Troy Southgate
| Troy Southgate | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Troy Southgate 22 July 1965 London, England |
| Education | University of Kent at Canterbury (1994–97) |
| Occupation | Far-right activist and publisher |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Website | national-anarchist |
Troy Southgate (born 22 July 1965) is a British far-right political activist and a self-described National-Anarchist. He has been affiliated with far-right and fascist groups, such as National Front (UK) and International Third Position, and is the founder and editor-in-chief of Black Front Press. Southgate's movement has been described as working to "exploit a burgeoning counter culture of industrial heavy metal music, paganism, esotericism, occultism and Satanism that, it believes, holds the key to the spiritual reinvigoration of western society ready for an essentially Evolian revolt against the culturally and racially enervating forces of American global capitalism."
Southgate joined the National Front in 1984 and began writing for publications such as National Front News and Nationalism Today. According to Searchlight magazine, in 1987 he joined the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX).
In 1998, he and other ENM members founded the National Revolutionary Faction. In 2001, Southgate and the NRF were the subject of a Sunday Telegraph article, in which the NRF was accused of being a neo-Nazi organisation infiltrating animal rights groups to spread fascism.
Southgate's National-Anarchism ideology has been described as an opportunistic appropriation of aspects of leftist counter-culture in the service of a racist, right-wing ideology. In 2010, Southgate launched Black Front Press as a publisher of neo-Nazi texts.
Southgate, who graduated in history and theology from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1997, comes from a non-religious background—although he converted to Catholicism in 1987 and was in that same year, according to Searchlight, associated with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). Southgate later joined the International Third Position (ITP), believing it to be ‘the legitimate heir to the National Revolutionary Movement in Britain’, though he eventually broke with it in 1992, accusing its membership of gross financial impropriety, hypocrisy, racial miscegenation and of practising a ‘bourgeois’ form of reactionary ultra-Catholic fascism incompatible with the ‘revolutionary’ nationalism that, he claimed, they had betrayed.
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