 According to "Searchlight", in 1998 Southgate was partly the subject of a smear piece by former colleagues in the ITP, in the booklet "Satanism and its Allies – The Nationalist Movement Under Attack", published by Final Conflict, and linking him and others that left the ITP to Satanism, with which he has never been involved.Graham D. Macklin refers to this slander as an "attack" due to leaving the "staunchly Catholic ITP" although he points out that it was only later, after the original publication of the booklet, that the ITP decided for some reason to produce an update that "singled out Southgate as a ‘Satanist’ and ‘pro-faggot’".Southgate, to further his ideology of "revolutionary nationalism", subsequently formed the English National movement, which denounced Hitler and Mussolini as "reactionary charlatans" whilst praising fascists he felt had represented the Third Position more sincerely, such as Otto Strasser, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and José Antonio Primo de Rivera.