Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript by John Morgan of a British National Party stump speech, once thought lost, that Jonathan Bowden gave in Liverpool on November 28, 2008. The title is editorial, and versions of the speech online have also been titled “An Anglosphere Call To Arms” and “Jonathan Bowden ‘We’re Not Ashamed’ Commemoration.” The video this transcript is based upon, which can be viewed at The Jonathan Bowden Archive here, is cut in many places. The cuts are indicated by asterisks in the transcript. If you have a complete audio or video recording of this speech that you are willing to contribute, please contact us. Some unintelligible passages are marked with question marks; please post a comment below if you have corrections or can fill in the gaps. (more…)
Tag: Euroskepticism
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June 22, 2023 Jonathan Bowden
British Power & British Glory
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The following is the text of Gregory Hood’s opening statement in the “Ethnonationalism vs. Imperialism” debate with Greg Johnson that was held at the recent Counter-Currents Spring Retreat. Dr. Johnson’s opening statement, which preceded this one, can be read here.
It’s not a question of whether you want to live in an imperium or not. You’re going to live under an imperial rule of some kind. The only question is whose it’s going to be. (more…)
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Teša Tešanović is one of the most famous vloggers in Serbia and the countries of the former Yugoslavia. On the occasion of a trip to Budapest, he gave an interview to the Hungarian Right-wing website Magyar Jelen. The Visegrád Post here offers you the English version of this interview. (more…)
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Janez Janša has been one of the main figures in Central European politics since the fall of Communism in the region. He played an active role in winning Slovenia’s independence from Yugoslavia, and has been Prime Minister on three occasions (2004-2008, 2012-2013, and 2020-2022). (more…)
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Pox Populi and American Krogan (Substack, Telegram) were host Nick Jeelvy‘s guests on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed the Italian election results, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, made international headlines in recent weeks with two speeches, the first in Tusványos, Transylvania and the second at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas. (more…)
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The following is an interview with Rodrigo Ballester, Director of the Centre for European Studies at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Hungary, which is an institution that has established close ties with Viktor Orbán’s government in recent years. Rodrigo Ballester is a former European civil servant from the College of Europe, and was notably a member of the cabinet of the Commissioner for Education and Culture from 2014 to 2019. He has been teaching at the Sciences-Po Paris (Dijon Campus) since 2008. (more…)
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This Sunday, April 3, Hungarian voters will go to the polls to decide whether or not to give Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party a fourth consecutive term in office (which would be Orbán’s fifth term overall counting his first in 1998-2002; his present term has made him the longest-serving Prime Minister in Hungary’s history). (more…)
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Counter-Currents Radio host Greg Johnson welcomed Guillaume Durocher, a writer who is an expert on French politics, to talk about the Zemmour Question, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
Zemmour’s background
Religious beliefs (more…) -
Eric Zemmour. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Eric Zemmour. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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The French conservative journalist, pundit, and writer Éric Zemmour announced his candidacy for the presidency of France against current President Emmanuel Macron and National Rally’s Marine Le Pen in next year’s election, which will be held on April 10, in a video statement he released yesterday on YouTube. The following is a translation of his statement. (more…)
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Interview by Alimuddin Usmani
Tereza Hyťhová has been a member of the Czech Parliament since 2017, first with the SPD (Freedom and Direct Democracy) party, and since July 2020 as a member of Trikolora (Tricolor Citizens’ Movement), the new patriotic and Euroskeptic party of Václav Klaus, Jr., the son of former President Václav Klaus. (more…)
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Written by Olivier Bault
Could Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, until now an unconditional supporter of European Union membership, now be considering exiting the bloc? (more…)
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Every March 15, Hungary celebrates her 1848-49 struggle for freedom, which was a fight against the Habsburg Empire led by – among others – Hungarian republicans who were supported by Poland, most notably General Bem, the last general still standing at the end of the uprising.
On this day, Hungarians wear a cockade with national colors and celebrate the unity of the Nation. On this occasion, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán invited his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, to Budapest in order to celebrate the Poles’ support for this Hungarian struggle with them. (more…)