Offers for sightseeing in the sun, Nazi marches and combat training • “is about making contacts”
Organized “Active Clubs” or “Fighting Clubs” have spread over Sweden over the past two years.
The clubs have been formed by young defectors from the Nordic Resistance Movement, NMR, and are inspired by movements in the United States. The Nazi grouping, among other things, praises purevity and martial arts-and fights against multiculturalism and the LGBTQ movement.
At Telegram and Tiktok, films are interspersed where members train close combat with pictures from their trips to Europe. The group’s Stockholm Falang has been going to Italy, France, Poland and Greece over the past year.
On the trips, the young Nazis visit historical sites, eat domestic food and participate in right -wing marches with international partners. The trips are arranged – and documented – for different purposes.
– It’s about making contacts with others and about being part of something bigger. It will also be very meaningful for those who are active here, that they tie up to an international environment and be allowed to travel, explains Jonathan Leman, research at Expo.
– It also provides new content for them in their marketing, he continues.
Independence march in Poland
Jonathan Leman lifts how one of the active clubs in November visited Poland to participate in a independence march. In connection with the trip, they also trained martial arts at a side event and met players from groupings from several different countries.
Much of the trip was filmed and has since been published on the different platforms of the groups.
– It becomes a way to be able to create content, to have image material with a lot of people, where you can project an image of themselves to be very many before you actually are, says Leman.
Formally, Aktivlubb Sweden was founded in 2023, of men born in the early 00s. Today, they have between 50 and 70 people linked to the various phalanges in the country.
Where NMR had difficulty getting with its young, with an increasingly rising middle age, AKS has managed to reverse the trend – thanks in large part to social media and a clear message. Now new members are already recruited in high school age.
– They arouse an interest that is a little broader with a simple offer to train your violence capacity, train yourself strongly and devote yourself to self -improvement. They have an offer to young guys who may be a little lost and think about what you need, who want to live up to ideas about what a man should be, says Jonathan Leman.
Overall, however, grouping is currently seen as relatively small. AKS has tried to start groups in several places in the country but in several places it has run out in the sand. However, the trend is to grow.
Ties to football hooligans
Where NMR was more openly Nazi, AKS is outwardly more focused on violence and training, although Expos’s review shows the groups based on the same ideology. AKS also has close bands and overlaps with other violent groups, such as football hooligans and citizen’s guard Pedohunting Sweden.
The Nazi youths have both short -term and long -term goals. In the shorter perspective, it is about preparation for sharp situations, explains Leman, with close -up training and getting more members.
In the long perspective, you talk about becoming soldiers.
-You speak in different active club-linked platforms that politicians should be hanged in the lamp posts when you become strong enough. It is the same high -extremist imagination about some kind of civil war. Those who are not considered white must be removed and political opponents should be executed.
Jonathan Leman believes that the trend, with more and more young active, will continue.
– I think this concept will continue to be attractive and right -wing extremism will continue to attract young people over the next few years. Aktivklubb Sweden seems to be an important part of it, he says.