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POPULAR FRONT

Militant Fascism Down Under // PREVIEW

POPULAR FRONT

Jake Hanrahan

News, Politics

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a preview of an episode from our new Patreon-only show Skeleton Key.

0:08.0

It's focused on the real threats of contemporary fire right militancy all over the world.

0:15.2

To listen to this series go to Patreon.com

0:18.2

slash Popular Front.

0:20.0

Sign up go to the collections tab and you'll see it there.

0:22.6

Skeleton Key, all episodes are there.

0:25.0

In terms of the more militant contemporary far-right groups,

0:30.6

who are we looking at these days,

0:32.0

who are the more active more militant groups in

0:34.9

Australia probably the most well-known almost certainly is a group called the

0:38.9

National Socialist Network it's neo-Nazi explicitly so. They identify

0:47.1

there as being a great inspiration, the leader of the group.

0:51.2

Tom Sewell once claimed that he had undergone some kind of electric shock as a result of which

0:59.5

Hitler appeared to him and annoyed him, the leader within Australia.

1:04.4

So we're dealing with some interesting characters.

1:07.6

But his history goes back a few years to,

1:11.0

about 10 years ago, when we had a thing

1:14.0

called Reclaim Australia.

1:15.8

And that was, this was 2014, 2015,

1:20.3

that launched largely in response to the Cafe Lint Siege.

1:26.5

So there was a cafe in Sydney, a Muslim took over that cafe for a brief period, made various statements, was eventually killed during the course of a police raid on that cafe. But it was read as being

1:48.1

evidence that Muslims were being given too much license. It spurred into action a range of Islamophobic

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