Troy Southgate

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Troy Southgate este scriitor, muzician şi liderul naţional-anarhiştilor a căror sediu se află în Marea Britanie. Într-adevăr conceptul de “naţional-anarhism” pare să fie în mare măsură invenţia sa.

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[modifică] Politica

Originar din Crystal Palace, situat în sudul Londrei, Southgate s-a mutat în adolescenţă la Crowborough, East Sussex şi a devenit activist în Frontyl Naţional Britanic (British National Front, NF) în 1984 moment în care a publicat The Wealden Warrior. În toamna lui 1989 s-a alăturat mişcării A treia cale (International Third Position, ITP), a rupt legătura cu NF, şi a devenit editor la câteva publicaţii locale ITP, printre care The Kent Crusader, Surrey Action şi Eastern Legion.

În September 1992 s-a separat de ITP după ca i-a acuzat pe Roberto Fiore şi Derek Holland de ipocrizie ideologică şi de escrocarea membriilor de economiile lor de-o viata pentru a sustine experimentul rural eşuat al grupului în nordul Frantei. Mai apoi Southgate a fondat Mişcarea Naţionalistă Engleză (English Nationalist Movement, ENM) iar în acet timp a scos reviste ca The Crusader şi The English Alternative.

În 1998 el şi alţi membri ai organizaţiei ENM au pus bazele Fracţiunii Naţional Revoluţionare (National Revolutionary Faction), pe care a descris-o ca "o organizaţie revoluţionară intrasigentă bazată pe o structură subterană de celule similară cu cele folosite de Mişcarea de Rezistenţă Islamică (Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas) şi de Armata Republicană Irlandeză (Provisional Irish Republican Army, IRA)", operând pe principiul rezistenţei fără conducere [1].

Nu este clar când şi dacă NRF a fst dizolvată. Southgate şi alţi asociaţi ai NRF au fost implicaţi Cercle de la rose noire şi în website-ul acestuia, 'Synthesis', şi au fost şi pe grila editorială a Green Anarchist, Alternative Green pentru trei ediţii.

It is claimed that "National-Anarchists seek to establish decentralised village-communities in which people can occupy their own areas in which to live according to their own principles. These areas can take on a variety of different forms, offering people a real alternative to the dogmatic and stagnant ideologies of both 'left' and 'right'. Ours is a realistic and tangible form of escapism, a network of total environments to preserve the diversity of humankind. Some of us also support racial separatism, but remain totally opposed to mindless bigotry and supremacism" (quoted on the main page of the National-Anarchist-Online egroup).

În anul 2000 Southgate şi un asociat apropiat lui, Michael Lujan – un fost membru al organizaţiei americane White Order of Thule şi editor al revistei “Crossing the Abyss” (“Traversând abisul”) – au pus bazele websaitului Synthesis. Această vastă sursă de informare a îmbinat subiecte referitoare la politică, muzică şi ezoterie.

Pe 16 ianuarie 2005, Southgate şi alţi asociaţi au lansat o nouă organizaţie, New Right, cu o manifestare în centrul Londrei. [2]. Aceasta a urmat unei manifestaţii care a avut loc în luna anterioară[3]. Noua Dreaptă UK (New Right UK), care are mai multe în comun cu francezii de la Nouvelle Droite decât cu Noua Dreaptă (New Right) politică în înteles anglo-americanpolitics, se autodescrie ca fiind "un grup dinamic strict metapolitic [care] caută să unească grupurile disparate ale dreptei britanice şi să le dea acceaşi direcţie”[4]. A scos o publicaţie, “Noul Imperiu” (New Imperium),[5] şi au avut loc manifestări destul de recent pe 12 ianuarie 2008, aceasta fiind a XIV-cea întâlnire de acest fel.

Southgate a scris de asemenea pentru ziarul rusesc Pravda, despre o lucrare metafizică radicală a lui Julius Evola [6]. Genul de filosofie politică tradiţionalistă dezvoltată de Evola şi susţinută de Southgate a fost bine primită printre partidele conservatoare ruseşti.

On December 5, 1988, Southgate was convicted of actual bodily harm and affray at Lewes Crown Court for an assault on a male lab technician active with the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). This happened during a clash on Brighton seafront in May 1987, nineteen months earlier. He was sentenced to eighteen months and incarcerated in Lewes and Northeye prisons, both in East Sussex, but still claims that he was defending himself from attack and was set up as a result of becoming a successful organiser for Crowborough and North Weald NF [7].

Southgate and his political ideas have been discussed in various books and publications, including The Beast Reawakens (1999) by Martin A. Lee, International Fascism: Theories, Causes and the New Consensus by Roger Griffin (2002), Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism & the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2003) and The Radical Right in Britain by Alan Sykes (2005). A 26-page article by Graham D. Macklin, entitled 'Co-opting the Counter-Culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction', also appeared in Volume 39, No. 3 of the academic journal Patterns of Prejudice (2005).

Revolution & Tradition, a 330-page anthology of Southgate's work, was published in Denmark by Integral Tradition Publishing in December 2007.

[modifică] Music

Troy Southgate is a vocalist, guitarist and percussionist with the mainly-Dutch quintet, H.E.R.R., who play Neoclassical music and have released several albums including 'Es Regnet Das Leben Heraus' (2004), 'The Winter of Constantinople' (2005), 'Vondel's Lucifer: First Movement' (2006) and the 'Fire & Glass: A Norwood Tragedy' EP (2007). Southgate's vocals have also featured for H.E.R.R. on the following compilation albums: 'Hopes Die In Winter' ('Hopes Die in Winter' and 'Fifteen Tokens'), 'Instruo Vestri Pro Pugna!' ('The Baron of Urga'), 'Neo-Form I' ('For a Christ-Thorn'), and 'Swarm' ('Stalingrad'). Future projects include a 7" single release of Current 93's 'For a Christ Thorn' coupled with a new song, 'Narcissus', on the b-side. Also forthcoming is 'The Twelve Caesars' album (expected 2008), based upon the work of the same name by the Roman historian, Suetonius.

Southgate is also a singer/songwriter with the German trio, Seelenlicht, two of whom are members of Kammer Sieben, and the group are currently preparing a 14-track album for the Cold Spring Records label, entitled 'Gods & Devils' (expected October 2007). Seelenlicht are also working on a track ('Memnon, Prince of Ethiopia') for a compilation album based on lost Greek epic, the Aithiopis. Another compilation track, 'Return to Summerisle', was recorded for the Old Europa Cafe label.

In September 2007, Southgate became a full-time vocalist and member of Poland's Horologium, founded by Grzegorz Siedlecki, for whom he had previously recorded 'Faustus' (with Maria Southgate) and 'Thus I Spake' for two separate Horologium releases. This came about after Southgate was consequently asked to write and record five tracks for a forthcoming Horologium album called 'Earthbound' (expected on the Old Europa Cafe label in early 2008). The group is now working on a joint Neuropa Records collaboration with Oda Relicta from the Ukraine. Southgate and Horologium are now collaborating with the Italian project, Ouroboros, and Southgate is also recording tracks ('Pulsating Spectre' and 'Cold Room Solitude') for their side-project Desert Divinity.

He has also worked with Sweden's Survival Unit ('Awakening & Bravery'), Holland's Erich Zahn ('Acid Rain' & 'Streets of London'), the Canadian project, Sistrenatus (currently unreleased), and the German band, Sagittarius ('Ich hatt’ einen Kameraden' and 'The Song'), who will release an album entited 'Songs from the Ivory Tower' in 2008. Southgate has performed lyrics on a track called 'The Beauty of Life & Eternal War' for a forthcoming Von Thronstahl album. Future collaborations will include Ollin, a Polish/American group.

Some of Southgate's musical activities are discussed in the Hungarian book, Battlenoise: The Blows of the Martial Industrial Music, published by Mozgalom Records (2007).

[modifică] Discography

  • SURVIVAL UNIT: Continuity ('Awakening & Bravery', 2005, LP, Steinklang Industries)
  • SURVIVAL UNIT: Continuity ('Awakening & Bravery', 2005, CD-R, Steinklang Industries)
  • SURVIVAL UNIT: Continuity ('Awakening & Bravery', 2005, LP+min CD-R, Steinklang Industries)
  • HERR: The Winter of Constantinople (2005, CD-R, Cynfeirdd)
  • HERR: Carpe Noctem Festival I: Sturmgewitter Ziehn Durchs Land ('Constantinople I: Hagya Sophia'/'Requiem For Constantinople', 2005, CD, Carpe Noctem)
  • HERR: Hopes Die In Winter ('Hopes Die In Winter'/'Fifteen Tokens', 2005, CD, Beast of Prey)
  • HERR: The Winter Of Constantinople (2005, Picture-LP, Cynfeirdd)
  • HERR: The Winter Of Constantinople (2005, CD, Cold Spring)
  • HERR: Instruo Vestri Pro Pugna! ('The Baron Of Urga', 2005, 12" vinyl, Cold Spring)
  • HERR: Neither Beginning Nor End ('The Fall Of Constantinople', 2005, CD, Cynfeirdd)
  • HERR Neo-Form I ('For A Christ-Thorn', 2005, MP3 release, Neo-Form)
  • HERR: Swarm ('Stalingrad', 2006, CD, Cold Spring)
  • HERR: Vondel's Lucifer (2006, CD, Cold Spring)
  • HOROLOGIUM: Paradise Inverted ('Faustus', 2007, CD, Old Europa Cafe)
  • HOROLOGIUM: The World Is Not Enough ('Thus I Spake', 2007, CD, Neuropa Records)
  • HERR: Fire and Glass: A Norwood Tragedy (2007, MCD, Cold Spring)
  • SEELENLICHT: 13th Street: The Sound of Mystery 4 ('Demian', 2008, CD, ZYX Music)

EXPECTED 2008

  • SEELENLICHT: Gods & Devils (CD, Cold Spring)
  • SAGITTARIUS: Songs from the Ivory Tower ('Ich Hatt Einen Kameraden'/'The Song', Cold Spring)
  • HOROLOGIUM: Earthbound (CD, Old Europa Cafe)

[modifică] Catholicism & Heathenism

Southgate - who, in 1997, became a History & Theology graduate at the University of Kent in Canterbury - comes from a non-religious background, although he converted to Catholicism in 1987 and was associated with the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist group founded by Archbishop Lefebvre which remains faithful to the Tridentine Mass which was reformed during the establishment of Vatican 2 in 1967. Southgate is now a Wodenist and has therefore been criticised by his former Catholic associates for changing his religious beliefs, although he did remain part of the Church for over ten years and it was only in 1997 that he began examining the pagan roots of Christianity and eventually drifted away from Catholicism altogether. Southgate is now a student of rune magic and a member of the English-based neopagan group, Woden's Folk, for whom he has written and researched a series of esoteric pamphlets. These include A Sussex Swan: The Wodenic Mysteries of a Small English Town, The Centre: Its Symbolic and Practical Significance, Beachy Head: The Negation of the Solar, Runic Sex Postures of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc and Runic Mysteries of the Suð Seax Wheel. On July 2, 2007, Southgate was also seen participating in a Woden's Folk demonstration in East Sussex against ITV filming a stunt for Trinny and Susannah's fashion show, Trinny & Susannah Undress, at the Long Man of Wilmington on the South Downs. Southgate and his associates considered this to be a desecration of an ancient English burial ground and the site was slightly damaged as a result. The programme itself was eventually aired on November 20th, 2007.

[modifică] Note

  1. ^ "Transcending the Beyond: from Third Position to National-Anarchism" by Troy Southgate, Pravda.ru, 17 January 2002
  2. ^ Interviu în engleză cu Wayne John Sturgeon pe NRF website, nedatat (website-ul este acum închis; interviul e disponibil pe archive.org mirror)
  3. ^ Interviu cu Miron Fyodorov pentru revista Kinovar, nedatat, disponibil peSynthesis
  4. ^ Interviu cu Dan Ghetu, nedatat, pe Synthesis
  5. ^ "National-Anarchism", principiile principale în întrebări şi răspunsuri (în engleză) în format pe saitulFolk and Faith
  6. ^ H.E.R.R. interviu cu Heathen Harvest (în engleză)
  7. ^ H.E.R.R. interview with Neo-folk.it

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