FORMER members of both the British National Party and the National Front have started a new far-Right umbrella group inside the Conservative Party.
The Campaign for Conservative Victory held its first meeting at an undisclosed central London venue on September 4, according to a report in the first issue of Right Now, a quarterly review.
Among the organisations present were the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus, the Conservative Patriotic Forums, the Anti-Federal Europe Movement, conservatives Against a Federal Europe and representatives from the constituency parties and the Young Conservatives.
In the chair was Sam Swerling, a London Guildhall University law lecturer and former member of the Monday Club executive, who fought both 1974 Under fascist pressure: Major elections as a Conservative. Mr Swerling has openly praised Jean-Marie LePen, leader of the French National Front, in an interview in the Guardian.
Ulster
Among the subjects under discussion were Maastricht, 'the multicultural collapse of our inner cities', Ulster, the disintegration of public services and 'the shameful abandonment of true Conservative principles by the lishment.
Right Now quotes CCV's newsletter, Victory, as stating: 'The CCV gives all radical Right Conservatives the opportunity to co-ordinate their activities within a single organisation.
This structure will provide a forum and a platform for opponents of the present Conservative Party regime as we work to replace Major and Co with a patriotic, loyalist and forwardthinking political elite that will put British and Western interests first.' The box number address quoted is shared with the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus, a group formed about 18 months ago after the demise of the Western Goals group.
RCC boasts of being '100 per cent against Major and the present leadership', advocating policies including restoration of the death penalty, a complete ban on immigration, recriminalisation of male homosexuality and restrictions on abortion. The of those Conservative MPs who are seen as pro-Maastricht or soft on race.
It claims around 200 members, almost certainly an exaggeration. It includes Stuart Millson, a one-time Conservative student activist who defected to the BNP, now back within the Tory fold.
Glyn Ford, Labour MEP for Greater Manchester has condemned reports that RCC members distributed literature at the recent 'Bleu, Blanc, Rouge' LePen rally in France and is demanding that those responsible be expelled form the Conservative Party.
Ex-NF members
Another of the groups mentioned, Conservative Patriotic Forums, is largely made up of former members of the NF working inside the Tory party.
Right Nowwas openly sold by Nick Eriksen, a Southwark Tory councillor, at fringe meetings at last week's Conservative conference. Elected to the council in 1990, Mr Eriksen has called for the abolition of the Race Relations Act in letters to the local newspaper.
The publication, which lists its address as a box number in London E1, reprints the text of a recent controversial speech on race by the Conservative MP for Daveyhulme, Winston Churchill describing it as 'very sensible and modest' It also analyses the concentration of immigrants by local government area.
Riaht Now describes John Major's government as possessing 'social policies and attitudes (that) would in 1953 have found echo only among the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League and the odd anarchist and beatnik'.
A Conservative Central Office spokeswoman confirmed that there were absolutely no restrictions on forming pressure groups inside the party. Because membership is by local association, CCO has no powers of expulsion, even when members back rebel candidates.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 51, October 30 1993, Page 8