European Liberation Front

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The European Liberation Front (ELF) was a small neo-fascist group that split from Oswald Mosley's British Union Movement in 1948. Its founder and ideological inspiration was Francis Parker Yockey. In 1949 they issued a manifesto titled The Proclamation of London. [1] The pan-nationalist (Pan-Europeanist) and anti-American movement had little impact, and lasted until 1954.

In the 1990s, the ELF, Yockey, and his ideology, were rediscovered by the New Right and especially the International Third Position. In 1999, a manifesto of a second 'European Liberation Front' was published in Paris, but there is apparently no active organisation of that name. The manifesto takes its ideological inspiration from Yockey, and from Otto Strasser, who was expelled from the Nazi party by Adolf Hitler in 1930. Despite the pan-European style of its title, the ideology of the manifesto is ethnic and racial nationalism: the manifesto speaks of the "historical and cultural ties which exist between our respective nations" and calls for "mono-ethnic racial homelands" to preserve the "race, culture and traditions of all European peoples". European liberation, according to the manifesto, consists of "National Revolution".

The English text of the manifesto is authored by the English national anarchist Troy Southgate, see Cercle de la rose noire.

[edit] References

Keith Coogan. Lost Imperium: the European Liberation Front (1949-54). In : Patterns of Prejudice, Volume 36, Number 3 / July 01, 2002. Abstract online [2]

SPLC: Third Position On The Web [3]