International Third Position
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International Third Position (ITP) was a
Development
Though a key formulator of the Third Positionist platform,
Troy Southgate, as well as the majority of ITP supporters, split from the organisation in September 1992 after accusing Fiore and Holland of ideological hypocrisy and swindling members out of their life savings to prop up the group's failed rural experiment in northern France. This included the departure of several local ITP publications, including The Kent Crusader,[citation needed] Surrey Action, and Eastern Legion. Southgate then founded the English Nationalist Movement (ENM) and during this time edited magazines like The Crusader and The English Alternative. The ENM had strong units in the Burnley, Bradford and south-east Kent areas[citation needed].
The ITP changed its name to England First in 2001 and has since become a part of the
and others.An ITP/ENF gathering in central London in April 2005 drew 150 supporters. Overall membership is estimated by Searchlight magazine to be somewhat lower than this, although the ITP maintains a relatively strong publishing presence as well as its network of international contacts. The modern party is much less critical of Islam than the rest of the British far-right, and claims that the campaign against Islam is mostly driven by Jewish interests. The party remains strongly anti-Semitic.[2]
Ideology
ITP ideology is a mix of leftist and rightist ideas—e.g., environmentalism, wealth redistribution—with a racialist slant.
Publications supporting the ITP in the UK are Final Conflict (
.See also
References
- ^ ISBN 0-387-22685-0.
- ^ ISBN 0-415-94922-X.
- ^ O'Donnell, Francis (29 September 2002). "Fascist Link of "No to Nice" Chief". Daily Mirror.[dead link]
- ^ Johnson, Graham (3 June 2001). "Fascist Thug Sparks Race Riots". Daily Mirror.[dead link]
- ^ Tremlett, Giles (15 November 1999). "British white supremacists buy village in Spain as base". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 29 June 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2014.