Thomas Sewell, the leader of the now-disbanded National Socialist Network (NSN), has been committed to stand trial over a violent attack on a major First Nations sacred site in Melbourne last August. Sewell appeared via video link at Melbourne Magistrates Court today where he pleaded not guilty to five charges including violent disorder, affray and […]
The gamechanger that wasn’t: how the Kremlin planned to rescue Orbán
Russian intelligence does not do subtlety. It does, however, do audacity, and an internal document obtained by the Washington Post reveals just how far the Kremlin is willing to go to protect its most valuable European asset: far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The document, originating from Russia’s foreign intelligence service and apparently verified by […]
Neo-nazi leader and Capitol rioter held on gun charges
The FBI has arrested Mathew David Bair, a leading member of the neo-Nazi accelerationist network Injekt Division, and convicted of storming the capitol on 6 January 2021, on charges of unlawfully possessing firearms as a convicted felon. A federal magistrate judge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, ordered Bair to be held on remand, ruling that his release […]
Tommy Robinson’s grand tour of America’s anti-democratic right
Tommy Robinson has spent much of late February and March touring the United States, and it has revealed much about his true politics. He has been rubbing shoulders with senior figures in the Trump administration, election deniers, self-declared enemies of democracy and, most recently, men convicted for their leading roles in the 6 January 2021 […]
Australian nazis in court over Anzac Day disruption
Three members of Australia’s neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN) are to contest charges arising from their disruption of a dawn Anzac Day memorial service in Melbourne last April. Jacob Hersant, Nathan Bull, and Michael Nelson appeared in court this week and entered not guilty pleas to offences including behaving in an offensive manner in a […]
The French far right and the martyrdom of a nazi street thug
When Quentin Deranque died on 14 February, two days after suffering catastrophic head injuries in a street fight in Lyon, something else died alongside him: any honest account of who he actually was, or how he came to die. Within hours, the European far right had a martyr. Within days, it had constructed a myth. […]