Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs
Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs
In public parks, gyms and martial arts clubs — where children take classes — some of Canada’s most notorious white supremacists are preparing for violence.
The members of these fight clubs, known in white nationalist communities as “active clubs,” are hiding in plain sight. As part of their recruitment and online propaganda, they post videos of their training sessions, taking care to hide their faces and obscure their locations.
But a months-long CBC visual investigation, in collaboration with The Fifth Estate, reveals exactly where some of these groups are training.
Same model as Ukraine which has these clubs everywhere. Guessing that the large amount of Ukrainian fascist diaspora played a role in the spread of this.
Probably didn't help but this predates the war. My town has plausible deniability nazi gym groups used for recruitment and for sure a few do some fight club style bullshit, but getting drunk and fighting isn't uncommon where I am so formalizing it wouldn't be necessary. I stopped talking to a couple people, one of whom was a really good friend over them joining the Wolfpack Fitness Club (for real, it was transparent af). The person I wasnt that close with who also plays in a black metal band and didn't want 2 reasons for someone to think he's a nazi and after being more aware of rhe signs once we had an argument he came around. Former closer friend is now dating an 'ex nazi' skinhead who still has tattoos about it and while apparently remorseful he was in a gang that did hate crimes. Saying your sorry doesn't fucking cut it.
They would be doing football (soccer) gangs too if Canada had the culture for it. That's one of the other methods Ukrainian fascists spread successfully. Football culture is really easy to vanguard in and once you get the tribe following your vanguard you can mold them into the culture you want.
Incidentally this works for the left too. Celtic's Green Brigade is the primary force keeping that club left wing and I reckon you could form football vanguards in clubs to shift any of them left over time.
Dudes rock. (Ladies too, if they're into it.)
Most of the Ukrainians here are just lib prairie dorks. While their grandparents were fash they kids are just kind of normal. UCC types are really just exotic weirdos and not even the most powerful reactionary diaspora in the country.
is a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist settler-colony and has plenty of racists to draw from to make clubs like these.