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| In 1988 they helped organise a visit to Britain by ] leader of ]'s ] rebel group, following which a member of their directorate visited ] and ] ]. | In 1988 they helped organise a visit to Britain by ] leader of ]'s ] rebel group, following which a member of their directorate visited ] and ] ]. | ||
| At the October 1988 ] Conference, Western Goals UK held a very successful fringe meeting on the subject of "International Terrorism - how the West can fight back". |
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| The group published numerous policy sheets and a newsletter entitled ''Young European'' and edited by Stuart Notholt. The October 1988 edition carried a leading article by Andrew V R Smith, 'Freedom from Communism - the hope of millions'. The December edition cited AVR Smith as the ''Young Europeans for World Freedom'' Secretarty-General. | The group published numerous policy sheets and a newsletter entitled ''Young European'' and edited by Stuart Notholt. The October 1988 edition carried a leading article by Andrew V R Smith, 'Freedom from Communism - the hope of millions'. The December edition cited AVR Smith as the ''Young Europeans for World Freedom'' Secretarty-General. | ||
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Western Goals (UK) was a far-right group, founded as the British branch of the American organisation the Western Goals Foundation.
The group was formed in May 1985 with Stuart Notholt and Andrew V R Smith of the Young Conservative Monday Club) as its directors. Its initial Parliamentary Advisory Board included the Rev. Martin Smyth, Ulster Unionist MP for South Belfast, who was also a vice-president of Western Goals (UK).
Western Goals was essentially an anti-communist and ultra-conservative organisation. Its activities included campaigning against charities such as Oxfam, War On Want, and Christian Aid which it saw as left-wing and denouncing as "extermist", left-wing Labour Party candidates such as Ken Livingstone during the 1987 election campaign.
In 1988, their literature stated that they were "Britain's leading political research organization for investigating and exposing liberal and Marxist threats to Western values. It has been involved inn highlighting Marxist control of 'Third World development agencies'."
In 1988 they helped organise a visit to Britain by Jonas Savimbi leader of Angola's UNITA rebel group, following which a member of their directorate visited Angola and apartheid South Africa.
At the October 1988 Conservative Party Conference, Western Goals UK held a very successful fringe meeting on the subject of "International Terrorism - how the West can fight back". The speakers were Sir Alfred Sherman, Andrew Hunter,MP, and Harvey Ward. Peter Dally of WACL's UK Chapter, the British Freedom Council, was in the chair and an inspiring message was read to the meeting from General Sir Walter Walker. Andrew Hunter gave considerable detail concerning top-level links between the IRA and ANC.
The group published numerous policy sheets and a newsletter entitled Young European and edited by Stuart Notholt. The October 1988 edition carried a leading article by Andrew V R Smith, 'Freedom from Communism - the hope of millions'. The December edition cited AVR Smith as the Young Europeans for World Freedom Secretarty-General.
The following year they expanded both their membership, activities, and organisation, becoming the Western Goals Institute, independent of the US foundation.