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{{Infobox Politician
|name         = Martin Webster
|image        =Martin Webster.png
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|office       = National Activities Organiser<br>of the [[National Front (UK)|National Front]]
|term_start   = 1969
|term_end     = 1983
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|party        = [[League of Empire Loyalists]],<br>[[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1962)|National Socialist Movement]]<br> 1962–1964,<br>[[Greater Britain Movement]]<br>1964–1967,<br>[[National Front (UK)|National Front]]<br>1967–1983,<br>[[Our Nation]]<br>1983,
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}}'''Martin Guy Alan Webster''' (born 14 May 1943) is a [[British]] national [[liberation]] [[activist]] and formerly a leading figure in fascist [[politics]].<ref [[name]]="copsey">{{cite book |last=Copsey |first=Nigel |title=Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy |location=Basingstoke |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2004 |pages=''inter alia'' |isbn=1-4039-0214-3}}</ref> Webster is best known for his [[activism]] in the 1970s with the [[National Front]] under [[John Tyndall]], where he was for a [[time]] a Deputy Leader. Webster opposes "populist" [[nationalism]], which do no not tell the [[truth]] about who the [[real]] hand is behind the destruction of [[European]] countries through [[multiracialism]]; [[jewish supremacism]].

==Early political activism==
An early member of the [[Young Conservatives]], from which he claimed to have been expelled, Webster was associated loosely with the [[League of Empire Loyalists]] until he joined the [[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1962)|National Socialist Movement]] in 1962.<ref>Martin Walker, ''The National Front'', Glasgow: Fontana Collins, 1977, p. 45</ref> He became [[John Tyndall (politician)|John Tyndall's]] closest ally within the NSM and followed him in joining the [[Greater Britain Movement]].<ref name="copsey9">Copsey, pp&nbsp;8–9</ref> Webster also spent time in prison for knocking [[Jomo Kenyatta]] to the ground outside the [[London]] [[Hilton Hotels|Hilton]] hotel, for helping to organise the paramilitary organisation [[Spearhead]],<ref>Gerry Gable [http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/features/century/cbf.php?include=page6 "A Century of British Fascism1958-1968 Rivers of blood - Fascists begin to unite",] ''[[Searchlight]]'' website, [c.2000].</ref> and was convicted under the [[Public Order Act 1936|1936 Public Order Act]].<ref>Copsey, pp.&nbsp;13–14</ref> He attracted further notoriety in 1972 when he was recorded as saying: "We are busy setting up a well-oiled National [[Socialist]] machine in this country."<ref name="A">{{cite news 
  | title =  ''The Listener''
  | publisher = BBC
  |date=December 1972}}</ref> 

==National Front==
===With Tyndall===
Webster continued to be a lieutenant to Tyndall and followed him into the [[British National Front|National Front]]. Webster proved an early success in the NF, being appointed National Activities Organiser in 1969.<ref name="copseyp16">Copsey, p. 16.</ref> and, in this position, effectively shared the leadership of the party with Tyndall until 1974. Webster clashed with Tyndall's replacement [[John Kingsley Read]] and the clash set in [[motion]] Kingsley Read's downfall, allowing Tyndall to return to the leadership.<ref name="copseyp16" /> However, Webster later broke with Tyndall, while remaining a most prominent figure in the NF during the subsequent chairmanship of [[Andrew Brons]].<ref>Copsey, pp.&nbsp;23–24.</ref>

In October 1977 after the police decided to [[Public Order Act 1936|ban]] a [[National Front (UK)|National Front]] march through [[Hyde, Greater Manchester|Hyde]] town centre on the grounds that it was likely to be a focus of "serious disturbances", Webster undertook one of the most famous acts in post war [[United Kingdom|British]] [[fascist]] politics. He announced that there would be two NF marches, the second being conducted by him alone. Then, watched by a crowd of members of the public and surrounded by an estimated 2,500 police, he marched down the main street of Hyde carrying a [[Union Flag]] and a sign reading "Defend British [[Free Speech]] from Red [[Terrorism]]". Webster was allowed to march as 'one man' did not constitute a breaking of the ban. The tactic split the [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)|Socialist Workers Party]]'s [[ANL]] in two and made a farce of the ban whilst attracting more media [[publicity]] for the Front.<ref>http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/03/mossad%25E2%2580%2599s-one-million-helpers-world-wide/</ref>
<ref>http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Webster-Mossad_files/OneManMarch08-10-1977.jpg</ref>
<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTNfWM-IRzA</ref>
<ref>http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/anl/northw.htm</ref>

In 1982, Webster - after making claims about the activities of the SWP's ANL - was sued for libel by [[communist]] [[Peter Hain]], a long time [[Europhobe]] and then one of the leading members of the communist-[[terrorist]] ANL.

===Later NF activity and expulsion===
Webster's [[homosexuality]] led to him becoming criticised within some fascist circles and he also fell foul of the [[Political Soldier]] wing of the NF. In 1983, they ensured that he lost his position as National Activities Organiser, then deprived him of his place on the National Directorate, before expelling him from the party altogether.<ref>Copsey, p. 34. {{com}}</ref> Many activists also reproached Webster for being too friendly with the police. He briefly attempted to lead his own group, [[Our Nation]], although this proved unsuccessful despite the financial support he received from [[Françoise Dior]] and the organisational involvement of [[Denis Pirie]].<ref>[[Gerry Gable|G. Gable]], 'The Far Right in the [[United Kingdom]]', L. Cheles, R. Ferguson & M. Vaughan (eds.), ''Neo-[[Fascism]] in [[Europe]]'', London: Longman, 1991, p. 252 {{jew}} {{com}}</ref>

==Current activity==
Webster has been semi-retired from politics for some time (although he was associated with [[Jane Birdwood|Lady Birdwood]] before her death<ref>Nick Lowles, '[http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=80 A very English extremist]', ''[[Searchlight (magazine)|Searchlight]]''</ref>). He re-emerged in 1999 to claim that he had a four-year homosexual affair with newly-elected [[British National Party]] leader [[Nick Griffin]] beginning in the mid-1970s, when [[Griffin]] was a teenager.<ref>Copsey, p. 111.</ref> Webster composes occasional e-bulletins,<ref>"Electronic Watch on Zion" http://www.nwn-forum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=208 Martin Webster-CURRICULUM VITAE</ref> and "Electronic Loose Cannon".<ref>[http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/373680.html Martin Webster has another go at the BNP's Nick Griffin]</ref>
In 2010, Webster spoke at the 29th meeting of the [[New Right (UK)|New Right]], giving a lecture on the [[Middle East]] conflict in favour of the [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] cause. In August 2011, he spoke at the 29th New Right meeting on [[Justice]] for the [[Palestinians]].<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQvshNc4-c</ref>

==Elections contested==

{| class="wikitable"
! Date of election !! Constituency !! Party !! Votes !! %
|-
| [[West Bromwich by-election, 1973|24 May 1973 by]] || [[West Bromwich (UK Parliament constituency)|West Bromwich]] || [[British National Front|NF]] || 4789 || 16.0
|-
| [[United Kingdom general election, February 1974|February 1974]] || [[West Bromwich East (UK Parliament constituency)|West Bromwich East]] || NF || 2907 || 7.0
|-
| [[United Kingdom general election, 1979|1979]] || [[Bethnal Green and Bow (UK Parliament constituency)|Bethnal Green and Bow]] || NF || 1740 || 6.1
|-
| [[Peckham by-election, 1982|28 October 1982 by]] || [[Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)|Peckham]] || NF || 874 || 3.9
|}
==Multimedia==
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