Britain First (BF) [used to have over two million followers on Facebook](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43398417) when it was funded by Jim Dowson, who is reported to have raised millions for the British National Party (BNP). Dowson is no longer backing the party and

The British Democractic Party (BDP) was [an attempt by former BNP activists to set up a new party](https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/02/neo-nazi-former-bnp-members-launch-new-far-right-party) and was launched after an attempt to unseat Griffin as BNP leader failed. The leader Andrew Brons is a former BNP MEP.

Jayda Fransen, Nick Griffin and Jim Dowson are all now involved in the British Freedom Party (BFP). Fransen is party leader, Griffin edits the newspaper and Dowson appears to be once again providing the funding.

The most successful fascist organisation in British electoral politics is the British National Party (BNP) which got [943,598 votes in the 2009 European elections](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_999999.stm). That year a [leaked party membership list](https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/oct/19/bnp-membership-list-constituency) revealed the party had 12,656 members. This was well

Brothers of Italy – named after the opening words of the country’s national anthem – was formed in 2012, following the direct inheritance of MSI (Italian Social Movement), a far-right institutional party founded for the new republican regime by former

Casapound Italy is a political movement of the far-right and of a neo-fascist and populist matrix, established in 2008 as a social association after the squat of a big building in the city center of Rome, close to main-station Termini.

Initially an organisation founded in 1999, it became a party in 2016. The president is the Alain Escada, a Belgian activist and former executive of the Front nouveau de Belgique (FNB), a party which has merged since then with the

Originally a split from UMP (former name of the right-wing party “Les Républicains” (LR)), it became a stand-alone party in 2008 and was renamed in 2014. It was founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, still heading the party today. It is a

Civic nationalist party led by prominent counter-jihad activist. FB has one elected councillor, who was a prominent former BNP activist. FBs roots are in the counter-jihad movement and it’s led by former socialist Anne Marie Waters. [Former Smiths frontman Morrisey

Forza Italia is a right-wing political party, inspired by liberalism and conservative catholic tradition; founded by Silvio Berlusconi in January 1994 together with other notables of the Fininvest group. After the political crisis and corruption scandals, denounced by the “clean

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Britain’s largest fascist organisation Patriotic Alternative (PA) has experienced a catastrophic split. Half of PA’s regional organisers and around two thirds of PA’s officers have left the party to form a new neo-Nazi organisation called the Homeland Party (Homeland). The

PUBLIC [Identity Ireland](https://www.identityireland.org) (II) was founded by Gary Allen, Peter O’Loughlin and Alan Tighe in 2015. O’Loughlin, party leader, [spoke](https://www.thejournal.ie/identity-ireland-pegida-rally-dresden-2535068-Jan2016/) at a Pegida rally in Germany 2016 then unsuccessfully attempted to launch an Irish branch of Pegida in [February 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z68yTJWXm5g)

Lega is the re-styled party lead from 2017 by Matteo Salvini, after a big trial that condemned former ‘Lega Nord’ to pay 49million euros defrauded from the Italian Republic. Apart from the legal scandal, the political shift concerns a different

Les Identitaires, formerly known as Bloc Identitaire, is a political organisation founded in 2002 from the ashes of Unité Radicale, a violent national-revolutionary organisation. In 2009 les Identitaires became a political party. As representatives of the Identitarian movement in France,

*In English: The Patriots* Les Patriotes was created in 2017 by Florian Philippot, former vice-president of the Front National (FN). He split to create is own nationalist and eurosceptic party. After several electoral defeats, spring/summer 2021 offered his party a

Ligue du Sud is a far-right political party founded in 2010 by Jacques Bompard, former Front National (FN) executive. The party wants to protect its regional in front of immigration and Islam. In 2021, Ligue du Sud counts 1 Mayor,

MNR was founded in 1999 by Bruno Mégret as a splinter party from the Front National (FN). The departure of Bruno Mégret in 1998 was a major event for the FN who lost a lot of executives. Today the MNR

Mouvement pour la France is a political party created by Philippe de Villiers in 1994, which he presided until it disappeared in 2018. At the 2007 presidential elections, the party received 2,23% of the votes (4,74% in 1995). It is

In the 1970s and early 80s [the National Front (NF) was the hegemonic force on the British far-right](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/13/battle-of-lewisham-national-front-1977-far-right-london-police), but it has been irrelevant for decades. The NF has strong brand recognition in the wider public but has failed to translate

New Force (Italian: Forza Nuova, FN) is an Italian far-right political party. It was founded by Roberto Fiore and Massimo Morsello, former neofascist terrorists of ‘Third Position’ (Italian: Terza Posizione) during the so-called ‘lead years’. The party is a member

(„Party National-orientated Swiss people“) **Strength:** 300 or 800 (2020 self proclaimed) **Short description:** The Swiss Party PNOS is a traditional facscist Party founded in 2000 which imitates the fascist ‘Fronten-Bewegung’ of the 1930s. In September 2020 the french branch of

Parti de la France (PDF) was created by Carl Lang as a splinter group of the Front National (FN). It is known for being close to the antisemitic and neo-Nazi scene. In 2020, the PDF received media attention as Cassandre

The PNF, also known under the name “Les Nationalistes”, was created in 1983 by former French members of the Waffen-SS (Charlemagne), the military branch of the Nazi Party’s SS organisation. Some of them, such as Pierre Bousquet, had founded the

Patriotic Alternative (PA) is [the fastest growing fascist party in the UK at the moment](https://soundcloud.com/12rulesforwhat/54-patriotic-alternative-w-red-flare). The party has 10 regional branches across the country and these branches have grown to a point where some are now setting up sub branches.

*In English: National Rally* Main far-right political party in France (until today). Founded in 1972 as the “National Front” (FN), it directly emanated from Ordre Nouveau, a neofascist movement, and was headed by Jean Marie Le Pen until 2011. Marine

*In English: Reconquest!* Freshly created on December 5, 2021, it is the party headed by Eric Zemmour. The party is positioned to the right of Rassemblement National, and revolves around on a strong opposition to Islam and immigration as it

When Nigel Farage set up the Brexit Party (now Reform Party UK) he pulled a large number of United Kingdom Independence Party members with him, including a number of the far-right entryists, such as short-lived Generation Identity UK leader Jordan

(„Swiss People’s Party“) **character:** national-conservative, right-wing populist **strength:** 90,000 **Short description:** The SVP was founded in 1971 as a merger of different Partys. In the 1990s they changed from conservative to right-wing populist. In the 2000s it became the strongest

SIEL is a sovereignist political party created by Paul-Marie Coûteaux in 2011, and associate to the FN until 2016 through the Rassemblement Bleu Marine, a coaltion of soverignist parties aiming at wining the presidential and legislative elections of 2017 (2012-2017).

PUBLIC Founded in 2019, the far right Irish Freedom Party has come to be known as an ‘astro-turf’ organisation in reference to its importing of campaign tactics and continued failure to establish a genuine grassroots base in Ireland and Northern

PUBLIC Founded in 2016, registered as a political party in 2019, the [National Party](https://nationalparty.ie/) (NP) ran 10 candidates in the 2020 General Election and is estimated to have a membership in excess of 300. Former Youth Defence militants with longstanding

The Social Movement Tricolour Flame (Italian: Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore, MSFT), commonly known as Tricolour Flame (Fiamma Tricolore), is a neo-fascist political party in Italy. The party was started by the more radical members of the Fascist Italian Social Movement,

*In English: Republican Popular Union* This party was founded in 2007 by François Asselineau. It is a nationalist party proponent of regaining French sovereignty, specifically through exiting the European Union therefore advocating for a “Frexit”. At the first round of

UKIP was a coalition of right-wing opponents of Britain’s membership of the European Union. While the party has long endorsed structural racism, [former British National Party members have been banned from holding party membership](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/ukip-hopeful-calls-ex-bnp-members-allowed-party-25613) and when supporters made racist outbursts

Created in 2001 by Christine Boutin under the name “Forum des républicains sociaux” (FRS), it was known as “Parti Chrétien Démocrate” (PCD) between 2009 and 2020 when it was renamed VIA. It is a christian-conservative party. The president is Jean-Frédéric