There were alliances with Mussolini and Hitler. Dave Hunt, A Woman Rides The Beast, 2004; viz also novel
The Roman Catholic Church has continually engaged in adulterous relationships with secular rulers. ibid.
The Vatican, and its vast network of dioceses, has in the past decade alone been forced to admit complicity in a huge racket of child rape and child torture, mainly but by no means exclusively homosexual, in which known pederasts and sadists were shielded from the law and reassigned to parishes where the picking of the innocent and defenseless were often richer. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great p51
The Catholic Church was generally sympathetic to fascism as an idea ... Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929. Under the terms of this deal, Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy, with monopoly powers over matters such as birth, marriage, death, and education, and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini’s party. ibid. p235
Across southern Europe, the church was a reliable ally in the instatement of fascist regimes in Spain, Portugal, and Croatia. ibid. p236
In central and eastern Europe ... the extreme right-wing military coup in Hungary, led by Admiral Horthy, was warmly endorsed by the church, as were similar fascist movements in Slovakia and Austria. (The Nazi puppet regime in Slovakia was actually led by a man in holy orders named Father Tiso). The cardinal of Austria proclaimed his enthusiasm at Hitler’s takeover of his country at the time of the Anschluss. ibid. p236
When the German conquest of France arrived, these forces eagerly collaborated in the rounding up and murder of French Jews, as well as in the deportation of forced labor of a huge number of other Frenchmen. ibid. pp236-237
Parish records were made available to the Nazi state in order to establish who was and who was not ‘racially pure’ enough to survive endless persecution under the Nuremberg laws. ibid. p238
None of the Protestant churches, however, went as far as the Catholic hierarchy is ordering an annual celebration for Hitler’s birthday on April 20. ibid. p238-239
Studying the war, one can perhaps accept that 25 percent of the SS were practicing Catholics and that no Catholic was ever even threatened with excommunication for participating in war crimes. ibid. p240
The collusion continued even after the war, as wanted Nazi criminals were spirited to South America by the infamous ‘rat line’. It was the Vatican itself, with its ability to provide passports, documents, money, and contacts, which organized the escape network and also the necessary shelter and succor at the other end. ibid. p240
For several months I’ve been spending time with a new incarnation of the far right. A movement spawned online and defined by racism, misogyny and homophobia, using social media and streaming to radicalise its young audience. Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America I: Extreme & Online, BBC 2022
I was attempting to understand the motivations and techniques of a new generation of home-grown extremists. From the front line of the cultural war. ibid.
I was with the followers of a rising star of the far right: his name is Nicholas J Winters, 22 years old, a fan of Donald Trump, he is considered too extreme even for the right wing of the Republican party and is banned from their events. ibid.
Nick has run his own event … In the last several years Nick has emerged as the new voice of the far right boasting a nightly show which he streams from Chicago to thousands of homes across the US and the world. ibid.
In his broadcasts, Nick embraces views and language that were racist, homophobic, sexist and anti-Semitic, packaging the most extreme statements in jokes and irony. ibid.
We try to as best as we can to keep women out of the inner circle … a total disaster … women tend to crack under pressure and cause friction in the group. ibid. Nick
A young underground bringing the taboo culture of darker parts of the internet into the real world. ibid.
‘White people founded this country.’ ibid. Nick at rally
His agenda was white nationalist in all but name. White racial interests above all else. And harbouring a particular animosity towards Jewish people. ibid.
The World Cups of 1970 and 1978 were both won by South American countries in the grip of right-wing military regimes. For the players, winning was all about the glory of the game. The governments had their own reasons for victory. Pele, Argentina & The Dictators, captions, History 2018
‘The [1970] guys were together for three months long.’ ibid.
‘Football was associated with the success of the regime.’ ibid.
In March 1976 a military junta led by General Jorge Raael Videla seized power from President Isabel Peron. In the following years up to 30,000 opponents of the regime disappeared. ibid.
The Neo-Conservatives set out to reform America. And at the heart of their project was the political use of religion. Together with their long-term allies, the religious right, they began a campaign to bring moral and religious issues back into the centre of conservative politics. Adam Curtis, The Power of Nightmares II: The Phantom Victory, BBC 2004
For the Neo-Conservatives religion was a myth … Strauss had taught that these myths were necessary to give ordinary people meaning and purpose and to ensure a stable society. ibid.
The UK’s far right is changing, exploiting Covid 19. And seizing on the culture wars. Dispatches is going undercover in Britain’s new far right. We infiltrate a growing movement that’s sparking clashes on the streets. Dispatches: The Enemy Within: The Far Right, Channel 4 2023
In May 2017 I was invited to go to New York to go to a pool party … I’m not a Nazi. Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet III: I’m Not a Nazi
I was determined to prove him wrong. He showed me these other websites. ibid.
One of the ways that the far right has been able to grow online is that they have been able to post their ideologies, their videos, their thinking, to mainstream networks. ibid. April Glaser, tech journalist
The Alt Right is now becoming this term and this group that is under a very large umbrella of anyone that just says they are Alt Right. ibid. woman
The downgrading of white supremacy as a threat … was entirely a political calculation. ibid. man
All of it was chaos from start to finish. ibid. woman
Tories and right-wingers lie. They do. They live in a fantasy land (e.g. Islamic London extremists) of how they think life should be (e.g. capitalist utopia) rather than the reality. They have a thousand tricks to distort and bend (e.g. Hegelian dialectic) with measly words. esias
Southall, 1976: This was a racist murder [Gurdip Singh Chaggar]. Defiance: Fighting the Far Right I, Channel 4 2024, Balraj, Southall Youth Movement
We knew that the whole of the Asian community up and down the country was under siege, and we knew the police were against us … But we were the protectors of Southall. ibid.
The problem was there was a lot of hatred towards you. ibid. chap
School: There would be racial attacks in class. It was humiliation they wanted. ibid. Balraj
In our hearts there was a kind of anger burning. ibid.
Chaggar murder: I am quite satisfied that neither of you was activated by feelings of racial prejudice. This was basically not a racist killing. ibid. Mr Justice Lawson
Originally, there were five people who were arrested. Two were released and the other three faced a lower manslaughter charge. And they got very lenient sentences. Why were they walking around with a knife … ? ibid. chap
Brick Lane is now the focus of National Front agitation. ibid. news
You are doing this because of survival. Your community is under siege. ibid.
In the ’70s you got clear messages watching TV which mocked the Asian people coming here. Defiance: Fighting the Far Right II: A Killer in the Ranks, Balraj
The political parties were effectively falling over each other to be more anti-immigration. So in Southall we started building community resistance. ibid.
If the fascists got away with it without any opposition, what would happen to the small communities around the county? ibid. chap
The police decided they are going to make the centre of Southall a no-go area. So they set up roadblocks … [People] were not allowed to go to their own homes. ibid.
I left East London on that day with Blair Peach … The fight against racism was very important to us … We ended up penned into the Broadway for a long time … ibid. teacher
Suddenly, we saw mountain police coming with their truncheons drawn hitting everybody. ibid. chap
I do not know the thought processes of these officer. ibid. Asian rozzer
They [rozzers] protected them [National Front] and unleashed violence on us. ibid. woman
I had a fractured skull and a blood clot on my brain. ibid. Clarence Baker
Our [community] centre was destroyed. ibid.
You had police officers blatantly lying in court. ibid. Balraj
Kids had their lives ruined because of the criminal prosecutions. ibid.
14 witnesses told Commander Cass they saw Blair Peach hit by a police officer. No police officer admitted seeing Peach at the time and place his injuries took place. ibid. captions
Police Protect the Fascists! Defiance: Fighting the Far Right III: The Right to Fight, protest chant
Skinheads and they were smashing up the windows … They came in the coachloads. ibid. Balraj
Walthamstow: Scientists have now confirmed that petrol was poured through the letterbox and then ignited. ibid. TV news