The National Front

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"'I despise nationalism, whether it be British, White Racist or Martian. I firmly believe that the human race, in 5,000 or 50,000 years will be a uniform coffee-colour with a pleasing tinge of yellow and I lustfully believe in accelerating the process. My Scottish friends warn me against English Nationalism; my McNeil mother would giggle. I fear that I am polluted by the racism of my society. I recall the sense of shock I felt in Rhodesia, after working six months in South Africa, when I turned around in a bar and saw a black face that was not serving me. I fear to analyse the sense of culture shock I feel in Southall and Brixton, although I have been in love and lived with black women and shared my home for eighteen months with a black friend from the Bahamas who first stunned and then intrigued my National Front friends as we all argued into the night.'" Introduction. Acknowledgements. 1. The Fascist Tradition in Britain. 2. The Lunatic Fringe 1945-1963. 3. Smethwick, Southall and the Birth of the National Front. 4. John Tyndall and the Early Years of the National Front. 5. The Respectability of Racism--the National Front and the Conservative Party. 6. Tyndall Takes Over; Growth and the Populist Challenge. 7. The Populist Split and the National Front Revival. 8. The End of the Golden Age--The New Politics and the British Crisis.