British League of Rights
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The British League of Rights is a far-right British political group.
It was an offshoot of the Australian League of Rights founded by the Australian Don Martin in 1971. Conservative Monday Club member Lady Jane Birdwood was General Secretary.
It attracted controversy when the league's membership secretary, Mary Downtown, attended the annual international Fascist rally at the Waffen SS graveyard in Diksmuide in Belgium in 1980. Interviewed there by the News of the World, she reportedly said:
- "I want to see a Fourth Reich and we all want the blacks and the Jews out of this country."[1]
By 1974, the British League of Rights became the British chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, replacing Geoffrey Stewart-Smith's Foreign Affairs Circle, which allegedly left due to the Anti-Communist League's growing anti-semitism.
Don Martin's publishing business, Bloomfield Books, is notorious for publishing many anti-semitic works, and it led to Martin's resignation from the chairmanship of the Policy Unit of the Federation of Small Businesses.
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- ^ Toczek, Nick (1991) "Fascism and the Establishment in Britain : For King and Country" Blackened.net (accessed 2007-01-04)
