“When you dare stand up against the people that are destroying not just this town but this country, when you stand up against BlackRock and international finance, they come after your family, they come after your bank accounts, they firebomb you, they assault you,” Thomas Sewell, leader of the National Socialist Network (NSN), said at a rally in the southwestern NSW regional town of Corowa. Footage of the event last Saturday, which comprised of Sewell and fifty-odd black clad neo-Nazis in line formation standing before the local war memorial, appeared online, and while it’s not apparent how many locals stopped to hear what the far-right actors, who’d come across the border from Victoria, had to say, the jeering, which include “Shut up, Dickhead”, didn’t suggest a great reception. But the fact that neo-Nazis have become so emboldened, as to now be mobilising on behalf of workers’ rights should be raising alarm bells, as Labor and the Liberal opposition have been consumed by rising antisemitism and the Nazi doctrine led to the extreme prejudice of the Holocaust in World War II. Both New South Wales premier Chris Minns and his Victorian counterpart Jacinta Allan condemned the rallies. Yet, their response to the issue of neo-Nazis publicly demonstrating now across four jurisdictions, has been decidedly lowkey compared to the dramatic way in which both premiers and many other pollies have been condemning pro-Palestinian demonstrators over the past 12 months. Indeed, with the first public demonstration of neo-Nazis, as Nazi adherents and not simply as far-right white supremacist actors, having taken place on the steps of Victorian parliament in March 2023, the black clad white men have been mobilising in public periodically ever since, with varying receptions coming from state police, to the point that neo-Nazi rallies are becoming normalised.
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