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Mon Mar 23, 2026, 06:40 PM
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.. As a young man, Joyce was attracted to the extreme right-wing ideology spreading in Europe, and in 1932 he joined Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. He gained a reputation as an impassioned orator, and was made its director of propaganda.

But the tide turned against the party, culminating in the 1936 Battle of Cable Street when Mosley's Blackshirts were attacked and turned away by Jews and Irish labourers in London's east end. The ousted Joyce set up his own National Socialist League, but finding no welcoming home for his virulent antisemitism, he soon felt Germany calling...

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