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NF HISTORY
(This is but a very brief history of over 40 years of dedicated struggle for Race and Nation by the National Front. As this site develops, we will be enlarging upon and adding to the overall history of the NF)

The National Front was formed at a meeting in Caxton Hall, Westminster on 7th February 1967; the first Chairman was Arthur K. Chesterton, cousin of G. K. Chesterton. The new party was in fact a merger of three groups: the Racial Preservation Society, the British National Party and the League of Empire Loyalists.

Foundations of the NF
The membership and ideas of these three groups were different in some respects but they were bound together by agreement in some very fundamental principles: that Britain and the British people have a right to determine their own future; that multi-racialism and mass immigration was a tragic mistake; that patriotism is laudable and that Capitalism, Communism and Internationalism take power away from the individual.

It was a belief in these basic principles which held together the members of these different groups who, fed up of seeing white patriots disunited, were determined to see the NF as a vehicle of both unity and victory. Two hundred and fifty founder members of the new united Movement fought their way through a Communist mob outside the hall to attend that inaugural meeting on the 7th February 1967.

Violent opposition
Between 1967 and 1969 progress was slow, although a number of small regional groups of concerned Britons joined the steadily growing young NF. The National Front slowly increased in size but also encountered growing opposition from Communist and Zionist groups: meetings were attacked, a lorry was crashed into the Nationalist Centre in South London, and the 1969 Annual General Meeting had to be moved after the power room of the hall was broken into and the mains cables severed with axes

The first elections
By 1970 the movement had begun to settle down and was able to field ten parliamentary candidates in the General Election of that year. They received between 1.8% and 5.6% of the votes.

Party literature
In early 1971 A. K. Chesterton resigned as Chairman and was replaced by John O'Brien who had joined the National Front from the National Democratic Party which had just folded. At the same time, the movement became more organised with the establishment of functioning Directorate departments: Activities, Administration, Branch Development, Finance, Policy and Publicity. Until early 1971, the only regular publications supporting the NF were Spearhead, the monthly magazine privately owned by John Tyndall, then Chairman of the Policy Department, and A. K. Chesterton's Candour. Now a broadsheet Britain First was produced selling at just 2p. Also for the first time, a range of recruitment leaflets and stickers were produced.

Pawsons Road
In July 1972, John O'Brien was replaced by John Tyndall as the new Chairman of the Party. This took place shortly after it moved its Head Office to 50, Pawsons Road, Croydon, Surrey. This was a more functional office for an active political movement and it was from here that the growth of the Party was led.

Mass immigration
The level of activities dramatically increased in 1972, almost all with the theme of stopping immigration. This was at a time when mass immigration was causing deep dismay among the British public and it resulted in the recruitment of many new members. By mid-1973 the movement was growing at an unprecedented rate and votes in local elections were rising all across the country. For example the NF candidate in the West Bromwich Parliamentary by-election, Martin Webster, gained almost 5,000 votes, 16% of the poll.

Remembrance Day Parades.
The huge influx of Ugandan Asians into Britain brought another surge of members into the NF and this was reflected in the attendance at the annual Remembrance Day Parades to the Cenotaph in London. These had grown from just a couple of hundred to over 1,500 in November 1972. It was also at this time that the NF became involved in the struggle of the people of Ulster to remain British. The NF fully supported the Ulster Workers Strike of May 1974 against the attempt to sell out to Eire.

The elections of 1974.
In 1974 there were two General Elections: at the first one in February, the NF fielded 54 candidates who received a total of 75,000 votes. By October, the party was able to increase this to 90 candidates and they attracted 113,000 votes.

Extension of the campaign base.
In between, the movement had been extending its campaign base. The NF gave active support to a strike by White workers at the Imperial Typewriters factory in Leicester. It also held a series of activities in opposition to British membership of the Common Market.

Anti-immigration march.
This further rapid growth of the NF resulted in yet increased opposition, primarily from Communist and Zionist groups. On 15th June 1974 the National Front held an anti-immigration march from West London to Conway Hall, Holborn. The march was entirely peaceful but as the column approached Red Lion Square a large mob of Red thugs attempted to block our route. Police horses were used to clear a way through and a large number of arrests were made - all of them Reds, none of them NF. The event made the front pages of every single national newspaper. By the time the NF entered the October election campaign there can have been few people in the country who did not know the name National Front and the initials NF.

Labour shows its hand.
In 1975, John Kingsley Read replaced John Tyndall as National Chairman for a short time. In that year over 120 Labour-controlled councils decided to ban the NF from using public halls for meetings. Labour showed itself prepared to use any means, democratic or otherwise, to halt the NF's progress.

The National Front polls nearly 20%
During 1976 the movement's fortunes rapidly improved. A major campaign was launched in support of Robert Relf, who had been jailed for refusing to remove a sign from outside his home declaring that it was for sale to English buyers. The May local election results were impressive with the jewel in the crown being Leicester, where 48 candidates won 43,733 votes, nearly 20% of the total vote. By June the Party's growth rate was its highest ever. This was emphasised in May 1977 when some outstanding local election results were achieved: in particular 119,000 votes were cast in favour of the NF in London and the Liberals were beaten in 33 out of 92 constituencies.

NF march on Lewisham.
On 13th August 1977 a major NF march through Lewisham in South London was organised by the National Activities Organiser, Mr. Martin Webster. It was violently attacked by a large mob, possibly 10,000 strong, of Red rabble. Bricks, bottles, iron railings and other missiles were hurled at the patriots marching through Lewisham but the attempt to halt the Front failed - as it always does. Over 300 Marxists were arrested but not one NF member. Again the NF smashed its way into the national headlines!

Preparations for the General Election.
A new broadsheet newspaper, National Front News, appeared - the official paper of the National Front, coming out monthly from December 1977. At about this time it was announced that the Party would contest 300-plus seats in the forthcoming General Election.

Organised opposition.
Again the opposition mobilised its forces, lavishly funded and supported by the media, the powerful Zionist lobby and International Capitalism. One response was the forming of the 'Anti-Nazi League,' a front organisation for the Trotskyite Socialist Workers' Party with a gloss of respectability being provided by show business dupes and extreme-left Labour MP's. In December 1977 the Labour Party devoted of an entire party political broadcast to an attack on the National Front

The General Election of 1979.
1978 was almost entirely devoted to preparations for the imminent General Election. During the preceding four years membership of the movement had increased dramatically. Quite a number of these recruits were ex-Conservative supporters who had become disillusioned with cheap Tory tricks and lies about stopping immigration, its pro-Common Market stance and its attempt to sell out loyalist Ulster.

Excalibur House.
In September 1978 the Party moved to a larger headquarters, Excalibur House, just north of the City of London. The premises were very big with meeting hall, sleeping quarters, offices and a bookshop.

The Tories show their hand.
The first half of 1979 was taken up with the huge effort needed to field 300-plus candidates. When the election arrived, the NF actually fielded 303 - nearly half the seats in the country. During the campaign, the old-gang parties and especially the Tories became very worried by the rapid rise of the movement and Thatcher came out with her now infamous speech in which she claimed that she "understood the fears of the British people of being swamped by coloured immigrants."

Disappointing election results.
This lie by Thatcher, plus huge Anti-Nazi League rallies and media hyping of the ‘Holocaust’ series on television in the week running up to the election, with the media ever eager to employ the "nazi" smear, led to disappointing results in the General Election. Our results would have been much better had it not been for Tory lies, Labour and media smears, censorship of news about the NF and a campaign of voter intimidation by Marxist thugs.

The years of attrition.
The years following that election were a time of great struggle for the National Front. Its ability to survive and to start growing again is a tribute to its stamina and the hundreds of loyal members who have stood by the NF through thick and thin.

The resurgence.
The 1980's and early 90's were sluggish, but in the mid-90's the National Front started recovering ground, and with a vengeance. A new paper Flame was published along with new units springing up almost weekly. The winning strategy, that one that had made the NF so successful in the beginning, is again being implemented. The last few years have seen marches being held again and the Drum Corps is in the process of being reformed. The Young National Front has been revived with its "notorious" hard-hitting paper Bulldog.

The millennium and the present.
The NF website is being constantly updated and expanded bringing in many new members, supporters and enquirers. In 2009, a major reorganisation of the Movement started to take place of which this website is part. The following new departments have now been established - A National Publicity Department; A national Elections Department and a Unit Development Department. The NF also has a National Press Officer again and a new National Secretary with a National Secretariat Department is on the way. A National Merchandising Officer has been appointed along with a revitalisation of the the YNF. It is planned in the next few months (through Summer 2009) - the Flame will be produced on a more regular basis and Bulldog will make a re-appearance. National Front News - the online weekly E-Zine of the NF has been produced for the last few months and a quarterly CD-ROM magazine THUNDERBOLT has made its appearance.