Tag Archives: Francisco Franco

Merwin K. Hart

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I’d like to introduce the reader to an important Rightist of the past — Merwin K. Hart (1881-1962). Hart was a critic of Roosevelt and the New Deal throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He created a metapolitical society that eventually came to be called the National Economic Council, Inc. The National Economic Council aimed to fight the New Deal reforms of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration and turn back Communism more generally. Read more …

Published: January 5, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America first, America in the 1930s, anti-Communism, articles, economics, fascism, Merwin K. Hart, Morris V. de Camp, National Economic Council, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, the Great Depression, WASPs, Yankees | 11 Responses

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What Else Would We Have?

Pedro de Alvarado

Charles Henry Niehaus’ Nathan Bedford Forrest, when it was still in Health Sciences Park.

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Here we go again.

Renowned Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife’s remains are in the process of being removed from the Health Sciences Park in Memphis.

We can thank the activist Left for going the extra mile to defend us from such dangerous artifacts of American history. Nothing screams “the civil rights battle of our time” like knocking down monuments and exhuming corpses of evil, racist white men. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Confederate Monuments, culture wars, history, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, the South | 8 Responses

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The Fascism We Lived With

Morris V. de Camp

Francisco Franco

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The most clear-cut war between the political Right and the political Left took place in Spain in a horrible spasm of violence which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939.

The Spanish Civil War was a testing ground for new military equipment and tactics which still have a modern ring. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Falangism, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Spain, Spanish Civil War | 14 Responses

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Robert Brasillach & Notre avant-guerre:
Remembering Robert Brasillach, March 31, 1909–February 6, 1945

Margot Metroland

Robert Brasillach at his trial in 1945.

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Today is the birthday of Robert Brasillach, French journalist, novelist, and film historian (The History of Motion Pictures, co-written with Maurice Bardéche).

It is Brasillach’s fate mainly to be remembered for being the only collaborateur sentenced to death (by firing squad) for “intellectual crimes.” Read more …

Published: March 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert Camus, Alcazar Palace, Belgium, Ce Soir, Charles Maurras, Colette, commemorations, France, Georges Bernanos, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Henri Massis, Jacques Maritain, Je Suis Partout, Jean Cocteau, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, La Cabeza, Léon Degrelle, M. de Lequerica, Margot Metroland, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, Paul Claudel, Pierre Cousteau, Pierre Daye, Pierre Gaxotte, Popular Front, reprints, Rexist Party, Robert Brasillach, Spain, Vendredi | Leave a comment

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Salvador Dalí:
Monarchist, Maniac, & Mage, Part II

Fenek Solère

Salvador Dalí meeting with Francisco Franco in 1972.

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Part I here, Part III here

Chimeras

I believe, above all, in the real and unfathomable force of the philosophic Catholicism of France and in the militant Catholicism of Spain.
–Salvador Dalí

The “New State” in Portugal, Spain, & Greece:
Fascist in Style, but Not in Reality

Dimitris Michalopoulos

Antonio De Oliveira Salazar of Portugal (left) and Francisco Franco of Spain (right).

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Dimitris Michalopoulos is a Greek historian. The present paper observes the rules of the US Library of Congress for the transliteration of Greek names.

The case of Stefan Zweig is a well-known one. He was born in Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg Empire, in 1881. Being of Jewish stock, and thanks to his talent as well as the patronage of Theodor Herzl,[1] he succeeded during the 1920s and ‘30s in becoming one of the most renowned authors throughout the world. Read more …

Published: September 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dimitris Michalopoulos, fascism, Great Britain, Greece, North American New Right, originals, Portugal, Spain | 4 Responses

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Remembering José Antonio Primo de Rivera:
April 24, 1903–November 20, 1936

John Morgan

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José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, the First Duke of Primo de Rivera, the Third Marquis of Estella, GdE was born on this day in 1903. His father was the dictator of Spain, appointed by King Alfonso XIII, from 1923 until 1930. Primo de Rivera was originally a lawyer, but in October 1933 he founded the fascist Spanish Falange movement. The Falange was monarchist, Catholic, anti-democratic, anti-capitalist, anti-Communist, and national syndicalist in orientation Read more …

Published: April 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, John Morgan, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, North American New Right, Spain, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Falange | Leave a comment

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Robert Brasillach & Notre avant-guerre:
Remembering Robert Brasillach, March 31, 1909–February 6, 1945

Margot Metroland

Robert Brasillach at his trial in 1945.

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Today is the birthday of Robert Brasillach, French journalist, novelist, and film historian (The History of Motion Pictures, co-written with Maurice Bardéche).

It is Brasillach’s fate mainly to be remembered for being the only collaborateur sentenced to death (by firing squad) for “intellectual crimes.” Read more …

Published: March 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert Camus, Alcazar Palace, Belgium, Ce Soir, Charles Maurras, Colette, commemorations, France, Georges Bernanos, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Henri Massis, Jacques Maritain, Je Suis Partout, Jean Cocteau, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, La Cabeza, Léon Degrelle, M. de Lequerica, Margot Metroland, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, Paul Claudel, Pierre Cousteau, Pierre Daye, Pierre Gaxotte, Popular Front, reprints, Rexist Party, Robert Brasillach, Spain, Vendredi | 1 Response

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Remembering José Antonio Primo de Rivera:
April 24, 1903–November 20, 1936

John Morgan

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Published: April 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, John Morgan, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, North American New Right, originals, Spain, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Falange | 6 Responses

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Robert Brasillach & Notre avant-guerre:
Remembering Robert Brasillach, March 31, 1909-February 6, 1945

Margot Metroland

Robert Brasillach at his trial in 1945.

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Today is the birthday of Robert Brasillach, French journalist, novelist, and film historian (The History of Motion Pictures, co-written with Maurice Bardéche).

It is Brasillach’s fate mainly to be remembered for being the only collaborateur sentenced to death (by firing squad) for “intellectual crimes.” Read more …

Published: March 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert Camus, Alcazar Palace, Belgium, Ce Soir, Charles Maurras, Colette, commemorations, France, Georges Bernanos, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Henri Massis, Jacques Maritain, Je Suis Partout, Jean Cocteau, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, La Cabeza, Léon Degrelle, M. de Lequerica, Margot Metroland, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, originals, Paul Claudel, Pierre Cousteau, Pierre Daye, Pierre Gaxotte, Popular Front, Rexist Party, Robert Brasillach, Spain, Vendredi | 6 Responses

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José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Part 2

Kerry Bolton

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Part 2 of 2

The Spanish Civil War was a total war, a literal battle of good against evil, as the Republican forces, Social Democrats, Communists, and anarchists, burnt churches and killed priests and nuns[1] in a blood frenzy that brought hell to Spain. They were opposed by the core of the old military led by General Francisco Franco, joined by the militias of the monarchist Carlist movement and the Falangists. Read more …

Published: February 16, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Falangism, fascism, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, Spain, Spanish Civil War, syndicalism | 2 Responses

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José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Part 1

Kerry Bolton

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Part 1 of 2

For one (whose Absence fills the land entire
With one mad love to emulate his fire)
At the same moment, to the firing squad
Spurning his body, launched his soul to God
Whose epic line (no flourish of the pen)
Was life and rapture, and whose words were men Read more …

Published: February 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Falangism, fascism, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, Spain, Spanish Civil War, syndicalism | 6 Responses

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Franco’s Failure

Dominique Venner

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Arturo Reque Meruvia “Kemer”: Alegoría de Franco y la Cruzada (1948-1949)

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

This article is drawn from Dominique Venner’s history of the twentieth century, Le Siècle de 1914 (Paris: Pygmalion, 2006), 281–83, under the heading “Le retournement de l’Église.” The title is editorial.
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Published: September 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Catholicism, Christianity, Dominique Venner, Falangism, fascism, Guillaume Durocher, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, North American New Right, originals, Spain, translations | 12 Responses

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Spain & the Failure of Reaction

Gregory Hood

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain

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Felipe VI reigns in Spain – but the only question is what will go first, the Spanish monarchy or Spain itself?

Felipe VI succeeded his father, King Juan Carlos I, who, as the English language media gleefully pointed out, was the successor of “dictator” Francisco Franco. Read more …