On July 19, 1921, the first anti-fascist militia in history, the Arditi del Popolo, was formed in the port city of Piombino, in Tuscany, Italy.
Faced with a growing fascist offensive, anarchist and communist workers armed themselves around the Arditi del Popolo and, for months, managed to take to the streets of cities and working-class neighborhoods and confront the squads of blackshirts.
On July 25th, Scotland's largest fascist group plan to come to Glasgow. They plan to intimidate migrant communities and to call for mass deportations of our neighbours. We will not accept this. White supremacy is not a legitimate political position. Not in Glasgow, not anywhere.
We'll be gathering on the Green at 11am to oppose them and to ensure they don't come back to our city in a hurry.
Bring friends. Don't talk to cops. Wear a mask.
Reform UK's deputy Scottish leader Thomas Kerr is set to go on a 'vigilante' street patrol organised by a fascist anti-immigration…
REFORM UK's deputy Scottish leader Thomas Kerr is set to go on a "vigilante" street patrol organised by a far-right anti-immigration group.
The Glasgow MSP said he would "really welcome" the opportunity to go on a walk of the city with the Scots Active group, which advocates for "mass deportations" and arming Scots against "invaders".
Scots Active, founded by Darren Docherty last year, is said to be inspired by the white supremacist "active clubs" seen in the US and Eastern Europe.
The far-right group undertakes masked street patrols under the guise of protecting the local community, and frequently attends anti-immigration protests in Glasgow.
It comes as Kerr was accused of "sickening fearmongering" after filming himself going on a "walkabout" in Glasgow and claiming that the city is full of "disorder, intimidation, and neglect".
A video he shared online featured numerous clips of non-white people in an attempt to link what he called the city's "lawlessness" to migration. Asked if Kerr had any proof that the people he claimed were "migrants" were not from Scotland, Reform UK did not respond.
Earlier this week, a Scottish man became the target of far-right abuse after false claims circulated online that he was an "invader".
In response to Kerr's video, the Scots Active account commented: "Thomas you should come on a walk with Scots Active and we will show you the horrible side of Glasgow, worse than you've seen allready it vile [sic]".
Kerr said in response: "I would really welcome that opportunity, please contact my office and we'll arrange: [email protected]."
The Daily Record reports members of Scots Active have a WhatsApp group titled "Get These C**** Out!", and The National has also seen evidence of the account referring to migrants as "c****".
According to the Record, Scots Active members attended an anti-immigration protest in Glasgow on June 13, in which individuals reportedly targeted ethnic minorities and made Nazi salutes.
The group's official Facebook page has shared posts about wanting to arm Scots with guns, with a number of members commenting in response about needing them against "invaders", with one user adding "who knows what they've got in the mosques", and another saying: "You can use my house as a weapons stash if you want."
Scots Active once posted "fuck multiculturalism", before liking a comment from another user underneath which read: "Get them all to fuck out off our citys .our country WHITE LIVES MATTER".
The account also endorsed a comment which called on members to find out where migrants are being housed "and get homeless in there squating [sic] before migrants are moved in", and to "change the locks", which they said would "cause so much problems for the councils".
And following the Holyrood election in May, the group shared a post referring to Scottish Greens MSP Iris Duane as a "thing".
"If you voted for these things you need locked up with them in foamy cells till you work out wit the fuck is wrong with you ... how this is able to run for any position of power and not in a mental health institution is beyond me," the account wrote.
The group denies it is racist and urged critics not to "confuse opposition to illegal immigration with racism".
"Scots Active categorically rejects any attempt to portray us as Nazis, racists or extremists," the group said in a statement on July 1 in response to criticism in the media.
"We have never stood for hatred based on race or ethnicity. Our concerns have always been about illegal immigration, community safety and the issues affecting local communities."
SNP MSP Colm Merrick called on Kerr to "cancel his plans to meet up with this group and apologise for engaging with this hate-fuelled gang".
“Groups such as these are deliberately stirring up hatred in our communities by spreading misinformation to stoke fear," he told The National.
“Our elected politicians should be condemning them in the strongest possible terms rather than cosying up to them to fuel their own toxic agendas."
The Scottish Greens accused Kerr of "legitimising extremist groups".
MSP Maggie Chapman told The National: "Dressing up and calling yourselves a 'community patrol' doesn't wash when you're doing it masked, at night, filming members of the public, and putting the fear into people just trying to get home.
"The clear intent of Thomas Kerr walking down a dark street with a group of masked men carrying cameras behind him is to threaten and intimidate people."
Chapman said that Kerr "may not understand that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce", but that "he’s providing ample evidence of that truth".
She continued: "We don’t need politicians legitimising extremist groups that perform Nazi salutes. We need representatives who stand up to hatred, defend our diverse communities and make it clear that fascist intimidation has no place on our streets.”
Meanwhile, Stand Up to Racism Scotland said that "it comes as no real surprise that Thomas Kerr is now planning to join a fascist street patrol".
A spokesperson told The National: "Kerr continues to comment on social media about 'invasion' to demonise refugees and asylum seekers for problems affecting working class people, just like his millionaire bosses do.
"Kerr’s parliamentary support to the vigilante street movement comes at a dangerous time when these masked up groups have been organising near daily, racist street demonstrations in some of Glasgow’s most deprived communities.
"They have spread misinformation to whip up fear and hysteria, to direct it at migrants, refugees and anyone they see as ‘foreign’. They are trying to replicate the racist pogroms that we have seen this summer."
The spokesperson added: "They don’t care about women’s safety or the local communities they scaremonger with misinformation and racist scapegoating. They are only interested in building a far-right movement."
Wondered if you'd let your Canadian followers know about this, there's a white supremacist group up here called the "Dominion Society," basically the Canadian equivalent of Patriot Front, and they've been putting up these disgusting posters around my Winnipeg neighborhood. I tore them down, but idk if there's any more out there. Could you get the word out so we can chase this shit out of our city?
ALERTA! ALERTA! WINNIPEG ANTIFASCISTA!
Y'all need to be on high alert for the fuckers.
Might be a good time to cover Treaty 1 territory with antifa posters and flyers and stickers?
On July 25th, Scotland's largest fascist group plan to come to Glasgow. They plan to intimidate migrant communities and to call for mass deportations of our neighbours. We will not accept this. White supremacy is not a legitimate political position. Not in Glasgow, not anywhere.
We'll be gathering on the Green at 11am to oppose them and to ensure they don't come back to our city in a hurry.
Bring friends. Don't talk to cops. Wear a mask.
‼️ Scottish Anti-Fascist Mobilisation to Dundee ‼️
On Saturday 18th July Aberdonian far-right group Unite the Klans are planning to descend on our city alongside fascists from across Scotland, in an attempt to repeat the disgusting scenes of racial violence we saw in Glasgow and Arbroath. This is a desperate throw of the dice to try and reignite the thoroughly extinguished "Dundee Patriot" movement, whose last demonstration saw just 3 men with a list of convictions for racist and misogynistic crimes gather in the city square to chat to drunk teenage girls. This time they hope to increase their numbers with busloads of nazis and abusers from other cities. Let's send the message once and for all that Dundee is and always will be antifascist, with a proud tradition of welcoming refugees. Our city square belongs to us, the diverse and organised working class of Dundee.
Now hold on a minute there, Fox News! Let's not ignore a key detail of this study:
"The paper, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, combines immigration court records with government administrative data to measure how the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration between 2021 and 2024 affected local labor and housing markets."
So a 2.2% increase in home prices attributed to immigration over a three year period = a .73% annual increase. Likewise, a 1.4% increase in rent prices over the same three years = a .46% annual increase. The numbers were paltry and insignificant to begin with, but when you recalculate for the annual effect, they are probably more likely due to the statistical margin of error than anything else. Which would mean that immigration does not impact on home or rent pricing.
Meanwhile over at Harvard University, a recent study of the same issue found the opposite - that the uptick in immigration to the U.S. in the same time period "does not lineup with the substantial increase in home prices and rents of recent years." So how to explain the increase in housing costs?
-a historically large millennial generation reaching prime homebuying age in this period
-pent-up demand for housing after the dampening effect of the 2009 recession
-the increased demand for homes with more space as more and more people have been working from home
-historically low mortgage interest rates vs. the constrained housing supply
Funny how the study Fox News reported on missed all that huh? Also funny how Fox News didn't report on the Harvard University study, isn't it?
"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."
Think about what you can do at your job or in your daily life to resist fascism when the opportunity presents itself!
On the 4th of July 2018 some anarchists in Sydney painted a memorial piece for Dan Shersty and Spit Newborn.
Dan and Spit were young anti-fascist skinheads, punk musicians, and founding members of the Las Vegas chapter of Anti-Racist Action.
On the 4th of July 1998 they were lured into the desert on the outskirts of Vegas and gunned down by a gang of 6 white supremacists, only three of whom ever served time for the murders.
Twenty years on, their memory is kept alive in the daily struggle against racism and fascist terror.
June 27, 2026 - More than 5000 antifascists marched in Edinburgh, Scotland, to say no to racism and no to islamophobia, in response to a racist attack earlier in the week in which 5 people were injured. They observed a minute’s silence at the location of the recent attack for all the victims of racist attacks. [video]
"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."
Think about what you can do at your job or in your daily life to resist fascism when the opportunity presents itself!
June 30, 2026 - Thousands of antifascists in Génova, Italy, marched through the city to commemorate the popular uprising in 1960 against the party congress of the neo-fascist Movimiento Social Italiano, which tried to rebuild Italian fascism after world war two. The current ruling party of Italy, Meloni's "Fratelli d'Italia", is a direct descendant of that fascist party. [video]