In Memoriam, Colin Jordan, B.A. (Hist. Hons.), M.A. (Hist.)
John Colin Campbell Jordan, more commonly known as Colin Jordan was born on June 19, 1923 and died on April 9, 2009, aged 85. His funeral was held on April 20, 2009.
Son of a lecturer (Percy Jordan, father) and teacher (Bertha Jordan, mother), Jordan was a Cambridge graduate and former teacher of mathematics. He received a B.A. in history (Hons) and an M.A. in history. Later he became famously known worldwide as the leading British figure of post-war National Socialism (sometimes referred to as the British Commander George Lincoln Rockwell). He was also the author of the Gothic Ripples newsletter, Fraudulent Conversion: The Myth of Moscow's Change of Heart (1955), The Coloured Invasion (1967), A Great Idea: National Socialism Then and Now, For Race and Nation - A Philosophical Appraisal (1968, 1976), Merrie England - 2,000 (1993), National Socialism: Vanguard of the Future, Selected Writings of Colin Jordan (1993), The Uprising (2004) and The Way Ahead.
Martin Kerr states,
“WITHOUT A DOUBT, Colin Jordan... was one of the foremost White racial dissidents in the United Kingdom during the second half of the 20th century. Beyond that, he was an eloquent and forthright spokesman for National-Socialism, which is certainly the most-hated and misrepresented creed of our times. Although his reputation as a fighter for his folk is well established in Great Britain, he is almost unknown elsewhere. I have frequently described him to my fellow Americans as “the British George Lincoln Rockwell.” He was that, in a sense, but he was also much more: whereas Rockwell’s public political career lasted a scant eight years, Jordan’s spanned some five decades, from the 1950s through to the first decade of the new millenium.” [1]
Martin Kerr states,
“WITHOUT A DOUBT, Colin Jordan... was one of the foremost White racial dissidents in the United Kingdom during the second half of the 20th century. Beyond that, he was an eloquent and forthright spokesman for National-Socialism, which is certainly the most-hated and misrepresented creed of our times. Although his reputation as a fighter for his folk is well established in Great Britain, he is almost unknown elsewhere. I have frequently described him to my fellow Americans as “the British George Lincoln Rockwell.” He was that, in a sense, but he was also much more: whereas Rockwell’s public political career lasted a scant eight years, Jordan’s spanned some five decades, from the 1950s through to the first decade of the new millenium.” [1]
COLIN JORDAN REMEMBERED
Although I corresponded with him for decades, I only had the opportunity to meet Colin Jordan in person on a single occasion. In April and May of 2003, I was visiting the UK as the guest of H&D editor Mark Cotterill, who was then living in Blackburn. Mark and Peter Rushton were assisting the National Front in the council elections, and I was helping them distribute flyers door-to-door. One day I took a break from the campaign, and rode the train from Blackburn to the medieval town of Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, where I spent a long afternoon with CJ and his wife Julia.
At age 80, time had taken its toll on the old warrior's body, but his mind was still sharp as ever and his memory was excellent. There was a keen intelligence in his bright blue eyes, and he had a playful sense of humor that belied his age. We discussed every topic under the sun, and he recalled episode after episode from his long and eventful life.
Jordan told me of the summer he spent in Hitler's Germany in the 1930s as a lad. He reminisced about his association with Arnold Leese. He relayed how he and John Tyndall had smuggled George Lincoln Rockwell into England from the Irish Republic for the famous camp in the Cotswolds, at which the World Union of National Socialists was founded. He described the NSM rally in Trafalgar Square, which ended in a riot (and his arrest), and told how Martin Webster's cowardice on that day almost cost him his life. Jordan said that he was wrapping up the publication of his newsletter Gothic Ripples, in order to devote himself to writing his autobiography, in which all of these tales and many more would be set down in detail.
At the end of the day he drove me to the station for my trip back to Lancashire. "Come back again when you get the chance," he said as I boarded the train. "We have much more to talk about. But make it soon, before the Grim Reaper finally comes for me." I told him that I would -- but that was not to be. On April 9 of this year, at age 85, Colin Jordan passed into history, following a massive heart attack.
John Colin Campbell Jordan was born on June 19, 1923. He was educated at Warwick School, and between 1946 and 1949 he attended Cambridge University, from which he graduated with an honours degree in history. He began his political career while at Cambridge, and soon became a protegé of Arnold Leese, the famous pre-War British National-Socialist. Upon Leese's death, he inherited his house on Princedale Road in London, which in 1956 became the headquarters for the White Defence League. In 1960, the WDL merged with John Bean's National Labour Party and other racial nationalist formations to become the first incarnation of the British National Party. The BNP thus contained both hard-core and soft-core elements, which did not always work well together. The uneasy relationship finally came to an end in 1962, when Jordan led those elements of the BNP who favored a hardline advocacy of National-Socialism out of the party to form the National Socialist Movement.
As is fitting for a National-Socialist organization, the NSM was born in struggle. It was officially founded on April 20, 1962. On July 2 of that year, it held the above-mentioned mass rally in Trafalgar Square, beneath a 40-foot banner reading "Free Britain from Jewish Control!" Some 5,000 people attended the open-air gathering -- including a large contingent of angry Jews, who had come to stop Jordan. As Jordan spoke, the anti-Na-tional-Socialists worked themselves into an hysterical frenzy, and a riot ensued. Significantly it was Jordan, and not his attackers, who was arrested. In August of that year the Cotswold gathering was held, and Jordan was elected by the assembled delegates as the first Commander of the World Union. Later that same month Jordan, along with his chief lieutenant, John Tyndall, was again arrested, this time for forming Spearhead, described by the police as a paramilitary formation.
And so it went for the next six years: Jordan leading a small but defiant band of British National-Socialists in uninterrupted political guerrilla warfare against the Establishment. In 1965, at an election rally in Leyton Baths for Labour candidate Patrick Gordon-Walker, CJ was set upon by a squad of thugs from the Jewish "62 Group," who attacked Jordan yelling "Kill him! Kill him!" Although badly beaten and hospitalized, Jordan survived, and continued his struggle. In 1967 he was again arrested, this time for publishing and distributing a leaflet entitled The Coloured Invasion. which warned Britons of the dangers posed by massive non-White immigration.
But there were lighter moments as well. In October, 1963. Jordan married his first wife, the French National-Socialist Franqoise Dior, former wife of a French nobleman and niece of fashion designer Christian Dior. Jordan also found time to edit the NSM's newsspaper, The National Socialist, and to write the NSM programme, Britain Reborn.
In 1968, following an internal split, Jordan reorganized the NSM as the British Movement. In 1975 he resigned from the BM, citing declining health and personal circumstances. Yet his dedication to Britain and the Cause of National-Socialism were undiminished. In 1980 he began issuing Gothic Ripples, a personal National-Socialist newsletter which took its name from an earlier publication of Arnold Leese. CJ also continued to write articles and booklets. In 1993, a collection of his writings was released by a Danish National-Socialist publisher, entitled National Socialism: Vanguard of the Future. He also wrote two short works of political satire and revolutionary theory, Merrie England 2000 (1993) and The Uprising (2004).
The Crown authorities were unhappy with his activities, and his home was raided and his possessions seized numerous times. Following his arrest in 1991 on an invalid warrant he won a judgment against the police for harassment and was awarded £12,000 in damages. On into the new millennium, he continued to serve as an adviser and spiritual leader to upcoming generations of British nationalists and National-Socialists.
While those of us who considered him a comrade and a mentor cannot help but mourn his passing, I know that he would not want us to spend time in idle grief, but rather he would urge us to honour him by intensifying our activities and dedication to the Cause to which he had devoted his life: that of a White future for British children and a worldwide National-Socialist New Order. [2]
At age 80, time had taken its toll on the old warrior's body, but his mind was still sharp as ever and his memory was excellent. There was a keen intelligence in his bright blue eyes, and he had a playful sense of humor that belied his age. We discussed every topic under the sun, and he recalled episode after episode from his long and eventful life.
Jordan told me of the summer he spent in Hitler's Germany in the 1930s as a lad. He reminisced about his association with Arnold Leese. He relayed how he and John Tyndall had smuggled George Lincoln Rockwell into England from the Irish Republic for the famous camp in the Cotswolds, at which the World Union of National Socialists was founded. He described the NSM rally in Trafalgar Square, which ended in a riot (and his arrest), and told how Martin Webster's cowardice on that day almost cost him his life. Jordan said that he was wrapping up the publication of his newsletter Gothic Ripples, in order to devote himself to writing his autobiography, in which all of these tales and many more would be set down in detail.
At the end of the day he drove me to the station for my trip back to Lancashire. "Come back again when you get the chance," he said as I boarded the train. "We have much more to talk about. But make it soon, before the Grim Reaper finally comes for me." I told him that I would -- but that was not to be. On April 9 of this year, at age 85, Colin Jordan passed into history, following a massive heart attack.
John Colin Campbell Jordan was born on June 19, 1923. He was educated at Warwick School, and between 1946 and 1949 he attended Cambridge University, from which he graduated with an honours degree in history. He began his political career while at Cambridge, and soon became a protegé of Arnold Leese, the famous pre-War British National-Socialist. Upon Leese's death, he inherited his house on Princedale Road in London, which in 1956 became the headquarters for the White Defence League. In 1960, the WDL merged with John Bean's National Labour Party and other racial nationalist formations to become the first incarnation of the British National Party. The BNP thus contained both hard-core and soft-core elements, which did not always work well together. The uneasy relationship finally came to an end in 1962, when Jordan led those elements of the BNP who favored a hardline advocacy of National-Socialism out of the party to form the National Socialist Movement.
As is fitting for a National-Socialist organization, the NSM was born in struggle. It was officially founded on April 20, 1962. On July 2 of that year, it held the above-mentioned mass rally in Trafalgar Square, beneath a 40-foot banner reading "Free Britain from Jewish Control!" Some 5,000 people attended the open-air gathering -- including a large contingent of angry Jews, who had come to stop Jordan. As Jordan spoke, the anti-Na-tional-Socialists worked themselves into an hysterical frenzy, and a riot ensued. Significantly it was Jordan, and not his attackers, who was arrested. In August of that year the Cotswold gathering was held, and Jordan was elected by the assembled delegates as the first Commander of the World Union. Later that same month Jordan, along with his chief lieutenant, John Tyndall, was again arrested, this time for forming Spearhead, described by the police as a paramilitary formation.
And so it went for the next six years: Jordan leading a small but defiant band of British National-Socialists in uninterrupted political guerrilla warfare against the Establishment. In 1965, at an election rally in Leyton Baths for Labour candidate Patrick Gordon-Walker, CJ was set upon by a squad of thugs from the Jewish "62 Group," who attacked Jordan yelling "Kill him! Kill him!" Although badly beaten and hospitalized, Jordan survived, and continued his struggle. In 1967 he was again arrested, this time for publishing and distributing a leaflet entitled The Coloured Invasion. which warned Britons of the dangers posed by massive non-White immigration.
But there were lighter moments as well. In October, 1963. Jordan married his first wife, the French National-Socialist Franqoise Dior, former wife of a French nobleman and niece of fashion designer Christian Dior. Jordan also found time to edit the NSM's newsspaper, The National Socialist, and to write the NSM programme, Britain Reborn.
In 1968, following an internal split, Jordan reorganized the NSM as the British Movement. In 1975 he resigned from the BM, citing declining health and personal circumstances. Yet his dedication to Britain and the Cause of National-Socialism were undiminished. In 1980 he began issuing Gothic Ripples, a personal National-Socialist newsletter which took its name from an earlier publication of Arnold Leese. CJ also continued to write articles and booklets. In 1993, a collection of his writings was released by a Danish National-Socialist publisher, entitled National Socialism: Vanguard of the Future. He also wrote two short works of political satire and revolutionary theory, Merrie England 2000 (1993) and The Uprising (2004).
The Crown authorities were unhappy with his activities, and his home was raided and his possessions seized numerous times. Following his arrest in 1991 on an invalid warrant he won a judgment against the police for harassment and was awarded £12,000 in damages. On into the new millennium, he continued to serve as an adviser and spiritual leader to upcoming generations of British nationalists and National-Socialists.
While those of us who considered him a comrade and a mentor cannot help but mourn his passing, I know that he would not want us to spend time in idle grief, but rather he would urge us to honour him by intensifying our activities and dedication to the Cause to which he had devoted his life: that of a White future for British children and a worldwide National-Socialist New Order. [2]
“More and more people every day are opening their eyes and coming to see that Hitler was right. They are coming to see that our real enemies, the people we should have fought, were not Hitler and National Socialists of Germany but world Jewry and its associates in this country.” - - Colin Jordan, NSM Rally, Trafalgar Square, July 1st 1962.
NOTES
1] - Kerr, Martin; Book Review: 'Twaz A Good Fight, Heritage and Destiny magazine, Issue 66, May-June, 2015.2] - Kerr, Martin; Colin Jordan Remembered, Heritage and Destiny magazine, Issue 37, July-Sept 2009.
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