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...Biff Boys in the 1930s, praised Mussolini and Hitler and parroted their antiSemitism. But in fact, Mosley, now 78, has mesmerized, enraged and even amused generations of Englishmen, first as a Conservative M.P., then as an Independent Liberal, a Socialist Laborite, a Fascist isolationist and, finally, as a postwar internationalist preaching European unity. As the sixth in a line of Yorkshire baronets, Mosley frequently wore his own black shirt under a Savile Row suit...
...FOREIGN POLICY stance remains what it was in 1948, when he ran as an "Internationalist" against an incumbent isolationist congressman. Ford campaigned in favor of the Marshall Plan, the United Nations, aid for veterans, as well as strong national defense. In his first term, Ford's Americans for Democratic Action rating was 13 per cent, rising to a surprising 67 per cent in 1966. But in 1967, he voted against OEO, Model Cities, and a federal rat control program--the Great Society left Gerry behind. In 1971, he was voting with congressional conservatives 87 per cent of the time...
Lumen himself is an old-school radical and internationalist. He muckraked like Lincoln Steffens. During World War I he went to prison as a pacifist like Bertrand Russell, and later founded a progressive school for children. Even in his creaky 80s he flew to Biafra to organize relief for the starving...
Throughout his life, Malcolm was an activist. As he remarked in 1964, anything I get in, I'm in it all the way." In his evolution from hustler to convicted robber to Black Muslim to revolutionary internationalist, he was never content to hypothesize or simply talk about what he wanted; he was concerned with the concrete strategies for action which would enable a goal to become a reality. Constantly evolving, never stagnating. Malcolm continually revised his outlook to accommodate existing conditions. The first of these changes was his conversion to the Black Muslim faith. While in Charleston prison serving...
...smear him as a "hate-monger" who taught "racism in reverse" (as if an oppressed nationality acting in self-defense is capable of institutionalizing "racism in reverse"!) increased in intensity, with added accusations of his being a communist. His legendary charisma as a leader, when coupled with an internationalist perspective, made him an even greater threat to the American power structure. On February 14, 1965, Malcolm and his family narrowly escaped being injured in the early-morning fire-bombing of their home. A week later, the assassins succeeded in terminating his career...