The Fascist: The Organ of Racial Fascism 1937.

An issue of ' The Fascist: The Organ of Racial Fascism ' from October 1937. Published by the Imperial Fascist League and edited by virulent antisemite Arnold Leese, this newspaper was modelled largely on Julius Streicher's Der Sturmer. The Imperial Fascist League (IFL) was a British fascist political movement founded by Arnold Leese in 1929 after he broke away from the British Fascists. It included a blackshirted paramilitary arm called the Fascists Legion, modelled after the Italian Fascists. The group espoused antisemitism and the dominance of the ' Aryan race ' in a ' Racial Fascist Corporate State '. Indirectly funded by the Nazis the group only amounted to 150 and 500 members at maximum, its public profile was higher than its membership numbers would indicate. After the IFL turned down a merger with the British Union of Fascists in 1932, due to policy differences, the BUF mounted a campaign against the IFL, physically breaking up its meetings. Leese was interned during the war and the IFL was not reformed after the war.
This original copy is in excellent condition with minor foxing and some tears, has been folded.

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