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Saturday, September 23rd, 2023

Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Growing Rapidly, New Research Shows

Author:     Mack Lamoureux
Source:     Vice
Publication Date:     September 22, 2023 | 7:00am
 Link: Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Growing Rapidly, New Research Shows
Stephan:  

The biggest threat of violence in the United States, and several countries in Europe are militarily trained White Nationalists. Young aggrieved fearful White men training for violence. This is a growing trend, as this article describes. This trend is going to get worse and needs much greater consideration. These White men have already tried to overthrow democracy once. The next iteration I think is going to be more violent.

A propaganda photo released by a French Active Club. They blurred their faces so they could not be identified. Credit: Telegram

Active Clubs—neo-Nazi clubs that focus on fitness and martial arts training—are growing at a rapid pace and not just in the United States. 

From Denmark, to France, and Canada, semi-autonomous white supremacist groups have been popping up across the globe and recruiting young white men to come train. According to a new report by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) that was shared with VICE News, “since the creation of the first Active Club in late 2020, at least 100 Active Clubs have been created in the U.S, Canada, and Europe.”

“This is an unprecedented growth. I’ve never seen a network in right-wing extremism grow so fast. Usually it takes years to build a transnational network,” Alexander Ritzmann, the report’s author and senior advisor to the CEP, told VICE News. “It’s concerning.” 

Active clubs could best be described as localized neo-Nazi groups built around the idea of working out and training martial arts—typically boxing and Brazilian jiu-jitsu—together. The […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Monday, September 25, 2023 at 6:13 am

    This should be seen in the context of the failure of 40 years neo-liberal policies and for the failures of the system to reform the worst consequences of capitalism.