VANGUARD PODCAST (11): IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

The eleventh of the Vanguard Podcasts, featuring the original "triumvirate" of Richard Spencer, Andy Nowicki, and Colin Liddell, looks back on 2012 and forward to 2013. Highlights include a tribute to Jonathan Bowden, favourite books and movies of 2012, and predictions for 2013.

Originally uploaded on the original Alternative Right site on the 30th of December, 2012

A NIGEL TO REMEMBER

by Colin Liddell

It was the great British politician Enoch Powell who said, "All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure." The political life of Nigel Farage, however, has defied Powell's maxim, with the UKIP leader choosing to end his career neither in failure nor in "midstream." The tremendous victory achieved by the Brexit vote a few days ago means that he has crossed over the river and achieved the one goal he always defined his career by.

SACRIFICIAL LAMBS

A sparse tribute to murdered MP Jo Cox.

by Kevin Scott

The murder of the Batley and Spen Labour MP, Jo Cox, a forty one-year-old mother of two, and a professional campaigner from her student days, who was shot and stabbed in an altercation in Birstall, near Leeds, is a profoundly tragic event, which has halted organised political debate across the country following her death last week.

IN THE HOUSE OF POUND: AN INTERVIEW WITH GIANLUCA IANNONE

Following on the heels of Rémi Tremblay's excellent article on CasaPound's movement-building methods, here is Colin Liddell's interview with the group's leader, Gianluca Iannone, from early 2011. This was previously published at Alternative Right in 2012.

Liddell: CasaPound is still not so well known in the English-speaking countries, even by those active in right wing politics. Could you introduce your movement to our readers and describe it? How big is CasaPound? How many members and how much support do you have?

NICK GRIFFIN: THE SUNKEN SHIP ABANDONS THE RAT

by Daniel Barge

One mustn't be too hard on Nick Griffin. It's never easy being the leader of an ethno-nationalist party in the modern West, and now that the party, which he formerly led to initial promise and ultimate irrelevance, has finally expelled him, it is all too easy to mock and say things like "serves him right," "good riddance," etc.

ALT WHITE: MAXIMISING, NOT MAINSTREAMING

by John Londen

In my previous article The Dumbest People Ever: the Nazification of Whiteness, I outlined one of the presentational problems for so-called ‘Nationalism': that in certain pockets of the broader white-conscious movement, a perception is often encouraged in the public's mind of rather weird and scary people who are more interested in nostalgia for historic National Socialism, neo-Nazi chic and the memory of an Austrian-born German who shot himself nearly 70 years ago, than in the promotion of white identity and civilisation as something positive and beneficial in society.

The article has attracted a lot of comments on the site. So far almost-all, I am glad to say, are positive about the general message and show an understanding of what I was trying to say: that Nationalists need to find a way of staying true to their core ideals and values while at the same time avoiding the self-inflicted presentational trap of ‘nazification’, which ghettoises us.

GRIFFIN BITES THE DUST AFTER ELECTION FAILURE

Lights going out for Griffin.

by Kevin Scott

After his election defeat in the recent European elections, Nick Griffin has resigned as Chairman of the BNP; and the party's National Organiser, a former County Durham teacher, Adam Walker, has replaced him.

As a sop to his ego, Griffin has reportedly become "Party President." Apparently, this was all agreed at a meeting of the party's executive body last weekend, much to the disgust of some grassroots members upset at the leadership's failure to consult what remains of the party's dwindling membership.

HOW THE BNP LOST TOUCH WITH BRITAIN

by Mark Collett

The big story of the European Elections has been the rise of the so called ‘far right’ across Europe. Several remarkable results saw the FN top the poll in France, the Freedom Party top the poll in Austria and the Danish People’s Party top the poll in Denmark. All of the aforementioned results are quite remarkable and all are illustrative of a larger, European-wide, anti-immigration and anti-EU sentiment.

In Britain the big story – and the big winner – was UKIP. UKIP topped the polls in nearly every region of the UK and shocked the establishment by coming first overall and ending up with 23 MEPs, making them the largest single party representing the UK in Brussels.

One of the big losers in the UK was obviously the British National Party (BNP). The BNP’s vote collapsed – they saw a drop of over 80% in raw numbers of votes. More shockingly, the BNP’s share of the vote in some regions actually fell beneath their 1999 share of the vote – essentially recording the worst ever results for the party in the European Elections.

THE BROKEN WHIP OF OUR MASTERS

by Colin Liddell 

The recent European elections are not the way that civilizations are saved, and the promising results for a number of slightly more realistic parties may in fact be outliers before the anti-democratic system reasserts itself using its usual tricks. We have been here before. When the BNP threatened the political consensus in the UK a few years ago, there was a sudden clanking of gears and whirring of wheels as the Great Machine went into action to eradicate the threat, which was done by a variety of techniques:

• Racial swamping of the areas involved
• Intense canvassing and the establishment of a detailed voter database to allow tailored approaches to individual voters
• Comforting (and patronizing) noises about the need to understand "the concerns of ordinary voters"
• Cloaked threats about the consequences of voting BNP both at the community level and the individual level
• The promotion of "suitable" alternatives, which is essentially how UKIP got its big start
• Cultural immersion in anti-racism

The result of this is that while the fake nationalists of UKIP have done rather well this time, the UK actually lost the two real nationalist MEPs – Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons – that it had elected last time.

JACK BUCKBY: "BOY WONDER" OF THE NEW RIGHT

by George Whale

Jack Buckby is founder of the National Culturists, an organisation dedicated to "making anti-egalitarian and socially conservative politics accessible to younger people". The Culturists' outlook and beliefs are much influenced by the American writer and academic Dr John Kenneth Press, author of the book Culturism, though the basic concepts are much older. Curious to know more about Jack Buckby and the National Culturists, I approached him for an interview, and he kindly agreed.

THE TAIL SHALL WAG THE DOG

Exerting political leverage against the establishment

by Colin Liddell

"Give me a place to stand and I shall move the world" - Archimedes

John Bean’s recent article about his support for the British Democratic Party produced predictable criticisms about the pointlessness of party politics and fighting elections. This reflected the sense that many people feel about not living in real or fair democracies.

This kind of cynicism has now become a popular default position for those on the Alternative or Nationalist Right. It seems that with the media on their side and billionaires funding them, the mainstream parties have nothing to fear. Because of this, many have come to the conclusion that supporting any nationalist party is an exercise in futility. The past record of failure only adds to the sense of futility.

WHY I AM SUPPORTING THE BRITISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY

by John Bean

It is 60 years since I was first involved in Nationalist and European Nationalist politics, and over 60 years since I married my present wife. The result of our marriage supplies the reason why I am not content to sit back and take it easy. We have three granddaughters and three great-grandsons. It is for them that I am doing what I can to see that they have a future that is still British, still European, and does not become an ever expanding conglomeration of Third World liquorish allsorts, united only by our geographical boundaries.

THE DEATH OF THE BNP

by Kevin Scott 

"Rats leave Nick Griffin behind on the BNP's swiftly sinking ship" is the antagonistic headline of an article detailing the ongoing decline and collapse of the British National Party published in the left-of-centre Independent newspaper earlier this month.

Since the 2010 general election, where, to be fair, the BNP polled reasonably well for a radical political party and easily eclipsed the likes of UKIP and the Greens in many areas, the political trajectory of the BNP under Nick Griffin has been irredeemably downwards with financial shenanigans, constitutional rigging, organisational collapse, interminable legal spats, self-inflicted media own goals, membership fragmentation and decline making the last two years the most fractious and damaging in the party's thirty year history. Only eventual political oblivion awaits by the time of the 2014 European elections, where Griffin will attempt to hold his seat in Brussels but more than likely fail badly thanks to this ongoing debilitating process.

A WAY FORWARD FOR THE BNP

The British National Party is now at an important crossroads. After the successes of the last decade, the party has been weakened by a split between supporters of the party’s leader Nick Griffin and his opponents, many of whom have been pushed out of the Party. Despite this, at the last leadership election this July, Griffin was re-elected by the narrowest of margins. While there have been calls from some to form a new nationalist party outside the control of Griffin, others believe that the way forward is to continue working within the BNP. What follows is an article by John Bean, a leading figure in nationalist politics, identifying key points and tactics in the struggle to secure the goals of British nationalism. This is an article that has relevance not only for British nationalists but for nationalists everywhere.

Colin Liddell

Hanging on as leader, Nick Griffin.

by John Bean

For Nationalism to achieve the minimum of power required to act just as a brake upon the socio-political policies that are destroying our national identity—let alone reverse it as is required—ideally we need to win at least two Parliamentary seats and five MEPs within the next decade. Council seats and members of such bodies as the London Assembly are but stepping stones. We cannot, for example, follow the tactics of Gramsci and the Frankfurt school with the successful Marxist Long March Through the Institutions, for time is not on our side.

The long-term success by incremental steps of the Marxists and liberal-minded “useful idiots” who have made up the bulk of our teachers at schools and universities over the past 30 years has encouraged the nation to reject its cultural heritage without knowing it. This has resulted in our being colonised by a tsunami of Afro-Asian immigration. For immigration to continue, even at half of its present rate (as the Tories suggest they are aiming for) for another decade, could mean that the battle is lost. In 30 years at a “reduced” rate it would definitely be lost. Therefore the policy of ending immigration is not negotiable under a reformed BNP or a new Nationalist party. It must take priority over all other aspects of policy.

GRIFFIN MUST GO

by Colin Liddell

Across Europe ethno-nationalist parties have been making considerable gains, but in Britain, one of the countries most threatened by mass immigration, multi-culturalism, and the liberal fascist thought crime legislation needed to maintain this unnatural state, the main ethno-nationalist party, the BNP, has been failing miserably.

BRITAIN'S STUPID AND EVIL PARTIES

by Colin Liddell

Contrary to what most of the pundits are saying, the recent Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election in the UK was very revealing about the state and direction of British politics.

With Labour winning a seat they have held since its inception (42 percent of the vote), the Liberal-Democrats coming second with a marginally increased percentage of the vote (31.9 percent), and the Conservative vote being squeezed in a seat they had little hope of winning (12.8 percent), political commentators have been left with little of interest to remark on. But this is because they have been ignoring yet again the increasingly important substratum of British politics and how it impacts on the top flight.