Union Movement
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"The end of World War II had seen a marked increase in African-Caribbean migrants to Britain. By the 1950s, white working-class "Teddy Boys" were beginning to display hostility towards black families in the area, a situation exploited and inflamed by groups such as Oswald Mosley's Union Movement and other far-right groups such as the White Defence League, who urged disaffected white residents to "Keep Britain White"." |
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The Union Movement was a far-right political party founded in Britain by Oswald Mosley. Where Mosley had been associated with a peculiarly British form of fascism, the Union Movement attempted to redefine the concept by stressing the importance of developing a European nationalism rather than narrower country-based nationalisms. The UM has therefore been characterized as an attempt by Mosley to start again in his political life by embracing more democratic and international policies, than those with which he had been associated.
See also
Well-known members
- John Bean
- Neil Francis Hawkins
- Jeffrey Hamm
- Diana Mitford
- Oswald Mosley
- Max Mosley
- Tommy Moran
- Robert Row
- Keith Thompson
- Alexander Raven Thomson
- John G. Wood
Related groups and concepts
- British Union of Fascists
- Europe a Nation
- League of Saint George
- History of British fascism since 1945
