As many of you may know, Aryan Front, a newly-formed neo-Nazi group, recently stated their intentions to march alongside Bristol Patriots at their demonstration on Saturday 7th March. In their video statement on X, the Aryan Front proclaimed that “Racial treason is the worst of all crimes! It’s time for Antifa to meet the hanging tree…” before four young men are depicted posing behind a banner and swastika flags and performing the Nazi salute. Aryan Front’s ideology is drawn from the Creativity Movement, a militant white supremacist cult established in the US in 1973, which regards Hitler as “the greatest leader the White Race has ever produced”.

Moments ago, Aryan Front announced that they wouldn’t attend after all, claiming to not want to march along side ‘Jewish figures’ ‘Iranians’ and ‘mud people’ – seemingly in reference to Bristol Patriots support of Israel and US-Israeli intervention in Iran.

It’s very likely that Aryan Front have some unspoken qualms about marching in Bristol this weekend – namely that the antifascist presence is going to be bigger and more militant than ever. Make no mistake: they are scared of us.

Despite this welcome development, we must stay on alert! In-fighting amongst the far-right doesn’t make Bristol Patriots any less dangerous and abhorrent to us. They were aware that neo-Nazis were joining their march and, they made no effort to discourage them. Further, we know at least two members of Aryan Front are based in the Bristol area, so they may still turn up without declaring themselves as members of the group. In addition to this, known neo-nazi football hooligan Ryan Ferguson has independently declared he is attending, along with Kai Cunningham of White Vanguard (the neo-Nazi group that Aryan Front split from).

Aryan Front have also stated that they ‘are not finished with Bristol’. Let’s send them a message on Saturday: Racists will never be welcome here.