NSNS Friday, 10 April 2009
HARROGATE, England — Colin Jordan, the elder statesman of
National Socialism in Britain and a powerful voice of postwar
National Socialism around the world, has died. He was 85.
Born in 1923, Jordan was educated at Warwick School and
between 1946 and 1949 at Cambridge University, where he
graduated with honors in history.
At Cambridge Jordan formed the Nationalist Club, from where he
was invited to join the short-lived British Peoples Party, a group
of former British Union of Fascists members led by Lord Tavistock,
heir to the Duke of Bedford.
Jordan soon became associated with the prewar National Socialist
leader Arnold Leese and was left a property in Leese’s will, which
became the base of operations when Jordan launched the White
Defence League in 1956. Jordan later merged this organization with
the National Labor Party to form the British National Party in 1960,
which he left following a dispute over his advocacy of open
National Socialism.
After leaving Cambridge, Jordan taught mathematics at a
secondary school in Coventry, until he was banned because of
his racial-nationalist activities.
As a result he founded the National Socialist Movement [not to
be confused with a group with similar name in the United States]
in 1962, along with John Tyndall. The two were successful in
eluding authorities to bring the banned American National Socialist
George Lincoln Rockwell into the country for a spectacular
appearance in August of that year at an international conference
of National Socialists hosted by Jordan in the Cotswolds. The
gathering resulted in the formation of the World Union of National
Socialists, of which Jordan became its first commander.
Several weeks later, Jordan was arrested and imprisoned for
organizing an elite formation of the Movement, as well as for a
“Hitler Was Right!” speech he gave in London’s Trafalgar Square.
He was again imprisoned in 1967 for publishing and disseminating
literature on the Jewish question and the threat of colored
immigration.
In the 1980s, Jordan revived Gothic Ripples, originally Arnold Leese’s
publication, as his personal newsletter.
Over the years the redoubtable Jordan was subject to numerous
house searches and prosecutions, all stemming from alleged
violations of Britain’s notorious racial speech laws, in the course
of which irreplaceable books and manuscripts were seized. Despite
it all, he remained steadfast and indefatigable in his convictions
and in defense of the National Socialist cause.
Colin Jordan was an honorary member of the NEW ORDER and
recipient of its highest award, the Loyalty Badge. He was a close
friend of the current head of the World Union of National Socialists,
Matt Koehl.
Jordan lived on a small farm estate near Harrogate in the Yorkshire
Dales. He is survived by his wife Julia and a stepdaughter.
NOW, GOOD AND FAITHFUL WARRIOR, ENTER VALHALLA!
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