Harold Covington

Harold Armstead Covington (born 14 September 1953 in Burlington, North Carolina) is an American neo-nazi and novelist. Covington joined a neo-Nazi group while in the U.S. Army in 1972, then moved to South Africa, and was later in Rhodesia. Covington was a founding member of the Rhodesian White People's Party. He was deported from Rhodesia (later renamed Zimbabwe) in 1976, on the personal orders of then Prime Minister Ian Smith. He ran in the May 1980 North Carolina Republican Party primary election, as a candidate for nomination to the office of Attorney General of the State of North Carolina. He received 43,000 votes, and carried 46 of North Carolina's 100 counties.

Affiliations

National Socialist Party of America

As of 1973 Covington was a member of the National Socialist White People's Party led by Matthias Koehl. This was a yearlong stint that ended with Covington's departure for Rhodesia. After returning from Rhodesia he joined the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) under Frank Collin.

In 1981 Covington alleged a connection between the NSPA and would-be presidential assassin John W. Hinckley. Law enforcement authorities were never able to corroborate the alleged Hinckley-NSPA connection. Covington resigned as president of the NSPA in 1981.

Combat 18

Covington spent time in South Africa before settling in the United Kingdom for several years, where he made contact with far-right groups and was involved in setting up the neo-nazi terror group Combat 18 (C18) with his National Socialist White People's Party. C18 openly promotes violence and antisemitism, and has adopted some of the features of the US far right. His Dixie Press was the given address on the first issues of C18's hitlist publication Redwatch.

National Socialist White People's Party

Upon his return to the US, Covington started an entity using the name National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP), which he ran from various locations until settling in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He launched its website in 1996 and for some time the NSWPP was one of the more active neo-nazi presences on the web. A dispute over use of the NSWPP's name arose when Matt Koehl, head of the New Order, the direct successor organization of the NSWPP, declared the name was copyrighted by the G.L. Rockwell Foundation, Inc. Subsequently, a notice appeared in place of Covington's primary Web site barring him from using the term NSWPP in "printed material, electronic messaging and Internet Domain Names." Covington's NSWPP website is now defunct. Covington has sometimes used the alias "Winston Smith", particularly in his role as head of the faux NSWPP.

Internet

Harold Covington was one of the first neo-Nazis on the Web, establishing a site as early as 1996. Covington's original site defined National Socialism as "a world view for White People" and listed guiding principles such as "Racial Idealism" and "The Upward Development of the White Race." The site listed "Ten Basic Principles of National Socialism,". Covington also lauded George Lincoln Rockwell at length.

Covington uses the Internet extensively to promote his views and his idea of a Northwest Homeland.

Northwest Migration, Northwest Republic and The Northwest Constitution

Northwest Migration is a project Covington launched among American white nationalists to set up a white separatist homeland in the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and western Montana. Covington predicts the collapse and balkanization of the USA. and is working toward the establishment of an independent and sovereign republic in the Pacific Northwest, "The Northwest American Republic".

In 2006, a Northwest Front Party convention met to draft a Constitution, called The Northwest Constitution or the Northwest American Republic Constitution The constitution calls for a "Whites only country", restricted to persons of unmixed European, non-Semitic, Caucasian racial ancestry, with no non-White being allowed to reside there under any circumstances, with a unitary or single-party state, and with the Northwest Front serving as the official party of government. The State President shall serve as head of the executive branch of government, as commander in chief of the armed forces and the Civil Guard (the national police force), and commander of the Bureau of State Security.

Novels

Covington is the author of a number of novels. His book The March up Country published in 1987 was promoted on the forum of the Dutch political party Nationale Alliantie.

• The March Up Country
• The Stars in Their Path: A Novel of Reincarnation
• Dreaming the Iron Dream
• A Mighty Fortress
• A Distant Thunder
• The Hill of the Ravens
• The Brigade
• Fire and Rain
• A Slow Coming Dark
• Freedom's Sons

Most of Covington's novels present a fictionalised account of the rise of a future "Northwest Republic", which secedes from the United States, ejects all non-white inhabitants from its territory, and becomes a regional superpower, defeating US attempts to reconquer it.

Online works

• The March Up Country
• Rose of Honor
• Vindictus
• The Book of the National Socialist Brotherhood
• A Distant Thunder
• A Mighty Fortress
• The Brigade

Interviews

• The Birth of a Nation, a review of the NW novels by The Occidental Quarterly, Sep. 2, 2009
• Covington explains the Northwest Front, Radio Free Mississippi, November 20, 2009 (audio)

External links

• Northwest Front home page
• NSWPP and Harold Covington, The Nizkor Project
• Northwest Homeland, a blog by Harold Covington
• Thoughtcrime, a blog by Harold Covington