European Liberation Front

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. Other leading members of the ELF included the former Manchester UM Organiser John Anthony Gannon, Guy Chesham, Peter Huxley-Blythe and Anthony F.X. Barron. In 1949 they issued a manifesto titled The Proclamation of London, written by Yockey. The pan-nationalist (Pan-Europeanist) and anti-American movement had little impact, with only a total membership of 150 card-carrying members at its peak, and the ELF only lasted until 1954.

Legacy

In the 1990s, the ELF, Yockey, and his ideology, were rediscovered by the Nouvelle Résistance, Alternativa Europea, National-Bolshevik Party, National Revolutionary Faction, and others. In 1999, a manifesto of a second 'European Liberation Front' was published in Paris, but there is apparently no more active organisation of that name now. 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".

During the 21st century, Arktos Media, Counter-Currents, Greg Johnson and the New Zealand-based New Right author Kerry Bolton have promoted a revival of interest in the ELF, and its leading figure and ideologue Francis Parker Yockey.

References

Bibliography

Coogan, Kevin (1999). Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Autonomedia. ISBN 978-1-57027-039-0.

Coogan, Kevin (2002). "Lost Imperium: the European Liberation Front (1949-54)". Patterns of Prejudice. 36 (3): 9–23. doi:10.1080/003132202128811466. ISSN 0031-322X.

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