National Action is a British far-right[2]fascist and neo-Nazi[2]terrorist organisation based in Warrington.[2][14][15][16] Founded in 2013, the group is secretive, and has rules to prevent members from talking about it openly.[15] It has been a proscribed organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000 since 16 December 2016,[17] the first far-right group to be proscribed since the Second World War.[18] In March 2017, an undercover investigation by ITV found that its members were still meeting in secret.[19] It is believed that after its proscription, National Action organised itself in a similar way to the also-banned Salafi jihadistAl-Muhajiroun network.[20]
^Potter, Nicholas (6 January 2021) "The Pan-European "Ikea Fascism" of Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen"Archived 13 June 2021 at the Wayback MachineBelltower.News "Internationally, the Nordic Resistance Movement is extremely well connected: According to the broadcaster Yle, between 2011 and 2017, around 20 members of the movement were users of the international neo-Nazi forum Iron March. Here, the NMR came into contact with neo-Nazi parties such as Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) in Greece and Casa Pound in Italy, but also with far-right terrorist groups such as the now-banned National Action in the United Kingdom.
In 2015, members of National Action visited the Finnish chapter of NMR. In a blog entry on the British terror group's website, which has since been taken offline, the head of National Action, Benjamin Raymond, describes a lengthy stay in Finland: He stayed in one of the movement's shared apartments, gave a speech at Koti, which since 2012 has been the headquarters of the Finnish NMR in the city of Turku, and took part in the group's hikes. In a photo in Helsinki with members of the NMR, Raymond can be seen posing with an assault rifle. He praises the organisation, discipline and "community feel" of the Swedish and Finnish NMR chapters, as well as mentioning other international comrades from Greece who had also travelled to Finland. The British-Finnish Mikko Vehvilainen, formerly a sergeant in the British Army, has also served as an important link between the two groups: He was a member of National Action and the Finnish NMR before being sentenced to eight years in prison in 2018 for his membership in National Action."