Review 22.4
22 March- 10 April, 1997

John Howard is a Jew. The Federal Government is controlled by hidden, conniving Zionists preparing for the downfall of the white race. The National Party is a homosexual party, and Jews organise ritual murder. Welcome to the wonderful world of the Australian National Socialist Movement, courtesy of its home-typed, hand-cut and (no doubt) super-glued publication National Socialist Voice of Australia.

Claiming to be the Australian wing of the British Nazi terror organisation Combat 18 (the first and eighth letters of the alphabet being AH - Adolf Hitler), the ANSM recently sent copies of its publication to anti-fascists in London, claiming it is preparing for a race war. Unlike Australia's premier Nazi outfit, National Action, the ANSM is virtually unheard of outside its tiny backroom operation in Annerley, Queensland, which is perhaps why it favors criminal propaganda stunts and activities. Many of these are highlighted in the National Socialist Voice.

Numerous newspaper clippings on the group's Queensland activities are reproduced: racist leaflets - juvenile, illiterate, inflammatory and probably unlawful; graffiti attacks (not owned up to, but readily publicised); and threats against MPs and factional rivals. Poorly produced, and in places handwritten, issue 9 of the National Socialist Voice (November/December 96), claims that the year 2000 will see a confrontation between "National Socialist good and those of Jewish evil ..."

Perhaps it will be an event at the Sydney Olympics. This coming "race war", according to the Voice, will only be possible once the ANSM has eradicated all other National Socialist organisations. Claiming no opposition to the eradication of groups like the bizarre racist Church of the Creator, 'Voice' also plugs the National Socialist Alliance (NSA), set up by Britain's C18/Blood and Honour (a Nazi music promoter), which also have a habit of attacking and maiming other gangs of violent Nazis.

There is little evidence to show that ANSM is even remotely connected to the NSA, except in its fertile imagination. C18 & NSA material is easily available on the internet, and British and American cranks are renowned for sending their materials free of charge to just about any corner of the world that will accept it, possibly even to Annerley. Enquirers to the ANSM post box have received large quantities of literature and stickers from overseas Nazi groups (including posters from the notorious British National Party). Whether C18's bosses have sanctioned an Annerley unit is unknown. It is, however, likely that there has been some contact between the two groups, given at least one document seen by The Review is an internal defence of Combat 18 , written by notorious British nazi and occultist Dave "The Cat Strangler" Myatt.

It would be interesting to know whether the ANSM has also received through the mail, the bomb-making diagrams and instructions that C18 has been publishing and which were probably the model for the recent bombs sent to the UK by their Danish and Swedish associates.

European Nazis are now infamous for this use of terror tactics, though generally directed at each other. Should the Australian Nazi band Fortress, currently in the UK touring with other bonehead bands, join up with C18's American-backed Nazi competitor Resistance, would the ANSM be willing, or capable of taking part in a Nazi factional split going on in Europe and that has already cost one life?

Allying with C18 or its political wing NSA has been the cause of much infighting in Britain, Europe and America. If there are enough dangerous lunatics in Australia, then the threats to other nazi organisations, such as National Action (which is itself already in the throes of a violent internal war) could soon become reality.

"Because the ANSM has embarked on a war of purification, we have widened our attack to include all those organisations in Australia who profess to be National Socialist but refuse to work in unity for the cause that is white power. The ANSM is flexing it's (sic) muscle and those who oppose us can look forward to more than just their smiling face upon the back of the NSVOA. We will have white unity in this country for the coming race war of the year 2000, so all those organisations out there better choose their sides now, because if you are not for us then you are against us and we will show you no mercy. Join or Die. Heil Hitler."

Politically, the Voice has attempted to gain influence within the gun lobby, with presumably little effect. A circular that ANSM claims it sent to all gun shop owners in southern Queensland says that gun restrictions are little more than a plot by ZOG, the Zionist Occupational Government, to destroy the white race, backed by banks and "Multinational corporations with their big money and Jewish financers (sic) to divide the people of our once great land."

The circular then claims that Jewish Australians are trying to weaken Australia so that Indonesian soldiers will face little more resistance than Australia's 3100 combat soldiers. This sad diatribe ends: "Howard is a Jew and he hates you!"

Much of the rest of the ANSM's publications follow the same illiterate confused style. Reprints warn decent white Christian folk about Jewish ritual murder; with odd extracts from the work of embittered US anti-Semite Elizabeth Dilling exposing the hideous Japanese-Jewish conspiracy, and ads for "fellow organisations: Australian Christian Separatists of Gymea, NSW, the previously mentioned violent National Socialist Alliance of London, and, not surprisingly, the League of Rights. "Though the League and the ANSM are in no way connected, they do, however, possess considerable resources and the ANSM urges all members to take advantage of this."

It is possible that the ANSM has no more than a dozen members. But such groups are not best understood by reference to their size. The newspaper clippings reproduced in the Voice indicate a level of harassment and intimidation of the Brisbane Jewish community that requires a response. In August 1993, an ANSM member, Billy Smith, was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and full payment for repairs after he vandalised the Brisbane synagogue. Smith was only one of three perpetrators, but he refused to name the other individuals involved. The real concern about organisations like the ANSM is not their potential for influencing mainstream public opinion, but for engaging in criminal activities under the guise of political expression. Once that line has been crossed, as it has been with the ANSM, then one is dealing with a qualitatively different type of organisation than, say, the League of Rights.

The National Socialist Voice of Australia carries a disclaimer that the articles within cannot be construed as representative of ANSM. Nor, it says, does it advocate any violent activities. Are then, the preparations for race war in the year 2000 all lies? What does the baseball-bat bearing bonehead "Dave" signify? (see cartoon, right.) Why does it warn of a "final solution"? Why does it encourage readers to flout the gun laws, which it describes as "morally bankrupt", "dedicated to ensuring the extinction of our white race", and "obscene"?

The Australian National Socialist Movement is dangerous and it is subversive. Though it will not be marching into Sydney in 2000 to start any 'race war', it is in contact with far more dangerous (and equally cowardly) organisations around the world. The constant theme of paranoia has taken many other pathetic operations into more dangerous waters. While the Voice may be poorly produced and semi-literate, it will be interesting to see whether the British nazi thugs currently in hiding in the UK turn up in a back bedroom in Annerley, Queensland.