Imperial Fascist League

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The Imperial Fascist League (IFL) was a British fascist political movement founded by Arnold Leese in 1928 after he broke away from the British Fascists (BF). It included a blackshirted paramilitary arm called the Fascists Legion, modelled after the Italian Fascists. The group espoused antisemitism and the dominance of the 'Aryan race' in a 'Racial Fascist Corporate State', especially after Leese met Nazi Party propagandist Julius Streicher, the virulently racist publisher of Der Stürmer; the group later indirectly received funding from the Nazis. Although it had only between 150 and 500 members at maximum, its public profile was higher than its membership numbers would indicate. After the IFL turned down a merger with the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932, due to policy differences, the BUF mounted a campaign against the IFL, physically breaking up its meetings and fabricating fake plans that showed the IFL planning to attack the BUF's headquarters, which were passed on to the British...

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