Civil Assistance was a British far-right movement in the 1970s, purporting to be a non-governmental civil defence group. It was a voluntary group that aimed to break any planned general strike. It was founded in 1974 by Walter Walker, Commander in Chief of NATO forces in Northern Europe from 1969 to 1972. It was a spin-off of Unison, a civil defence group founded in 1973 by George Kennedy Young, a former deputy director of MI6.
In August 1974 Walker claimed that Civil Assistance had 100,000 members.
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Books
- Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's Hidden History by Andy Beckett (Faber and Faber, 2003)