“We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be” — Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts and off’rings, and a thankful strain.” — Alexander Pope
Thanksgiving. Usually, as a heathen family, we don’t do much thanking on the last Thursday of November. Read more …
“These ladies were so much of the place and the place so much of themselves that from the first of their being revealed to me I felt that nothing else at Brookbridge much mattered. Read more …
Percy Reginald Stephensen was born on November 20, 1901. Stephensen was a writer, publisher, and political activist dedicated to the interests of the white race and the Australian nation. Like Jack London, Stephensen was an archetypal man of the racially conscious left.
Early in his career as a publisher, Stephensen championed the works of Nietzsche, D. H. Lawrence, and Aleister Crowley. Later, he worked to promote a distinctly Australian national literature and culture. Read more …
Edward Quicke, Portrait of Percy Reginald Stephensen, 1945
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Fifty Points For An Australia-First Party After The War
These Fifty Points of Policy for an Australia-First Party After the War, first printed in The Publicist, Sydney, on 1st May, 1940, are herein elaborated as a primer for the use of Australian students of National Reconstruction. Read more …
Percy Reginald Stephensen, painted by Robert Grothey, 1943
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Editor’s Note:
This is a much-expanded version of our previously-published essay on P. R. Stephensen.
Percy Reginald “Inky” Stephensen (1901–1965), was one of Australia’s pre-eminent “men of letters,” or “Australia’s wild man of letters” as one biographer referred to him.[1] Read more …
Our age is dominated by self-proclaimed “democratic” elites controlling states that are increasingly self-organizing into a unitary world order likewise styled “democratic.” Read more …
Percy Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website: Read more …
This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Wyndham Lewis is chapter 8 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.
Percy Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957, is credited with founding the only modernist cultural movement indigenous to Britain. Read more …
I went through a phase when it pained me to hear my daughters sing.
For a spell their natural voices had became warped. Before it had been their pure, natural voices in the rooms yonder. Now, affectation, artifice, gimmicks. Voices not really theirs. I suffered and worried maybe a little more than I should have. Read more …
Excerpts from Jewish film critic Jonathan Foreman’s “The Nazis, er, the Redcoats are coming!,” a review of The Patriot:
The Patriot presents a deeply sentimental cult of the family, casts unusually Aryan-looking heroes. . . .
If the Nazis had won the war in Europe, and their propaganda ministry had decided to make a film about the American Revolution, The Patriot is exactly the movie you could expect to see. . . . Read more …
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet of Ancoats, was an English aristocrat (a fourth cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II) and statesman. Mosley was a Member of Parliament for Harrow from 1918 to 1924 and for Smethwick from 1926 to 1931. He was also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Labour Government of 1929–1931. Read more …
This essay was presented at the recent Rune-Gild Moot in Bastrop, Texas. It is dedicated, with respect and affection, to Edred Thorsson and his wife Crystal Dawn. Read more …
René Guénon was born on this day in 1886. Along with Julius Evola, Guénon was one of the leading figures in the Traditionalist school, which has deeply influenced my own outlook and the metapolitical mission and editorial agenda of Counter-Currents Publishing and North American New Right.
In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website. Read more …
The term Nationalism—as it is known outside of the West—is mostly synonymous with the anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist sentiments of the 19th and 20th century, Read more …
On Saturday, November 12, 2011, Greg Johnson and Mike Polignano of Counter-Currents, along with Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review, gave talks at the IHR offices in Orange County, California. Read more …
According to John Robb’s Global Guerrillas blog, the unemployment rate for 18- to 24-year-olds, which is 15.3% overall, is 30.4% for veterans. Read more …
It is fun to trace the process by which “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” a popular song written by a pair (though not a “couple”) of homosexual Jews for the play and movie Cabaret, was later transformed by Ian Stuart Donaldson (also known as Ian Stuart), lead singer-songwriter of the English white power band Skrewdriver and, later, white nationalist Swedish singer Saga, into positive pro-white covers. Read more …
A sestina written for all of our folk who were duped into being part of that first war to end all wars, that brother-killing-brother war, that beginning of our end. Read more …
Thanksgiving Special
Feasts, Offerings, & a Thankful Strain
“We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be” — Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts and off’rings, and a thankful strain.” — Alexander Pope
Thanksgiving. Usually, as a heathen family, we don’t do much thanking on the last Thursday of November. Read more …