Fascism and Private Trade - John Beckett

Fascism and Private Trade – John Beckett

John Beckett was born in Thurlwood, Cheshire, on 11th October, 1894. After being educated at Latymer Secondary School he began work as a shop assistant at the age of fifteen.

A member of the British Army in the First World War he established the National Union of of Ex-Servicemen, a left-wing alternative to the British Legion, in 1918. He also joined the Independent Labour Party and was a member of Hackney Borough Council (1919-22) and shared a house in Limehouse with Clement Attlee.

In the 1924 General Election Beckett became the Labour Party’s youngest MP when he was elected to the House of Commons for Gateshead. Beckett was a rebellious MP and in 1927 he was suspended from Parliament for calling Stanley Baldwin a liar.

Beckett won his new constituency, Peckham in London, In the 1929 General Election. He was in trouble again in 1930 when he protested against government policies by stealing the mace in the House of Commons. Beckett also hit a parliamentary attendant after he had assaulted his friend, James Maxton.

Beckett refused to support Ramsay MacDonald and his National Government in 1931. He stood as a member of the Independent Labour Party in the 1931 General Election but was defeated.

In March 1934 Beckett joined the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Oswald Mosley. The BUF was strongly anti-communist and argued for a programme of economic revival based on government spending and protectionism. By 1934 Mosley was expressing strong anti-Semitic views and provocative marches through jewish districts in London lead to riots. The passing of the 1936 Public Order Act that made the wearing of political uniforms and private armies illegal, using threatening and abusive words a criminal offence, and gave the Home Secretary the powers to ban marches, completely undermined the activities of the BUF.

Beckett became Director of Publications and during the Second World War was imprisoned under the Defence of the Realm Act.

John Beckett died in December 1964.

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