Troy Southgate
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Troy Southgate is a leading National-Anarchist activist based in the United Kingdom - indeed the concept of 'National-Anarchism' seems to be largely his invention[citation needed].
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[edit] Politics
Originally from Crystal Palace, in South London, although he moved to Crowborough, East Sussex in his teenage years, Southgate became an activist in the British National Front (NF) in 1984, and in 1989 with the International Third Position (ITP). He became Editor of several local ITP publications, including The Kent Crusader, Surrey Action and Eastern Legion.
He then split from the ITP in September 1992 and founded the English Nationalist Movement (ENM). During this time he edited the magazines The Crusader and The English Alternative.
In 1998 he and other ENM members founded the National Revolutionary Faction, which he describes as "a hardline revolutionary organisation based on an underground cell-structure similar to that used by both the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the IRA", operating on the principle of leaderless resistance [1].
It is unclear when or whether the NRF was disbanded. Southgate and other NRF associates have since been involved in the Cercle de la rose noire and its website, 'Synthesis', and were on the editorial board of the Green Anarchist journal Alternative Green for three issues.
On January 16, 2005, Southgate and other associates launched a new vehicle, New Right, with a meeting in central London [2]. This followed an initial meeting the previous month [3]. New Right describes itself as a "dynamic and strictly metapolitical group [that] seeks to unite the disparate strands of the British Right and get everybody pulling in the same direction" [4]. It publishes a journal, New Imperium,[5] and has held meetings as recently as January 13, 2007, being the ninth gathering of its kind [6]
Southgate has also written for website of the Russian newspaper, Pravda, on the metaphysical radical work of Julius Evola [7]. Traditionalist political philosophy of the sort developed by Evola and supported by Southgate has been gaining currency amongst conservative Russian parties.
On December 5, 1988, Southgate was convicted of actual bodily harm and affray at Lewes Crown Court for an assault on a male lab technician active with the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). This happened during a clash on Brighton seafront in May 1987, nineteen months earlier. He was sentenced to eighteen months and incarcerated in Lewes and Northeye prisons, both in East Sussex, but still claims that he was defending himself from attack and was set up as a result of becoming a successful organiser for Crowborough and North Weald NF [8].
[edit] Music
Troy Southgate is a vocalist, guitarist and percussionist with the mainly-Dutch quintet, H.E.R.R., who play Neoclassical music and have released several albums including 'The Winter of Constantinople' and 'Vondel's Lucifer: First Movement'. Southgate's vocals have also featured for H.E.R.R. on the following compilation albums: 'Hopes Die In Winter' ('Hopes Die in Winter' and 'Fifteen Tokens'), 'Instruo Vestri Pro Pugna!' ('The Baron of Urga'), 'Neo-Form I' ('For a Christ-Thorn'), and 'Swarm' ('Stalingrad').
He has also worked with Sweden's Survival Unit ('Awakening & Bravery'), Holland's Erich Zahn ('Acid Rain') and Poland's Horologium ('Faustus' and 'Thus I Spake'). He is now working on vocals for the Canadian project, Sistrenatus, and on forthcoming projects by German bands Sagittarius and Kammer Sieben.
[edit] Paganism
Southgate is also a practitioner of rune magic and a member of the English-based Ásatrú group 'Woden's Folk', for whom he is currently engaged in researching and writing a series of esoteric pamphlets. These include A Sussex Swan: The Wodenic Mysteries of a Small English Town, The Centre: Its Symbolic and Practical Significance, Beachy Head: The Negation of the Solar and Runic Sex Postures of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. A 200-page collection of Southgate's work will be published in the next few months.
[edit] References
- ^ "Transcending the Beyond: from Third Position to National-Anarchism" by Troy Southgate, Pravda.ru, 17 January 2002
- ^ Interview with Wayne John Sturgeon on the NRF website, undated (website now defunct; interview available on archive.org mirror)
- ^ Interview with Miron Fyodorov for Kinovar magazine, undated, available on Synthesis
- ^ Interview with Dan Ghetu, undated, on Synthesis
- ^ "National-Anarchism", the main principles in question and answer format on the Folk and Faith website
- ^ Troy Southgate's personal MySpace page
- ^ H.E.R.R. interview with Heathen Harvest
- ^ H.E.R.R. interview with Neo-folk.it
