Trevor Loudon is a

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author, speaker,

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, blogger and

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. He was Vice President of

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, a

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and

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political party from 2006 to 2008. Loudon is the author of five self-published books on

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, and was featured in a 2016 documentary titled ''Enemies Within.'' He runs the website ''KeyWiki.org,'' a

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-format project, which contains articles on left-wing and center-left political groups, primarily in the United States and lists the names of their members. He is also a contributor to ''

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''.

Career

Loudon maintains a blog at TrevorLoudon.com, formerly titled New Zeal. He is founder and editor of KeyWiki.org, a website which compiles dossiers on activists and political figures, with a particular focus on the

left wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

Campaign for a Soviet-Free New Zealand

Loudon has been involved in politics in

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for many years, such as the Campaign for a Soviet-Free New Zealand (CFSFNZ), a group which published dossiers on people involved in the

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, declaring them to be

communists Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a so ...

and "connecting the dots" between them and their supposed

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

masters. Loudon established the Campaign for a Soviet-Free New Zealand in June 1986 to expose 'Soviet/Marxist subversion' in New Zealand. Loudon argued that the New Zealand government should cease all diplomatic and trading relations with the Soviet Union on the grounds that it was a hostile, totalitarian dictatorship seeking world dominance. The group advocated a ban on the importing of Soviet

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and Lada cars on the grounds that they had been built through slave labour. Other activities carried out by the CFSFNZ included staging protests, collecting information on the Labour Party and left-wing groups, and circulating pamphlets in Christchurch during the

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s which attacked the

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and local Christchurch-based

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and

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. Loudon became the public face of the Campaign for a Soviet-Free New Zealand."Footpath melee brought unforeseen profile," ''The Press'', 2 September 1987. In addition to his

anti-Communist Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...

and pro-ANZUS stance, Loudon claimed that New Zealand's communist parties particularly the Socialist Unity Party and their front organisations had infiltrated the Labour Party,

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, and left-wing groups like the

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(CORSO) and the anti-

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Halt All Racist Tours Halt All Racist Tours (HART) was a protest group set up in New Zealand in 1969 to protest against rugby union tours to and from South Africa. Founding member Trevor Richards served as president for its first 10 years, with fellow founding member ...

. By 1987, the group had a mailing list of about 800 people. It also maintained links with other conservative groups including Stanley Newman's pro-

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Plains Club, the

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and some Christian groups. The CSFNZ also published its own newspaper which ran from May 1988 to November 1990.

U.S. politics

In June 2019 he was a scheduled speaker at a conference run by a group called "Texans Against Communism" in partnership with "Texans United for America" along with the leader of the

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and Joey Gibson of

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. There were around 20 attendees.

Personal life

He is a self-described student of the Zenith Applied Philosophy which has a world view which is a combination of

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, Eastern mysticism and the anti-communist ideas of the American

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. In 2006 he wrote on his blog that he had "studied at Z.A.P. from 1976 to 1982, 1986/7 and 1999 to current. I am enjoying my studies immensely at the moment and plan to continue indefinitely."

Self-published books

*''Barack Obama and the Enemies Within''.

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, 2011. . *''The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress''.

, 2013. . *''White House Reds: Communists, Socialists & Security Risks Running for US President, 2020''.

, 2020. .

References

External links

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