Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s Yorkshire regional organiser Samuel Melia, has been jailed for two years today in a major blow to the fascist group. Melia is the husband of PA’s deputy leader Laura Towler (real name Laura Melia) and the couple, who are expecting their second child, have been
Last month the Homeland Party (Homeland) became the first British fascist party to register with the Electoral Commission in over a decade. Homeland split from Patriotic Alternative (PA) last year, which we reported on at the time. In an inaugural meeting held on the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday, Homeland’
Last month, the fascist Homeland Party (Homeland), the breakaway split from Patriotic Alternative (PA), scored an unexpected coup within the ethnonationalist far right. It officially registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission - something PA has failed to do for years. The fledgling party has bragged about its success
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We want to take our investigations to the next level and to have even more of an impact - to do so we need your help to pay for server costs, travel and equipment hire. For the past year, we have worked tirelessly to expose key organisers and activists within the
Tomorrow a significant number of far-right activists, from across the UK, are planning on protesting in central London and are intent on violence following inflammatory statements by leading politicians. We have seen messages in which far-right activists discuss attacking pro-Palestinian protestors, anti-fascists and ethnic minorities. These
A key organiser in the new fascist Homeland Party had three shotguns seized by police after we exposed him as a neo-Nazi who had shared links to terrorist manifestos.
Red Flare can reveal the identity of “Yuro” - a founding host of the now-defunct, virulently racist neo-Nazi podcast, The Absolute State of Britain (TASOB), and a key figure in fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) - as Stefan Kelvin Rutland
Following our exposés last week, the neo-Nazi Homeland Party have been asked to leave the anti-migrant campaign in Cannock, Staffordshire by local residents and the council candidate they had been supporting. This is a major blow to their community organising. Shunned by locals, Homeland held a poorly-attended
An ‘independent’ council candidate in next week’s local elections is an anti-Semite closely linked to neo-Nazis. David Hyden-Milakovic has helped promote anti-migrant protests - in return fascists and neo-Nazis have supported his electoral campaign. Hyden-Milakovic is standing to be an independent councillor for Cannock
Leaked audio reveals fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) has undergone a catastrophic split, with former National Administrative Officer Kenny Smith leading a faction including a majority of PA regional organisers and officers, and forming a new party called Homeland. During a meeting on Wednesday, PA leader Mark Collett made desperate
We can reveal that fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s regional organiser for Wales is Jerome O’Reilly from Cardiff. O’Reilly was deputy head boy of Radyr Comprehensive School in Cardiff before attending the University of Bath, where he was a member of the skiing club. On Saturday, PA’
One of the neo-Nazis organising Saturday’s anti-migrant protest in Cannock, Staffordshire is Dylan Tonkiss from Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. Tonkiss is the 24-year-old son of the CEO of ‘the UK’s leading retirement home developer’ McCarthy Stone. Tonkiss is a posh boy who lives in a
We can expose another member of fascist party Patriotic Alternative’s West Midlands region, who has been promoting their protest in Cannock this Saturday. Susan Chetta, from Wem, Shropshire, has been photographed at numerous PA events. Chetta claims to work as a teaching assistant in the Shrewsbury area for Shropshire
Fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) held a secret conference for their members near Milton Keynes this weekend. PA’s previous conference - which was advertised in advance, with tickets available to non-vetted supporters - was disrupted after we revealed the venue.
Yesterday, Kris Kearney (aka “Charlie Big Potatoes”) plead guilty to two offences of disseminating terrorist publications. At the time of the offences, Kearney was fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s national fitness officer. Following his guilty plea, PA have published a statement attempting to minimise and distance themselves from Kearney’
A neo-Nazi from Stoke-on-Trent is behind a ‘migrant hotel’ protest in Cannock, Staffordshire. Connor Ramirez Marlow is the administrator of the ‘Cannock says no to migrant hotels’ Facebook group and organiser of an upcoming protest in Cannock town centre. Originally from the market town of Newton-le-
On Friday night a protest against migrants being housed in a hotel in Knowsley, Liverpool, turned violent and a police van was set on fire. The protest followed rumours of sexual harassment by someone alleged to be a resident at the hotel. Fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) claim to have
Fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) are currently promoting a number of protests against drag events and the housing of migrants in hotels. This Saturday, PA’s East of England region are attending a protest against a drag event at Tate Britain in Central London. On 25 February PA’s Yorkshire
Fascist party Patriotic Alternative is intending to hold its secret conference tomorrow at the Stirk House Hotel which is north-east of Clitheroe, Lancashire, off the A59. Please let the hotel know what you think about them hosting this gathering of neo-Nazis, racists, anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers by
We can reveal that a Swindon Council employee has been leading a secret life as a neo-Nazi and recording songs expressing genocidal fantasies. Leon Mayer, of Swindon, Wiltshire, is a member of fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s South West region and a systems development officer for Swindon Borough
We can reveal the identity of “The Ayatollah” - one of the UK’s leading white nationalist YouTubers and a key figure in fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) - as James Owens from Hixon in Staffordshire.
Fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) is campaigning against a children’s entertainment show, Drag Queen Story Hour, currently touring libraries across the UK. The campaign plays on familar transphobic and homophobic fascist tropes of “degeneracy” and smears such events as “child abuse”. Following a leafletting campaign, PA have begun to
Earlier this week, Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s ailing London branch shared a video of one of their activists trying to enter a hotel housing asylum seekers. We can reveal that this activist is Jane Lombard, a longtime resident of Dagenham in East London.
