Editing International Third Position

{{short description|British neo-fascist organisation}}
{{Infobox political party
| colorcode        = {{party color|British National Front}}
| name             = International Third Position
| split            = [[British National Front]]
| leader           = [[Roberto Fiore]]
| headquarters     = Third Position, BCM ITP, London WC1N 3XX
| international    = European National Front
| ideology         = [[Third Position]]<br>[[Neo-fascism]]<br>[[Antisemitism]]
| position         = [[Far-right]]
}}
{{Neo-fascism}}
'''International Third Position''' ('''ITP''') was a [[neo-fascist]] organisation formed by the breakaway faction of the [[British National Front]],<ref name="WTO">{{cite book|author1=Patrick F. J. Macrory |author2=Arthur Edmond Appleton |author3=Michael G. Plummer |title=The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis|publisher=Springer|year=2005|pages=467|isbn=0-387-22685-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96x7IwWDJUQC&q=%22International+Third+Position%22+neo-fascist&pg=RA1-PT2944}}</ref> led by [[Roberto Fiore]], an ex-member of the Italian [[Far-right politics|far-right]] movement [[Terza Posizione|Third Position]].<ref name="Ryan"/>

==Development==
Though a key formulator of the Third Positionist platform, [[Nick Griffin]] left in 1990.<ref name="Ryan"/> After about four years he joined the [[British National Party]] (BNP), where he later succeeded the BNP founder [[John Tyndall (politician)|John Tyndall]]. Other leading figures in the group on its foundation were [[Roberto Fiore]] and [[Derek Holland (activist)|Derek Holland]].<ref>{{Cite news |last= O'Donnell |title= Fascist Link of "No to Nice" Chief |newspaper= [[Daily Mirror]]  |access-date=  |date= 29 September 2002 |first= Francis |url= https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-92209439 }}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref> Jason Wilcock would subsequently emerge as the group's leader, although in 2001 he was reported in the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' as having played a leading role in instigating the [[2001 Oldham riots|riots in Oldham]].<ref>{{Cite news |last= Johnson |title= Fascist Thug Sparks Race Riots |newspaper= [[Daily Mirror]]  |access-date=  |date= 3 June 2001 |first= Graham |url= https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-75232418 }}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref>

[[Troy Southgate]], as well as the majority of ITP supporters, split from the organisation in September 1992 after accusing Fiore and Holland of ideological hypocrisy and swindling members out of their life savings to prop up the group's failed rural experiment in northern France. This included the departure of several local ITP publications, including ''The Kent Crusader'',{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} ''Surrey Action'', and ''Eastern Legion''. Southgate then founded the English Nationalist Movement (ENM) and during this time edited magazines like ''The Crusader'' and ''The English Alternative''. The ENM had strong units in the Burnley, Bradford and south-east Kent areas{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}.

The ITP changed its name to England First in 2001 and has since become a part of the [[European National Front]] with the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[FET y de las JONS|Falange]], Italian [[Forza Nuova]], [[Romania]]n [[Noua Dreaptă]], [[Poland|Polish]] [[National Revival of Poland]] and others.

An ITP/ENF gathering in central [[London]] in April 2005 drew 150 supporters. Overall membership is estimated by ''[[Searchlight (magazine)|Searchlight]]'' magazine to be somewhat lower than this, although the ITP maintains a relatively strong publishing presence as well as its network of international contacts. The modern party is much less critical of [[Islam]] than the rest of the British far-right, and claims that the campaign against Islam is mostly driven by Jewish interests. The party remains strongly anti-Semitic.<ref name="Ryan">{{cite book|last= Ryan|first=Nick|title=Into a World of Hate: A Journey Among the Extreme Right|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|pages=62|isbn=0-415-94922-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wOq79eHTJu4C&q=%22International+Third+Position%22+neo-fascist&pg=PA62}}</ref>

==Ideology==
ITP ideology is a mix of leftist and rightist ideas—''e.g.'', environmentalism, wealth redistribution—with a racialist slant.<ref name="WTO"/> Initially the ITP distanced itself from traditional [[Fascism]] and [[Nazism]], promoting '[[Racial segregation|racial separatism]]' rather than crude [[racism]]. The International Third Position operated more as an elite [[Professional revolutionaries|cadre]] than a mass movement. Promoting a "back to the land" ideal of rural traditionalism, the group even purchased Los Pedriches, a remote [[Spain|Spanish]] village in 1997. This initiative was funded through a charity called Saint Michael the Archangel. Purporting to be an apolitical [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] charity, the group, which had several charity shops in the UK, was exposed as an ITP front in the press in 1999.<ref>{{Cite news |last= Tremlett |title= British white supremacists buy village in Spain as base |newspaper= [[The Scotsman]] |access-date= 23 May 2014 |date= 15 November 1999 |first= Giles |url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18715980.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140629101620/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18715980.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 29 June 2014 }}</ref>

Publications supporting the ITP in the UK are ''Final Conflict'' ({{ISSN|1463-614X}}), ''The Voice of St George'', ''Heritage and Destiny'' and ''[[Candour (magazine)|Candour]]''.

==See also==
* [[Third Position]]
* [[Third Way (UK organisation)|Third Way]]
* [[Political Soldier]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.nop.org.pl/2011/01/01/third-position-10-point-declaration/ Declaration ITP]
* [http://finalconflictblog.blogspot.com/ Final Conflict]

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