Troy Southgate
Encyclopedia
Troy Southgate is an author, musician and leading National-Anarchist activist based in the United Kingdom
.
, in South London
, Southgate is of English-Scots descent and moved to the small village of Jarvis Brook
, East Sussex
, in his teenage years. He moved back to South London in 1989.
(ITP), a breakaway from the NF, and became Editor of several local ITP publications, including The Kent Crusader, Surrey Action and Eastern Legion.
, Bradford
and south-east Kent
areas.
(Hamas) and the IRA
", operating on the principle of leaderless resistance
. The NRF also had a camping/hiking fraternity known as the Greenshirts, based on Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
's Romanian Iron Guard
. Members performed torchlight ceremonies and distributed small bags of earth.
and Editor of Crossing the Abyss magazine - established the Synthesis website. This resource is said to be fronted by a study group and occasional salon called Le Cercle de la Rose Noire, blending politics, music and the occult
.
, for two issues. The magazine was published with the support of Green Anarchist
founder Richard Hunt
, Brighton Anarchist Wayne John Sturgeon and Adrian White. The magazine appeared in left-wing bookshops in and around London.
In 2001, Troy Southgate and the NRF were the subject of a Sunday Telegraph article, in which the NRF was accused of being a neo-Nazi organisation infiltrating animal rights
groups in order to spread fascism
.
, with a meeting in central London. This followed an initial meeting the previous month. New Right, which has much more in common with the French Nouvelle Droite
than with New Right
politics in the Anglo-American sense, describes itself as a "dynamic and strictly metapolitical group [that] seeks to unite the disparate strands of the British Right and get everybody pulling in the same direction". It publishes a journal, New Imperium.
Southgate has also written for the website of the Russian newspaper, Pravda
, on the metaphysical radical work of Julius Evola
. Traditionalist
political philosophy of the sort developed by Evola and supported by Southgate has been gaining currency amongst conservative Russian parties.
, which sees the artificial hierarchies inherent in government and capitalism as oppressive. They advocate collective action organized along the lines of nationality, identity, and tribes, and advocate for a decentralised social order wherein "like-minded individuals" maintain distinct communities. National-Anarchism echoes most strains of anarchism by expressing a desire to reorganize human relationships, with an emphasis on replacing the hierarchical structures of government and capitalism with local, communal decision-making.
The revolutionary conservative concept of the Anarch
is central to National-Anarchism and its supporters view liberalism as a primary cause of the social decline of nations and cultural identity. National-Anarchists also reject fascism
and communism
as statist and totalitarian, and reject National Socialism as a failed dictatorship of a totalitarian government. However, Southgate's National-Anarchism has been critiqued as an opportunistic appropriation of aspects of leftist counter-culture in the service of a racist, right-wing ideology.
On 19 September 2010, Southgate launched the National-Anarchist Movement (N-AM) and unveiled a 15,000-word manifesto which included a detailed membership system based around a revolutionary cadre structure. The group also launched a magazine called Tribal Resonance.
(1999) by Martin A. Lee
, International Fascism: Theories, Causes and the New Consensus by Roger Griffin
(2002), Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism & the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
(2003), the five-volume study Fascism: Critical Concepts in Political Science (2004) by Roger Griffin
& Matthew Feldman
(ed.) and The Radical Right in Britain by Alan Sykes (2005). He is also mentioned in World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia (2006) by Cyprian Blamires and Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture by Sara Buttsworth. A 26-page article by Graham D. Macklin, entitled 'Co-opting the Counter-Culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction', appeared in Volume 39, No. 3 of the academic journal Patterns of Prejudice
(2005), and Southgate and the New Right
were also discussed in an essay called The West Reborn by David J. Wingfield which appeared in The Initiate: Journal of Traditional Studies (2008), pp. 17–19. A Winter 2008 article appeared in Vol. 23, No. 4 of The Public Eye magazine, entitled 'Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists' by Spencer Sunshine. In Germany, Southgate is mentioned in Gabriel Kuhn's 'Neuer Anarchismus in den USA: Seattle und die Folgen' (2008) and Charles Lindholm's 'The Struggle for the World: Liberation Movements for the 21st Century' [2010]. Some of Southgate's musical activities are discussed in the Hungarian book, 'Battlenoise: The Blows of the Martial Industrial Music', published by Mozgalom Records (2007). A chapter by Southgate is also included in 'Northern Traditions', published by Primordial Traditions (2011).
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
Politics
Originally from Crystal PalaceCrystal Palace, London
Crystal Palace is a residential area in south London, England named from the former local landmark, The Crystal Palace, which occupied the area from 1854 to 1936. The area is located approximately 8 miles south east of Charing Cross, and offers impressive views over the capital...
, in South London
South London
South London is the southern part of London, England, United Kingdom.According to the 2011 official Boundary Commission for England definition, South London includes the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Southwark, Sutton and...
, Southgate is of English-Scots descent and moved to the small village of Jarvis Brook
Jarvis Brook
Jarvis Brook is a village in Crowborough, near Rotherfield in East Sussex.It has a several football clubs - Jarvis Brook FC, Jarvis Brook Juniors FC and Jarvis Brook Girls FC - all based at the Limekiln Playing Fields in Palesgate Lane....
, East Sussex
East Sussex
East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel.-History:...
, in his teenage years. He moved back to South London in 1989.
International Third Position
In the Autumn of 1989 he joined the International Third PositionInternational Third Position
International Third Position ' was a neo-fascist organization formed by the breakaway faction of the neofascist British National Front and Italian neofascists led by Roberto Fiore....
(ITP), a breakaway from the NF, and became Editor of several local ITP publications, including The Kent Crusader, Surrey Action and Eastern Legion.
English Nationalist Movement
He then split from the ITP in September 1992. 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 BurnleyBurnley
Burnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....
, Bradford
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
and south-east Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
areas.
National Revolutionary Faction
In 1998 he and other ENM members founded the National Revolutionary Faction, which he describes as "a hardline revolutionary organisation based on an underground cell-structure similar to that used by both the Islamic Resistance MovementHamas
Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...
(Hamas) and the IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
", operating on the principle of leaderless resistance
Leaderless resistance
Leaderless resistance, or phantom cell structure, is a political resistance strategy in which small, independent groups , including individuals , challenge an established adversary such as a government. Leaderless resistance can encompass anything from non-violent disruption and civil disobedience...
. The NRF also had a camping/hiking fraternity known as the Greenshirts, based on Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu was a Romanian politician of the far right, the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Archangel Michael , an ultra-nationalist and violently antisemitic organization active throughout most of the interwar period...
's Romanian Iron Guard
Iron Guard
The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given to a far-right movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II. The Iron Guard was ultra-nationalist, fascist, anti-communist, and promoted the Orthodox Christian faith...
. Members performed torchlight ceremonies and distributed small bags of earth.
Synthesis
In 2000 Southgate and a close associate, Michael Lujan - a former member of America's White Order of ThuleWhite Order of Thule
The White Order of Thule was a loosely organized American society formed in the mid-1990s by federal prisoner Peter Georgacarakos, art school graduate Michael Lujan and New Age occultist, Joseph Kerrick. It described itself as an "esoteric brotherhood working toward the revitalization of the...
and Editor of Crossing the Abyss magazine - established the Synthesis website. This resource is said to be fronted by a study group and occasional salon called Le Cercle de la Rose Noire, blending politics, music and the occult
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...
.
Alternative Green
Southgate and other NRF associates were on the editorial board of the journal, Alternative GreenAlternative Green
Alternative Green is a UK magazine set up by former Green Anarchist contributor and editor Richard Hunt in 1991 to promote the ideas later set out in his book 'To End Poverty, The Starvation of the Periphery by the Core' ....
, for two issues. The magazine was published with the support of Green Anarchist
Green Anarchist
The magazine Green Anarchist was for a while the principal voice in the UK advocating green anarchism, an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking.-Early years:...
founder Richard Hunt
Richard Hunt (editor)
Richard Hunt is a green anarchist activist, and editor of various environmentalist magazines, such as Green Anarchist and Alternative Green. He was widely criticised in the anarchist community for his perceived sympathies for nationalism, and wrote an editorial for Green Anarchist expressing...
, Brighton Anarchist Wayne John Sturgeon and Adrian White. The magazine appeared in left-wing bookshops in and around London.
In 2001, Troy Southgate and the NRF were the subject of a Sunday Telegraph article, in which the NRF was accused of being a neo-Nazi organisation infiltrating animal rights
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
groups in order to spread fascism
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
.
New Right
On January 16, 2005, Southgate and other associates launched a new vehicle, New RightNew Right (UK)
New Right is a UK-based pan-European nationalist, conservative revolutionary think tank and school of thought, led by national-anarchist Troy Southgate and Jonathan Bowden....
, with a meeting in central London. This followed an initial meeting the previous month. New Right, which has much more in common with the French Nouvelle Droite
Nouvelle Droite
Nouvelle Droite is a school of political thought founded largely on the works of Alain de Benoist and GRECE .-Etymology and history:...
than with New Right
New Right
New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various policies or groups that are right-wing. It has also been used to describe the emergence of Eastern European parties after the collapse of communism.-Australia:...
politics in the Anglo-American sense, describes itself as a "dynamic and strictly metapolitical group [that] seeks to unite the disparate strands of the British Right and get everybody pulling in the same direction". It publishes a journal, New Imperium.
Southgate has also written for the website of the Russian newspaper, Pravda
Pravda
Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....
, on the metaphysical radical work of Julius Evola
Julius Evola
Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist...
. Traditionalist
Traditionalist Conservatism
Traditionalist conservatism, also known as "traditional conservatism," "traditionalism," "Burkean conservatism", "classical conservatism" and , "Toryism", describes a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order, tradition, hierarchy and...
political philosophy of the sort developed by Evola and supported by Southgate has been gaining currency amongst conservative Russian parties.
National-Anarchism
Troy Southgate is today the main figurehead of National-AnarchismNational-Anarchism
National-Anarchism is a radical, anti-capitalist, anti-statist, right-wing political and cultural ideology which emphasizes ethnic tribalism. As a prelude to an anticipated racial civil war and a collapse of the capitalist system, National-Anarchists seek to establish autonomous villages for...
, which sees the artificial hierarchies inherent in government and capitalism as oppressive. They advocate collective action organized along the lines of nationality, identity, and tribes, and advocate for a decentralised social order wherein "like-minded individuals" maintain distinct communities. National-Anarchism echoes most strains of anarchism by expressing a desire to reorganize human relationships, with an emphasis on replacing the hierarchical structures of government and capitalism with local, communal decision-making.
The revolutionary conservative concept of the Anarch
Anarch (sovereign individual)
The Anarch is a metaphysical ideal figure of a sovereign individual, conceived by Ernst Jünger in his novel Eumeswil . Jünger was greatly influenced by individualist anarchist Max Stirner...
is central to National-Anarchism and its supporters view liberalism as a primary cause of the social decline of nations and cultural identity. National-Anarchists also reject fascism
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
and communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
as statist and totalitarian, and reject National Socialism as a failed dictatorship of a totalitarian government. However, Southgate's National-Anarchism has been critiqued as an opportunistic appropriation of aspects of leftist counter-culture in the service of a racist, right-wing ideology.
On 19 September 2010, Southgate launched the National-Anarchist Movement (N-AM) and unveiled a 15,000-word manifesto which included a detailed membership system based around a revolutionary cadre structure. The group also launched a magazine called Tribal Resonance.
Academic coverage
Southgate and his political ideas have been discussed in various books and publications, including The Beast ReawakensThe Beast Reawakens
The Beast Reawakens is a book by investigative journalist Martin A. Lee. It tells the story of old-guard fascists' strategy for survival and the revival of fascism...
(1999) by Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee is an American author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues, and drug politics.Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan...
, International Fascism: Theories, Causes and the New Consensus by Roger Griffin
Roger Griffin
Roger D. Griffin is a British academic political theorist at Oxford Brookes University, England. His recent efforts have focused on a definition and examination of fascism...
(2002), Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism & the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke B.A. , D.Phil. is a professor of Western Esotericism at University of Exeter and author of several books on esoteric traditions....
(2003), the five-volume study Fascism: Critical Concepts in Political Science (2004) by Roger Griffin
Roger Griffin
Roger D. Griffin is a British academic political theorist at Oxford Brookes University, England. His recent efforts have focused on a definition and examination of fascism...
& Matthew Feldman
Matthew Feldman
Matthew Feldman was an American Democratic Party politician who served as a New Jersey State Senator, Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey, and onetime candidate for Governor of New Jersey....
(ed.) and The Radical Right in Britain by Alan Sykes (2005). He is also mentioned in World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia (2006) by Cyprian Blamires and Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture by Sara Buttsworth. A 26-page article by Graham D. Macklin, entitled 'Co-opting the Counter-Culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction', appeared in Volume 39, No. 3 of the academic journal Patterns of Prejudice
Patterns of Prejudice
Patterns of Prejudice is a journal published by Routledge.Its aims and scope, in part as given by Taylor & Francis, are as follows:...
(2005), and Southgate and the New Right
New Right (UK)
New Right is a UK-based pan-European nationalist, conservative revolutionary think tank and school of thought, led by national-anarchist Troy Southgate and Jonathan Bowden....
were also discussed in an essay called The West Reborn by David J. Wingfield which appeared in The Initiate: Journal of Traditional Studies (2008), pp. 17–19. A Winter 2008 article appeared in Vol. 23, No. 4 of The Public Eye magazine, entitled 'Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists' by Spencer Sunshine. In Germany, Southgate is mentioned in Gabriel Kuhn's 'Neuer Anarchismus in den USA: Seattle und die Folgen' (2008) and Charles Lindholm's 'The Struggle for the World: Liberation Movements for the 21st Century' [2010]. Some of Southgate's musical activities are discussed in the Hungarian book, 'Battlenoise: The Blows of the Martial Industrial Music', published by Mozgalom Records (2007). A chapter by Southgate is also included in 'Northern Traditions', published by Primordial Traditions (2011).