Far-right ‘fight club’ trained for race war and power seize in London park

A white supremacist group has been training for a ‘race war’ in a London park.

Active Club England, which masquerades as an athletic club, has been recruiting and radicalising members with extreme fitness and fraternity.

They hail Adolf Hitler as a hero and believe in revolutionary white supremacy as they prepare to ‘take power when they can’.

The group, which has expanded to 100 members since the 2024 summer riots, has at least eight branches, with one holding fortnightly training sessions in Vauxhall, south London.

It was first promoted by American far right activist Robert Rundo, who fled the US after being accused of rioting and conspiracy to violence.

One of the latest recruits includes convicted violent criminal Jay Barlow, who was previously jailed for possession of a knife and racially aggravated harassment.

He joined the group in December just weeks after he was sentenced and was ordered to attend a ‘thinking skills programme’.

Twelve meetings were secretly filmed by ITV News, where participants discussed the use of weapons and ‘taking power whenever the opportunity arises’.

The network also planned to rent an indoor space in London to ‘practice knife defence without getting arrested’.

Neil Basu, former head of UK counterterror policing, said: ‘These are preparing to commit acts of violence.’

Members ‘enjoy when black people kill each other’

During the meetings, members undergo a high intensity training regime to meet strict fitness targets and ‘prepare for future violence’.

The group also discuss their racist and xenophobic views, with one member recorded saying he ‘enjoys it when black people kill each other’.

They also discuss how many weapons they each own and previous acts of violence they have committed.

One boasted he had ‘bit an Albanian guy in the face’ while another said he was ‘done for bottling someone’.

One member said: ‘I got about a grand’s worth of throwing knives and axes, and I got a bunch of bows and s*** as well.’

Prospective members must pass a rigorous vetting process before they are allowed to attend a training session, and then they are granted access to messaging app Telegram.

‘Lance’, who calls himself the group’s national leader, asks people during the telephone interrogation about religion, ethnicity, what do you think is wrong with the country and their fitness level.

Many members use separate phones for communicating with each other, and hardly anyone uses their real name.

Nazi salutes at group meetings

After completing a boxing session at a village hall in Buckinghamshire, attendees gathered around to take a group photo and slowly began raising their arms in a Nazi salute, but what they dubbed as a ‘Roman salute’.

But Lance insisted on ‘no Romans’, as the group carefully manage their public image.

Members are still instructed to not break the law, being deliberately careful as to what they do.

Mr Basu said: ‘They know that, and they are being careful with what they do. They are clearly being coached in how to stay the right side of the law.’

He described the group as a ‘successor to National Action’, which a far-right group banned after they celebrated the murder of MP Jo Cox.

‘It’s very clear – the racism, the white supremacy, the antisemitism- it’s severe,’ he said.

‘Eventually they will attract somebody who has no problem with that whatsoever, because we’ve seen a lot of vulnerable, mostly young men who are attracted to violence, searching for a cause, and here’s a cause being presented to them.’

Active Club said: ‘Active Club England is a fraternal organisation for young Englishmen, dedicated to the development of a culture of brotherhood, physical fitness and self improvement.

‘We are unapologetically for the English people and our continued existence in our ancestral homelands. We stand for total victory through cultural rebirth.’

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