The British Movement (BM),later called the British National Socialist Movement (BNSM),is a British neo-Nazi organisation founded by Colin Jordan in 1968. It grew out of the National Socialist Movement (NSM),which was founded in 1962. Frequently on the margins of the British far-right,the BM has had a long and chequered history for its association with violence and extremism. It was founded as a political party but manifested itself more as a pressure and activist group. It has had spells of dormancy.
David Wulstan Myatt,also known by the pseudonym Abdulaziz ibn Myatt al-Qari,is a British author,religious leader,far-right and former Islamist militant,most notable for allegedly being the political and religious leader of the White nationalist theistic Satanist organization Order of Nine Angles (ONA) from 1974 onwards. He is also the founder of Numinous Way and a former Muslim.
Column 88 was a neo-Nazi paramilitary organisation based in the United Kingdom. It was formed in the early 1970s,and disbanded in the early 1980s. The members of Column 88 undertook military training under the supervision of a former Royal Marine Commando,and also held regular gatherings attended by neo-Nazis from all over Europe. The name is code:the eighth letter of the alphabet 'HH' represents the Nazi greeting 'Heil Hitler'. Journalist Martin Walker described Column 88 as a "shadow paramilitary Nazi group".
The British Democratic Party (BDP) was a short-lived far-right political party in the United Kingdom. A breakaway group from the National Front,the BDP was severely damaged after it became involved in a gun-running sting and was absorbed by the British National Party.
Martin Guy Alan Webster is a British neo-Nazi,a former leading figure on the far-right in the United Kingdom. An early member of the National Labour Party (NLP),he was John Tyndall's closest ally,and followed him in joining the original British National Party (BNP),the National Socialist Movement (NSM) and the Greater Britain Movement. Webster also spent time in prison for helping to organise a paramilitary organisation,Spearhead,and was convicted under the Public Order Act 1936. Rumours of his homosexuality led to him becoming vilified in far-right circles,and he quietly disappeared from the political scene.
Nicola Vincenzo "Nicky" Crane was an English neo-Nazi activist. He came out as gay before dying from an AIDS-related illness in 1993.
Raymond Hill was a former leading figure in the British far right who went on to become a well-known informant. A sometime deputy leader of the British Movement and a founder member of the British National Party,Hill also secretly worked for Searchlight in feeding information about the groups' activities.
The World Union of National Socialists (WUNS) is an organisation founded in 1962 as an umbrella group for neo-Nazi organisations across the globe.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) of 1922–1969 was a sub-group of the original pre-1922 Irish Republican Army,characterised by its opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. It existed in various forms until 1969,when the IRA split again into the Provisional IRA and Official IRA.
The National Socialist Action Party was a minor British neo-Nazi political party in the early 1980s. It gained notoriety due to its violent rhetoric and because of several exposés regarding the group's stockpiling of weapons and its plans for armed attacks.
Keith Thompson is a veteran figure in the British far-right who has been active in a number of movements down the years.
The League of St George is a neo-fascist organisation based in the United Kingdom. It has defined itself as a "non-party,non-sectarian political club" and,whilst forging alliances with different groups,has eschewed close links with other extremist political parties.
Povl Heinrich Riis-Knudsen is a Danish neo-Nazi,prominent in the US as well as Denmark. Riis-Knudsen is known as the author of the articles National Socialism:A Left Wing Movement (1984) and National Socialism:The Biological World View (1987),as well as for having been involved with Matt Koehl of the American Nazi Party.
Robert Edward Relf was an English political activist of the far right. Regarded by his sympathisers as a 'race martyr',he briefly became a cause célèbre for the tabloid press in the 1970s.
Michael Kühnen was a leader in the German neo-Nazi movement. He was one of the first post-World War II Germans to openly embrace Nazism and call for the formation of a Fourth Reich. He enacted a policy of setting up several differently named groups in an effort to confuse German authorities,who were attempting to shut down neo-Nazi groups. Kühnen's homosexuality was made public in 1986,and he died of HIV-related complications in 1991.
Terence Gerard 'Gerry' McGeough is a prominent Irish republican who was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA),a former Sinn Féin activist and editor of the defunct The Hibernian magazine. McGeough broke with Sinn Féin in 2001 and he is now an independent Irish Catholic/nationalist activist. McGeough was set to serve 20 years of imprisonment after being found guilty in 2011 for attempted murder,although he was released two years later,on 29 January 2013,under the Good Friday Agreement.
The Racial Volunteer Force (RVF) is a violent neo-Nazi splinter group of the British neo-Nazi group Combat 18 (C18) with close ties to the far right paramilitary group,British Freedom Fighters. Although originating as a breakaway group,the RVF has since re-established links to C18 whilst maintaining a distinct identity.
Patrick James Smyth,also known as Nicaragua Smyth,was an Irish politician and journalist. A Young Irelander in 1848,and subsequently a journalist in American exile,from 1871 he was an Irish Home Rule Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Westmeath and from 1880 for Tipperary.
The Sinn Féin Printing &Publishing Company,Ltd. (1906–1914) was a Dublin-based enterprise founded by Arthur Griffith,chief propagandist of the nationalist Sinn Féin movement. It published,and for several years also printed,the influential weekly newspaper Sinn Féin. It also very briefly printed and published a daily paper. The company was close to bankruptcy in 1914 when it was closed down for sedition by the British authorities under the provisions of the Defence of the Realm Act.
