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Colin Jordan and Britain''s Neo-Nazi Movement casts fresh light on one of post-war Britain''s most notorious fascists, using him to examine the contemporary history of the extreme right. The book explores the wide range of neo-Nazi groups that Colin Jordan led, contributed to and inspired throughout his time as Britain''s foremost promoter of Nazi ideology.In a period stretching from the close of the Second World War right up to the 2000s, Colin Jordan became politically engaged with a multitude of Nazi-inspired extremist groups, either as leader or as a key protagonist. Moreover, Jordan also developed critical relationships with larger, competitor extreme-right organisations and parties, including the Mosley''s Union Movement, the National Front and the most recent incarnation of the British National Party. He fostered a number of transnational links throughout his years of activism as well, especially with American neo-Nazis. In recent years, his writings and somewhat idealised profile have been adopted by more contemporary extremist organisations, such as the British People''s Party and a rekindled British Movement, who look to Jordan as an inspirational figure for their own reconfigurations of a National Socialist agenda.By examining this history, drawing on a wide range of fresh primary sources, Colin Jordan and Britain''s Neo-Nazi Movement offers a new analysis on the nature and workings of Nazi-inspired political extremism in post-war Britain. It is an important study for anyone interested in the history of fascism, extreme ideologies and the political and social history of Britain since the Second World War.>
About the author
Paul Jackson is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton, UK. He is co-editor of The Anglo-American Far-Right: A Special Relationship of Hate, and has written widely on extreme right politics in Britain, and the history of fascism.
