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POPULAR FRONT

Exposing Iron March's "Rope Culture" // PREVIEW

POPULAR FRONT

Jake Hanrahan

News, Politics

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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From our series SKELETON KEY | Listen in full only at https://www.patreon.com/popularfront

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0:00.0

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0:02.1

This is a preview of a paybilled episode.

0:04.7

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0:09.4

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0:14.4

Network, all sorts.

0:17.8

Today we're going to be talking about something very horrible.

0:23.1

You can guess from the name, it calls itself Rope Culture.

0:27.4

Can you kind of tell us what is Rope culture exactly?

0:30.8

Rope culture is a website that a Russian fascist name Alisher Mukhidinoff formed.

0:42.3

And this came out of Iron March, which is also a fascist forum that he created.

0:50.3

And it was very popular with accelerationists.

0:54.9

Iron March was up from 2011 until 2017.

1:01.8

And in 2015,

1:06.7

Alisher set up Rope Culture as a website to host an electronic magazine, an e-zine, which they called

1:18.5

noose. And back in those days, Nazis would put up flyers advertising Iron March, and often it would have both the Iron

1:31.3

March website listed and Rope Culture listed.

1:35.7

And this easing noose, it was a collection of essays.

1:55.4

It also included podcasts, but a lot of like fascist ideology texts were posted on the site.

1:59.7

Right. So how was rope culture different from Ironmatch?

2:11.7

The main difference is that it was a separate platform to publish intact articles or essays.

2:18.6

And many of these were published digitally as a PDF.

2:27.0

Some were very lengthy and became the start of longer pieces of text.

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