British fascism

British Union of Fascists
Abbreviation	BUF
Leader	Oswald Mosley
Founded	1 October 1932
Dissolved	23 May 1940
Merger of	• New Party  • British Fascists (majority)
Succeeded by	Union Movement
Headquarters	"Black House", King's Road, Chelsea, London SW3, U.K.[1]
Newspaper	• The Blackshirt (1933–1936)  • Action (1936–1940)
Elite unit	"I" Squad[2]
Paramilitary wings	• Fascist Defence Force  • Stewards
Autonomous wing	Ulster Fascists
Grassroots wing	January Club
Membership	40,000 (c. 1934)[3][4]
Ideology	British Fascism  • British nationalism  • National conservatism  • Social conservatism  • Right-wing populism  • National syndicalism[5]  • Fascist corporatism  • Non-interventionism[6][7]  • Antisemitism[8]
Political position	Far-right
Religion	Church of England
Colours	Red,   white and   blue   Black (customary)
Slogan	"Vote British and Save London"
Anthem	"Comrades the voices"
Party flag
Other flags: (1932–1933) (1933–1935)

British Fascism is the form of fascism promoted by parties in the United Kingdom. ^[9] British fascism is based on British Nationalism. ^[10] Examples of British Fascist movements are British Fascists (1923-1934) and the British Union of Fascists (1932-1940). Some recent examples are National Front (1967-present) and Britain First (2011-present). ^[11][12][13]

1. ↑ Linehan, Thomas P. (1996). East London for Mosley: the British Union of Fascists in East London and south-west Essex. London: Cass. p. 254. ISBN 0714645680.
2. ↑ Martin Pugh, Hurrah For The Blackshirts!: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars, pp. 133-135, Random House
3. ↑ Powell, David (2004). British Politics,1910-35 - The Crisis of the Party System. Routledge. p. 181. ISBN 9780415351065.
4. ↑ Webber, G. C. (1984). "Patterns of Membership and Support for the British Union of Fascists". Journal of Contemporary History. 19 (4): 575–606. doi:10.1177/002200948401900401. JSTOR 260327. S2CID 159618633.
5. ↑ A Workers' Policy Through Syndicalism. Union Movement. 1953. ISBN 9781899435265.
6. ↑ Oswald Mosley. Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered. Question 88
7. ↑ Mosley, Oswald (15 November 1967). "David Frost Interviews Sir Oswald Mosley". The Frost Programme (Interview). Interviewed by David Frost.
8. ↑ W F Mandle, Anti-Semitism and the British Union of Fascists
   Robert Benewick The Fascist Movement in Britain, pp 132-134
   Alan S Millward, "Fascism and the Economy", in Walter Laquer (ed) Fascism: A reader's Guide, p 450
   Nigel Copsey, Anti-Fascism in Britain, p 38 and pp 40-41
9. ↑ Thomas P. Linehan. British fascism, 1918-39: parties, ideology and culture. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2000. p. 14.
10. ↑ Richard C. Thurlow. Fascism in Britain: from Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts to the National Front. 2nd edition. New York: I. B. Taurus, 2006. p. 133-134.
11. ↑ Bienkov, Adam (19 June 2014). "Britain First: The violent new face of British fascism". Politics.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
12. ↑ Foxton, Willard (4 November 2014). "The loathsome Britain First are trying to hijack the poppy – don't let them". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 January 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
13. ↑ Sabin, Lamiat (25 October 2014). "'Fascist' group Britain First to start 'direct action' on Mail and Sun journalists over Lynda Bellingham post". The Independent.