Editing Strasserism (section)

=== In the United Kingdom ===
Strasserism emerged in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and centred on the [[National Front (UK)|National Front]] (NF) publication ''Britain First'', the main writers of which were [[David McCalden]], [[Richard Lawson (UK politician)|Richard Lawson]] and [[Denis Pirie]]. Opposing the leadership of [[John Tyndall (politician)|John Tyndall]], they formed an alliance with [[John Kingsley Read]] and ultimately followed him into the [[National Party (UK, 1976)|National Party]] (NP).<ref>N. Copsey, ''Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy'', 2004, pp. 17–18.</ref> The NP called for British workers to seize the right to work and offered a fairly Strasserite economic policy.<ref>M. Walker, ''The National Front'', 1977, p. 194.</ref> Nonetheless, the NP was short-lived. Due in part to Read's lack of enthusiasm for Strasserism, the main exponents of the idea drifted away.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

The idea was reintroduced to the NF by [[Andrew Brons]] in the early 1980s when he decided to make the party's ideology clearer.<ref>N. Copsey, ''Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy'', 2004, pp. 33–34.</ref> However, Strasserism was soon to become the province of the radicals in the [[Official National Front]], with Richard Lawson brought in a behind-the-scenes role to help direct policy.<ref>[[Gerry Gable|G. Gable]], 'The Far Right in Contemporary Britain' in L. Cheles, R. Ferguson & M. Vaughan, ''Neo-Fascism in Europe'', 1992, p. 97.</ref> This [[Political Soldier]] wing ultimately opted for the indigenous alternative of [[distributism]], but their strong anti-capitalist rhetoric as well as that of their [[International Third Position]] successor demonstrated influences from Strasserism. From this background emerged [[Troy Southgate]], whose own ideology and those of related groups such as the English Nationalist Movement and [[National Revolutionary Faction]] were influenced by Strasserism.