The National Association for Freedown is very reluctant to be labelled as right-wing, so if was something of ar Joumalisticcoup when Robert Moss, the writ-happy director of NAFF, told Socialist Challenge we could describe himesaright winger.
This "hevelation" will not be so surprising to those who have had the misfortunetocomeypagainst the kindof freedom NAFF revels in: the Grunwick strikers, the postal workers who called a boycort of Soath Africa, the Onford hotelstrikers, or the parents of Tameside who pur equality in education above "freedomofchoice.
The significance of NAFF is that it is not part of the iunatic fringe. It prefers the sate Terrain of the bourgeois courts to the bluster andbravado of the private army. For the first time in Britain it has succeeded in bringing together a number of fringe right groups -Aimsfor Freedom and Enterprise, the Income Tax Payers" Society, the National Federation of the Self-Employed and the Vaice of the Indepcodent Centre - and built a bridge betweentben and the Toryparty.
NAFF's council includes seven Tory MPs. two of them front-benchers, while director Robert Moss is well-known as the author of Margarer Thatcher's 'Iron Maiden" speech What is disturbing is that the association represents an increasingly important current of thought among the capitaliss class. Top businesscenresentativeson the NAFFcouna includeSir Frank Taylorof Taylor Woodrow whoisalso an Almicouncil member, Land De L'Isleof Phoenix Assurance, Tan H. Gilhertof Wilkinson March, Lord Brookesof GNand Ernes Smith, president of the National Federation of Building Trades Employeis It is no accident that NAFF sbould have chosenthereseatborels' dispute in Oxford for involved was the Randolph, owned by Trust Houses Forte. THF director the Hon Hugh Astor also happens to he a NAFF council member Koben has nime 215o na bosiness connezions. He is a director of Sproat Communications Led, a security chernesty security tell ger. is id thermopathic security techniques. rather appropriace, sincerheSproatof thetille is none olher chan lain Sproat MP, the man who launched the campaign against social socuricy scroungers:
If his extreme paranoia is shared by his clients we can assume bat be is not short of a quid or two. Miss himself has a highly developed sense of freedom. Even before NAFF'scourtaction over South Africanmail, he had distingulabiod himself as an ardent defender of racism in sourhern Africa. Moss Las wristen a seemingly interminable series in the Sunday Telegranh which serves lo justify the South African invasion of Angola on the grounds of the Communist cbreat. He denies reportsthat the Economist "Foreign Report'. which heedics, bas reprinted broadcasts from Radia Voice of Free Africa in Umtali, Rhodesia. But be admitted to Socialist Challenge thar ic was possible chat the radio station, which broadcases mainly in Portuguese to Mozambique, could have relayed some Foreign Report' material.
This admission is interesting since the station is run by Antonio Batica, a former
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