Richard Lawson (UK politician)
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Richard Lawson has been a member of various far right
groups in the United Kingdom
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Lawson was the Student Organiser for the British National Front
. In 1976 he was part of the Strasserite split away from the NF which formed the National Party
.
He founded the NF-affiliated IONA (Islands of North Atlantic) group in the mid 80s for the purpose of "the study, revival, promotion and development of the islands of the North Atlantic". Presnting itself as an intellectual elite concerned with British culture and environment, it was closely linked to the far right magazine Scorpion. IONA has subsequently been characterised as a Nazi group. .
Lawson contributed articles to Michael Walker's Scorpion magazine, as well as co-organising at least one conference with the publication.
In 1989 Lawson was involved with setting up the Transeuropa Collective to discuss "European identities, autonomies and initiatives". Transeuropa published ten issues of a journal titled Perspectives. The magazine was criticised by Searchlight magazine for anti-semitism and for infiltrating the green movement.. Here & Now magazine's review stated that Perspectives "says 'Green' but means 'White'" .
In 1995 Lawson launched the Fluxeuropa website as "A postmodernist cultural review of art, books, films and music focusing on the creative tension between tradition and modernity." Around this time, he also became involved with Alternative Green magazine along with Troy Southgate
.
In 1997 Transeuropa launched a new magazine called Radical Shift. Searchlight magazine described the magazine's intention as "to delegitimise anti-racism, anti-fascism and liberal democracy in favour of... ethnic separation, bigoted regionalism and chauvinistic nationalism".
Far right
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Lawson was the Student Organiser for the British National Front
British National Front
The National Front is a far right, white-only political party whose major political activities took place during the 1970s and 1980s. Its popularity peaked in the 1979 general election, when it received 191,719 votes ....
. In 1976 he was part of the Strasserite split away from the NF which formed the National Party
National Party (UK, 1976)
The National Party was a short-lived British far right political party formed on 6 January 1976 and which dissolved before the 1979 general election...
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He founded the NF-affiliated IONA (Islands of North Atlantic) group in the mid 80s for the purpose of "the study, revival, promotion and development of the islands of the North Atlantic". Presnting itself as an intellectual elite concerned with British culture and environment, it was closely linked to the far right magazine Scorpion. IONA has subsequently been characterised as a Nazi group. .
Lawson contributed articles to Michael Walker's Scorpion magazine, as well as co-organising at least one conference with the publication.
In 1989 Lawson was involved with setting up the Transeuropa Collective to discuss "European identities, autonomies and initiatives". Transeuropa published ten issues of a journal titled Perspectives. The magazine was criticised by Searchlight magazine for anti-semitism and for infiltrating the green movement.. Here & Now magazine's review stated that Perspectives "says 'Green' but means 'White'" .
In 1995 Lawson launched the Fluxeuropa website as "A postmodernist cultural review of art, books, films and music focusing on the creative tension between tradition and modernity." Around this time, he also became involved with Alternative Green magazine along with Troy Southgate
Troy Southgate
Troy Southgate is an author, musician and leading National-Anarchist activist based in the United Kingdom.-Politics:Originally from Crystal Palace, in South London, Southgate is of English-Scots descent and moved to the small village of Jarvis Brook, East Sussex, in his teenage years...
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In 1997 Transeuropa launched a new magazine called Radical Shift. Searchlight magazine described the magazine's intention as "to delegitimise anti-racism, anti-fascism and liberal democracy in favour of... ethnic separation, bigoted regionalism and chauvinistic nationalism".