European Liberation Front

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European Liberation Front
FounderFrancis Parker Yockey
Guy Chesham
John Anthony Gannon
Founded1948 (1948)
Dissolved1954 (1954)
Split fromUnion Movement
IdeologyPan-European nationalism
Third Position
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Zionism
Neo-Nazism
Political positionFar-right

The European Liberation Front (ELF) was a neo-Nazi, pan-European nationalist group that split from Oswald Mosley's fascist Union Movement in 1948.[1] Its founder was Francis Parker Yockey, alongsidge Guy Chesham and John Anthony Gannon.[2][3] It issued a manifesto called The Proclamation of London, written by Yockey.[3][4] It lasted until 1954.[5] It would reach a maximum of 150 members [6]

Yockey´s domineering behaviour telling Guy Chesham to leave his wife, in Yockey´s words "to leave the bitch", and to follow him into Bohemia cost him Chesham´s support.[7]

Peter Huxley-Blythe was the only notable member of the organization, who had to suspend his participation in the organization due to being drafted into the Korean War.[7]

The organization would publish a pamphlet entitled, The Proclamation of London.[7]

Some point afterwards there was briefly a new organisation, which went by the same name that was created in it´s inspiration by Christian Bouchet.[8]

References

  1. ^ The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right : A special relationship of hate. Paul Jackson, Anton Shekhovtsov. Basingstoke. 2014. ISBN 978-1-137-39621-1. OCLC 890161379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Coogan 2002, p. 174.
  3. ^ a b Encyclopedia of White Power : A sourcebook on the radical racist right. Jeffrey Kaplan. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. 2000. ISBN 0-7425-0340-2. OCLC 42889808.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ Lee, Martin A. (2011). The Beast Reawakens. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-95029-6. OCLC 1086431548.
  5. ^ Coogan 2002.
  6. ^ Coogan 2002, p. 175.
  7. ^ a b c Coogan 2002, p. 176.
  8. ^ Coogan 2002, p. 620.
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. S2CID 145735143.
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