Colin Jordan

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Colin Jordan

John Colin Campbell Jordan (born June 1923) was a leading representative of postwar National Socialism in Britain and around the world. In the far-right nationalist circles of the 1960s, Jordan represented the most explictly 'Nazi' inclination in his open use of the styles and symbols of the Third Reich.

Through organizations such as the National Socialist Movement and the World Union of National Socialists, Jordan advanced a pan-Aryan 'Universal Nazism.'

Although now unaffiliated with any political party, Jordan remains a voice on the British extreme right.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 References
4 Literature
5 External links

[edit] Biography

The son of a postman, Jordan was educated at Warwick School from 1934 to 1942, and then Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating with a 2nd honours in history. He then became a mathematics teacher at a Coventry grammar school where he earned the nickname of "Jumbo" by the pupils. He joined the League of Empire Loyalists, which he became the Midlands organizer of.^[1] His political activities put an end to his teaching career so he collected his weekly unemployment benefit at Coventry labour exchange in his Jaguar car.

At Cambridge Jordan had formed a "Nationalist Club", from where he was invited to join the short-lived British Peoples Party, a group of former British Union of Fascists members led by Lord Tavistock, heir to the Duke of Bedford. Jordan soon became associated with Arnold Leese and was left a property in Leese's will, which became the base of operations when Jordan launched the White Defence League in 1958. Jordan would later merge this party with the National Labour Party to form the British National Party in 1960, although he would split from this after a quarrel with John Bean, who felt that Jordan's open National Socialism was a bar to progress.

As a result he founded the National Socialist Movement (1962, later becoming the British Movement in 1968) along with John Tyndall. In August 1962, Jordan hosted an international conference of National Socialists in Gloucestershire resulting in the formation of the World Union of National Socialists (of which Jordan was the commander of its European section throughout the 1960s). On 16 August, Jordan and Tyndall (among others) were charged under the Public Order Act with attempts to set up an paramilitary force^[2] called Spearhead.

While John Tyndall was still in prison, Jordan, who had just been released, married Tyndall's fiancée Françoise Dior (who in turn eloped, in 1966, with her 19 year old secretary Terence Robert Cooper). When Tyndall was eventually released, he split with Jordan in 1964 to form the Greater Britain Movement.

In the 1980s, Jordan revived Gothic Ripples, originally Leese's publication, as his personal mouthpiece.^[3]

Jordan remains a voice on the British extreme right and, although he is no longer affiliated to any party, he has maintained ties to Eddy Morrison-led groups such as the White Nationalist Party and the British Peoples Party. He lives in the North Yorkshire countryside, near Harrogate.

Prior to his time at Warwick School he attended Leek Wooton primary school where his mother was Headmistress. She was Bertha Jordan and was a very volatile character. It was probably from her that he got many of his extreme views. She left Leek Wooton in 1937 and became Headmistress of Bentley Heath. The family moved to a house in Chessetswood road Darley Green near Dorridge. Bertha Jordan drove an Austin car to schoool every day in a very erratic manner. Her husband was a teacher at a school in Birmingham but he also was a tutor for a correspondence school and considered this to be his major work.

[edit] Works

Gothic Ripples newsletter
Fraudulent Conversion: The Myth of Moscow’s Change (1955)
The Coloured Invasion (1967)
Merrie England— 2,000 (1993)
National Socialism: Vanguard of the Future, Selected Writings of Colin Jordan (1993, ISBN 87-87063-40-9)
The Uprising 2004 [1]