Imperial Fascist League

Imperial Fascist League
Abbreviation	IFL
Director-General	Arnold Leese
Founder	Arnold Leese
Founded	1929
Dissolved	1939
Split from	British Fascists
Paramilitary wing	Fascists Legion
Membership	150-200
Ideology	Nazism
Political position	Far-right
Religion	Protestantism
International affiliation	Nazi Germany
Colours	Red   White   Blue   Black (customary)
Slogan	"St George Our Guide!"
Party flag
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The Imperial Fascist League (IFL) was a British fascist political movement founded by Arnold Leese in 1929 after he broke away from the British Fascists. It included a blackshirted paramilitary arm called the Fascists Legion, modelled after the Italian Fascists. The group espoused antisemitism and the dominance of the 'Aryan race' in a 'Racial Fascist Corporate State', especially after Leese met Nazi Party propagandist Julius Streicher, the virulently racist publisher of Der Stürmer; the group later indirectly received funding from the Nazis. Although it had only between 150 and 500 members at maximum, its public profile was higher than its membership numbers would indicate.

After the IFL turned down a merger with the British Union of Fascists in 1932, due to policy differences, the BUF mounted a campaign against the IFL, physically breaking up its meetings and fabricating phony plans that showed the IFL planning to attack the BUF's headquarters, which were passed on to the British government.

The Imperial Fascist League went into a steep decline upon the outbreak of World War II, after Leese declared his allegiance to "King and country", to the displeasure of pro-German members. Nevertheless, Leese was interned under wartime security regulations, and the IFL was not reformed after the war.