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‘Unite the Kingdom’ rallies flop across UK

At the end of October, ‘Tommy Robinson’ held his last national ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally in London. He, of course, was not there having been detained on remand two days earlier. And now he is now serving an 18-month sentence for contempt of court.  At the time we wrote that:

“Without the presence of ‘Tommy Robinson’ himself, the whole thing founders. Numbers attending seem to be not much different from those who attended in July, and were largely, and predictably, middle aged and male…

“By the end thousands just couldn’t be bothered staying to watch TR’s latest so-called ‘documentary’ and drifted away.”

Today’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rallies called for various towns and cities around the country, flopped spectacularly, showing once again that without the demagogic presence of ‘Robinson’ (real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon), the ‘cultural movement’ he claims to lead is a mere chimera.

In Rotherham, the scene of an appalling attempted arson attack on a migrant hotel in August, just six (yes, six) right wingers responded to today’s ‘Unite the Kingdom ‘call, huddling together ouside a police station, hugely outnumbered by the anti-racist opposition.

In Coventry, Newcastle and Altrincham, and other centres, big anti-fascist turnouts confronted miniscule groups of fascists – where the fascists bothered to show up at all. A hugely impressive anti-fascist rally in Norwich responded to a very late mobilisation call. The fascists’ biggest turnout was in London where they managed to muster 15 (yes, 15) supporters.

Perhaps most significant, on the day, was the pathetic turnout of Paul Golding’s Britain First, who very late on announced a national demonstration in Lichfield. Now, the venue may have been declared late, but they have been setting this up for the last two weeks, and yet they could still only muster about 50 supporters. This, from the party which Golding claims has 20,000 members. Today’s showing gives the lie to that particular fiction.

At the end of the day, this was the only image they posted from their ‘national demonstration’. Anything else would have been too embarrassing. As if this isn’t…

The truth is that BF is a party on its last legs, kept in existence solely to provide a living for Golding and his ‘co-leader’ Ashlea Simon. Hence the ceaseless grifting appeals for funds for this that and the other. We are witnessing its tortuous grunts and gasps as it expires, still pleading for cash from a dwindling band of supporters who never seem to learn they are being conned.

As we wrote recently: Britain First is approaching the end of the road.

Read about it here: https://www.searchlightmagazine.com/2024/11/britain-first-the-end-of-the-road/

UKIP: Rats desert the sinking ship

Tony Peters takes the pulse of the terminally ill UKIP, which barely scraped together 40 delegates for its annual conference and has since continued to haemorrhage members

This article appears in the Autumn 2024 issue of Searchlight, and pulls together our recent online coverage of UKIP.

UKIP’s annual conference, held in Nottingham at the beginning of October, marked a new departure for Britain’s fastest shrinking political party. For the first time it was held jointly with Robin Tilbrook’s far-right English Democrats.

Proceedings kicked off, so to speak, with UKIP’s unelected leader Nick “The Kick” Tenconi steaming across the conference hotel car park towards an anti-racist demonstration gathered there, barking into his megaphone: “Who invited you to my conference?”

That’s right, “… my conference”. Now, that would be a bit presumptuous at the best of times, but when you are the completely unelected leader of a political party and have not even yet had to attend an NEC meeting to introduce yourself, it really is a bit rich.

Of course, Tenconi made sure that he was filmed doing this and a video duly posted on YouTube was titled “Nick Tenconi storms through far-left blockade”. What it appeared to show, however, was more like Tenconi “storming” towards the demo, hoping to provoke a confrontation and being rather disappointed when the smiling, chanting anti-racists politely stood aside to let him pass.

The event itself was very poorly attended. As you can see from the photo, the conference room – which at times accommodated both UKIP and ED contingents – had seating set out for only around 80 and, according to Searchlight sources, fewer than half of these were occupied even at peak times.

The majority appeared to be from the ED. And things must have felt a bit odd to participants in a session on “UKIP branding”, considering that pretty much all the “branding” in the room belonged to the ED.

Criminal conviction

But the thin attendance was probably a relief for Tenconi, who might otherwise have had to answer some serious questions about his suitability to lead the party. He had recently faced a damaging revelation that he had a criminal conviction for kicking someone in the head in a night-club brawl.

Then some incendiary material appeared online casting doubts about the sexual morality of the man who turns up at Speakers’ Corner chanting “Christ is King”. It was posted on a Twitter account set up by UKIP dissidents in 2019 and included screen grabs of a number of sex-related posts featuring accounts that, the posts alleged, involve Tenconi.

 One was the Only Fans site of Australian Elle Knox who describes herself as “Australia’s Unforgettable Sweetheart & Mens Sacred Sexuality Mentor”, who offers various graphically described online sexual services and pornographic videos. In one exchange, an account named Tenco™ Training Ltd messaged, calling her “Dream girl” and saying “marry me”.

The Tenco Training post incorporates a picture that appears to be of Tenconi. Tenco Training is a company over which he is registered as having significant control and of which he became a director when it was set up in 2014.

Also reproduced was a post supposedly from a contact site for “swinger” couples, in which “Stacey & Nick” state that they are “happy and horny and love exploring sexually!” and seek to make contact with like-minded couples, in various permutations. The accompanying picture also appears to be of Tenconi.

The third appeared to be from a “Nick Marcel Tenconi” Twitter/X account. An existing account in this name was set up by Tenconi in 2011. This alleged post contains Andrew Tate-style advice to young men on how they should treat women.

It says: “Lads – once you‘ve pulled her and/or slept with her and she starts ‘playing the game’ recognise that this is NOT the same as playing games.

“Play back, have fun.

“If she does the latter, dump the bitch. Her emotional instability is tip of the iceberg.”

We cannot be sure whether all – or indeed any – of this material is genuine. We think that it would be pretty easy to fake such images. But it arrived at a time when it seemed intended to figure dramatically in the annual conference, where Tenconi was due to explain his proposed new direction for UKIP as the party of the “new right”, fighting for the restoration of Christian values. And, as Searchlight went to press, Tenconi had not publicly denied responsibility for any of the posts.

Formal pact

ED leader Tilbrook seems pretty relaxed about the allegations. UKIP and the ED are already locked into a formal election pact known as the Patriots Alliance, which is officially registered with the Electoral Commission. However, only two Patriots Alliance candidates featured in the July general election, both are ED members with one standing in a constituency where UKIP had promised not to run against Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and did not want to be seen to be too obviously breaching that commitment.

But, at the same time, the ED ran no fewer than four candidates jointly with the neo-nazi Patriotic Alternative. Tilbrook, who is not short of a few bob, was said to have put up the funding for this curious tie-up – one organisation considerably to the right of the EDs and one that has historically been to its left. However, as the dust settled after the election there were reports that at least some of the money – possibly all of it – had not been forthcoming after all.

Alliances such as this have contributed significantly to increasing the number of disillusioned members deserting UKIP. More traditional anti-European Union, anti-immigration members have not taken kindly to such a dramatic drift to the right, even if it was heralded last year when the party NEC lifted its long-standing ban on former members of nazi groups joining up. Chairman Ben Walker (above, right) said at the time it was to open the door to more “like-minded” people.

Leaving in droves

Although the small and largely compliant conference audience might have suited Tenconi and “Rogue Builder” Walker on this occasion, participation in UKIP has plummeted to catastrophically low levels and is beginning to cause them serious problems. One particular difficulty was reflected in the question being raised by some members (at least) who were asking why they never received their e-ballots for the election of NEC members.

It turned out later that the number of applications to stand (11 – some apparently whipped up very late in the day) exactly matched the number of vacancies, so the lucky candidates could be appointed by chairman Ben Walker without the need for a tiresome election. The lucky 11 included a number of very recent recruits to the party and Tommy Robinson’s right-hand man and event organiser, Richard Inman.

This turned out to be highly significant: there had been a number of clues that UKIP and Robinson might effect some sort of link-up, although this sounded far fetched. However, events in the weeks after the conference were to confirm this remarkable development might be going ahead (see pages 12-13).

The absence of a functioning NEC over the last 6 months or so helps explain how Walker and Tenconi have been able to reposition UKIP as a party of the extreme Christian right without as much as a whisper of formal opposition. Well, almost none. There was at least one dissident voice at the gathering, and the proceedings were livened up when a gentleman ventured that convicted criminal Walker, sacked as a magistrate this year for deceiving the Ministry of Justice about his convictions, should either be expelled forthwith or handed over to the police.

Walker could barely contain his fury. A few lapdogs leapt to his defence, saying he was doing his best in difficult circumstances, but it kind of summed up where UKIP is at the present time: a pathetic, shrinking shell of its former self, terminally ill and barely breathing, kept on life support by convicted criminals Walker and Tenconi.

And, no sooner was the conference over than the resignations continued, with the departure of Wales regional officer Paul Campbell, who also resigned his party membership. In a message on the leadership WhatsApp group Campbell said that he was “disappointed at recent events in particular the leadership election fiasco. I was supporting Bill Etheridge and expected him to win easily”.

In this, Campbell was not alone. Virtually the entire membership expected UKIP veteran Etheridge, a former MEP, to be elected leader in May, and were astonished when newly recruited Lois Perry swept the board with almost 80% of the vote. Perry, of course, did not last long, resigning suddenly during the general election, citing health reasons. Of note is that the actual voting numbers in the leader election have never been published by UKIP chairman Walker, the party’s Returning Officer.  

Italy: Court rules ‘It’s OK to make the fascist salute’

Meloni stays silent, as far right welcomes ruling by Italy’s top court that displays of the raised arm salute are not illegal, if they are not part of attempts to revive the fascist party. Alfio Bernabei reports

On 16 January 2024, a debate unreported by the British press took place at the European Parliament that will hopefully lead to further questioning into a subject that needs to be kept under close observation, the more so after the results in the September 2024 Austrian election.

It dealt with the threat presented by the growing display of nazi-fascist symbols and salutes seen at ceremonies and parades. A group of MEPs voiced their concern about the impact these may produce in the resurgence of fascism that could result in degrees of acceptance and legitimisation: “Oh well, everyone is getting used to this. So what?”

Ylva Johansson, a member of the European Commission said: “Let us remember what neo-fascism is. It is not a challenge in a democratic system, it is a challenge to the democratic system – and that challenge comes with a corrosive effect on acceptable discourse, on media freedom, on rule of law … it goes slowly until it goes quick, and then it is too late.”

The case of Italy was brought up as being of particular concern.

Sophia in ‘t Veld, on behalf of the Renew Europe Group, observed: “I would be interested to know if the President of the European Commission [Ursula von der Leyen] will ask Prime Minister [Giorgia] Meloni to speak out to condemn the Hitler salute, because we said ‘never again’ in Europe.”

Rosa D’Amato, speaking for the Verts/ALE group recalled: “Every year in Rome hundreds of post-fascists gather … in Italy, there is a party that comes from that tradition and there are highly placed state representatives who do not want to cut the ties with that tradition … faced with the images [of parades, salutes] there are those who minimise … those who are pleased, those who keep quiet.

“Giorgia Meloni keeps quiet … unfortunately, Italy has never come to terms with fascism…”

Mussolini’s legacy

Following on from this debate questions continued to crop up during 2024 on Meloni’s refusal to declare herself an anti-fascist. In fact, the answer is publicly advertised by the logo of the party she represents, Brothers of Italy – the tricolour flame – a commonly recognised fascist symbol alluding to the eternal endurance of Mussolini’s legacy. Meloni will not ditch that flame. (Add to this the bust of Mussolini treasured by the Senate President at his home and the expressions of sympathy in past years by the President of the Chamber of Deputies for Golden Dawn, and the picture gets worse.)

As for public displays of the fascist salute, contrary to expectations that it might be outlawed to discourage far-right militants and sympathisers and limit its dissemination and approval through social platforms, if anything, it has received a boost from the highest court in the land, the Court of Cassation.

The supreme court was brought under pressure to make a decision by anti-fascist organisations such as the National Association of Partisans, ANPI, following a number of events deemed to constitute an apologia of fascism. The Italian Constitution includes articles based on anti-fascist values, however, the court made the decision that the fascist salute is allowed, unless it presents the threat of revival of the fascist party. The ruling leaves nazi-fascists in Italy free to make the raised-arm salute, as long as they deny having such an objective in mind.

Already in the past few months some local tribunals, where fascists were on trial for making the fascist salute, have dropped prosecutions. Typical is the case of 12 people who stood out among the 3,000 taking part in a ceremony in Mussolini’s birthplace, Predappio, to mark the anniversary of the March on Rome, including a couple who had dressed their eight-year-old child in a fascist uniform.

Following their acquittal, one of their lawyers expressed his satisfaction: “Thousands of citizens were accused of taking part in an illegal gathering in violation of the Italian Constitution”, he said. “Those who insulted them by reporting them to the authorities should now offer their apologies.”

Racist song

The latest case, which may come to court in a further attempt to prosecute public displays of the fascist salute, happened near the summer residence of the Pope in Castel Gandolfo, almost at the same time as the plane carrying UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer landed in Rome on his September visit to Meloni.

A video went viral showing the fascist salute performed to celebrate the wedding of a television presenter, accompanied by the chanting of Faccetta Nera (Little Black Face), a racist marching song that became famous during Mussolini’s annexation of Ethiopia.

Alas, none of the four journalists selected to put questions to Meloni and Starmer at the press conference, which saw the British PM visibly charmed by his host, took the opportunity to elicit their opinion on the salute performed in the vicinity.

Apparently Starmer’s motive for the visit was to learn from Meloni her methods of controlling “illegal” migration, although every detail had been in the public domain for over a year. No wonder she appeared to wear the “thank-you-for-coming-to-learn-from-us” pose of complacency almost reminiscent of the newsreel showing Il Duce receiving UK Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1933.

What was it all about? Details of encounters between British and Italian prime ministers are not always divulged. Indeed, some documents at the National Archives recording such visits dating back more than 30 years ago remain secret under the 60-year rule.      

Pic credit: President of the Ukraine

Stieg Larsson 1954 - 2004. A dedicated anti-fascist and dear friend of Searchlight

Stieg Larsson is best known – and known the world over – for his Millennium Trilogy: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, three novels about the fictional character Lisbeth Salander, which sold in their millions and became hugely successful films. Sadly, Stieg did not enjoy any of this success: the books were published posthumously after he died, 20 years ago this November.

But for many years, from the early 1980s, Stieg was Searchlight’s Swedish correspondent who collaborated with us on countless investigations into the far right. He was a colleague, a comrade and a dear friend. Searchlight’s former European Editor Graeme Atkinson wrote this tribute at the time:

It was with tremendous shock that we learnt of the sudden death, from a heart condition, of our longtime Swedish correspondent Stieg Larsson on 9 November at the still young age of 50.

Stieg, who was also the chief editor of Searchlight’s Swedish sister magazine Expo, was a leading international anti-fascist. He will be terribly missed by all who had the unforgettable privilege of knowing him, working with him and being one of his friends and comrades.

Stieg managed to pack a vast amount of experience into his all-too-short 50 years, beginning with his poor upbringing in the forests of northern Sweden. His horizons were unlimited and, after enthusiastically doing military service, he travelled widely in Africa, witnessing bloody civil war in Eritrea at first hand.

On his return to Sweden, he took up his profession of journalism, working as a news journalist, feature writer and brilliant graphics artist for the Swedish news agency TT. To his work he brought a razor-sharp mind, and covered every major world news story as it broke and unfolded for almost two decades. His artistic abilities extended into the realms of painting and layout.

At the same time as working for TT, and with the greatest conviction, he put his talents at the disposal of the anti-fascist movement, again as a writer and illustrator, but most notably as a researcher whose knowledge of the Swedish and international far right could only be described as encyclopaedic.

This expertise he constantly made available to the growing international anti-fascist network. His journalistic output for the network of anti-fascist publications, especially Searchlight for which he had written since the early 1980s, was huge, always guided by an acute news sense and a talent for separating disinformation from fact to get to the bottom of a situation.

Stieg was unique and his contribution to the anti-fascist movement, the left and the cause of a better, more humanistic and more egalitarian society was inestimable. He never abandoned the boundless optimism, hopes and ideas that first led him to engage in political activity.

He was the incarnation of internationalism with a record that was unmatched, whether it was his work in solidarity with Vietnam, his support for the Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, whose socialist government was so cruelly destroyed by infighting, murder and US invasion, or his later life’s work of energetically combating racism, anti‑Semitism, fascism and discrimination of all kinds, especially against women.

The seriousness of the issues he dealt with never caused him to lose his ability to smile or to bury the sense of humour and warmth that fired his endless collection of hilarious stories and anecdotes. It is hard to imagine that he will never again sit with us and share them.

A shy person, Stieg never lost his modesty or his capacity to recognise good in others. The time he always had for other people – often accompanied by the invitation “let’s meet over a cup of coffee and talk about this” – made him a much‑loved person.

Stieg made big financial and health sacrifices for the anti-fascist cause, to which he gave everything and asked for almost nothing in return. For him, it was results that led to a better world that made his sacrifices worthwhile.

His greatest rewards he saw as his summer trips to the north of Sweden, the beautiful days when he and his family went sailing or rested at their rented summer house in the Stockholm Archipelago, the hours he spent in the bookshops of London when the chance afforded, and a late-night glass of malt whisky after a hard day’s work.

It is an alarming irony that Stieg was taken from us just as he achieved his greatest ambitions: the consolidation of Expo and the development of its staff, and the publication of his crime novels – he had just signed a major contract to have a series of novels published. Those who read them will see Stieg’s integrity, fearlessness and sense of justice in his young heroine, Lisbeth Salander, although her ways of putting things right are a far cry from Stieg’s thoughtful and gentle manner.

Stieg’s advice to those he leaves behind might well have been that of his famous fellow Swede Joe Hill: “Don’t mourn, organise!”, although with the added down-to-earth injunction: “But have some fun doing so!”

Our thoughts are with his family, whose support, advice, companionship and sometimes criticism were always so vital to him, and we extend our deepest sympathy to our comrades in Expo at this very dark and painful moment.

Farewell, Stieg, and Salud!

USA: Hate-spewing Terrorgram channels lose key motivators

A significant blow befell the transnational network of neo-nazi accelerationists when two leaders of the so-called Terrorgram Collective were arrested. On 6 September, US federal law enforcement arrested a former sex-toy salesperson in California and, 450 miles away, a video editor who went by the pseudonym “DJ Couchplant” in Idaho. Devin Burghardt reports.

Terrorgram is a decentralised network of neo-nazi accelerationist groups, influencers and meme channels on the social networking platform Telegram. Terrorgram is vanguardist in orientation, promoting stochastic terror to “accelerate” the collapse of today’s liberal democracies and replace them with all-white ethnostates. The Terrorgram Collective has become one of the most influential and dangerous conglomerations in the Terrorgram network.

“Using the Telegram platform,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in a statement, “the two advanced their heinous white supremacist ideology, solicited hate crimes, and provided guidance and instructions for terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure and assassinations of government officials.”

Federal prosecutors charged two leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison, with a long list of felonies, including one count of conspiracy, four counts of soliciting hate crimes, three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials, three counts of doxing federal officials, one count of threatening communications, two counts of distributing bombmaking instructions, and one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. If convicted, they could each face a sentence of up to 220 years in prison.

Incitement to crime

Humber and Allison are alleged to have operated Terrorgram channels and group chats, where they solicited users to commit attacks. The indictment also alleges that the two “provided instructions and guidance to equip Terrorgram users to carry out those attacks”.

As leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, Humber and Allison allegedly contributed to and disseminated Terrorgram videos and publications that “provide specific advice for carrying out crimes, celebrate white supremacist attacks, and provide a hit list of ‘high-value targets’ for assassination”.

The hit list included US federal, state and local officials, as well as leaders of companies and non-governmental organisations, many of whom were targeted because of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity. The murder of “high-value targets”, Terrorgram extolled, “would sow chaos and further accelerate the government’s downfall”.

Although hiding behind online pseudonyms, the identities of the two Terrorgram Collective leaders were first exposed by antifascist researchers more than one year before the arrest.

From sex toys to neo-nazi terror manuals

First identified by antifascist researchers at Left Coast Right Watch, 34-year-old Dallas Humber, of Elk Grove, California, once reviewed sex toys online but was drawn into the online world of hardcore racist terror.

Online, Humber was known by many names, including “Miss Gorehound”. She became “the Narrator” of Terrorgram, gaining online notoriety for narrating audiobooks of terror manifestos and white supremacist propaganda. Humber also published the “Saint Calendar”, a compilation of white supremacist terror attack anniversaries that followers were encouraged to celebrate.

Before her arrest, she had been in communication with Dylann Roof, the white nationalist who murdered nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, and Brandon Russell, founder of a neo-nazi accelerationist group Atomwaffen Division, convicted on charges of possessing explosive materials and later indicted for plotting to attack electric substations in Baltimore.

The Terrorgram Collective published an audiobook in which Humber read aloud text imploring neo-nazis to attack power grids. “Peppered all over the country are power distribution substations that keep electricity flowing,” she narrated. “Sitting ducks. Worthy prey. They are largely unprotected and often in remote locations. They can be struck at with ease, and it can be done without getting caught, allowing for multiple to be hit in a spree.”

Such attacks on the power grid, Humber read, were “unquestionably more effective than shooting up random n****rs” because “with the power off, when the lights don’t come back on, all hell will break loose, making conditions desirable for our race to once again take back what is ours”.

When Humber was arrested, federal authorities found white nationalist patches, Nazi paraphernalia, 3D printed firearms, ammunition, trigger extenders, SIM cards and flash drives, according to court documents.

The white revolution will be Telegrammed

Matthew Robert Allison, who is aged 37, grew up in Southern California and Utah. In 2008, he moved to Boise, Idaho. In addition to being a video editor and failed artist “DJ Couchplant,” he had tried to become a right-wing influencer for years. As Left Coast Right Watch noted when they identified his role in the Terrorgram Collective, before taking on a role with the network, Allison had been involved in numerous efforts to promote online white nationalism, including White Lives Matter and White American Media.

He was the Terrorgram Collective’s video editor, manager of the network’s channels and publisher.

According to a detention motion, when he was arrested, “he was wearing a backpack containing zip ties, duct tape, a gun, ammunition, a knife, lock-picking equipment, two phones and a thumb drive”. Among the items found in Allison’s apartment were a rifle and more ammunition, an “Atomwaffen mask”, a “go bag” with $1,500 cash, “baggies of pills”, a passport, SIM cards and a black balaclava.

Transnational bigoted bloodshed

The indictment further specifies three international incidents where Terrorgram users were incited to commit acts “in furtherance of white supremacist accelerationism”.

The first listed was an attack on an LGBTQ bar in Slovakia on 12 October 2022. Juraj Krajčík, aged 19 years, opened fire outside a popular LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, killing two people and wounding a third. Before killing himself, he tweeted a link to a 65‑page manifesto he had authored advocating the extermination of LGBTQ people, Jews and Black people. Krajčík cited the texts of other white supremacist mass shooters, whom he called “saints”.

He gave “special thanks” to the online community that had radicalised him. “Terrorgram Collective,” he wrote. “You know who you are … Building the future of the White revolution, one publication at a time.” As with the writings of other racist mass murderers, the Terrorgram Collective turned Krajčík’s genocide manifesto into an audiobook to inspire others.

The second incident cited was a planned infrastructure attack on energy facilities in New Jersey. Andrew Takhistov was arrested in July for allegedly recruiting someone to attack an electrical substation.

According to the authorities, he unsuspectingly made contact with an undercover agent, with whom he discussed a plan to attack an electrical substation. The two drove to a power substation, and Takhistov provided information on how to construct Molotov cocktails and avoid detection. He also discussed various “strategies for terrorist attacks, including rocket and explosives attacks against synagogues”.

The third incident involved a knife attack at a mosque in Turkey on 12 August. Wearing a skull mask and a tactical vest with a sonnenrad patch, a symbol used by nazis and white supremacists, an 18-year-old armed with a hatchet and two knives livestreamed himself stabbing multiple people near a mosque in Eskişehir, in northern Turkey. He wounded at least five people and was later detained by police. The attacker had shared copies of his manifesto, the manifesto of the Slovakian mass murderer, and publications of the Terrorgram Collective as documents “useful” to those planning attacks.

Humber wrote of the attacker online: “He was 100% our guy. But he’s not White so I can’t give him an honorary title. We still celebrating his attack tho, he did it for Terrorgram.” Humber added in a separate post: “We can’t add him to the Pantheon, but yeah, it’s a great development regardless, inspiring more attacks is the goal and anyone claiming to be an Accelerationist should support them.”

What with the arrests of Humber and Allison in the USA and the August arrest of the Russian-born founder of Telegram Pavel Durov in Paris for failing to curb illegal content on the platform, Terrorgram activists are panicked that their days of free reign on the platform could be over.         

Pictures:

Hate symbol The neo‑nazi Terrorgram Collective’s logo combines the SS Panzer Division insignia with the Telegram logo

Hate agitators
Among other incitements, Dallas Humber (far left) and Matthew Allison (left) called on neo-nazis to attack power grids, leading an undercover agent to detain one of their followers, who also included Slovakian Juraj Krajčík (bottom left), who killed two people and injured one, and an unnamed Turkish convert (bottom right), who wore a skull mask as he attacked and injured five people. The Terrorgram Collective also published white supremacists propaganda (centre), a selection of which was audio recorded by Humber

This article first appeared in the Autumn 2024 issue of Searchlight