Political Soldier was a political group within Britain's 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. They were at times also known as the Official National Front. Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. ... In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is a far right-wing political party that had its heyday during the 1970s and 80s. ... Nick Griffin (born 1959) is the National Chairman of the far-right British National Party (BNP). ... Patrick Pat Harrington (1964) is a British leader of the Third Way (UK). ... Derek Holland is a figure on the British far-right. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... The Official National Front was the leading movement within the British National Front during the 1980s and stood opposed to the Flag Group. ...

The subgroup called for the building of a fresh ethos within society and for the emergence of a new man, to be known as the Political Soldier, who would reject materialism and devote himself to the fascist struggle with religious zeal. Basing their ideas on those of Julius Evola, an Italian fascist philosopher who sought the creation of a new elite to combat the decadence of modern bourgeois society, the Political Soldiers rejected the traditional British racial nationalism in favour of a Europeanist outlook and an equality of separate races. One remarkable issue of NF News even featured a front cover depicting the “new alliance” of the NF with Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini and Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Black Nationalist Nation of Islam, effectively endorsing an ethnopluralistc form of racial separatism (although critics were quick to point out the anti-Semitism linking the chosen allies). Julius Evola, real name Giulio Cesare Evola, aka Baron Giulio (May 19, 1898-June 11, 1974), was a controversial Italian esotericist, who wrote prolifically on matters political, philosophical, historical, and religious from a Traditionalist point of view. ... Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, refers to the right-wing authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi 1 (Arabic: معمر القذافي Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhāfī) (born 1942), has been the leader of Libya since 1969. ... 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. ... Louis Farrakhan Louis Farrakhan (born May 11, 1933 in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is the highly controversial leader of the largely African American Nation of Islam. ... The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930 with a declared aim of resurrecting the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of the Black man and woman of America and the world. ... Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility towards Jews (not: Semites - see the Misnomer section further on). ...

Holland published "The Political Soldier-A Statement" in 1984. The pamphlet called on supporters to become consumed by their nationalism and to make it the driving force behind everything in their lives. The book offered four historical examples of a Political Soldier i.e. the Spartans, the Roman centurion, the Crusaders and the Iron Guard of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian movement of fascism and religion. The book also made the Celtic Cross the emblem of the Political Soldiers. 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... Sparta (Grk. ... Centurion can mean: A centurion was a professional officer of the Roman army. ... This article is about historical Crusades . ... The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given in English to an ultra-nationalist, anti-Semitic, fascist movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II. Originally founded by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu on July 24, 1927 as the Legion... Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (born as Cornelius Zelinski, 13 September 1899 - 30 November 1938) was the main figure of the Romanian fascist movement in the interwar period, known as The Legion of Saint Michael the Archangel or The Iron Guard. ... A Celtic cross For Celtic Cross, the ambient/dub band see Celtic Cross (band) A Celtic cross combines the cross with a ring surrounding the intersection. ...

The Political Soldier movement alienated many of the rank and file members of the NF and the 1980s were hallmarked by divisions over the issue. The skinhead movement, which had been brought together in 1987 by Ian Stuart Donaldson and British Movement member Nicky Crane under the banner of Blood and Honour (using as its emblem the three armed swastika associated with the far right in South Africa), abandoned the increasingly odd NF and took most of the White Noise bands, who were interested only in crude racism and Nazi imagery, with them. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ian Stuart is also a pseudonym used by Scottish author Alistair MacLean Ian Stuart Donaldson (August 11, 1957 - September 24, 1993), also commonly known as Ian Stuart, was founder of the UK skinhead/punk band Skrewdriver. ... The British Movement was a British neo_Nazi group. ... Blood & Honour are a militant neo_Nazi network founded in 1987 in response to the Anti_Nazi Leagues Rock Against Racism organisation. ... The Swastika in traditional Hindu form The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles either clockwise or anticlockwise. ...

Attempts to gain funding from a trip to Libya had resulted in only a consignment of copies of Qaddafi's Green Book, leaving the NF once again impoverished. Griffin eventually drifted away from the NF to form, along with Holland, the International Third Position (ITP), which advocated anti-capitalist “Strasserite” views, whilst Harrington also departed in January 1990, along with about fifty NF members, to form the Third Way (UK), which continued to offer a programme akin to that of the Political Soldier movement. The NF was left behind as a demoralised, disorganised and largely irrelevant group, robbed of some of its deepest thinking young members. Nonetheless the Flag Group, as the traditionalists led by Martin Wingfield and Ian Anderson had been calling themselves since 1986 when they briefly split from the NF, had established themselves as the sole group in the NF, and sought to base themselves on France’s increasingly growing Front National (FN), albeit without their mass movement capabilities. Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi 1 (Arabic: معمر القذافي Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhāfī) (born 1942), has been the leader of Libya since 1969. ... The Green Book is a book written by the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, outlining his views on democracy and his political philosophy. ... 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 British National Front in the early 1980s. ... The Third Way is a British political party which broke away from the National Front in 1989, taking around fifty members of the partys Political Soldier wing. ... The Flag Group represented aone of the two wings of the British National Front in the 1980s and stood in opposition to the Political Soldier wing. ... Martin Wingfield is a long-standing figure on the extreme right in British politics. ... Ian Anderson (NOT the same person that was leader of the band [[]Jethro Tull]]!) has been a leading figure on the British far-right since the 1980s, although his involvement began in the mid 1970s when he was close to certain elements on the right of the Conservative Party, particularly... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Front National can mean: Front National, a right-wing French political party. ...

The idea of the Political Soldier, that is to say one who devotes all his time and energy to the nationalist struggle, was one that had long existed on the extreme right in Europe. Jean-Francois Thiriart was amongst those to argue for this need for complete devotion from activists and had set up camps to train Political Soldiers in the 1960s. World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Jean-Francois Thiriart was a leading figure on the extreme right in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War. ...

With two books written by Derek Holland and even a website called politicalsoldier.net this form of nationalist thinking is still seeking converts.