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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spoke those words is the leader of the National Front, Britain's fastest growing political party and a party which is successfully challenging the Liberals for third place on Britain's political rostrum. The National Front is a modern-day Nazi party, an avowedly racist and nationalist organization whose structure, tactics and goals all recall Hitler's National Socialism. Its surprising progress in recent local elections and by-elections is alarming Britain's political establishment, and provoking violent nationwide debate and confrontation...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: Britain's Fascist Resurgence | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

...Front's links to its Nazi predecessor are being clearly drawn through Britain's current political turbulence. The economic climate fostering the rise of contemporary fascism is similar to the worsening economy of Germany in the late '20s. The racist and nationalist propaganda of the Front recall all too readily Hitler's anti-semitism, his genocide of the 'inferior' Slavic population, and his plans for a Greater Germany. The Front's plans for the state control of capitalist industry are cruelly reminiscent of the German state machine which provided concentration camps of cheap labor to a regulated German industry...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: Britain's Fascist Resurgence | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

...their Nazi predecessors, have imagined a conscious Communist-led conspiracy intent upon undermining it. Front members are also overtly racist, and Tyndall describes himself as an "unashamed white supremacist." He believes that whites are "intellectually, although not physically or morally, superior to blacks," and advocates the compulsory repatriation of Britain's four million colored immigrants...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: Britain's Fascist Resurgence | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

...settlement may pose a sticky dilemma for the U.S. and Britain, which have been trying to negotiate a transfer of power in Rhodesia that would include Nkomo and Mugabe. British Foreign Secretary David Owen, for example, has been sharply critical of the talks between Salisbury and the moderate black nationalists. But last week he responded to a barrage of Tory questions in the House of Commons by conceding that the agreement is "a significant step toward majority rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Blueprint for Black Power-Maybe | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...fastest growing banks in Britain, BCCI has assets of more than $2 billion, much of it from Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The bank was founded in 1972 by innovative, hard-driving Agha Hasan Abedi, who left his native Pakistan five years ago, when the government nationalized banking. It was Abedi who got Lance together with Ghaith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Born-Again Bert | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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