Vanguard Britannica has posted footage of fight camps and combat training to ready its members for political violence, says Labour Against Antisemitism
A violent Neo-Nazi mob has launched a recruitment campaign to prepare for a ‘race war’.
Vanguard Britannica has been holding fighting camps and carrying out combat training to ready members for political violence.
Promotional footage distributed by the group shows masked men brawling in fields, taking part in kickboxing fights and running fitness drills.
Founded in 2022 the group was originally a small band of far-Right extremists but has since formed alliances with white supremacists in the UK and US.
Its recruitment drive follows anti-Semitic terror attacks in Manchester and Sydney, Australia.
Alex Hearn, co-director of Labour Against Antisemitism, which has researched into the group, said: “The fight training camps and workshops with prominent white nationalist groups around the world suggest Vanguard Britannica could be preparing for increased political or racial violence.
“They exploit anti-immigration sentiment in their motorway banner drops and sticker campaigns.
“But the true objectives of these white nationalists are far more sinister – racial purity.”
The group has held training camps in London, the Midlands, East Anglia and Scotland, with organisers claiming they are preparing for a race war.
Clips of training exercises have been posted its Telegram channel.
The group has also unfurled anti-immigration banners from motorway bridges.
It initially targeted Jewish and ethnic minority areas with racist stickers and offensive vandalism.
But in 2024 members formed an alliance with Patriotic Front, the US’s most prominent neo-Nazi organisation, and forged ties with the Active Club England (ACE) white supremacist movement which idolises Hitler and promotes Nazi values.
Since then Vanguard Britannica has been trying to lure in new members.
Earlier this year members travelled to the US to attend the first national conference of the Patriot Front and engage in ‘workshops’ with them.
Patriot Front gained notoriety in 2017 after members were present at the march preceding the Charlottesville terror attack which left one dead and dozens injured.
After meeting the US group Vanguard Britannica members boasted on Telegram of returning to the UK ‘ready to apply’ what they had learnt.
Far-Right referrals to the Government’s Prevent anti-extremism scheme are up 37% in the past year with reports rising by 27%.
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