- The Base, founded by US national Norman Spear, is a global White Supremacist/ White Nationalist network launched with the aim of unifying Extreme Right-Wing Terrorists into a militia aiming to prepare and train for the coming 'race war'. JTAC assesses that the international profile of the group means that ***.[1]
- Northern Order (NO) is an AWD-aligned group based in Canada. A Canadian-based member, known as 'Dark Foreigner', creates and disseminates violent imagery for AWD and internationally AWD-aligned groups. It supports Siege culture and 'accelerationism'.[2]
- Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) was an international virtual White Supremacist group; it also had a presence in Europe and the Five Eyes. On 8 February 2020, it claimed to have 'dissolved', and in April 2020 Estonian police arrested a 13-year-old boy, identified only as 'Commander', who had allegedly created and led the FKD. JTAC assesses that:
***[3]
Links to the UK
123. Links have existed between ERWT groups and individuals in the UK, Europe and elsewhere for several years. The Director General of MI5 confirmed that "the groups element of this is less influential on what we are seeing amongst our subjects than the individual links over the internet".[4] Across the board, the most striking feature has been the increase in globally affiliated groups, and the growth of transnational and shared ideologies—this is likely due to ERWT groups' increased use of the online space (which is explored in depth in the next chapter).[5]
124. One of the most important influences has been the book Siege, a collection of newsletters and articles by American neo-Nazi James Mason,[6] a document Professor Matthew Feldman calls "amongst the most dangerous Neo-Nazi texts currently available".[7]
- ↑ ***
- ↑ 'Accelerationism' is an extreme Far-Right theory which centres on the idea that rebuilding a racially pure world order requires stoking chaos through mass attacks and taking up arms to ignite a race war.
- ↑ ***
- ↑ Oral evidence - MI5, 28 April 2021.
- ↑ ***
- ↑ Mason joined the American Nazi Party in 1966, aged 14, and later joined the terrorist group the National Socialist Liberation Front. After a period of dormancy in the 2000s, Mason emerged online again in July 2017, a move which galvanised neo-Nazis across the world.
- ↑ Written evidence - Professor Matthew Feldman, 23 October 2020.
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