Friday 28 September 2012

Nation Revisited # 96

Nation Revisited
# 96, October 2012  nationrevisited@gmail.com  
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Europe: Solidarity or Division
Three American writers were chiefly responsible for the racial theories that influenced the twentieth century. Economist William Z Ripley divided Europeans into sub races in his 1899 book “The Races of Europe.” Madison Grant, a lawyer, put forward his Master Race theory in his 1916 book “The Passing of the Great Race”. And Carleton S Coon, who was a qualified anthropologist, dismissed most of Grant’s ideas in his 1939 revision of Ripley’s work.
In Germany Professor Hans Gunther impressed the Nazis with his book “Racial Elements of European History” in which he claimed the superiority of the Aryan race. His theories were challenged by the eminent Orientalist Max Muller who insisted that “Aryan” was a linguistic term. He said: “An ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.”
Hans Gunther was motivated by “biological nationalism” but the British scientist Steven Oppenheimer in his 2006 book “The Origins of the British” used DNA evidence to prove that the UK was partially populated from Spain at the end of the Ice Age. This idea was supported by the Roman historian Tacitus who wrote: “The dark complexion of the Silures (South Wales), their usually curly hair, and the fact that Spain is the opposite shore to them, are evidence that Iberians of a former date crossed over and occupied these parts.”
Despite Britain’s partly Iberian ancestry the far-right seized upon the Master Race theory and consequently rejected European Union. Oswald Mosley, who was never a right winger, embraced all of non-communist Europe with his post-war policy. In his book The Alternative he called for “Europe a Nation”, a geopolitical bloc that could feed and defend itself. This seemed unlikely in the dark days of 1947 but within a decade the Treaty of Rome had laid the foundations of the new Europe. Mosley was dismissive of the Soviet Union and shared many of the attitudes of the Cold War period. He predicted the reunification of Germany but he never foresaw the total collapse of the USSR and its replacement with the Russian Federation.
The Nazis had also underestimated the Russians who defended themselves with state of the art T34 tanks, MiG-3 fighters, Katyusha rockets and Kalashnikov rifles. According to Nazi propaganda the Russians were “untermenschen” but they did a spectacular volte-face after the battle of Stalingrad and recruited thousands of anti-communist Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians into the Waffen SS; including the infamous Rona or Kaminski Brigade.
At the start of the war membership of the SS was limited to German and Scandinavian volunteers but following the successful Russian campaigns of the Legion Wallonie under the Belgian Rexist leader Leon Degrelle and the Spanish Division Azul under General Augustin Nunez Grandes the SS was thrown open to the whole of Europe. By the end of the war the majority of the Waffen SS was non-German and the last troops fighting on the Axis side at the Battle of Berlin were remnants of SS Division Charlemagne; founded as the Legion des Volontaires Francais by the fascist leader Jacques Doriot who was killed on active service in February 1945.
In a speech to the NSDAP in October 1941 Hitler acknowledged the multi-national composition of his forces. Referring to the Red Army threat to Europe he said:
“This would have been a second storm of Genghis Khan. That this danger was averted we owe in the first place to the bravery, endurance and sacrifice of the German soldiers, and also the sacrifice of those who marched with us. For the first time something like a European awakening passed through this continent. In the north, Finland is fighting, a true nation of heroes, for in her wide spaces she relies on her own strength, her bravery and tenacity.  In the south Romania is fighting. It has recuperated with astonishing speed from one of the most difficult crises that may befall a country and the people are led by a man at once brave and quick to make decisions. This embraces the whole width of the battlefield from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea. Our German soldiers are now fighting in these areas and with them in their ranks Finns, Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Slovaks, Croats and Spaniards are now going into battle. Belgians, Netherlanders, Danes, Norwegians and even Frenchmen have joined.”
The Nazis were full of theories; they talked about industrial partnership but they soon dropped their socialist pretensions when the war started. They denounced the banking system but they bailed out their banks just as modern governments have done. And their racial theories went the same way as their political and economic theories when they were fighting for survival. They realised too late that the only hope for Europe lies in solidarity. If Adolf Hitler had been blessed with the vision of Napoleon Bonaparte he would put a surviving Romanov on the throne of Russia and embraced them as fellow Europeans.
Throughout Europe insularity has been eroded by the invasion of millions of African and Asian immigrants. Fellow Europeans are not so alien when compared to people from vastly different cultures. National differences have diminished with ease of travel and the two million Britons living in Spain and all around the Mediterranean have no problem with the food and wine. We Brits have become much more European and we have lost many of our fears and prejudices. The popular press is still pushing petty nationalism but their circulation is declining and their malevolent influence is waning. People now realise that divisive racial theories are pernicious; they can only help our enemies.
Making Money
In the Fifties Radio Luxembourg carried advertisements for Horace Bachelor of Keynsham, Bristol. He invented the “Infra-Draw Method”, a betting system that would ensure a win on the football pools. As a kid I used to wonder why he bothered running a business when he knew how to win a fortune. Years later when I heard that bankers make money out of nothing I wondered again why they didn’t keep the money they made instead of running banks?
The Fractional Banking system currently allows banks to lend 25 times what they hold in deposits. The difference is supposed to be covered by assets, repayments and dividends. But if too many customers take their money out at the same time the bank is broken. That’s what happened to Northern Rock and Lehman Brothers; and it’s why banking regulations are being tightened to stop overtrading.
People, countries and banks are granted loans according to their status and collateral. This may seem unfair but it’s the way that capitalism works. At some time in the future we will hopefully break away from deficit spending and dollar dependency and start issuing money based on productivity. But for the time being we are stuck with the Rothschild model.
The banks make money by charging interest on loans but people stop buying cars, furniture and houses during recessions and the banks have to be bailed out by the state. The government can’t let them go broke because people would lose their savings, their homes and their pensions.
A viable banking system must be maintained. But first we need a sustainable economy. Britain only produces 60% of her food and 40% of her gas and oil. Within a genuinely united Europe we would be self-sufficient because Danish bacon, Norwegian gas, German cars, French wine and Italian fridges and washing machines would all be part of an internal market. But if a go-it-alone Britain tried to restrict imports we would break the rules of the World Trade Organization and our exports would be blocked. A country that depends on imported fuel and food is in no position to start a trade war.
Most currencies are backed by gold and dollar reserves. The UK holds $130 billion and the Eurozone holds $883 billion. The US also maintains gold and foreign exchange reserves but their currency is effectively backed by oil. Since the US came off the Gold Standard in 1971 the dollar has been exclusively used to buy oil under the petrodollar agreement with OPEC. The dollar accounts for two thirds of all official foreign exchange transactions and half of all the world exports are denominated in dollars. This arrangement gives the US a massive commercial advantage over the rest of the world. It was challenged when Iran started selling oil for euros in 2003, and seriously threatened when she abandoned the dollar altogether in 2009. This is the driving force behind American foreign policy. The status of the greenback as a world reserve currency depends on its tie to oil. They do not want Iran, or any other oil producer to break their monopoly. This is the global system that our politicians are committed to. It’s what NATO is all about. It’s what we pay our taxes for and it’s why our boys are fighting and dying in Afghanistan. Forget about the “War on Terror” and Iran’s controversial nuclear programme. There is nothing complicated about US foreign policy. It’s not a conspiracy by ‘hidden forces,’ it’s about maximizing profits for the giant corporations; the same old-fashioned commercial imperialism that sustained the British Empire.
The Government that We Deserve
The UK opinion polls show the Labour Party ahead of the Tories. The last Labour government borrowed more money and let in more immigrants than ever before. They also got us into two major conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. By the time they were voted out of office we were broke and Labour comedian Liam Byrne left a note saying “all the money has gone.” But only two years later the public has forgotten all about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and look like voting Labour at the next election.
The public has the memory span of a goldfish and the collective intelligence of a pack of lemmings. They are mostly interested in TV talent shows, gratuitous violence, gambling, sport and pornography. The unemployable underclass has got a vote just as valid as the middle class who work hard and pay their taxes. And somebody who has studied the manifestos of all the parties and arrived at a considered opinion can be cancelled out by a drug-raddled illiterate with no idea what he is voting for.
In the good old days candidates bribed the voters with free beer and buxom whores, while hired thugs beat up the opposition. At least they enjoyed themselves and there is no evidence that bribery and violence produced a less worthy parliament.
When Dave Cameron makes a point in the House of Commons his front benchers nod their heads vigorously like little toy dogs. And when one of them brays like a donkey they all join in while the Speaker tries to keep order. Children would behave with more dignity than the 650 overpaid politicians at Westminster. Perhaps it is true that we get the government that we deserve. We should not be surprised that a thoughtless, selfish, ignorant, weak, criminal and spiteful electorate returns a government in its own image.
The last UK general election was predicted by the pollsters and so were the French and Greek elections. Modern technology enables us to gauge public opinion without actually having elections. The system was designed when people lived in remote villages and had to travel miles to cast their votes. Nowadays we have instant communications and we could have a monthly referendum by text or e-mail. We don’t need politicians to decide how much tax we pay or at what age we retire. It’s time we dispensed with them and introduced modern methods. Let them go the same way as town criers and lamplighters: redundant relics of the past who should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Troy Southgate
“Are we really supposed to believe that Julian Assange is campaigning for freedom of speech when, in 2009, Wikileaks revealed names and addresses belonging to thousands of British National Party members? I certainly support the BNP in no way, shape or form, but Assange and his cronies put a lot of ordinary people and their families in danger. With Assange now on his way to Ecuador, no doubt a lot of genuine opponents of global tyranny will continue to hand over information to this character in good faith. One thinks of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell’s famous novel, Nineteen-Eighty-Four.” (Troy Southgate posting on Facebook)
Troy is an accomplished musician, writer and political activist who represents the National Anarchists. The word “anarchist” evokes “the pungent odour of nitro-glycerin”. But Troy Southgate is not an assassin; he is a genuine libertarian who has fought long and hard for his principles. He describes his philosophy thus:
“Much of what we do has to be covert, because the groups that direct the anti-Capitalist movement are usually controlled by Left-wing dogmatists who believe that we National-Anarchists are trying to subvert anarchism for our own sinister ends. But this is false. As we’ve said elsewhere time and time again, we are not ‘racists’ or ‘supremacists’ with some kind of secret agenda, we are seeking our own space in which to live according to our own principles. Sadly, however, most people on the Left want more than that and will not rest until they can organize every minute aspect of people’s lives….The Left, just like the totalitarian Right, refuses to tolerate anyone who tries to opt out of its vision of an inclusive society. Some of us however, want no part of this and will only be ‘socialists’ among ourselves and with our own kind.”
Political labels no longer have the same meaning in a society dominated by consumerism. The parties that used to represent capital and labour now pursue similar policies. But the general public is indifferent and those that still vote do so strictly on tribal lines. The established Right is multinational and pro-Zionist. The liberal-Left accepts global capitalism and the extreme Left are hopelessly divided. The parties that used to be anti-Semitic are now obsessed with Islam. And educated liberals at Hampstead dinner parties are frequently anti-Zionist. In this state of confusion National Anarchism deserves a hearing. Visit the NA website: http://www.national-anarchist.net

Wish lists and policies
If the success of a political party depends on the popularity of its policies it should promise free beer for all the workers. We are in a desperate situation with mounting debts and a shrinking economy. Any prime minister who told the truth and promised us a hard time would be voted out of office. When Winston Churchill came to power in 1940 he shamelessly stole Giuseppe Garibaldi’s historic speech of 1849 by promising nothing but “blood, toil, tears and sweat.” He received a standing ovation from Parliament but at the first opportunity the electorate threw him out in the general election of 1945.
Politicians know that telling the truth only upsets the public. They therefore offer wishes rather than policies. And those parties furthest from power have the best wishes. The major parties have to be careful because they might be elected but minor parties, like the BNP, can promise to quit the EU, ban foreign imports, tear up the Human Rights Act, round up millions of immigrants, strengthen the armed forces, defend the National Health Service and improve education. If they ever came to power the economy would collapse and we would be reduced to poverty. But it’s not going to happen so they can say what they like.
Union Movement has been gone for over thirty years but its core policy of ‘Europe a Nation’ is still valid. South Africa and Rhodesia are lost to us and Canada, Australia and New Zealand have tied their economies to local markets. The Soviet Union has passed into history but the Russian Federation can now be welcomed into the new Europe. The formidable economic and military resources of Europe and Russia combined would be capable of feeding and defending our civilization and putting right the mistakes of the past. The proximity of Russian oil and gas to European industry will ensure a self-sufficient political entity stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This is not a dream it’s a work in progress. It’s the anti-Europeans who are dreaming; dreaming of a lost empire.
BNP Manifesto
The BNP are known for their opposition to immigration and their dislike of the EU. But their manifesto has contained some strange policies. At one time they wanted to keep American bases in the UK to defend us against the Germans. They also wanted to bring back conscription and issue assault rifles to the public. Their latest brainwave is to establish a penal station for hardened and repeat criminals on the British island of South Georgia.
This practically uninhabited island is manned by 25 scientists of the British Antarctic Survey who are there to protect its unique ecosystem from outside contamination. This is why the Falkland Islands’ government forbids settlement of the territory. The only ship visiting the island was HMS Endurance but since she was damaged in 2008 the BAS has been serviced by a hired Norwegian icebreaker.
To build a prison on South Georgia it would first be necessary to refit the docks and build roads to the construction site. Plant and materials would have to be imported.  Construction workers would have to be recruited and housed in temporary encampments. Power plants would have to be built together with batching plants, oil storage tanks, water filtration plants, sewage treatment works, communications, quartermaster’s stores, airstrips and hospital facilities. Construction costs would be prohibitive and so would the employment of prison officers and nursing staff. Not to mention the secure transport of prisoners from the UK.
If such a difficult logistical project was ever completed it would probably contravene the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Article 5 states: “No one shall be subject to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Detaining prisoners thousands of miles from their friends and families would surely fit this description. It might also contravene Article 9: “No one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.”

They also call for the construction of a vast magnetic levitation rail network to replace the current system. This is another unaffordable fantasy. The government is struggling to find the money to electrify the conventional East Midlands and West Coast lines. Replacing the entire rail system with experimental technology would be completely beyond our technical and financial resources. We are already subsidizing the railways but this would be a step too far.
The BNP are not worried about the UN Declaration of Human Rights because they intend to abandon our commitment to international justice. And the cost wouldn’t bother them because they think that the banks create money out of nothing and they intend to do the same. Their populist policies defy common sense but all things are possible if we ignore reality. Free of such constraints we can cancel the national debt, break away from Europe, impose import tariffs, round up and deport millions of immigrants, expand and upgrade our armed forces, improve our National Health Service, provide free university education, replace the entire rail network and build a prison camp in the Antarctic. All we have to do is elect a BNP government and install Nick Griffin in Downing Street.
It’s true that minor points of policy are not important but they indicate a basic lack of commonsense. The number one issue for the BNP must be immigration. People are increasingly opposed to immigration; including established immigrants. The EU is still an issue but after nearly forty years of membership most people know that we are never going to leave it. And the failure of Ukip to get a single MP elected shows that there is no future in bashing the EU. Parties like the BNP never do well under Tory governments because people think that they will do something about immigration. But this is a myth. The Tories have been just as bad as the Labour Party when it comes to flooding the country with Third World immigrants. Dave Cameron will be no different.
The NR Interview
We asked readers and contributors to answer five questions: Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could direct government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you regret? How would you like to be remembered?

So far we have had replies from John Bean, in # 76, Robert Edwards in # 77, me (Bill Baillie) in # 78, and now Michael Woodbrige: a veteran of the National Front and the BNP. Your replies are eagerly awaited and will be posted as we receive them.
Who are you?

My name is Michael Woodbridge and I was born just after the end of the 2nd World War at Woodford Green, Essex. Throughout my childhood I was entertained by family stories about the Blitz, as my parents had been brought up in Hackney and suffered many adventures due to the German bombing. A son of mine has recently delved into family history and discovered that our family roots go back into East London as far as the 18th century. After three serious relationships, two of them marriages, I have seven children and two granddaughters. I’m very proud of my offspring and somewhat relieved that as individuals they tend to be calmer and better adjusted than I was when younger.
What do you believe in?
I believe in Divine Providence to which we owe our existence. As a result we are honour bound to live lives which are honest, creative and courageous.
In honouring Divine Providence we must acknowledge and learn from the natural world. It’s from the natural world that we should seek morality and truth. What we can verify through our own observation and personal experience is paramount. Established religion and political considerations are important factors in our understanding of the world but should always be subject to honest scrutiny and never accepted second hand.
My political beliefs stem from the social need to enhance what is best in our race and culture. We need to replace a plutocratic, mercantile society, beholden to the money power, with a society which honours all that’s most noble, beautiful and altruistic. This has nothing to do with Christian sentimentality, or what one bishop recently described as, “Swimming in chocolate.” I’ve been advised that my ideology could best be described as “Racial Socialism.” One of the most formative books I’ve read is Anna Bramwell’s, “Hitler’s Green Party,” in which she described the life and thinking of Walther Darré and his influence on German National Socialism.
If you could direct government policy what would you do?
My first and most important government directive would have to be a halt to all further non-European immigration and the protection of our genetic inheritance. This policy would be implemented as the first stage of a much more comprehensive plan to elevate our people to a higher consciousness and state of being.
What are you proud of and what do you regret?
A close friend once said to me that we don’t regret those decisions we take in life, only the ones we don’t take; and that seems to be truer than ever. There have been plenty of decisions I haven’t taken in life but amongst those decisions I will still take, is to work harder on my talent, such as it is, for painting.
How would you like to be remembered?
I’d like to be remembered as someone who gave inspiration and happiness to those he cared about.















Saturday 1 September 2012

Issue 95, September 2012



Nation Revisited
# 95, September 2012 


Thanks for your help
 
Thanks to Rufus of the News From Atlantis blog for organizing our new website. This will be updated as each copy of NR is issued; usually every month. This newsletter is opposed to both Finance Capitalism and Communism and stands for European solidarity. We reject racial and religious hatred, including Zionism, but we uphold the positive values of Western civilization.
 
The London Olympics 2012
 
The 2012 London Olympics were a great success. The USA and China were clear winners and the UK did well to come third. But if all the states of Europe had competed under one flag they would have dominated the games with 136 gold, 151 silver and 174 bronze medals. The £10 billion extravaganza was a celebration of global capitalism sponsored by MacDonald’s and Coca-Cola. But we shouldn’t forget the lessons of history. The 1936 Berlin Olympics were brilliantly choreographed by Joseph Goebbels and filmed by Leni Riefenstahl, but ten years later the National Socialist state had ceased to exist. And when Leonid Brezhnev hosted the 1980 Moscow Olympics the Red Army had just invaded Afghanistan. But ten years later Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to withdraw his forces and the Soviet Union disintegrated. Let’s hope that our war-mongering plutocracy suffers a similar fate.
 
Real and Present Danger
 
With the backing of the Murdoch press the retrograde wing of the Tory Party is growing stronger. They have already rejected reform of the House of Lords and they are demanding a referendum on Europe. If they win such a referendum they could force Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. 

This would only be a temporary setback on the road to European unity but it would mean a return to the days before 1973 when we joined the old Common Market. We would still have a stagnant economy, high unemployment and a national debt of £1.2 trillion, but we would be able to wave the Union Jack and sing Land of Hope and Glory to our heart’s content.

In an “independent” Britain there would be no hated foreigners poking their noses into our affairs; except for President Obama and his radiant Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. She is responsible for enforcing US foreign policy on the rest of the world including their insistence on open-door immigration.

There is no shortage of right-wing Tories like William Hague and Liam Fox willing to collaborate with her. The Tories like talking about immigration but they always obey American orders. Any attempt to limit Third World immigration - which is 60% of our intake – would be vetoed by Barack Obama whose father was Kenyan. At present Hilary Clinton is directing the destruction of Syria but she would soon turn her attention to the UK if we went against her.
 
The real and present danger to the UK is uncontrolled Third World immigration. It will make no difference if we are in or out of the EU if we are overrun by the surplus population of the world. William Hague and Liam Fox are obsessed with getting Britain out of the EU but race and culture are infinitely more important than political arrangements. In our long history we have been part of an informal Celtic confederation, a province of the Roman Empire, united with Denmark, ruled by the Normans and united with Wales, Scotland and Ireland. We have survives all of these regimes with our DNA intact. But we will not survive the Third World invasion unless we take immediate action.

Anything you say will be taken down, altered, and used in evidence.
 
The Not Guilty verdict for PC Simon Harwood accused of killing newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during a City of London demonstration will do little to restore public confidence. The police have been using increasing violence against political campaigners. The BNP Liverpool Mayoral candidate Mike Whitby was taken away in handcuffs by police who kicked down his door. The Liverpool Echo reported that he was suspected of forging signatures on his nomination papers. But electoral fraud is not a violent crime and there is no reason to think that he would abscond.  
 
When the police raided Colin Jordan’s North Yorkshire farmhouse in 1991 looking for literature liable to incite racial hatred they didn’t find any but a sharp-eyed CJ noticed that their search warrant was out-of-date. He sued them for violating his rights and accepted £10,000 in an out-of-court settlement.
 
The law is supposed to be independent but most courts serve the government of the day. Some judges served under the Weimar Republic, the Nazis and the East German dictatorship. They dealt impartially with enemies of the state be they Nazi agitators, “rootless cosmopolitans” or kids trying to climb over the Berlin Wall.
 
The police and the judiciary talk about democracy but their instinct is to serve the Establishment and that’s exactly what they do. When the German Army marched through Saint Helier the Jersey cops held up the traffic for them; just as they did in all the occupied countries.

Britain has finally admitted using torture and castration against Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya in the Fifties. They claim that the killing and torture of prisoners was authorized by the colonial administration. These crimes were committed just a few years after British officers had served on the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.

The Israeli Defence Force is currently doing similar things to the Arabs in Palestine and they also claim to be acting within the law. All over the world vicious regimes are brutalizing innocent people under the pretext of law and order.

Jacques Offenbach got it right when he wrote Les Deux Gendarmes: 

We’re public guardians bold yet wary
And of ourselves we take good care
To risk our precious lives we’re chary
When danger threatens we’re not there
But when we see a harmless woman
Or little boys that do no harm
We run them in, we run them in
To show them we’re the beaux gendarme.
 
Commenting on the banning of a UM rally in Trafalgar Square Jeffrey Hamm took a more respectful line in Action of October 1961. He said: “Union Movement does not criticize the police. We know that they act on the orders of governments corruptly employing them (at the taxpayer’s expense) to pursue a political vendetta. The old gibe about “one law for the rich and another for the poor” has long ceased to be operative. As successive governments encouraged mass coloured immigration it was succeeded by “one law for the whites and one for the coloureds”; superseded again by “one law for Union Movement and another for its political opponents.” In the face of all such prejudice and injustice our position is clear and unchanging. We will keep the law until we can change it.”

Global Capitalism
 
The global capitalist system has given most of us a good living for many years but it has run out of gas and the good times are over. We built a social state on high taxation and borrowing but now our perpetually expanding economy has come to a standstill. In order to reduce our national debt we are expected to accept lower wages and pensions and stop spending money on defence, education, health, social security and all the things that we take for granted. But people will not willingly work for less or give up a comfortable life in exchange for poverty. They will only do these things if they are forced to.

Instead of trying to revive global capitalism we should produce our own cars and computers and let the Chinese develop their vast internal market. And instead of growing crops for European supermarkets the Africans should grow their own food. The present system depends on the buyer being able to afford the product. But we can’t reduce the cost of production because the farmers of Africa and the factory workers of China are working as cheap as possible. And we can’t give more money to Western consumers because they are taxed up to the eyeballs. The cheap labour system has run its course and must be replaced.
 
Individual nation states are too small to break away from global capitalism but the world has already divided itself into geopolitical entities. The European Union has been dogged by nationalism and undermined by rate fixing and short selling but it is still the world’s largest trading bloc. The Russian Federation stretches from the Baltic to the Pacific and is rich in natural resources. The North American Free Trade Agreement is established and the nations of East Asia are drawing together. These emerging economic blocs will transform international trade by breaking away from “free trade and open borders.”

Governments supplement taxation by selling interest-bearing bonds to pension funds and investors at rates dictated by the market. Individual states are vulnerable to predatory rate fixing but “federal” bonds backed by the combined industrial might of Europe would be a solid investment. The EU has now taken the first steps toward fiscal union by establishing a mutual fund known as the EFSF.

But politicians should be careful what they say. Markets responded immediately when Mario Draghi, chief of the ECB, vowed to “do whatever it takes to defend the euro”. He was supported by Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. She had previously depressed the markets by saying: “no debt sharing in my lifetime.” Dave Cameron is always talking down the euro to impress his right-wingers but his negative comments damage the UK economy as well as the eurozone.
 
Britain cannot go on printing money indefinitely and those states being squeezed by the rating agencies cannot go on paying 7% interest. Europe and the rest of the world are in the grip of the worst recession since 1929. But every recession in history has been followed by an economic recovery. Despite the gloom and doom of the popular press this one will be no different.
 
Batman and Mosley
 
The historian Dominic Sandbrook wrote a double page Saturday Essay in the Daily Mail shortly after the Colorado cinema massacre. He linked the scenes of violence depicted in the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises” with a new production of Shakespeare’s play “Timon of Athens” at the National Theatre, and public disorder resulting from the recession. Sandbrook is afraid that political unrest will lead to a revival of political extremism as it did in the Thirties. 

He recalls:  “Every week tens of millions of Americans tuned in to hear the crude rants of the Catholic “radio priest” Charles Coughlin, one of the most popular celebrities of the day, who claimed the Jews, Wall Street bankers and Bolshevik activists were plotting to undermine the American dream.”

The whole point of the article was to link the headline; “The Batman massacre was the work of a deranged mind. But I’d argue the film and a new play in London both warn how the West may be reverting to the dark days of the Thirties” – with a quarter page picture of Oswald Mosley inspecting his assembled Blackshirts in 1936. This “picture and caption” propaganda trick was pioneered by Joseph Goebbels.
 
When the Colorado shooting was announced we expected the assassin to be a far-right fanatic, like Anders Breivik or Tim McVeigh, but James Holmes turned out to be a non-political psychopath. Nevertheless Dominic Sandbrook still involved Mosley. The average Daily Mail reader will look at the picture and conclude that OM did the shooting. But Sandbrook failed to mention that the Daily Mail initially supported the BUF with their famous headline “Hurrah for The Blackshirts.”

In 2010 he wrote: “Britain’s empire stands out as a beacon of tolerance, decency and the rule of law… Nor did Britain countenance anything like the dreadful torture committed in French Algeria.” He should talk to some of the victims of imperialism including those interned under Defence Regulation 18B; or the castrated Kenyans who are currently suing the British government. The Mau Mau was a bloodthirsty enemy that showed no mercy but so was the British government. Britain was no worse than any other colonial power but she was never a “beacon of tolerance.”
 
The Colorado shooting was the work of a deranged young man with access to firearms. Similar atrocities have happened around the world. It had nothing to do with civil unrest and even less with a political movement that existed in Britain over 70 years ago. This story was a conflation of lies, innuendo, half-truths and inappropriate photos designed to grab the interest of the Daily Mail’s diminishing readership.

But we didn’t have to wait very long for a real far-right atrocity. Wade Michael Page a 40 year-old ex-soldier was shot dead by the police after opening fire on a Sikh temple. He killed six people and wounded three including a policeman. According to Fox news Page was a right wing extremists with a shaven head and a 9/11 tattoo. He probably thought that the Sikhs were Muslims.
 
Celebrating Diversity
 
Most of our readers are well informed and intelligent people who believe in social justice and European solidarity. They accept that global capitalism is controlled by the World Trade Organization and the central banks of the great powers. But there are others with more exotic ideas.

The conspiracy theorists believe that literally everything is controlled by a secret gang of plotters. They were originally supposed to be Jews and Freemasons but over the years they have been joined by communists and Muslims. The fact that these groups are mutually hostile is apparently part of their cunning plan. 

The head measurers are searching for racial purity. But history shows that humanity is made up of black, white and brown people that have been driven around the world by the forces of climate, hunger, disease, commerce and war since the dawn of time. Recognising our heritage is fine but obsessive subdivision is self-destructive.
 
The pagans want to dance naked around the rune stones in the pale northern sunlight of a cold winter’s morning. They have an idealized view of ancient times that does not include the overwhelming ignorance, endemic disease, grinding poverty, perpetual starvation, routine violence, insanitary conditions and early death that epitomized the good old days.

The Thatcherites are deluded Tories who have a false memory of life under the Iron Lady. The truth is that she did absolutely nothing about immigration and started the deregulation of the banks that led inevitably to the financial crisis of 2008.
 
The eurosceptics will only be happy when Britain quits the EU to be absorbed into the United States. They blame the EU for immigration, the loss of the Empire and the decline of manners and morals. And they reject economic arguments because they think that economics is a “left wing” thing that should be banned.
 
According to this paranoid nonsense “the liberal elite” are responsible for every terrorist attack, every run on the pound, and every job lost. People who are fed up with immigration have every right to vote BNP but the conspiracy freaks should get their heads examined. Mr Levy the tailor is actually too busy to take over the world, and so is Mr Patel at the corner shop. The local Masons meeting in the upstairs room at the Red Lion are doing no harm with their embroidered aprons and secret handshakes; and the last card-carrying communist died of incurable resentment and was buried by the Co-Op in 1999.
 
The world is run by the people that have always run it – those with the most money. Some of them are Jews and Freemasons but most of them are not. Revolutionary systems have been tried but they all revert to plutocracy in the end. We can build a better world by making education and medical care available to all. But we will never make all men equal.
 
Selective Compassion
 
Hilary Clinton is currently leading the gang of sanctimonious hypocrites who are crying about human rights in Syria. They have tried to sell the idea that the rebels are peaceful demonstrators but TV pictures of them fighting government forces with tanks and heavy machine guns indicate that they are well armed and funded. It’s a toss-up whether Hilary Clinton or William Hague is the biggest liar.
 
Both of them know very well that Israel has a worse human rights record than Syria. The UN estimates that 5 million Palestinians are being denied the right to return to their homeland. The Israelis are violating UN Resolution 242 by occupying Palestine and by stealing land and resources. But we have not heard a squeak out of the Anglo-American double act; they are too busy provoking violence in Syria to notice that Israel is a rogue nuclear state that threatens the peace of the world.
 
In the great days of the British Empire it was an established practice to appoint diplomats and administrators who knew nothing about world affairs. The Colonial Office distrusted academics and much preferred sportsmen. As a result the Sudan was known as a country of Blacks ruled by Blues. But the Americans value education and both William Hague and Hilary Clinton have got impressive qualifications. Their one-sided approach to the Middle East must therefore be a matter of selective compassion. The Voltaire news agency reports that up to 60,000 Libyans are fighting in Syria on the rebel side under Turkish officers. This is not a civil war but a proxy war supported by the US, financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and fought by mercenaries.
 
The real power struggle is between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Americans are only interested in grabbing Iranian oil and Britain and France are just obeying orders. The bosses of the American oil and defence industries are looking forward to massive profits from a protracted war with Iran. They made fortunes out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya but they would really hit the jackpot in Iran. Of course they expect to lose soldiers, but they would mostly be poor whites and blacks from the South who would otherwise be unemployed and therefore of no economic value.
 
The so-called “merchants of death” pushed Europe into both world wars, but the population booms after both conflicts more than made up for the “collateral damage” sustained; and rising commodity prices brought massive profits. For most people war is disastrous but not for the profiteers. John Maynard Keynes was already a leading economist when he predicted events in his book: “The Economic Consequences of the Peace.” But governments infested with arms dealers and war profiteers ignored his advice and enforced the Treaty of Versailles. As a result Europe was plunged into another bloodbath.
 
Now another gang of greedy and immoral fixers and financiers are pushing for war with Iran. Dick Cheney and the neocons are just as greedy as Sir Basil Zaharoff who sold armaments to both sides during the Balkan Wars. These later day “merchants of death” have no national allegiances or moral compunctions. They camouflage their avarice with patriotic sentiments and talk about spreading democracy but in reality they are only interested in money.

The National Health Service
 
Americans cannot understand Britain’s devotion to the NHS. They think that everyone should pay their own medical bills and they are opposed to state-run health care. That would be fine in a booming economy but the world is currently in a recession and many people have no insurance or savings. A civilized society cannot let sick people suffer and die for want of money. It is the duty of the State to provide the necessities of life; work, food, shelter, education and medical care. Those who abuse the system and refuse to contribute must be weeded out but we cannot dismantle society because of an antisocial minority. It’s true that a social state attracts immigrants but few countries have seriously tried to keep them out. The USA and Europe have traditionally encouraged immigration as a source of cheap labour. 
 
European Socialists are opposed to globalism and usury but we strive for affordable housing, decent working conditions, free education and medical care. The private sector cannot provide universal medical care free at the point of issue.
 
Paul Barnes RIP
 
My oldest friend Paul Barnes has died aged 65. He was the son of pre-war Blackshirt Bill Barnes and the Godson of John Beckett. Paul was opposed to usury and uncontrolled immigration but he was not a bigot or a reactionary. The following article that he wrote for Nation in April 1974 gives some idea of the man and his politics. 

Social Issues by Paul Barnes
 
“Centrepoint Occupied by the People” ran the headline in The Sun; “The squatters consisted of a Bank Manager, Doctors, Architects” – all members of that elusive quantity “The People”. 

Thus we watched a major coup by the international left, well organized, well executed and guaranteed to receive maximum publicity with maximum public sympathy and approval. Sympathy and approval for whom; the ratepayers of Camden who have subsidized and suffered the dealings of Harry Hyams and company for so long? The young house buyer who has watched the cost of a basic essential – the need for housing – rise out of all proportion to his income? Or was it for Ron Bailey and his team of professional demonstrators, who far from caring for the problems of the indigenous population of Central London see it as a convenient bandwagon upon which they can expound the doctrines of the revolutionary left?
 
Surely if ever there was a cause célèbre for the radical right this was it; but where were we?
On the very night of the occupation some 3,000 of us marched through Central London protesting against the Common Market. To say that is not to suggest that the issues of the Market are not of desperate importance but to state that the social conditions of millions of our fellow Britons, and the struggle against the usurer, are of equal importance to the fight against the Council of Europe.

Any right thinking person must cringe when reading the Evening Standard headline: “Peter Hain to Lead The Fight Against The Motorways”, what does this invidious little school ma’am know of the misery of living next to the major motor routes through London, or once again, is the motivation behind community politics a convenient bandwagon from which to peddle international socialism?
 
The fight against non-European immigration is of national importance but the fight against the money-motivated road lobby and aviation lobby is of almost equal importance. I see little advantage in living in a racially desirable society in conditions of technological madness.

Who is better equipped to lead the fight against the destroyers disguised as progressives than those who love and understand their national heritage – the radical right? We must involve ourselves in social issues; it is the right who should lead the fight against alien usury in housing and the fight against technological destruction. Too long have the Marxists made the running in the field of social issues. We are involved in politics; why give the left all the good tunes?