Introducing Archibald Redding from West Bromwich. Archi came out of football culture and was part of many of the 2024 Tommy Robinson protests around London.
Archi like his friends helped to create Youth Alliance and one its key organizers during its short life. Surprisingly Archi was often seen as a moderate by others, he would apologise and make excuses for some of the more reckless actions by Harry Leworthy and Max Cleeve.
He later used this moderate approach to sabotage his former friends within Football Lads Protecting Britain while in a prominent role within their group
Archi however was not by any means a moderate, during in his time in Youth Alliance, he targeted a Palestine stall in his local area punching one of the PSC organisers. As seen in our previous threads, he did not believe that this could be won any other way then on the streets.
Archi turning from football hooliganism down a far right rabbit hole though ain’t a major surprise. Some of his family such as Matt Redding were supportive of the EDL and the Chelsea Headhunters. He would’ve grown up around this racist rhetoric throughout his childhood.
Tomorrow our next thread will discuss one of the main faces of White Vanguard and take a look behind some of the public facing stuff we already know.
If you have any information on White Vanguard or on some of their members feel free to email us at antifascistresearchcollective161@riseup.net
I guess we should start by talking about the MFFC chat. Set up in 2024 soon after the rioting, the chat paid members to target mosques and police cars.
The group would post various acts by members including the testing of IEDs and targeted graffiti. The group had a section filled with “resources”. It had a variety of bomb making manuals, insurgency tactics and training documents.
The purpose of this chat appeared to destabilize the UK by giving neo-Nazis the ability to begin targeting state infrastructure and to begin an accelerationist race war.
The group members would post Quran and Torah burnings while others suggested more provocative actions that they hoped would spark disorder.
Group members mentioned that they would have taken matters into their own hands. Other members actually prepared for such eventualities. The group was designed in a way where plans could be made, tactics discussed and resources to back this up were available.
The chat was shut down in early 2025 after gaining the attention of UK police services.
The chat appeared to part of a network of Russian aligned channels designed to disrupt and sabotage NATO countries and those supporting Ukraine.
The UK previously experienced this when a warehouse containing Starlink devices destined for Ukraine was subject to an Arson attack by individuals recruited by Russia and the Wagner Group.
Similar attacks have occurred in other European countries with communication equipment, railway tracks and an ammunition factory being targeted.
This group was created to push the UK into further violent acts following rioting in 2024, the aim appeared to be continuing the violence beyond rioting and start a sort of insurgency.
Nazi accelerationists wish to see the start of a race war along with societal collapse and this chat was resource to make this happen.
So how does Harrison relate to a potentially Russian intelligence operation?
Perhaps because he was in there, Harrison going by “Steve” was encouraging members to put razor blades under stickers and used an example of someone most likely himself putting one under a sticker at Waterloo station.
Harrison was regularly posting in this chat and could’ve been involved in some of the promoted actions. Harrison had access to a multitude of documents that could’ve later been made accessible to White Vanguard.
With some of these manuals, White Vanguard would’ve had the ability to create a terror group capable of building bombs and weapons to use on others.
Also in this chat was Martin Shadbolt. Martin is a former National Front member, now involved with the British Movement and New British Union. Based in Putney, Martin is skilled in archery and an ex British Armed forces soldier. Martin advised the chat on how make Molotov cocktails more effective.
So we find Harrison and Martin in chats that encouraged terrorism, planned violent acts and broke various UK laws. What was even more stupid is there was no need to infiltrate this chat, it was publicly viewable without any vetting or even joining the chat.
Both of them posted on how to cause serious harm to others where anyone could see this and Martin decided to do this with his face on his profile picture and under his actual name. Not the smartest pair really.
Tomorrow our next thread will discuss one of the original four members of Youth Alliance and a White Vanguard loyalist.
If you have any information on White Vanguard or on some of their members feel free to email us at antifascistresearchcollective161@riseup.net
Starting with Harrison Ginola Leworthy from Portsmouth. We first came across him in 2023, he was stood with a friend holding an English flag in London while a Palestine march went by. Harry tried to argue with anti war activists but was quickly moved on by the police.
Harrison then joined the far right mob that became violent on Armistice day in London, 2023. Judging by the company he was with that day, we believe this is when he began getting close to Turning Point UK.
In 2024 he then started, with help, the Youth Alliance, and as we mentioned he joined in the targeting of the 2024 Marxism festival by tipping a stall.
Harrison was very loyal to his new friends – even physically attacking Tony Martin of the National Front when an argument broke out between him and a member of Tommy Robinson’s organising team. Probably not something we could imagine happening nowadays.
Harrison has always been racist and has been violent through his football associations but not so much antisemitic. Harrison had worked with Zionists before through Turning Point UK.
This appeared to change with his friendship to Kai Cunningham, Harrison showed far more contempt towards Jews and began repeating historical tropes about Jews controlling finance. This came to head with his eventual ousting along with his friends from the chats and circles he had once been part of.
Harrison started using his middle name Ginola in telegram chats for Youth Alliance. The group organised through telegram primarily though they hilariously also had a snapchat group.
After the collapse of Youth Alliance he then changed his name to “Steve” but more on that later. Once in White Vanguard, Harrison started using the White Vanguard admin for his profile as you can see in some of the screenshots.
As it was with Youth Alliance, it was Harrison and his ego that eventually caused the collapse of White Vanguard. Harrison was very controlling of White Vanguard, between him and Kai the group was essentially ruled by them and members would get forced if they weren’t to the leadership’s satisfaction.
Tomorrow our next thread will discuss what Harrison was doing while he went by “Steve” when he thought no one was looking.
If you have any information on White Vanguard or on some of their members feel free to email us at antifascistresearchcollective161@riseup.net
As we mentioned before, Youth Alliance had close connections to Tommy Robinson’s team through the group Patriots of Britain.
They had made links with the South East Division; a football core coming out of the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) protests.
South East Divsion was created with the intent to disrupt and target left wing events and activists. The South East Division took Youth Alliance activists on their outings, and both groups would actively engage in violence.
Youth Alliance was also close to Turning Point UK, and their activists attended events at the London Cenotoph and in Portsmouth.
Through Turning Point UK, Youth Alliance were able to link up to far right groups like Rushmoor People First in Aldershot, and the various Patriot groups along the South Coast – many of which Turning Point had a helping hand in creating.
Youth Alliance expanded into the north when it combined its activists with those of the “North East Frontline”, a small far right youth group of football lads primarily based around Newcastle.
Before its radicalisation and decline, Youth Alliance had a large base of support and strong connections, and this could’ve seen the group grow quickly.
White Vanguard, despite the potential drawbacks of being associated with Youth Alliance and their various connections and controversies, did manage to make some connections in more hardcore ethnonationalist spaces that we can discuss.
As Hope Not Hate have written, the group was connected to the National Socialist Network. This was a Neo-nazi group operating out of Australia; a by-product of the Iron March forum.
Founding members of White Vanguard had been establishing communication with the group’s leadership – mainly Jacob Hersant – and were trying to learn from their tactics.
Alongside this, White Vanguard members had also tried to join Vanguard Britannica, and appeared to have former Vanguard Britannica members among their ranks.
Another group mentioned recently was the Creativity Movement, founded by Ben Klasson who was accused of molesting young boys. One of White Vanguard’s members was part of this “religion”, and would often push others to get involved.
One of the most significant relations White Vanguard developed was with the British Movement – White Vanguard did one of its first actions with them. They posed for photos together at a event in London that saw both groups come together. A couple of White Vanguard members also held joint membership.
However, within White Vanguard, the British Movement were criticised for not becoming paramilitary. With recruiting from the armed forces, and attempts to collect and stockpile weapons, White Vanguard definitely seems to have set out on a path towards violent terror.
So White Vanguard held a lot of contempt towards the British Movement. They were criticised for being an unorganized mess of drunk skinheads, which is not exactly untrue, but it is a bit rich coming from a group of teenagers who only a year ago were attending Zionist rallies.
We then have the off and on situation with the National Rebirth Party. While it was the Youth Alliance, relations were quite close. The group saw the party as one of the best chances of getting a nationalist party into Parliament, with their interests at heart.
Things soon soured, however, with accusations being made towards National Rebirth party leader Alek Yerbury for his ineffectiveness, while Yerbury in turn accused Kai Cunningham of being a “Walter Mitty”.
There were many members of National Rebirth Party (NRP) within the group, including 2 members of the London branch, as well as the son of an NRP branch organiser.
Despite this, White Vanguard began to focus in on two individuals within the NRP that were not affiliated with White Vanguard. One we previously mentioned became subject to what can only be described as sexual harassment and online stalking.
The other was a member of the London branch that White Vanguard took great pleasure in bullying and targeting over a period of months. No action appears to have been taken by the National Rebirth Party, or White Vanguard, to target or criticise the members that sit within both organisations so far.
After these connections, linking up with active terror groups wasn’t far behind. A friend of one of the White Vanguard activists joined the Radikalewaffen Division. Though not yet a proscribed group, the group takes from the tendency that The Base and the Atomwaffen Division spawned.
Soon, White Vanguard found itself in space alongside multiple accelerationist groups. Warnings were given, and even though White Vanguard seems to be following the same trajectory, they attempted, and still attempt, to try and avoid the same fate such groups will often encounter.
A couple of White Vanguard members are also part of the Scottish White Front. They are a small nazi accelerationist group primarily made up of young skinheads mainly based around Glasgow.
Not very much information exists about this group except of a small group “looking for reds”, and some nationalist graffiti. The Scottish White Front organizer inside White Vanguard gave us a small insight into the group, including its size and organizing platform.
One of the organizers of scottish White Front was later removed from White Vanguard for apparent “dodgy behaviour”.
Finally we get to the other Youth Alliance split, “Football Lads Protecting Britain”. Similar to the National Rebirth Party, White Vanguard members just couldn’t leave their petty hates alone and trolled the group long after the split.
With Archi Redding as a part of White Vanguard, he tricked the Football Lads members into thinking he was with them during the split. He then deliberately caused the group to descend into infighting, removing people he claimed were infiltrating the group.
All the while, he was sending screenshots of the chat to White Vanguard, which led to hours of ridicule. At one point a member called Lew was blamed for the leaks, and subsequently removed by Archi himself.
This was then screenrecorded and sent to White Vanguard. In what can only be described as a massive L on their part, through the trolling we ended up with the identities and phone numbers of 11 members without even stepping foot inside their chat.
So great work White Vanguard – your work has so far helped us research more groups than we could’ve ever hoped for! We were just hoping to get to you, but you gave us so much more.
Tomorrow our next thread will finally begin to detail some of the members, as well as those attempting to join that we were able to identify.
If you have any information on White Vanguard or on some of their members feel free to email us at antifascistresearchcollective161@riseup.net
Previously we spoke about the violent tendencies White Vanguard and Youth Alliance share. This extended beyond targeting the left and minority communities, plans began to develop on how to prepare for conflict.
The group often focused on training, and this was expected from all members regularly. Shared group sessions were also proposed and this often was separated into South, North and Midlands regions.
Resources were shared in the chat on how to prepare for an underground insurgency. Expectations were that the group could face proscription or end up in street to street battles with “Islamists” roaming the streets.
To test their skills, White Vanguard attempted to target a Palestine solidarity encampment. They went to the Community Camp 4 Palestine, opposite the US Embassy, seig heiled then attempted to snatch Palestian flags.
The attack was a total failure. Rather than attempt to fight the camp residents, they skulked off and left empty-handed. White Vanguard decided not to publicise their humbling, and, presumably, hoped it would be forgotten.
Focus turned again towards training, most of the group by this point had collected crossbows and were getting comfortable using them.
The group decided that although it was worthwhile to train with knives, it was considered too dangerous to use them as the likelihood of getting harmed by the opposition was too high. Guns required licences and would draw too much attention.
Crossbows were spoken about to be the best option to attack while keeping a safe distance. Various models were suggested, though emphasis was on self-repeating crossbows for their ability to allow multiple shots.
Plans were originally to hold a group session on a farm in Bath. The idea was to have a group camp and do joint physical training sessions. As it was private land, group members were encouraged to bring their crossbows to try out there.
As we mentioned, in the Youth Alliance thread, the group claimed to have the involvement of active service members of the UK armed forces.
White Vanguard wanted to have former and current armed forces personnel among its ranks, they believed this could help them train in military tactics and encourage group discipline. These kinds of individuals could have the skills to create a militia – or at least those were the hopes of White Vanguard.
It should made clear these are not the conversations of a group working within the norms of activsm. This is a group seeking a race war and was preparing for it. Kids were not spared from this hatred, some members were willing to target adults but others had no concerns if children suffered.
This isn’t your typical far right group but a continuation of Nazi accelerationist ideology that has already led to multiple deaths and terror attacks.
Tomorrow our next thread will look into the relationships Youth Alliance and White Vanguard had with other far right groups within the UK.
If you have any information on White Vanguard or on some of their members feel free to email us at antifascistresearchcollective161@riseup.net
