This theory, set out by the British engineer C. H. Douglas, was highly critical of bankers and financiers, believing that debt was being used to undermine people's rights.
Douglas toured New Zealand in 1934 and expounded his view that Jews were involved in a global conspiracy to control finance.
[3] In the late 1970s the party became concerned about infiltration by the anti-semitic League of Rights and ejected members with racist views.
[4][5] Many anti-Semites later supported the League of Rights, an organisation originating in Australia which also had links to the social credit movement.
[3] In the 1970's the League organised speaking tours in support of apartheid regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia, and advocated a tax revolt to break a "Zionist plot".
[7] There were no real equivalents to the British Union of Fascists or the Silver Legion of America, although certain individuals, notably Lionel Terry and Arthur Nelson Field,[8] promoted white supremacist ideals.
Later, in March 1997, King-Ansell founded the New Zealand Fascist Union,[20] which described itself as being more closely modelled on Mussolini's Italy and Perón's Argentina than on Nazi Germany.
[citation needed] In October 2004, the National Front held a small protest in Wellington to support retaining the current New Zealand flag.
[30] According to a Stuff report, an alleged co-founder of the Dominion Movement was a New Zealand Defence Force soldier named Johann Wolfe, who is facing court martial for sharing information with an undisclosed group.
[32][33] According to Newsroom journalist Marc Daalder, Action Zealandia was linked to at least three potential crimes in March 2020 including a member named Sam Brittenden making an online threat against the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, posting a leaked New Zealand Police Financial Intelligence unit document, and alleged plans to start a terror cell and purchase weapons from like-minded groups such as the Atomwaffen Division.
[32] In August 2021 journalist and politician Elliot Weir of student newspaper Critic Te Ārohi reported an under-cover investigation of Action Zealandia, including their plans to infiltrate the New Zealand National and New Zealand Social Credit parties and plans to appeal to a broader group of people.