anti-antifa notes (november 20, 2025) : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As noted previously, over in Trumplandia, Cheet0 Mussolini has declared WAR! on anTEEfa (again), though this time with various added, legal-sounding declarations.

Recently, as part of this cack-handed attempt to repress political dissent in the United States, the US State Department has published a list of four entities designated as being ‘foreign terrorist’. See : Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups, November 13, 2025:

Terrorist designations expose and isolate entities and individuals, denying them access to the U.S. financial system and resources they need to carry out attacks.

All property and property interests of designated individuals or groups that are in the United States or that are in possession or control of a U.S. person are blocked. U.S. persons are generally prohibited from conducting business with sanctioned persons. It is also a crime to knowingly provide material support or resources to those designated, or to attempt or conspire to do so.

Persons that engage in certain transactions or activities with those designated today may expose themselves to sanctions risk.  Notably, engaging in certain transactions with them entails risk of secondary sanctions pursuant to counterterrorism authorities.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control in the US Treasury Department has also published a statement, with a longer list of alternate names for the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI).

Remarkably, of the four ‘groups’ listed, only one, ‘Antifa Ost’, is anti-fascist, the others — FAI/FRI, Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense — are some variant of anarchist/insurrectionary. Further, as such, they’re just the latest in a long series of such cells/groups/networks based in western Europe, undertaken no lethal actions (to date), and have no obvious source of US funding or support. On the other hand, they’re certainly foreign (“Boo!”) and, obviously, considered close enough the bogeyman of God Emperor Trump’s imagination that his flunkies in the State Department could fulfill their Daddy’s wishes.

As for ‘Antifa-Ost’ (Antifa East), as best I can tell, its status as an organisation was alleged by German prosecutors, which dates its formation ‘in and around Leipzig no later than late 2017/early 2018’, and its designation as terrorist comes courtesy of the Orange Goblin King’s BFF Viktor Orbán: both blame (((George Soros))) for many of their demons. See also : Beginning of [trial] Antifa-Ost part 2, ABC Dresden, December 20, 2025 (‘On November 25, another trial against anti-fascists will begin in Dresden. They are accused of numerous attacks on neo-Nazis. Anti-fascism -especially of an autonomous and militant nature – is under acute repressive pressure. We stand by our position: for more militant anti-fascism.’) /// Wie über Jahrzehnte der Mythos Antifa aufgebaut wurde, Patrick Gensing, Belltower News, November 17, 2025.

In Australia, Sweet Potat0 Hitler’s vituperations against anti-fascists have thrilled Boomerwaffen, neo-Nazis, Fox News Australia viewers and The One Hundred Million Dollar Man, but haven’t really met with much enthusiasm outside of those circles.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #272 w Helen Young on history, myth, popular culture and the far right : November 20, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Helen Young [Bluesky]. Helen is a Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University and her research interests include ‘medievalism, popular culture (especially fantasy, video-games and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien), histories of race and racism, and literature and cultures of extremism’. We spoke to Helen about her research and the uses to which the far right puts medieval histories and popular culture in fiction and gaming,

See also : Far‐Right Extremism and Digital Book Publishing, Helen Young and Geoff M. Boucher, GNET, September 23, 2024 | Authoritarian Politics and Conspiracy Fictions: The Case of QAnon, Helen Young and Geoff M. Boucher, Humanities, Vol.11, No.3, June 2022 | Popular fiction and white extremism: Neo-Nazi ideology and medievalist crime fiction, Helen Young and Stephanie Downes, Literature Compass, Vol.19, No.11, November 2022.

4.30pm, November 20, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #271 w Kaz Ross on NSW Nazis & White Australia Party : November 13, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to friend of the show (Dr) Kaz Ross (Twitter).

Our last conversation with Kaz was in August, when we spoke to her about the National Socialist Network’s (NSN) leadership of the August March for (White) Australia.

On this occasion, we talked to her about the (police-approved) rally by the NSN on the steps of the NSW state parliament, their touted political party, and related matters.

See also : Could a ‘White Australia Party’ be on the ballot at the next NSW election?, ABC, The Radio National Hour, November 10, 2025 /// Help identify the NSW Nazis who NSW Police granted permission to rally at NSW state parliament (November 9, 2025).

4.30pm, November 13, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Help identify the NSW Nazis who NSW Police granted permission to rally at NSW state parliament

Members of Tom Sewell’s National Socialist Network (NSN), with permission from NSW police, staged a publicity stunt on the steps of the NSW state parliament yesterday.

The fuehrer was not present as he currently resides in Barwon Prison, having been charged with numerous crimes following the alleged assault by NSN members on the sacred site at Camp Sovereignty; the final chapter of the March for White Australia in Naarm in August this year.

(Also unable to make an appearance was Jonathan Salter: Mr Salter couldn’t attend because he was recently arrested for possession of alleged child sexual abuse material.)

Naturally, these nazi antics, facilitated by police, has triggered a good deal of wailing and gnashing of teef by VIPs, along with calls for more repressive laws and more police to enforce them.

A more useful response is to help identify the nazis who assembled at the photo-shoot, who appear in the material below c/o The White Rose Society.

WRS has requested and relevant infos be fwded to them via [email protected], and you can find additional photos & other infos at the WRS website.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #270 w Jennefer Harper on Decoherence Media & FashyLeaks : November 6, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Jennefer Harper [Bluesky]. Jennefer is a journalist and the co-founder (with Tristan Lee) of a new monitoring project called Decoherence Media:

Decoherence Media is an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

At a time when masked agents of the state act with impunity, emboldened neo-Nazi groups march in the streets, and one institution after another legitimizes authoritarian consolidation, there is a need for unflinching reporting to hold these forces to account. We will identify and expose fascists, whether they are wearing khakis, a suit, or a badge.

DM’s first investigation into Rope Culture (Iron March) dropped Last Thursday, and consists of:

• 1) Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” web server reveals the structure and culture of a far-right network (October 27, 2025)
• 2) Uncovered: Identities and tactics behind the neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” web server (October 28, 2025)
• 3) “Rope Culture” propagandists exposed and emails explored: From Iron March leaks to FashyLeaks (October 29, 2025)

DM has also published a handy guide on How to use FashyLeaks, which enables members of the public to more easily dig deeper into the Iron March/Rope Culture leaks.

See also : Mysterious Death Spotlights Satanic Nazi Terror Network, Jennefer Harper, Left Coast Right Watch, February 6, 2025 /// Leaked records trace path from overseas Neo-Nazi groups to Australia’s emboldened far-right, Danny Tran and Madi Chwasta, ABC, September 7, 2025.

4.30pm, November 6, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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March For White Australia on January 26, 2026

As noted previously, the March For White Australia (M4WA) is scheduled to RETVRN on January 26 next year. So too, the National Socialist Network, who’ve declared that January 26 will also be their next Big Day Out.

(Speaking of ‘a book about a fuckload of massacres’ (Trials), see : The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish the nation, Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds (eds), Allen & Unwin, 2025.)

A national public holiday since 1994, called ‘Australia Day’ since 1935, January 26 celebrates the arrival of The First Fleet, the start of British colonialism, and the declaration of Gadigal lands (and pretty much the island continent as a whole) the property of the Crown: at that time, a bloke called George III, the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.

Three cheers and a loud “huzzah”!

It’s been some little while since local flagwits have made a determined effort to rally in Naarm/Melbourne on January 26, with the organiser of the October 19 M4WA Matt Trihey, NSN members and other white nationalists having a smol assembly this year at Melbourne Park. Otherwise, in recent years, members of the NSN have picked up on the efforts of the defunct racist gang the True Blue Crew (TBC: remember those fellas?) et al and targeted council ceremonies for minor disruption: for example, in 2023, the neo-Nazis attempted to disrupt an Indigenous mourning ceremony at Coburg Town Hall.

Of course, in 2025, having witnessed some growth in numbers and protected by both thousands of flagwits and Victoria Police, on August 31 the NSN drove the point home by (allegedly — *cough*) attacking Indigenous women at the sacred site at Camp Sovereignty: at least 15 of the brave ANZACs, including NSN fuehrer Tom Sewell, are currently facing charges over the assault (though federal police have as yet declined to investigate it as a ‘hate crime’).

Prior to this, in 2020, a few dozen Proud Boys assembled at Flinders Street station wearing merch inscribed with the slogan ‘Governor Arthur Phillip did nothing wrong’; another, larger racist gathering occurred in 2018, when Kane Miller and the methgoblins of the TBC assembled in *checks notes* St Kilda.

In general, then, while tens of thousands can reasonably be expected to rally and march in the CBD in favour of Indigenous rights, the date almost invariably witnesses a handful of flagwits out to troll IRL. The occasion is also almost irresistible to serial pests like Avi Yemini and other right-wing binfluencers, and any argy-bargy resulting from their stoopid interventions is catnip to Boomerwaffen and tabloid media. So, my normal advice would be to isolate and ignore these parasites. Further, for their empty heads to be accompanied at the end of the day by empty hand-held cameras. But who knows if the flagwits from August and October will respond to the call by Sydney M4WA organiser Bec Walker and Melbourne organiser Matt Trihey to descend on January 26?

Finally, here’s a few more bits and pieces from Teh Left on M4WA:

‘March for Australia’ a rotten rightwing bloc, Labour Tribune, September 28, 2025 [ALP].
Australian protests against fascism and the far-right, wsws, October 20, 2025 [SEP].
Cops huff and media puff—we need to defend the right to protest in Melbourne, Anneke Demanuele, Red Flag, October 25, 2025 [SAlt].
Anti-racists counter March for Australia’s second round, Luke Ottavi, Solidarity, October 29, 2025.

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The United Patriot Front’s Kevin Combes : Rapist jailed

    [Update (November 2, 2025) : Sadly, it seems like the remnants of the UPF — now to be discovered in the ranks of the National Socialist Network (NSN) and its various satellites — have elected not to pass the Stahlhelm around in order to help Mr Combes: not even a Give Send Go! But speaking of the NSN, one of its recent recruits, Nigel Clifford (AKA ‘Stirling Cooper’), has been profiled in An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens (Sherryn Groch, The Age, November 1, 2025):

    A close friend of misogynist influencer Andrew Tate is part of an aggressive recruitment drive to draw rich and isolated teenagers into the ranks of Australia’s neo-Nazis.

    An investigation by this masthead has found that a key member of the National Socialist Network (NSN) is one of Tate’s close associates – and that the Nazi organisation is now using Tate-style propaganda videos to target vulnerable young men.

    Ah: the affordances of teh Intarwebs eh?

    In somewhat related news, the Australian Federal Police have announced (October 29, 2025) the formation of a new taskforce ‘to combat an online criminal network responsible for a range of crimes, including the sadistic exploitation of Australia’s youth’. Further: ‘Members of the network are typically young males from English-speaking countries with common beliefs on violent extremism, nihilism, Nazism, satanism and sadism … In Australia, 59 alleged offenders have been identified as members of this decentralised online crime network.’]

Neo-Nazi bodybuilder/personal trainer Blair Cottrell was once the fuehrer of a fascist grouplet called the ‘United Patriots Front’ (UPF), whose core membership included Kevin Combes of Perth.

Yesterday, Combes was sentenced to ’13½ years in jail for the horrific and terrifying rape of two young women 35 years ago’.

See : The 35-year wait for justice: Rapist jailed for brutal Perth and Kalgoorlie attacks, Rebecca Peppiatt, WA Today, October 30, 2025 /// Kevin Frederick Combes jailed over 1990s sex attacks on two teens in Perth CBD, South Boulder, Mya Kordic and Greig Johnston, October 30, 2025.

Between 2015–2017, Blair Cottrell’s UPF constituted itself as the political vanguard for the similarly short-lived Muslim-hating protest movement Reclaim Australia; much as Tom Sewell’s National Socialist Network (NSN) now forms the vanguard for the migrant-hating March for (White) Australia (M4WA).

I last examined what became of the UPF’s leadership in May, 2021. A quick update would note that:

• Shermon Burgess briefly converted to Islam before RETVRNing to his embrace of Nazism, and it was while wearing a Totenkopf polo that he led and spoke at the Canberra leg of the M4WA on October 19 to denounce (to some applause) ‘race traitors’ etc.

• Blair Cottrell now works as a personal trainer and otherwise remains a binfluencer who trails along after Sewell’s NSN and Matt Trihey’s National Workers Alliance (NWA); Trihey, once a member of the NSN’s predecessor The Lads Society, was the principal ‘organiser’ of the October 19 M4WA in Melbourne/Naarm.

• After successfully negotiating his various legal difficulties, like Cottrell, Neil Erikson popped up again at the M4WA in Naarm in August.

• Tom Sewell has raced ahead of the rest of the UPF pack, cucked Cottrell for leadership of the neo-Nazi movement, and could now reasonably be considered Australia’s Most Talented Nazi. Currently, he resides at Barwon Prison, awaiting trial over the the attack on the sacred site at Camp Sovereignty in August, the thrilling final chapter of the M4WA in Naarm.

Finally, on the October M4WA, Tom Tanuki provides the following account, which is highly-recommended (and as always: Never Read The Comments):

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antifa notes (october 30, 2025) : NSN: 1 def. VICPol 0 /// Decoherence Media

It’s been a while. Of late:

Local

• The neo-Nazis had a minor triumph of the swill this week, with the National Socialist Network’s Tom Sewell WINNING! in court after being found Not Guilty for a Mickey Mouse charge of ‘offensive behaviour’ arising from a NSN jackboot parade around Ballarat in December 2023.

Mr Sewell, who repped himself in court, was aided in this endeavour by a local Member of The Public, Mark Doery, who testified that he, for one, was not offended by the spectacle: “It just looked like a bunch of boys in a group, going for a walk. Nothing stood out as offensive to me, but that’s just me.”

Curiously, according to anti-fascist research group The White Rose Society, Mr Doery (above) was not only not offended at the time, but was later inspired to join the NSN in Ballan in early August and to participate with his new (?) chums in the March for White Australia later that month. That said, the prosecution’s case was weak and unlikely to succeed in any event.

• Another NSN member from Queensland, Zachary Mark Makkinga (above), was less fortunate than his Daddy, being found Guilty of a NSN stickering campaign in Milton in Brisbane in February (“Jews, chinks, arabs and blacks f— off”, “conquered not stolen”, “foreign workers today, rapists murderers tomorrow”, “Anzacs died for White Australia. Jews, chinks, arabs and blacks f**k off” and so on: the usual, in other words). This was the second time Mr MaKKKinga amirite has been pinged for playing stoopid games, last time in South Bank in 2023. His stoopid prize on this occasion was six months imprisonment, wholly suspended for a period of 12 months.

• The ‘organisers’ (a term I use loosely) of the ‘March for White Australia’ are going for a threepeat: having Marched in August and again in October, they’ve announced that January 26 — variously known as Australia, Invasion and Survival Day — is another Big Day Out for c00kers, flagwits, white nationalists and neo-Nazis. In the last few years, January 26 has witnessed massive f— off rallies by Indigenous peoples and supporters, so that’ll be interesting. Note also that the NSN has declared that January 26 is their next Big Day Out.

And/Or General

Decoherence Media is a newly-hatched monitoring project, ‘an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods’. Its first, three-part investigation is into Rope Culture, another neo-Nazi website by the people who brought you Iron March:

In November 2019, a significant far-right data leak surfaced online in the shape of the SQL database of the notorious neo-Nazi forum, Iron March … But researchers and journalists appear to have missed an insightful cache of information shedding further light on evolving contemporary far-right movements: The original torrent file containing the Iron March database also contained the full web server for the website that hosted Iron March’s electronic magazine (e-zine), “NOOSE.”

TLDR : Iron March was the birthplace (inter alia) of the abortive neo-Nazi grouplet Antipodean Resistance, which later collapsed into the NSN. Jacob Hersant (VIC) was active on the site and a member of AR. Hersant was also recently appointed co-leader of the NSN (along with Jack Eltis (NSW)) while Tom Sewell enjoys a rest at Barwon Prison. There he awaits trial for allegedly leading an assault by NSN members on the sacred site at Camp Sovereignty: the concluding, celebratory chapter of the August March for White Australia. In any case, while the Iron March leak took place in late 2019, the most serious look at the site and its Australian dimensions only took place in September 2025 with Leaked records trace path from overseas Neo-Nazi groups to Australia’s emboldened far-right (Danny Tran and Madi Chwasta, ABC, September 6, 2025).

The second part of the investigation — Uncovered: Identities and tactics behind the neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” web server — nominated Stephen Braddy as one of the zine’s editors, which was nice. On Braddy, see : Inside the twisted world of a braggart Australian neo-Nazi (Mark Schliebs, The Australian, November 15, 2019). Finally, mAAAd props to Decoherence for providing a handy guide to exploring the FashyLeaks:

As part of Decoherence Media’s article series investigating the leaked web server from the neo-Nazi online magazine Rope Culture, we’re releasing an online data interface for searching through that data, which we’re calling FashyLeaks. Besides Rope Culture, FashyLeaks also contains the Iron March database, featuring many enhancements over the original leaked version (described at the bottom of the article).

We also made a video version of this guide that you can watch.

See also : Iron March Leaks : Aussie Pride Edition (1), November 10, 2019 /// Iron March Leaks : Aussie Pride Edition (2), February 28, 2020 /// Yeah Nah Pasaran! #058 w H.E. Upchurch on Iron March & 09A : March 4, 2021.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #269 w Stanislav Vyskotsky on Anti-Fascism in TrumpLandia : October 30, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Stanislav Vyskotsky [Bluesky]. Stas is an ‘old punk, cranky academic, critical sociologist and criminologist and antifa and fascism scholar’. He’s also the author of American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism (2020) — about which we spoke to him back in March 2021 — and the forthcoming Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press). In addition, Stas is a member of the Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN), which ‘is an attempt to bring together the international community of researchers on antifascism’. We spoke to Stas about recent developments in anti-fascist movements in North America, the significance of the Trump administration’s declaration of WAR! against anti-fascism, and NSPM-7.

See also : Trump’s War on Antifa Is Destined to Backfire, Michael Gould-Wartofsky, The New Republic, October 20, 2025 /// Inside the War on Antifa, Ken Klippenstein, Oct 16, 2025 (‘Feds target “affinity” groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.’) /// ‘Absurd’: Noem claim to have arrested ‘antifa’ founder’s girlfriend stirs ridicule, Jordan Green, Raw Story, October 15, 2025.

4.30pm, October 30, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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spycops gonna spycop

Tonight (7.45pm AEDT, Thursday, October 23), two women, ‘Ellie’ & ‘Wendy’, are scheduled to give evidence to the UK’s Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI). Both were victims of a spycop named James Thomson (AKA ‘James Straven’ & ‘Kevin Crossland’). Ellie & Wendy’s abuse was detailed in December 2020 by Nick Dole in British women thought they’d found boyfriends who shared their beliefs. They were actually undercover police (ABC, December 6, 2020):

Two years ago, Queensland woman ‘Ellie’ got a call that changed her life. It was from her first love, a man named James.

She had met him in 2001 when she was living in London. She was just 21 and he was 33, but that didn’t seem to matter. They were good together.

“We just clicked. He was chatty and a good listener. He was very charming,” Ellie said.

They were together for about a year before James broke it off. He had to move away, but they remained friends.

But in 2018, he phoned her in Australia to make a startling confession: he’d been living a lie. He was an undercover police officer who’d been sent to spy on her and those in her friendship circle.

The Australian connection to the UCPI/spycops scandal extends further to political activist Helen Steel and spycop John Dines (AKA ‘John Barker’). Unmasking the spy cops: how women found the truth about men who tricked them into relationships, Rob Evans, The Guardian, March 5, 2025:

Helen Steel was in her 20s and deeply in love with a man who told her he would “like to spend the rest of his life” with her.

She and John Barker had just moved into a new flat and would share long walks in the countryside, where they hoped to one day buy a cottage using money he had inherited.

“I had never felt this intensity of love for someone before,” she says. “Although we’d had a few small arguments … John and I had been blissfully happy”.

One day he surprised her by suggesting that he wanted children with her. “I was a little startled and asked how many he had in mind,” she says. “Six,” he replied.

But it was all a lie – even his name.

In reality he was an undercover police officer who had been sent to spy on her and her political allies.

In 2016 it was discovered that, from 2010, Dines worked at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security (Charles Sturt University). In 2012, he was mentioned as Assistant Professor, receiving a team award for ‘professional excellence’.

For more infos, please see:

Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance : COPS helps support, promote and coordinate the quest for justice for people affected by political undercover police spying.
Police Spies Out of Lives : A support group campaigning and working to achieve an end to the sexual and psychological abuse by undercover police officers.
Spycops Info : Featuring a regularly-updated blog/podcast.
SpycopsResearch An info database and Undercover Research Group project.

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