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TOWARDS the end of last year, Fourth World Review (4WR) produced its first e-poster.  It honoured EF ‘Fritz’ Schumacher, author of the iconic Small Is Beautiful – A Study Of Economics As If People Mattered.

4WR produced the Schumacher e-poster in response to John Papworth’s call for “a vast educational effort to resolve the multitudinous problems involved in the restructuring of power in society from the ground up rather than the top down.”

In this digital and milisecond media age, 4WR believe’s that one way of promoting this “vast educational effort” is via imaginative and thought-provoking e-posters.

With this in mind, a new e-poster has been produced.  Using a stark red, white and black colour sheme as well as the slogan Small Is Beautiful – effectively 4WRs raison d’être – it aims to introduce a new generation of thinkers and activists to explore the works of Leopold Kohr.

Kohr is best known for his book The Breakdown Of Nations. Written in 1957, this highly original work predicted the problems posed by globalism – effectively before the term ‘globalism’ had ever been used!

He remains a highly original thinker who concluded that the root cause of social evil was that all sections of society had grown too centralized and too big.  Indeed, the influence of the individual decreases exponentially with the increase of the population in a society.

Kohr believed that small nations work better for their citizens in every way – economically, socially, culturally, and so on.  He thus believed that the time was ripe to return to human size – and called for the peaceful dissolution of nation states into smaller independent entities which can network or confederate as they choose.

4WR – as a long-standing radical decentralist publication – believes that Leopold Kohr’s The Breakdown Of Nations should be considered essential reading by those who wish to promote a more ‘rooted’ and natural form of living.  We urge as many people as possible to read it, discuss it and become active in promoting its ideals.

In the meantime, we’d ask readers to ‘Like and Share’ this new 4WR e-poster on Facebook and link this article to any Twitter account(s) you may operate.

• CHECK out this 4WR mission statement: http://nationalliberal.org/liberty-wall-3/fourth-world-review

• CHECK out 4WR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/288486767860011/?ref=br_tf

• CHECK out the first 4WR e-poster: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-4wr-%e2%80%93-first-4wr-e-poster

• CHECK out this YouTube video about Leopold Kohr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDRd_TJvzhQ

GENUINE ENGLISH ADVOCATES – like the St. George’s Committee – universally accept that we must do more to promote English history, heritage, traditions, identity & culture. But in doing so, we face massive challenges. But what are these challenges – and how do we overcome them?

This Anglophobia has led them to smear an entire people and nation. Sadly, they’ve been very successful in doing this. For there’s now a sweeping assumption that the English have no separate identity or culture whatsoever and that we are all simply beer-swilling football holigans. In addition, many people feel that the English are inherently racist and imperialist.

Of course all this is all nonsense. We have absolutely no interest in trying to ‘lord it up’ over others by enforcing our customs and traditions on them. No genuine English patriot would advocate this.

Indeed – if truth be told – most ordinary English working folks have more pressing things on their minds. These would include trying to pay bills and making ends meet rather than trying to repace the former British Empire with a new English Empire!

With this in mind, our question to all English advocates is twofold:

• How do we replace the (Anglophobic) negative media stereotype of England and the English?

• How do English patriots build – and promote – a positive image of themselves and what they stand for?

To recap, the reason for high-levels of immigration is because importing large numbers of people into any country is, as far as the capitalist elite is concerned, a long-term investment.  The indigenous elderly – as well as the indigenous underclass, of course – do not fill their coffers to the same extent and are therefore expendable.

The NLTU is against mass – and unrestricted – immigration.  Our opposition is based on grounds of sustainability, a democratic deficit (in that ordinary working folks were never asked if they were in favour of immigration) and the fact that immigrants are used as slave labour and tax fodder to keep the the super-rich elite in their plush lifestyles.

We’re also opposed to the idea that immigration is the main cause of unemployment.  The nations of Britain have always had periods of unemployment – even when their workforce consisted of indigenous workers.  As our e-poster notes the capitalist system is the real problem – and it is our task to replace this system with a Distributist system whereby the ownership of property and the means of production, distribution and exchange are as widespread as possible.

• CHECK out the National Liberal Trade Unionists Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/277840098977231/

NATIONAL LIBERAL TRADE UNIONISTS have recently marked two of the most important days in the industrial calendar. Workers’ Memorial Day (WMD) is held on 28th April every year. Here trade unionists “remember the dead, but fight like hell for the living.” And 1st May – also known as International Workers Day – is when the entire trade union movement celebrates its core values, history and heritage. Trade unionists will also be looking towards a future date – 22nd May – with interest. This is when UK voters go to the polls to elect a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) who will represent them in Brussels and Strasbourg. So what should our attitude be towards the European Union? Possibly the easiest way of answering this is to examine our principles. We can see if the workings of the EU – in any way – relate to them. National Liberal Trade Union principles are defined as: “liberty (putting the individual member first) and patriotism (defending workers from globalisation), and be liberal (increasing employee share ownership) and economic (focusing activity in the workplace) in practice.” (1)

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