison sentence, to found the British Ement, the extreme right in black men are taking away all the jobs. thousand free leaflets a year. (Character­ the National Front propaganda material Movement.) Whitbread was not meeting Britain has never been much more , a Nazi, and organiser of istically, the Right tends to have access — but he was in Jordan’s movement in Jordan for the first time. Like so many than a kaleidoscope of fractious the , successor to the to large funds. The Racial Preservation the early sixties. Jordan was cavorting senior National Front men, he was a and fragmented cells, uncertain Nazi National Socialist Movement, Society once put out 2 million leaflets around with his wife, Francoise Dior, one-time member of the National the House of Dior heiress, bombing whether to wear a or a which had a paramilitary wing, the in a single year). But now it has even Socialist Group, and of its military synagogues. Tyndall, infuriated because on their arm bands. At National Socialist Group, believes that had to close down “”, the he lost out to Jordan when Francoise wing, NSG. He is now back with Jordan the last count, there were 98 of there will be at least 1,000 workers on shrill voice of little England teutonic broke off her engagement with him, in the British Movement. This pathetic­ • them taking in every shade of the streets behind TRU-AIM’s banners. chauvinism which ran stories like “Get finally quit after she had served an ally confused individual has another brown and black and a splattering The right is not yet a real danger. It tough with black thugs: Immigrant eighteen-month prison sentence for her skeleton in his cupboard. He is a of red-white-and-blue, too. But even embarrasses the main-liners of the violence hits new peak”, “Fairer deal part in the raids. He ended up in the renegade Left Wing activist for landlords”, and “Jeremy Thorpe: they have never had any popular Tory party, but the moves towards National Front. Much to O’Brien’s Another of Jordan’s henchmen in his coalition within it, and its attempt to Best man for the Immigrants”. chagrin, a German Nazi magazine in our ideologues, and have always been When we visited John O’Brien in the “Spearhead” days was fat, thuggish organise the unemployed and get possession, refers to Tyndall as “Dem Webster - who is now the Front’s politically isolated, a fringe rabble Front’s Fleet Street office, he denied Fuhrer der britischen National Front”. popular support on a racist ticket have National Activities Organiser, and ranging from Colin Jordan’s to be resisted and snuffed out, before the allegations of fascism. “I spent a lot But Tyndall isn’t all a Führer should be. of my life fighting the Germans. I really deputy editor of one of their publica­ criminal heavy mob to loud­ things are allowed to go as far as they At one of his birthday parties his sister resent being labelled a Nazi now”, he wanted to watch “Ready Steady Go”, tions which is called “Spearhead”. mouthed Tory backwoodsmen. did in the thirties. told me. But somebody who knew him The reason for the Front’s decline is There are signs that this might be Things are constantly changing within which Tyndall called “a yid and nigger well said, “He’s so bad at his job, that I show” and stormed out of the room. partially the emergence of the Monday changing. Unemployment at home, the odious family tree of British often wonder if he isn’t a special branch His mum ran after him calling “Come fighting in Northern Ireland, the fascism. Three years ago, the big plant. If you look at his history, he has back John. Mummie’s made a cakie for continued on page 14

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Jordan, in the White raincoat, takes a stroll with his heavies during the peak years of the National Socialist Movement. Danny Batram, (4th from right) was, with his deceased brother Eddie, one of Jordan’s most notorious hatchet men. Behind him is Danny Harmstone, (extreme left, of the picture) is largely responsible for the Powellite dockers marches in 1968/9. He is a "Geordie" David Pascoe one of many Nazis who now belong to the National Front. Webster (extreme right) who was sent to The Monday Club held anti Common Market rallies in 1970. At the Trafalgar Square meeting, National Front banners outnumbered those of the Club by about 20 to 1. Despite the Club s former Mosleyite Parliamentary candidate, an ex-boxer and present Smithfield market meat porter. Once, he was close to prison in 1964 for assaulting President Kenyatta, is now National Activities organiser for the NF - which tries to deny its Nazi internal “tribunal” to purge Nazis, it has become inextricably involved with the most militant and extreme right wing groups in Britain. connections. Jordan and an NSM member. They have come together again to organise Saturday’s march in Manchester. The Dirty Labyrinth of Britain’s Ultra Right Hancock Bamford

RACIAL WORTHING SUSSEX NORTHERN EX SS MEN PRESERVATION DEBATING- DIPLOMATIC FORUM MONDAY CLUB LEAGUE IN SOCIETY SOCIETY SERVICE

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SUSSEX POWELL NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL FOR P.M CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATIC FARMERS PARTY OF IAN PAISLEY UNION. COUNCILLOR PARTY ST GEORGE

ESSEX Coleman Baron POWELL NATIONAL FRONT FOR PM Grace Woods ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH When Colin Jordan left goal in 1963. Francoise Dior, house of Dior heiress and his sometime wife, was among BRITISH ISRAELITES PEOPLE those waiting for him. She served an 18 month sentence for her part in the bombing of more than 30 Rev G.H. Nicholson marches to the Cenotaph, to take a service there, held by the Anglo-Rhodesian Society. EAST ANGLIA ANGLO RESIDENTS synagogues. She was once engaged to John Tyndall (centre) who was then a Jordan heavy, and a member of his FORUM Nicholsen, a National Front member, has been associated with Jordan’s NSM. His parish magazine contains the RHODESIAN ASSOCIATION INTER CITY NSG, the armed wing of the National Socialist Movement. Tyndall, who has served several sentences for arms SOCIETY most outrageous anti-Semitio propaganda. “Many of them (the Jews) who returned to Palestine in recent years George Young and paramilitary offences, the last in 1967, is now a leading propagandist for “Law and Order” fanatics, the were on the Eastern European type, short of stature, dark haired, hook nosed and of sallow complexion”, he Lady Birdwood National Front. The man with his back to the camera is Webster, National Front Activities organiser, and former wrote. But not to worry! Nicholson and his racist friends believe that “God will cleanse their blood”. Nicholson Rev. NSM member. NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR Rev. Bell ANGLO POWELLITE INDIVIDUAL IMMIGRATION BRITISH RHODESIAN MONDAY CLUB M.P.'S FREEDOM CONTROL Merrick Bramwell SOCIETY CAMPAIGN ASSOCIATION O'Brien AGAINST IMMIGRATION

TRU AIM BRITISH MOVEMENT /7 UNION ENOCH INTEGRALISTS MOVEMENT POWELL

FOREIGN Jordan AFFAIRS

CIRCLE C_ POWELLITE ANTI О NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SOCIALIST GROUP COMMON MARKET LEAGUE CD MONARCHIST Jordan avid Courteney, Fuhrer of the National Socialist Group, and UNEMPLOYED PRESS WORKERS EAST WEST ASSOCIATION former associate of Jordan, is obsessed with the Japanese “arts of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION DIGEST war”. He once worked for a firm of City stockbrokers, but got Geoffrey-Steward Smith, who gets NAZI GROUPS geared out in Nazi uniform in the evenings. Bill Whitbread, now in £3,000 a year from Saigon, is a fanatical the British Movement, and sometime National Front industrial anti-communist crusader. He even Powell has links with only one extreme P. Newman was photographed in full Nazi regalia only last year. organiser, tried to claim that the NSG had just been a “cultural “exposed” 7 DAYS in his wretched little right organisation: the para-fan club, CAMPAIGN FOR Hesketh Yet he is an ardent and fanatical member of Jordan’s British East West Digest. Apart from contacts in LONDON & COUNTIES group”. But, 18 months age, the police raided a West London flat, SOUTH AFRICA Greig SOUTH AFRICA REHOUSING AGED called the Powellite Association. But Movement. Jordan has tried to deny that the Movement has any America, and proven involvement with TENANTS ASSOCIATION where they discovered an arsenal. The two Ollife brothers, who were FORUM SOCIETY AND NEEDY everyone on the right, from the Front to Nazi connections — in the hope that the right coalition, TRU-AIM, convicted, were, like Whitbread and Courteney NSG members. mercenary, para-military forces, Stewart the Club is watching to see what he will will be able to mobilise hundreds of unemployed, unpoliticised Whitbread is a key figure in Saturday’s TRU-AIM march. Smith is an ardent Monday Club member. do next. Mary Howarth men next Saturday. 12 13 7 Days 15 March 1972

continued from page 11 Club. Before the last election it was weak and disorganised — a bigots’ ghetto. Now it has 30 MP’s in the house who are open members and there are at least a dozen more who keep in clandestine association. Nationally, it has 6,000 members and the local groups, which are autonomous, have got up to 4,000 more on their books. It is very strong in local branches of the Conservative Party, and on Tory controlled local councils. Essex, for some reason a fascists’ paradise, has a local Monday Club Chairman called Lambert, who claims that 23 out of 104 County Councillors are in the Club. Only Mrs. Greenfield, of Billericay, admits her affiliation, but as this is known MC territory Lambert’s claim is probably close to the truth. Heath is nervous of the Monday Club, precisely because of this kind of phenomenon. It In 1968, a march organised by the Immigration Control Association clashed with the police. At that time “Bruiser” Bramwell, now a leading light in the Monday Club, is a growing, Tory grassroots organisa­ was active in the IGA, and helped to organise the march. Bramwell has been talking about getting Orange men to support Saturday’s TRU-AIM March and the present ICA tion which is wholly opposed to the leadership have been active in its organisation. present leadership, and has even accused talks, a lot, about arms. about “right-wing revolution”. He has it of having “Socialist” policies. Individual Freedom, the Immigration student. He holds soirees in his rooms Like several other right-wingers, spoken, at closed meetings, about arms The Monday Club has become in­ Control Association, and a plethora of there, to which his cronies come to here Bramwell travesties Mao’s phrase and barricades. Once in a particularly extricably mixed up with British Nazi other groups. He defended Hancock of Nazi music. He has frequently dressed “Political Power Comes Out of the expansive mood he said he was a and other right-wing extremist groups. the Heidelberg Hotel affair, when John up in full Nazi gear, and was British Barrel of a Gun” , and is fond of quoting member of the “Powell Shadow At its Anti-Common Market rally, in Biggs-Davidson was having him purged organiser of the “Wallace for President” it when talking about barricades Cabinet” . 1970, National Front banners out­ from the Club and the Party. Even when campaign. A hard-core, nazi extremist, thrown-up from the right, and “counter­ Meanwhile, the right is organising on numbered the MC’s own placards by 20 shown photographs of Hancock march­ he and his young “right-radical” insurgency” activities. Bramwell has ing behind NF banners, all Young could associates are making great headway in the ground. Let’s go back to next to 1. The National Front turns out to all been in contact with John Taylor, the Saturday’s proposed TRU-AIM march. its rallies, and backs its parliamentary say was “You can’t pillory people just forging an ideology for the Monday Irish Cabinet Minister whom the IRA for that” . Young works for Kleinwort Club, hitherto barren of all ideas. The meeting to set it up was held as far policies. recently tried to assassinate. John back as November 20, 1970. Forty In fact, the Monday Club has within Benson, merchant bankers in the City, But these individuals aside, the nexus Jackson, Evening News Parliamentary of MC power lies in its parliamentary people turned up, and a hard and nasty it a tribunal, whose job is to root out and controls considerable patronage in and Education correspondent, and an grouping. Two recent successes include coalition of the right was bargained out Nazis, fascists and others suspected of right wing groupings, particular the anti extreme right-winger, wanted a safe, the Night Assemblies Bill, which will round a table. being “disloyal to the Queen” . It is not black outfits. protestant, Northern Irish seat. outlaw rallies and demonstrations while The main aim was anti-racist exploita­ successful. There was for example the Monday Club members are every- Bramwell, Taylor and Jackson, were being fronted as a control mechanism tion of unemployment. Prominent were Great Hancock Scandal a year ago. where where the right is active. They seen together at the Conservative for Pop Festivals, (see 7 DAYS No. 17) Danny Harmstone, ex-boxer, ex- The Brighton Branch organiser of the were behind the Sussex and Essex, Conference. The list of Bramwell’s and the quashing of the Anti Sex- Mosleyite, Parliamentary candidate, and Monday Club was Hancock Jnr. who " Powell for P.M.” campaigns. Kevin activities is daunting; he is a member of Discrimination Bill. M.P.’s include organiser of the pro-Powell march of was exposed as an organiser, with John Baron, now dead, and his brother Alex, the Codgers Debating Society, where he Amery, Biffen, Biggs-Davidson, London Dockers in 1969. He works as a Ormonde, of the Northern League, a who is a right-wing fixer, dreaming of a frequently meets NF National Activities National Front and Right Tory alliance Stewart-Smith, Gurden, Bell, Orr-Ewing, meat porter in Smithfield. Others virulent fascist group. Hancock’s father Organiser, Webster. He is the new Fortescue, Soref, Goodhew, Wall, include Cripps, connected with the was revealed as the owner of the under Powell. Geoffrey Stewart Smith, Chairman of the Immigration Control exposed in 7 DAYS for his organisation Woodnutt and many others. Front and the Immigration Control Heidelberg Hotel, and a founder of the Association, and has known connections of mercenaries, and incessant right-wing One man has kept his hands supris- Association, Bill Whitbread, sometime Racial Preservation Society. His wife, a with the British Campaign - Against propaganda through East'West Digest, is ingly clean in all this: . member of the Nazi National Socialist German, was an unrepentant Nazi. Immigration. Here he meets Jim a member. Smith is believed to get Every right wing organisation has wooed Group, and former industrial represen­ Hancock Jnr. was a regular supporter of Merrick, the organiser, who, himself, is £3,000 a year from Saigon, and more him. John O’Brien admits that the tative on the NF’s executive, and the National Front. He was expelled in close touch with Jordan and the money from an anti-communist outfit National Front asked him to lead them. Taylor, one of the loudest mouthed, from the MC but remains active in the National Democratic Party. Bramwell is in Taiwan. He is very close to the Many, like the mad campaigners of East busiest Front extremists. Racial Preservation Society, which is taking a coach load of people to Griegs, with whom he collaborates on Anglia, have used his name. Others, like All three are members of the TGWU. now joining forces with Merriek’s , Merrick’s hometown, “to Foreign Affairs Publishing, which puts Danny Harmstone, have got the Others attending the inaugural meeting British Committee against Immigration study the immigration problem” . His out extreme right propaganda. lumpenproletariat out on the streets were Colin Jordan, John O’Brien, and the Immigration Control Associa­ wife, Anna, is organiser of the Monday Horace Cutler, the under Powellite banners. Enoch has members of the Monday Club, members tion, all of which embrace a great chunk Club Young Members Group. To cap it Council leader is an influential member, never disassociated himself from any of of “Powell for Prime Minister”, the of Club and front members. The new all, he is a frequenter of 52 Victoria so is Jonathan Guiness, who writes them, but he has only rarely and barely National Democratic Party, the Racial body will represent a really nasty threat Road, home of White Russian emigre, frequently for the Club’s publications, acknowledged their support. He is, at Preservation Society, and Mary to racial minority groups. Prince Michael Grousinski, who was and is active in its Northern Branch. The the moment, the isolated, uncrowned Howerth, Vice Chairman of the Scandals like the Heidelberg affair, convicted last year for firearms McWhirter twins, who compile the King of the right, to whom everyone is Immigration Control Association. It exposed by John Pilger in the Mirror, offences, a violent anti-Semite and Guinness Book of Records, establish looking for a cohesive initiative. The should be remembered that the Monday did the Monday Club no good at all. But ex-National Socialist associate. Once the another link between the Club and the only organisation which he controls is Club has been active in industry, having there are worse revelations, involving Young Members’ Group of the Monday interests of the black beer family. the Powellite Association. This is a set up the first extreme right break­ the core of the organisation. Club held a party there. The disco was Jonathan Guinness is one of those para-fan club, run for him by a devotee away “union” , the High up in the Monday Club’s on the ground floor. Heavies guarded trying to fabricate an ideology for the — Beryl Cartheen who works for the Association of Professional Engineers. National Body is Roy Bramwell, a the staircases, and when guests wanted club. He has every analysed Mailer for Daily Mail, organising the Ideal Home Jim Merrick, of the Cam­ property dealer in his mid forties, who to use the lavatory, they were escorted “Monday World”, and found him a exhibition. The worst that can be said paign Against Immigration, is also sits on the Immigration and Economics there and back. 52 Victoria Road, W.8., friend of the night. A younger grouping of the organisation is that Bramwell is involved. TRU-AIM have set up a Front, Committees. He owns East End slum has barred windows. It is believed to be centres round David Levy and Tim an active member. called the British Workers Committee property and has many blacks as the venue for the right-wing gay milieu. Beardson. Both have tried to extract a Powell, it seems, is biding his time. Against Unemployment, whose call for tenants. Fairhead, another Monday Club fanatic, right-wing ideology from the neo-Nazi Such organising as he is into must have a mass march and meeting, starting at Three years ago, he set up the has complained to the MC executive racist and totalitarian, Charles Maurras. been done clandestinely. But there are West Street Car Park, Oldham on Contarta Music Society, drawing on his about Bramwell. Levy, in a recent “Monday World”, MC parliamentarians who are extremely Saturday at 3 p.m. mentions only the right-wing friends. It was expensive to Fairhead, who has gay friends is a said that the main problem facing t he close to him. One is Biffen: there is name of “Eddie Dodds, the well known join. A massive row blew up about its frequenter of 52 Victoria Road. British right was discovering “with what considerable evidence to suggest that Т-Unionist”. They will be supported by funds. Bramwell is deep into Northern Fairhead has also a past which he does intellectual tools are we to replace the Biffen is the real author of the “rivers of Orange Lodge members, especially a Ireland. He likes to say “We have a lot not like discussed. He was in the unspoken value consensus that underly blood” speech, and many other crucial group from Birkenhead, whom Jordan to learn from the Provos. We must Revolutionary Communist Party just British Conservatism in the past”. He Powellite texts. has recently been cultivating, and encourage people to buy arms and take after the war. concluded “An analysis based on the Such secrets are usually closely perhaps a Northern Ireland Protestant to the streets” . He even said that he Bramwell is not an isolated freak in work of Charles Maurras is, I suggest, guarded by Powell’s inner circle. But contingent as well. wanted to “bring over a band from the club. Another key figure is David the surest way of reaching the correct one of these men has a very loud mouth Saturday’s march must be stopped. Northern Ireland” , to swell the Orange Ashton, personally praised by Mosley in answers” . Timothy Beardson agrees. when he thinks, he can trust his Admittedly, we are a million miles from sympathisers whom Jordan has already his introduction to “My Life” for his Beardson is an active Monday clubber listeners: Roy Bell, who has already had the Powell Shadow Cabinet, but when rallied in the North of England. It is work in the . Right at who has been convicted for the vigour to justify, publicly, his appalling attack the right takes to the street, and begins probable that Military Intelligence the centre is George Young, who raises with which he disrupted left-wing on women, made just before he blocked to organise, its ridiculous propaganda and absurd posturing ceases to be just a organisations and Southern Irish and controls much of the Club’s money. demonstrations during his time at Christ the Anti Discrimination Bill. joke in bad taste. senators know what he is doing. He Young is right into the Society for Church College, Oxford, where he was a Bell is very keen on talking, privately, 14