Organisation and structure of the National Front (UK)
[14] NF branch meetings were much like those of other British political parties, preoccupied largely with practical issues like raising finances.
[3] Supporter organisations were established among white communities of British descent elsewhere in the world; in New Zealand in 1977 and in Australia, Canada, and South Africa in 1978.
[23] This was linked to the idea—promoted through a book by Holland—that each NF member should be a "political soldier", a "New Type of Man" who rejected the "materialist nightmare" of contemporary capitalist society and underwent a personal "Spiritual Revolution" through which they dedicated themselves fully to the nation.
[24] The Front was preoccupied with security,[25] refusing to reveal information about its leader's standard working hours or the number of staff at its headquarters.
[30] These tactics have continued into more recent times; in August 2017, around thirty NF supporters marched in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where they clashed with members of the Midland Anti-Fascist Network.
[37][38] In April 1979, an anti-NF demonstration in Southall clashed with police seeking to keep the NF and anti-fascists apart; the violence resulted in the death of Blair Peach.
[40] In November 1975, NF activists attacked a National Council of Civil Liberties meeting at the University of Manchester, with eight people requiring hospitalisation.
[41] In another instance, 80 NF activists stormed a meeting held by the Liberal Party to discuss the Rhodesian Bush War and the transition to black-majority rule in Rhodesia.
[42] Another event disrupted by the NF was a town hall meeting in Newham, where members pelted the Home Secretary Roy Jenkins with flour bombs and manure.
[44] For instance, in February 1974, several men put up NF posters in Brighton, assaulted passers by whom they accused of being Jewish, and attacked staff at the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) bookshop.
[51] In 1978, the party's directorate established a legal department to deal with the growing number of members being charged with inciting racial hatred under the 1976 Race Relations Act.
[55] In 1978 it launched the Young National Front (YNF),[56] membership was restricted to 14 to 25 years olds; it was through this group that Griffin and Pearce, later influential party figures, joined.
[62] The first RAC event was held in Conway Hall in August 1979, and featured performances by The Dentists, Homicide, and White Boss.
[64] After Tyndall left the party, in 1982 RAC was revived with Skrewdriver as its flagship band; they had been having difficulty finding venues willing to host them due to the violence that often accompanied its performances.
[68] Later in the 1980s, Skrewdriver broke from the NF and the White Noise Club to establish its own far-right music promotion network, Blood & Honour.
