The Violent Legacy of National Action // PREVIEW
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 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. |
| 0:26.7 | People will, I think, have forgotten what is national action or |
| 0:30.3 | they're in a country where it didn't get much attention. |
| 0:33.0 | But for a while it was a very serious threat, |
| 0:36.0 | so much so that it was one of the first groups |
| 0:38.0 | that the British government designated a terror organization |
| 0:42.0 | for a very long time. So I think let's just kind of do a timeline and go back to the start, but explain what national action like, you know, became what was it? |
| 0:52.0 | Well, national action was set up just over 10 years ago in 2013. |
| 0:58.0 | The two main co-founders at the beginning were guys called Ben Raymond and Alex Davis. |
| 1:05.8 | Ben Raymond at the time was a recent graduate, politics graduate, and he then was working in |
| 1:12.0 | a series of jobs including double glazing salesman helping claimants in a job center and other things. |
| 1:18.0 | And he was active online, including on Iron March forum. |
| 1:24.3 | And he was kind of someone who was |
| 1:26.7 | into creating memes, other things. |
| 1:28.9 | He was very kind of prolific online. |
| 1:31.7 | And he ended up in touch with Alex Davis from from Wales and Alex Davis had |
| 1:36.0 | been a member of the British National Party and the British National Party now is |
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