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The European Liberation Front (ELF) was a
neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...
, pan-European nationalist group that split from
Oswald Mosley Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when he, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, turned to fascism. ...
's fascist
Union Movement The Union Movement (UM) was a far-right political party founded in the United Kingdom by Oswald Mosley. Before the Second World War, Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) had wanted to concentrate trade within the British Empire, but the ...
in 1948. Its founder was
Francis Parker Yockey Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 17, 1960) was an American fascist and pan-European nationalist ideologue. A lawyer, he is known for his neo- Spenglerian book '' Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics'', published in ...
, alongside Guy Chesham and John Anthony Gannon. It issued a manifesto called ''The Proclamation of London'', written by Yockey. It lasted until 1954. It would reach a maximum of 150 members Yockey´s domineering behaviour telling Guy Chesham to leave his wife, in Yockey´s words "to leave the bitch", and to follow him into
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cost him Chesham´s support. Peter Huxley-Blythe was the only notable member of the organization, who had to suspend his participation in the organization due to being drafted into the
Korean War The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was s ...
. The organization would publish a pamphlet entitled, ''The Proclamation of London''. Some point afterwards there was briefly a new organisation, which went by the same name that was created in its inspiration by Christian Bouchet.


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