Keywords

• This article analyzes the «new English fascism»: notably the British National Party and its ideology. It essentially calls for a long term historical analysis. In so doing
• it argues that this party is heir to a specific
• old British (and European) «tradition». While much of the recent academic literature in the social sciences considers this type of movement as a «populist» phenomenon quite different from the «old»
• extreme right
• this essay argues that the party is characterized by (neo)fascist doctrinal influences. In sum
• readers will note how it is the «past» that influences «present times» for English right-wing extremists.
• The article also highlights a partyâ€
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• s political imagination that rejects all egalitarian principles
• and promotes nationalistic myths
• defence of tradition
• and «purity» of race