Derek Holland
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Derek Holland is a figure on the European far-right. Initially a member of the National Front, Holland became one of the leading lights on the Political Soldier wing of the party when his pamphlet The Political Soldier was published in 1984. In 1989 Holland broke with Patrick Harrington and followed Nick Griffin and Roberto Fiore into the International Third Position (ITP).
Holland injected his sympathies for anti-Zionist groups, as part of his nationalist philosophy, into the ITP. He supported the ideas of Muammar al-Qaddafi and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In 1988 he travelled to Libya, with Nick Griffin, as an official representative of the NF.
Holland's last public appearance was at a Swedish nationalist convention in 2002 (hosted by Nationaldemokratisk Ungdom, the youth wing of the National Democrats). Since that time the ITP appears to have gravitated towards the European National Front, and Holland has retired from active involvement in politics, though his Political Soldier writings are still circulated amongst radical nationalists.
Holland has received considerable treatment in works on European extremist nationalism, including Fascism: A History by Roger Eatwell (1997) and Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2002). Holland’s writings on the Political Soldier are also featured in Fascism: A Reader published by Oxford University Press (1995).
Holland also writes under the pen names Harry Worthington, Rory O'Connor, D. Liam O'Huallachain, Derek O'Huallachain, and Deric O'Huallachain.
[edit] External links
- The Third Positionist web-site www.politicalsoldier.net clearly takes its influence from Holland's writings, as does the blog finalconflictblog.blogspot.com.
- " Missionary National Revolution " article Derek Holland on web portal of polish nationalis
- Derek Holland "Political Soldier" - fragments on webste of NOP
