I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn’t have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him. Jane Fonda
Fascism is very much a mob movement. P J O’Rourke
The common elements of fascism – extreme nationalism, social Darwinism, the leadership principle, elitism, anti-liberalism, anti-egalitarianism, anti-democracy, intolerance, glorification of war, the supremacy of the state and anti-intellectualism – together form a rather loose doctrine. Fascism emphasises action rather than theory, and fascist theoretical writings are always weak. Hitler’s Nazism had rather more theory, though its intellectual quality is appalling. This greater theoretical content is mostly concerned with race, and it was Hitler’s racial theories that distinguished Nazism from Italian fascism. Ian Adams, in Political Ideology Today 1993
We are the first victims of American fascism! Ethel Rosenberg, spy facing execution, 1953
Trotsky’s words on the matter of pavements: if you cannot convince a fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement. Alan Bleasdale, GBH: It Couldn’t Happen Here starring Robert Lindsay & Lindsay Duncan & Michael Palin & Julie Walters & Tom Georgeson & Andrew Schofield & Jane Danson & David Ross et al, director Robert Young, sidekick to Michael
We are here faced by fascists. Not just their calculated brutality but their belief that they are superior to every single one of us in this Chamber tonight and all of the people that we represent. They hold us in contempt. They hold our values in contempt. They hold our belief in tolerance and decency in contempt. They hold our democracy, the means by which we will make our decision tonight, in contempt. And what we know about fascists is that they need to be defeated. We must now confront this evil. It is now time for us to do our bit in Syria.
And that is why I ask my colleagues to vote for this motion tonight. Hilary Benn, speech House of Commons
Fascii is that symbol of Roman unity, also Roman law and order, that eventually becomes the symbol, that gives the name, to fascists. Richard Clay, The French Revolution: Tearing Up History, BBC 2016
The new face of the far right [Mark Collett]: his party claims to have shed its fascist past; now it’s winning unprecedented support. Dispatches, Young, Nazi and Proud, Channel 4 2002
‘We are the voice of the white population.’ ibid. Collett
‘Hitler will live on for ever and maybe I will.’ ibid.
Mother: ‘I think the British National Party are misunderstood.’
Father: ‘They’ve been painted black all the time.’ ibid.
‘People, will you now fight alongside me.’ ibid.
Russia: Now it is a very different group which brandishes its arms in that same square. These white guards are the cutting edge of a new fascist movement, military in appearance and fervently nationalistic in its message. With the revolution in ruins and President Gorbachev fighting for his political life, fascists like these believe they could emerge victorious from the crisis. World in Action: The New Nazis, ITV 1980
The sinister world of Combat 18 – late last year people all over England began getting death threats. World in Action: The Terror Squad, ITV 1993
Combat 18 is thought to have about seventy active members. ibid.
For five years World in Action has investigated Britain’s Nazi gangsters. They are vicious. They’ve even planned murder. World in Action: Playing with Fire, ITV 1998
For most of the 1990s a fanatical band of thugs have tried to bring Hitler’s ideas to the streets of Britain. They have committed crimes of intimidation, violence, arson and murder. But they had their uses too. The security services infiltrated them to find out about even more murderous fanatics in Northern Ireland. ibid.
Tonight, new racists, new danger, we expose their evil plans to change the face of Britain. The Cook Report: The Truth Behind the Front, ITV 1997
Combat 18: hardliners are being recruited into the KKK. ibid.
‘It’s genocide, and we’re the victims.’ ibid. Nick Griffin
We are obviously engaged in many facets of what is generally called the Cold War … at no time has the CIA engaged in any political activity or any intelligence activity that was not approved at the highest level. The Corbett Report: Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster, James Corbett online August 2015
Allen Dulles was the ‘ambassador of the secret government to the overt government’. ibid.
John Foster Dulles: ‘He was an in-law of the Rockefellers, and chairman of the board of the Rockefeller Foundation’. ibid. James Perloff, The Shadows of Power p104
‘Dulles wastes no time in signing a secret executive order creating Project M K Ultra. ibid.
‘With the Nazis enforcing a favourable climate for business, the profits for Thyssen and the other companies soared, and the Union Banking Corporation increasingly became a Nazi money-laundering machine … From 1937 on, the Dulles brothers would serve Bush and Harriman in all their covert dealings with Nazi firms. They also performed similar cloaking services for others, like the Rockefellers’. ibid. Cory Panshin article ‘Allen Dulles, the Nazis and the CIA’
I had no idea what his ultimate plan was. Welcome to Leith, resident, 2015
This is one of the top ten white supremacists in the United States. ibid. observer
These people produce a lot of violence. ibid.
There was no infrastructure. Everything else seems to have been forgotten. ibid.
A vision not just of bringing white supremacists to Leith but bringing the leadership of the white supremacist movement to Leith. ibid.
‘Let me give you an example: the moderate Muslim will hold your arms and legs, while his radical friends cuts off your head.’ Are There Fascists Next Door? French fascist protester, BBC 2017
The number of people who describe themselves as far right has doubled in five years … In France’s 2017 presidential elections many far right activists voted for Marine le Pen … In the early round of voting she was the most popular candidate among young people. ibid.
Emboldened by the prospect of a Marine le Pen victory, many far right groups have stepped up their protests against immigrants, also hate crimes against Muslims have tripled since 2015. ibid.
The economic failures of the 1930s should be seen as a substantial reason why the Austrian society was receptive to the annexation of Germany in March 1938. Right-Libertarianism: The Inception, Riech-Wing Watch, Youtube 2017
‘Fascism – the original 20th century totalitarian movement – is really historically another name for the political activity of the Catholic right wing.’ rEVILution: Rise of the Christofascists, Christopher Hitchens, 2016
‘The arrogance of power when it thinks it’s backed by the divine.’ ibid. Hitchens
‘Any president who doesn’t begin every day on his knees isn’t fit to be commander-in-chief.’ ibid. Ted Cruz
‘When you look closely at the ideology of the radical Christian right … they’re fascists … a dangerous mutation.’ ibid. Chris Hedges
‘The Reverend Phillip G Kayser thinks homosexuals should be executed.’ ibid.
‘We welcome Reverend Kayser’s endorsement.’ ibid. Ron Paul
‘Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. You’re such a nice looking boy.’ The Party of Duke: Rise of the Alt-Right, Reich-Wing Watch, Duke on television, 2016
‘Order was only restored in LA when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.’ ibid. political report alleging Ron Paul June 1992
‘My party is full of racists.’ ibid. Lawrence Wilkersen
‘Small numbers of White Supremacists have infiltrated most parts of the military.’ ibid. CNN news
In 2009 three police officers were killed by White Supremacist Richard Poplawski after his mother called 9-1-1. Poplawski feared his guns would be taken from him by Obama. ibid.
1933 Gen. Butler Bares ‘Plot’ By Fascists. rEVILution: The Rise of Reich-Wing Terrorism, Reich-Wing Watch, Universal Newsreel, 2017
6 People, Including a Child Shot and Killed in Arizona. ibid. television news
In the Spotlight tonight – Guns, Paranoia and Hatred. According to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Centre the crazies are on the rise. We now have more groups who believe that ‘the federal government is conspiring to take Americans’ guns and destroy their liberty as it paves the way for a global one-world government’. ibid. news
Nine members of a Michigan-based Christian militia group have been charged in connection with an alleged plot to spark a war against the federal government. ibid. Democracy Now report
44% of Republicans think that an armed revolution in order to protect liberties might be necessary in the next few years. ibid. television news
24th October 2008: White Supremacists Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman are arrested in Tennessee for allegedly plotting to assassinate Barack Obama and murder more than 100 black people. ibid.
‘Do you care about people’s feelings?’ Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis, Louis to Nazi, BBC 2003
For several weeks I’ve been living among a community of true believers trying to find the humanity in people whose worldview is probably the most abhorrent and discredited conceivable. ibid.
‘I would not have my daughter with a Jew in this house.’ ibid. Nazi
It was the day of the skinhead rally … I felt like the schoolkid no-one wanted to be friends with. ibid.