Racial Volunteer Force
The Racial Volunteer Force (RVF) is a violent splinter group of the British neo-Nazi organization Combat 18 (C18). It maintains close contact with the right-wing paramilitary Association British Freedom Fighters . Although the RVF is a split from Combat 18, contacts between the two groups have been established again since the split. However, a clear independence is still emphasized.
founding
The RVF was created in 2002 from a division within Combat 18. This long-standing, right-wing extremist organization, which was then headed by Will Browning, was in a phase of extreme passivity. From this period of inactivity emerged a group of frustrated activists who campaigned for a revival. These militant members united, under the leadership of Mark Atkinson , a longtime C-18 member, and John Hill, an Oldham-based activist, and formed the RVF as a separate, paramilitary organization.
The RVF claims to be part of a European council under the leadership of a European umbrella organization. Their goal is to unite neo-Nazis and white nationalists (including Combat 18) in an alliance against the allegedly Zionist-occupied government (ZOG). The group has a reputation for being so violent that other associations in Britain's far-right scene avoid being associated with the RVF.
process
Some members of the RVF were arrested in 2003 on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons and other charges. Five members, including Atkinson and Hill, were found guilty and sentenced to between two and a half and five years in prison. Another defendant, the head of the November 9th Society , was convicted for possession of the banned pamphlet The Longest Hatred . According to Peter Davies, the deputy chief of police of Lincolnshire , “It is difficult to imagine anything more racist than the material that was confiscated during the thorough police investigation. In addition to last month's convictions, we are pleased to note that the Lincolnshire Committee of Inquiry has successfully discredited and disrupted the organization behind the production of this material ”. Among the above-mentioned material that came to light during the trial was an RVF magazine calling for violence, instructions on how to build nail bombs, as well as inciting objects and copies of the Polish neo-Nazi magazine Stormer . The police received initial information about the RVF through Internet research on right-wing extremist and racist websites. Her investigations led her to Nigel Piggins , who received a two and a half year prison sentence.
activities
The group was investigated for repeatedly threatening journalists. The RVF was also linked to a group of hardliners within the National Front , led by Tony White , his liaison officer Stuart Hollingdale and Dave Hill. On Memorial Day for the fallen of both World Wars in 2008, members of the RVF, along with other members of right-wing extremist groups, joined White's supporters in a march to the cenotaph in Whitehall . These parts of the movement took a leadership role among critics of Terry Blackham's leadership of the National Front. Further links between the RVF and the National Front became apparent in late 2011 when members of the RVF attended a National Front memorial service for John Tyndall in Preston.
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] Article on Metareligion.com about Combat 18
- ^ State of the Right, Searchlight, January 2005, p. 12
- ↑ Lee Marshall: The fringe of the fringe. (No longer available online.) Searchlight Magazine , Jan 1, 2013, archived from the original on Oct. 30, 2013 ; accessed on May 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Official website
- ^ A b Gerry Cable: No unity so far for anti-Griffin right. (No longer available online.) Searchlight Magazine on October 3, 2011, archived from the original on May 15, 2014 ; accessed on May 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b David Pallister: Five jailed for trying to stir up race hate violence. The Guardian , November 5, 2005, accessed May 14, 2014 .
