(„Alternative for Germany“) **Strength:** 32,000 (January 2021) **short description:** **I. Party History **1. prehistory** The “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) is the parliamentary arm of the extreme right in Germany. Its founding was preceded, among other things, by the publication of

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

The party “Bündnis Deutschland” was founded on November 20, 2022. It is a new project for disappointed AfD members. According to its own information, “Bündnis Deutschland” supported the right-wing populist voters’ association “Bürger in Wut” (BIW) with around 300,000 euros

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.

(„National Democratic Party of Germany“) **Character:** oldest and biggest traditional fascist Party, strong ties to the NS-subculture **Strengh:** 3,600 members (2019) **Short description:** The NPD was founded in West Germany in 1964 and is the oldest and biggest traditional fascist

(„the right“) **character:** classical neonazi, strong ties to the NS-subculture **strengh:** 550 members (2019) **short description:** ‘Die Rechte’ is a traditional fascist party founded in May 2012. The Party is a umbrella organisation for fascist ‘Kameradschaften’, mainly in the Federal

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

(„Free Saxons“) **Short description:** The ‘Freie Sachsen’ are a party in the German Federal State of Saxony founded in February 2021. It is a far right concurrent project to the AfD. Leader is Martin Kohlmann. They are organising many rallys

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

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

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

The „Neuen Stärke Partei“ (NSP) was founded in May 2021 as a Neonazi-Party in Erfurt. It was founded by members of the Neonazi-Group „Neue Stärke Erfurt e. V.“ **First Source:** – Homepage: https://xn--neue-strke-w5a.eu/ (German)

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

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.

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

(„The Third Path“) **character:** classical neonazi, elitist, revolutionaire **strengh:** 580 members (2019) **short description:** The III. Path was founded on September 2013 by former NPD officials. The Party has a stronghold in the town Plauen (Saxonia) and Bavaria. Former members

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,

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