New Zealand League of Rights
The right-wing New Zealand League of Rights (German: New Zealand League of the Right ) is the New Zealand branch of the Australian League of Rights by Eric Butler .
After a political events tour of New Zealand in the late 1960s, Butler intended to build a New Zealand version of his organization and in 1970 announced that a New Zealand League of Rights was being formed. This organization started its political work in 1971. Its first president was Sidney Wood, who was also one of the founders of the New Zealand League . In 1979 David Thompson became president and animated this organization when he brought out an offshoot of Butler's Australian magazine, the "On Target" (German: "Zieltreffer"). As a result, their membership grew during the 1980s. Thompson was replaced by Bill Daly in the mid-1980s, who led the New Zealand League until it was dissolved in 2004.
Like the other organizations associated with it, the New Zealand League proclaimed its loyalty to "God, Queen and Country" (German: "God, Queen and Country") and adhered to the theory of social credits , was anti-Semitic and racist . The New Zealand League believed in the dominance of British race and culture in New Zealand and was against Marxism , human rights and globalization . The anti-Semitism of the New Zealand League was not explicitly stated until its end, like that of the Australian League of Rights and the Canadian League of Rights .
The New Zealand League criticized the New Zealand Social Credit Party that they have a misconception of the theory of Clifford Hugh Douglas did, and described himself as the guardian of the theory of Social Credit . However, its members sought contact with this party until it decided in the late 1970s not to welcome members of the New Zealand League to its events. Members of the New Zealand League intended to join the New Zealand National Party and were also active in other organizations such as the Voters Association .
The New Zealand League was a member of the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights , founded in 1972 , an umbrella organization for the rights of the British Commonwealth , founded by Butler, of which the Australian League of Rights and Canadian League of Rights and British League of Rights were also members. The New Zealand League hosted the second Crown Commonwealth League of Rights conference in 1981 . In 1993 Bill Daly tried to convince the Holocaust denier David Irving to tour New Zealand.
literature
- Paul Spoonley: The Politics of Nostalgia: racism and the extreme right in New Zealand , The Dunmore Press 1987
Web links
- New Zealand - Racism and xenophobia . Antisemitism and Xenophobia Today, archived from the original onAugust 22, 2010; accessed on February 2, 2016(English, original website no longer available).