The National Action Party by Eddy Morrison

The National Action Party was founded on the 1st January 1982 at a meeting of around 80 people at a hotel nears Kings Cross Station. Its insignia was the flash in the circle and members were uniformed at private meetings - wearing a brown shirt, black tie and black trousers as well as the party armband which was red with a white circle and black flash.

The NAP was at first based on the Acton and Ealing areas of London where I lived at the time (1980 - 1984), and we were lucky in that we recruited ex-NF Ealing Organiser Gary M. and his wfe who knew a real team of Chelsea lads all of whom joined and on a "Day Of Action" - usually two a month we could muster 30 - 50 street activists and descended on a selected area firsly in Greater London but as the Movement spread rapidly especially into Surrey we hit a lot of Surrey and then Sussex towns, eventually having units in Hove and Brighton as well as plenty of places in between.

The NAP at its height at around 400 members divided up into three divisions - the Division One members were the activists and were pledged to give three nights or times each week for activities, some lads (and lasses did more - Billy from Ealing went out leafletngn every day as I remember - on his own.)

We spread into the Midlands and had a toehold in the North with members in Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and Liverpool. We also had a small Ulster unit. We also spread into Wilstshire and Devon. We also a a strong Youth Action section led by Adrian W.

I remember our first "Day of Action" - in our first month - January 1982 when we hit Kingston-Upon-Thames where there was a CND festival being held. It was disrupted that badly by the NAP (we had a special "CND are commies" leaflet) and with stalls overturned and red activists scuttling for cover around 30 of us established ourselves in Kingston town centre and gave out around 2000 leaflets.

Days like that were frequent and always fairly violent - one of the worst was the heavily Black area of Wood Green in North London where we were attacked by a large Black gang and a street fight ensued with one of our Surrey unit leaders suffering a fractured skull. Oh the joys of the NAP! He's ok now by the way....

The NAP wasn't in existence long just under 3 years but they were 3 years of INTENSE activism and we reaped the benefits in a very rapid expansion of membersip and units and above all quality of men and women whom we attracted. When I look at the milk and water Nationalist paries strutting around the scene today and who have never seen anything like that level of activisim (even the so-called National Socialist ones) then I am mightly glad, gone though it is, that I was the leader of the NAP.

Eddy Morrison