The anti-Zionist flag unfurled over a main road[Missing Credit]
The group has held sessions in London, East Anglia, the Midlands and Scotland.
Campaigners say Vanguard Britannica has deliberately targeted areas with large Jewish communities.
One message shared to its channel shows members hoisting a Saint George's Cross onto a lamppost in Barnet.
“Nationalist youth affiliated with Vanguard Britannica have been spotted,” the message reads, before stating in capital letter: “Our blood, our nation, start reimigration! [sic]”
Information about the group’s activities have also been shared in the National Socialist Youth group, an antisemitic organisation that uses a swastika for its group’s profile picture on Telegram.
The group led an effort to raise English flags around Barnet[Missing Credit]
A pinned message in the Vanguard Britannica Telegram group titled “Brotherhood shall break our chains!” described a training session in Cambridge.
Members are seen learning how to fight on Jesus Green in central Cambridge. Afterwards, the group said it completed “banner drops”, which included a banner stretched across a main road declaring: “Britons reject Zionist wars.”
Martial arts training in Cambridge[Missing Credit]
For its winter camp, Vanguard Britannica said members attended seminars “covering everything from activism to bushcraft”, as well as grappling, a close-combat martial art.
Photos show members hiking, carving wood in forests and taking part in what the group calls “bushcraft” activities, alongside combat training.
Another banner unfurled by the group stated “more tree less refugees.”
The group's anti-refugee rhetoric is paired with calls for more trees[Missing Credit]
The group frequently frames its activities in the language of English tradition.
It marked the summer solstice with a gathering in Norwich, after which it claimed to have put up more than 100 posters around the city. In a message accompanying the post, the group said its posters were placed over transgender-related graffiti near a university campus.
In Norwich, the group plastered posters around the city[Missing Credit]
Elsewhere, members were photographed training among the ruins of the medieval abbey in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. “Such ruins stand as testament to our ancestors’ strength and a reminder to us that weakness is dishonour,” a message on the group channel said.
The group in a combat training session in Bury St Edmunds[Missing Credit]
The organisation’s logo features a Union Jack alongside the slogan “Brotherhood shall break our chains”.
The group has also shared materials from Active Club England, a separate combat training organisation recruiting fighting-age men to “enforce their will on the world”. One promotional video shared in a Vanguard Britannica channel shows members engaged in combat drills.
Another post about the group’s activities in Scotland was titled “True till death” and described how members from “both sides of Hadrian’s Wall camped in the Scottish lowlands, putting aside old feuds”.
The group learn skills to use outdoors[Missing Credit]
Formed in 2022, Vanguard Britannica is linked to the US-based white supremacist organisation Patriot Front. Last year, some members of Vanguard Britannica travelled to the US to attend Patriot Front’s first national conference. On their return, the group said it was “ready to apply what they have learnt in our home country”.
US activists have since visited the UK to assist with sticker campaigns featuring fascist imagery.
Hearn, of Labour Against Antisemitism, said: “Antisemitic thinking is not restricted to one single ideology. Islamist, far-right and far-left extremists share ideas and inspire each other. The Jewish community face threats on multiple fronts. Neo-Nazis are inherently violent, and use anti-Zionism to explain the world around them. They use it as a veneer of respectability for their race war, to recruit and infiltrate more mainstream groups. Security services have foiled deadly attacks from the far-right. We must remain vigilant to this persistent and evolving threat.”
