Derek Holland is a figure on the European far-right. Initially a member of the National Front, Holland became one of the leading lights on the Political Soldier wing of the party when his pamphlet The Political Soldier was published in 1984. In 1989 Holland broke with Patrick Harrington and followed Nick Griffin and Roberto Fiore into the International Third Position (ITP). Far right, extreme right, ultra-right, radical right, or hard right are terms used to discuss the relative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is an extreme right-wing political party that had its heyday during the 1970s and 1980s. ... Political Soldier was a political group within Britains National Front, centred on young radicals Nick Griffin, Patrick Harrington and Derek Holland, that began to emerge in the late 1970s with new destinations in mind for the movement. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patrick Pat Harrington (born 1964) is one of four members of the National Executive of the Third Way (UK) and a former leader of the National Front. ... Nicholas John Griffin (born 1959) is a British politician. ... Roberto Fiore has been a leading neo-fascist in the post-war era, both in Italy and across Europe. ... International Third Position (ITP) was a group formed by Nick Griffin and Derek Holland and as a continuation of the Political Soldier movement that originated in the right-wing British National Front in the early 1980s. ...

Holland injected his sympathies for anti-Zionist groups, as part of his nationalist philosophy, into the ITP. He supported the ideas of Muammar al-Qaddafi and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In 1988 he travelled to Libya, with Nick Griffin, as an official representative of the NF. Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi 1 — pronounced Gaddafi — (Arabic: معمر القذافي ) (born c. ... Ayatollah Khomeini founded the first modern Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Holland's last public appearance was at a Swedish nationalist convention in 2002 (hosted by Nationaldemokratisk Ungdom, the youth wing of the National Democrats). Since that time the ITP appears to have gravitated towards the European National Front, and Holland has retired from active involvement in politics, though his Political Soldier writings are still circulated amongst radical nationalists. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The National Democrats (Nationaldemokraterna) is a minor nationalist political party in Sweden of the extreme-right [1]. It was formed by a faction of Sverigedemokraterna in October 2001 and is widely regarded as racist and neo-fascist. ... European National Front is a coordinating structure of European far-right nationalist movements. ...

Holland has received considerable treatment in works on European extremist nationalism, including Fascism: A History by Roger Eatwell (1997) and Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2002). Holland’s writings on the Political Soldier are also featured in Fascism: A Reader published by Oxford University Press (1995). 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke is the author of several books on modern occultism and esotericism with the history of its intersection with fascist politics. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Third Positionist web-site www.politicalsoldier.net clearly takes its influence from Holland's writings.

Holland also writes under the pennames D. Liam O'Huallachain, Derek O'Huallachain, and Deric O'Huallachain.