Official Statement
on the International Third Position

NO DOUBT many of you will be aware of the existence of a London-based group known as the International Third Position (ITP). In recent weeks this group has attempted to slander the name of the National Revolutionary Faction (NRF). Due to the fact that the ITP has made a number of deliberately false allegations in order to try and prevent the growth of the European Liberation Front (ELF)and its international section, the Liaison Committee for Revolutionary Nationalism (LCRN), we have found it necessary to issue a full statement which will expose these reactionary liars once and for all. If you are genuinely concerned about the future of Revolutionary Nationalism then please read this statement very carefully indeed.

PREAMBLE

The ITP was formed in late 1989 from the remnants of the old National Front (NF), an organisation which during the mid- to late-1980's was transformed from a party of reactionary conservatives into a dynamic and highly revolutionary organisation. At this time the NF adhered to the concept of the Political Soldier, a New Man committed to the overthrow of the corrupt British State and the establishment of street and area committees run in accordance with the principles of Revolutionary Nationalism. The NF stood for a Third Position and expressed its sympathy with like-minded peoples around the globe including Qathafi's Libya, Khomeini's Iran and Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. But in 1989 a series of personality clashes finally came to a head and the NF was split into two opposing segments: Patrick Harrington's Third Way on the one hand, and the ITP on the other.

THE ITALIAN JOB

The ITP began by stating its intention to found a rural community in Northern France, seemingly intending to continue in the same ideological vein as the NF had done previously. Consequently, it soon emerged that the financial backer of this group was Italian businessman Roberto Fiore. This individual entered Britain in the early-1980's when the Italian State tried to blame Fascists for the Bologna railway station bombing. It is a fact that the Italian Secret Service was heavily implicated in a plot which saw them co-operating both with members of the Fascist circle of which Fiore was a part and the Freemasonic P2 Lodge. Since arriving in Britain, Fiore and his business partner - Massimo Morcello - have built up a Capitalistic enterprise known as Meeting Point, which is today the leading accommodation agency in London. What is not widely known, however, is that Fiore lures French and Italian students to Britain (including non-Whites) and charges them an extortionate fee in exchange for squalid, cramped accommodation in West London. The most significant point to be made here, is that the very buildings in which Fiore and Morcello house their clients are those which formerly belonged to the notorious slum landlord Peter Rachman. This obnoxious creature became the archetypal Jew of the 1950's, and today his former properties are still owned by his co-racialists but are currently being sub-let to none other than Roberto Fiore. It is not surprising that anyone who has seen the disgusting rat-holes in which Fiore's clients are supposed to live has difficulty wondering how this parasitic leech manages to sleep at night. Indeed, although Fiore puts money into the shambolic farce which is the ITP he seems to be doing rather well for himself. He currently lives in a £300,000 house in London's plush Maida Vale, an area which is also host to many famous personalities and celebrities. It is hard to imagine how somebody who wears expensive clothes and drives a Mercedes Benz can be a 'revolutionary nationalist', but Fiore is nothing of the sort. If his clients fall behind with their rent payments, Fiore's henchmen - Italian skinheads living in London - pay them a little visit.

REACTIONARIES AND HYPOCRITES

In 1992 the ITP suffered a major split when the majority of its members left to form the English Nationalist Movement (ENM). This had come about due to the fact that two of the main self-styled 'leaders' of this group - namely Fiore and Derek Holland - had refused to reimplement a cadre structure similar to that which had been in force within the NF between 1986 and 1989. Despite this arrogance most of the work in the organisation was being done by activists from three key areas with their own distinct publications: Northern Rising, Surrey Action and The Kent Crusader. Needless to say, the majority were no longer prepared to be dictated to by a suspect Italian businessman and his Irish sidekick in Normandy. Once free of Fiore and Holland, the ENM gradually emerged as the leading Revolutionary Nationalist group in Britain and released a torrent of radical booklets and magazines.

THIEVES AND CAPITALISTS

But like most splits, the parting of ways was far from amicable and Fiore was not used to being on the losing side. As a result, he and his sycophantic cohorts stole thousands of pounds from one ENM member who had invested his life savings in the increasingly abortive Normandy project. Fiore and Company were also responsible for stealing a printing press from another ENM activist and then, incredibly, presenting it as a gift to the pro-life lobby in Ireland.

THE SUNDAY CLUB

Once the ENM had departed, the ITP no longer had to deceive the outgoing radicals and the ideological mask finally slipped. Before long, the revolutionary rhetoric began to disappear and the ITP's badly-written fanzine - Final Conflict (a standing joke in European circles) - began to praise reactionaries such as Franco and Marshall Petain. This would never have been tolerated whilst the radicals were still involved. Furthermore, however, the ITP's Catholicism -which had been present from the very outset (indeed, some ENM members were also Catholic at this time) - eventually began to take precedence and the extent of the ITP's activities were confined to attending mass at a church in North London and bourgeois gossiping over tea and cake. In fact this is still the ITP's favourite pastime today, something which is rather strange given that its members - allegedly in favour of racial separatism - kneel down in the pews alongside Blacks and Asians. The Catholic sect which organises these weekly church services, the Lefebvrist Society of St. Pius X, has already vigorously condemned 'racism' in its official magazine, The Angelus [February 1996 issue]. One wonders why the ITP continues to give its allegiance to a society which supports racial miscegenation and globalisation. One ITP member has even married a Brazialian Indian. Catholicism, it seems, is colour-blind.

AND WE THOUGHT THE DEVIL WAS THE FATHER OF LIES

Today, the ENM has changed its name to the National Revolutionary Faction (NRF) and both joined and helped to expand the growing ELF/LCRN network. We are certain that anyone of sound mind who reads the following points will have no doubt that the ITP is an implacable enemy of our Cause:

1. The ITP has accused the NRF of stating that everybody associated with the ITP is Catholic. This is untrue. The NRF has said no such thing, only that its 'leadership' follows the tenets of Catholicism without exception. Fiore, Rowland, Hurley, Palin, Fishwick, Holland, Marchant - the whole inner core, all traditionalist Catholics and affiliates of the Society of St. Pius X. In a 1991 conversation with NRF activist Troy Southgate, Fiore even admitted that only Catholics may be permitted to have any serious influence within the ITP. Another individual was told that he could not live in Normandy because he was not a Catholic. Further evidence of the determining role Catholicism plays in the direction of the ITP is demonstrated by the fact that this lunatic sect attacked Southgate because he is no longer a Catholic. But surely that's up to him?
2. The ITP has also accused Troy Southgate and the NRF as being 'Satanist'. Another blatant lie. As the NRF website makes perfectly clear, Southgate is an Odinist. Saying that, however, if Satanists wish to join the NRF we are informed that the group would certainly not stand in their way because one's spiritual affiliations are a private affair. These modern-day witchfinder generals seem to believe that just because the NRF's cultural magazine - Tribal Resonance - has included features on Black Metal, that it too is 'Satanist'. Prove it.
3. The ITP claims the NRF lost members as a result of changing its name from the ENM and 'promoting Satanism'. Utter garbage. The NRF lost no members as a result of its fresh neo-pagan direction, simply because its leading activists decided to reject Catholicism around the same time. Southgate himself, in fact, was the last to do so because he wanted to be absolutely sure that Catholicism was not for him. This also renders the ITP's accusations of political 'opportunism' totally useless, because it had been Southgate's research into the ancient Aryan religion of Mithraism which had finally convinced him that Christianity has stolen its main tenets from its pagan rivals. The only member no longer associated with the NRF was expelled in January 1998 for his continuing alcoholism, which was fast becoming a security risk.
4. The ITP has accused Southgate of being a hypocrite because 'he was writing letters to the Catholic press a year ago'. Another ridiculous lie. Whilst he was a regular contributor to various Catholic magazines and newspapers, Southgate can hardly be called a hypocrite because the definition of that term implies that he says one thing and does another. Southgate has rejected Catholicism and, in his own words, developed spiritually. The NRF would hardly accuse Fiore of being a hypocrite on the basis that he once translated Evolian texts into English and is now claiming that Evola is not an influence on the ITP. It would appear that only Fiore can change his mind about certain things.
5. The ITP claims that the NRF's support for the Anarchist ideals of Hunt, Proudon and Kropotkin contradict their alleged support for Distributism and guilds. Wrong again. The NRF no longer supports Distributism or guilds, because it is seeking to work outside the system and not reform it. The ITP also claims that the NRF supports the abolishment of private property, but despite what Proudon wrote on this matter the NRF continues to advocate private property and private land defended - if necessary - with arms. The NRF's Anarchism, as far as it goes, is in relation to the abolishment of the British State. After all, modern-day 'Anarchists' also support homosexuality, abortion and racial miscegenation but that does not mean that National Revolutionaries must follow suit. Real Anarchy is about the establishment of autonomous communities and the formation of revolutionary structures.
6. The ITP also attacked another ELF comrade, Christian Bouchet of the French Resistance, who recently described them in an interview as 'bourgeois'. The ITP deny such a claim. Another lie. Almost all of the 'leaders' of the ITP are bourgeois - in spirit if not in form - and its working-class members (those foolish enough to trust this Capitalistic entity) are employed by Fiore's London agency. Fiore even has to pay his own members to work on his ramshackle properties in France and Spain. Fiore's bourgeois lifestyle has already been described above, but the ITP's love of the class system is embodied in its support for feudalism, a system in which a serf remains a serf for the whole of his earthly existence. Catholicism's exploitation of the rural peasantry in Medieval Europe is well documented.
7. The ITP claims that the ELF/LCRN network is full of 'losers' and consists of 'five men and a dog'. This is nothing more than a very poor attempt to try and prevent its growth. Why not check it out for yourself? Write to any of the ELF/LCRN affiliates and you will have no doubt that they are each part of an exciting, growing phenomenon. A phenomenon, of course, of which the so-called 'International' Third Position is highly jealous. Why not compare the ITP's American affiliate, Third Position Youth, which consists of one 15 year-old Polish expatriate, and our comrades in the American Front. The AF has well-disciplined cadres from Coast to Coast and has been promoting Third Positionist ideas since TPY's "leader" (and only member) was 5 years old!
8. The ITP claims that the NRF is led by an 'agent provocateur'. Laughable. According to Final Conflict [Issue 19, Summer 1998] the NRF is some kind of security asset for no other reason than the fact that it has featured guns in its journals. Sadly, the inadequate and deluded Welshman responsible for this pathetic claim - a certain Gareth Hurley - appears to overlook the fact that on the very same page there is a totally unrelated cartoon of a skinhead gunman! Hurley, who for ten years has continued to hide behind the pseudonym 'Spike', may well be familiar to some of you. In 1986 he wrote a sneaky article in which he implied that Ian Stuart - the well known vocalist with skinhead rock band, Skrewdriver - was a money-grabber. As a result, Gareth 'Spike' Hurley made many enemies and is still hated throughout much of the skinhead genre today. Interestingly, Final Conflict also has the nerve to sell Skrewdriver material now that Ian is dead. "Spike" calls NRF opportunists? What a joke.

CONCLUSION

Finally, surely it is now obvious that anyone foolish enough to have any contact with the ITP is wasting their time, effort and money. We would like to reiterate our full support for the ELF/LCRN network and state publicly that anyone who collaborates with the ITP is an enemy of the True Cause. It is time to purge these thieves and liars from our ranks.