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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Ben Makuch

Far-right fight groups endorse ‘youth clubs’ targeting US young men and boys

Teenagers on a sports ground.
Teenagers on a sports ground. Photograph: Connect Images/Getty Images

A national network of American neofascist fight clubs is endorsing youth-oriented offshoots aimed at grooming the next generation of racist activists.

So-called “active clubs” have proliferated across the US and are a combination of fitness and mixed martial arts groups that often espouse neo-Nazi and fascist ideologies, openly taking their historical cues from the Third Reich’s obsession with machismo and European soccer hooliganism.

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