John Colin Campbell Jordan (born June 1923), son of a postman, was a leading representative of postwar National Socialism in Britain and around the world.

Jordan was educated at Warwick School from 1934 to 1942, and then Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating with a 2nd honours in history. He then became a mathematics teacher at a Coventry grammar school where he earned the nickname of "Jumbo" by the pupils. His political activities put an end to his teaching career but he did not hesitate to collect his weekly unemployment benefit at Coventry labour exchange in his Jaguar car.

At Cambridge Jordan had formed a "Nationalist Club", from where he was invited to join the short-lived British Peoples Party, a group of former British Union of Fascists members led by Lord Tavistock, heir to the Duke of Bedford. Jordan soon became associated with Arnold Leese and was left a property in Leese's will, which became the base of operations when Jordan launched the White Defence League. Jordan would later merge this party with the National Labour Party to form the British National Party, although he would split from this after a quarrel with John Bean, who felt that Jordan's open national socialism was a bar to progress.

As a result he founded the National Socialist Movement (1962, later becoming the British Movement in 1968) along with John Tyndall and was involved in attempts to set up an illegal paramilitary group called Spearhead. While John Tyndall was still in prison on public order charges, Colin Jordan, who had just been released, married Tyndall's fiancée Françoise Dior who in turn eloped, in 1966, with her 19 year old secretary, Terence Cooper. When Tyndall was eventually released himself he split with Jordan in 1964 to form the Greater Britain Movement.

Jordan remains a voice on the British extreme right, although he is no longer affiliated to any party. He does however have ties to the activist group known as White Nationalist Party/Aryan Unity/British Peoples Party. He lives in the North Yorkshire countryside, near Harrogate.

Works

• National Socialism: Vanguard of the Future, Selected Writings of Colin Jordan ISBN 8787063409
• Merrie England — 2000
• Fraudulent Conversion: The Myth of Moscow’s Change, 1951
• ''Gothic Ripples newsletter

References

• Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2001, ISBN 0814731554
• Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the postwar fascist international by Kevin Coogan, Autonomedia, Brooklyn, NY 1998 ISBN 1570270392

1923 births | British fascists | Living people | Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge | Neo-Nazis