On 20th April 1968 Enoch Powell became the first (and still by far the most outspoken) mainstream British politician to speak out against the emerging multiracial society.

He was swiftly dismissed by his party leader Edward Heath – beginning a process that has continued for half a century of the Conservative Party colluding in Britain’s racial transformation.

The new edition of H&D includes a review of a new book analysing some of the 100,000 letters (almost all supportive) received by Powell after what quickly became known as the ‘rivers of blood’ speech.
To coincide with this review, we have made a recording of the entire text of Powell’s speech (only a very small portion of which was filmed in 1968).

And for the benefit of our friends and comrades in Spain, who might not know of Powell’s pioneering intervention in the race and immigration debate 56 years ago, this has now been subtitled in Spanish.
As will be apparent, Powell’s ideas were not all of the sort that would find favour with our movement today. But his April 1968 speech is a landmark in the history of racial realism.