''Action'' was a newspaper of

Oswald Mosley Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician during the 1920s and 1930s who rose to fame when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member ...

British Union of Fascists The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley. Mosley changed its name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists in 1936 and, in 1937, to the British Union. In 1939, fo ...

(BUF). The paper first appeared in 1936. The editor of the paper from 1939 was

Alexander Raven Thomson Alexander Raven Thomson (3 December 1899 – 30 October 1955), usually referred to as Raven, was a Scottish politician and philosopher. He joined the British Union of Fascists in 1933 and remained a follower of Oswald Mosley for the rest of his ...

, the BUF's chief ideologue. It ceased publication in 1940 due to the outbreak of the Second World War and the internment of the BUF's leadership. In fact the

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banned the paper. For most of its existence, ''Action'' ran parallel to the official mouthpiece of the BUF, ''

The Blackshirt ''The Blackshirt'' was the official newspaper of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1933 until 1936. After the launch of ''Action Action may refer to: * Action (narrative), a literary mode * Action fiction, a type of genre fic ...

''. After the launch of the less hard-line and more intellectual ''Action'', ''The Blackshirt'' became more low-brow and finally ceased publication in 1939. ''Action'' took its name from an earlier 1931 newspaper of the same name published by Mosley's New Party. A later newspaper of the same name was published by the

Union Movement The Union Movement (UM) was a far-right political party founded in the United Kingdom by Oswald Mosley. Before the Second World War, Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) had wanted to concentrate trade within the British Empire, but the Unio ...

from 1966.British Library online catalogue. 19 November 2015.

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