This is the fifth white supremacist group banned in the UK under their terrorism laws. Dr. Bethan Johnson is the Head of Strategic Planning and Advancement for the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right. Her doctoral research studied the pseudo-intellectual underpinnings of violent separatist movements in the Cold War West. ‘Führer, you were only the beginning. We will finish what you started. It’s not over yet—We carry the torch.’ So swore Norman Spear, the alleged leader of international white supremacist group, The Base. On July 12, the UK Home Office announced that the group, which has been subject to intense law enforcement scrutiny at home and abroad, merited proscription as a terrorist organization. Home Secretary Priti Patel stated that its designation demonstrates that the UK is ‘[continuing] to take robust action against evil white supremacist groups.’ The Base’s ban marks the fifth white supremacist hate organization to be proscribed in the UK and the third in the last year, figures that warrant further investigation to understand the threat of white supremacism in Britain and in how the government addresses it. Ideologically, The Base promotes a viciously anti-Semitic, racist, and anti-democratic worldview. A common white supremacist rhetorical strategy, The Base couples the white supremacist belief in the superiority of white people with a declinist narrative about the destruction of civilization at the hands of racial ‘others.’ Contrasting a nostalgic past of white glory with a present punctuated by guilt-inducing claims of white privilege and global citizenry, (…) The Base’s solution to the supposed denigration of white societies is the establishment of ethno-states, though its primary concern is simply the enforcement of Europe and North America as white-only continents. While it states that it would encourage many ‘others’ to re-migrate to their countries of ‘origin,’ it also permits the forceful removal or genocide the unwilling. Referencing the infamous 14 Words, a Base member explains: ‘Securing a future for White children necessarily entails securing independent territory… We must fight for a new White Homeland.’ As this statement indicates, in service of the founding of such states is the additional level of violence necessary to get rid of any opposition to their plan. In addition to the implications in the previous quotations are statements such as ‘Daily Reminder: Anyone who tells you that the 14 Words can be achieved peacefully is either a fool, a fraud, or a fed,’ and ‘if you want a White society…The current System can’t be replaced peacefully.’Viewing themselves along the accelerationist lines of seeking to trigger race wars that would result in the expulsion or execution of all non-white people from historically white-majority states, The Base has been a prolific publisher of how-to guides and instructive propaganda. Inspired by the likes of James Mason and Louis Beam, The Base promotes violence through lone wolf terrorism. As one Base statement rhetorically wonders, ‘Theoretically speaking, approximately how many lone wolf attacks per week & over how long of a time period would be sufficient to coerce the System to accommodate pro-White legislative demands?’ Less rhetorical is the declaration: ‘Create a list of every anti-White hate crime you can think of in which there was a miscarriage of Justice—These people have names & addresses. Go forth & balance the scales.’
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