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British political group. Founded as the New
Party by Oswald Mosley and a number of Labour
members of Parliament 1931, it developed into
the British Union of Fascists 1932. In 1940
the organization was declared illegal and its
leaders interned, but at the end of World War
II it was revived as the Union Movement,
characterized by racist doctrines including
anti-Semitism. An attempt by the
`blackshirts' to march through the East End
of London in 1936 led to prohibition of the
wearing of such political uniforms.