Former Labour Party chair Jeremy Corbyn has written a letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman about allowing Spanish neo-Nazi Isabel Medina Peralta into the UK. He's right to complain about it, of course, and there's no good reason why Peralta should've been let in. But as damning as his letter is, I think he actually doesn't go far enough and partly misses the point about why Peralta is a dangerous figure and why she should be banned everywhere.

Corbyn argues, correctly, that she's a vicious antisemite and stresses that she was detained in Frankfurt for possession of "a swastika flag, neo-Nazi propaganda leaflets and a copy of 'Mein Kampf'". Bad enough, right? Her own personal website, in both Spanish and English, identifies her in big letters, right at the top, as "Isabel Peralta -- National socialist -- My honour is loyalty", applying a translation of the old SS slogan "Meine Ehre heisst Treue". So there's really no second guessing who she is and what she believes in, if you take just a few seconds to look her up.

But just being a lone Nazi is one thing. Peralta is something even worse. She's a growing international figure working to build an international network of neo-Nazis across Europe. Her own group, Bastión Frontal, has been around for three years and is made up largely of young members of the Falange Española (which still exists!) and Hogar Social, a knock-off of Italy's CasaPound that's largely defunct now. The whole reason she was in Frankfurt is because she was given a kind of "scholarship" by neo-Nazi microparty III. Weg (Third Path) to get some training from them. (Incidentally, Searchlight reports that members of III. Weg were apparently also in the UK for the same event Peralta was speaking at -- by all means, they should also be banned everywhere and hounded any time they show their faces.) Bastión Frontal's social media boasts of its connections with Poland's National Radical Camp (ONR) and Tenesoun in France (a successor group of the banned Bastion Social). I've definitely seen at least one video implying a connection between Bastión Frontal and a group in Ukraine, but I can't find it now, and I haven't seen any further evidence of contact between them. And, of course, Peralta's contacts now include people from the UK's Patriotic Alternative, Blood & Honour, and even the Creativity Movement.

At any rate, it's really dangerous when these kinds of radical reactionary and neo-Nazi groups organize internationally to share ideas, contacts, rhetoric, tactics, and training. In addition to allowing them to build support for one another, it's also a kind of propaganda coup that allows otherwise marginal groups to present themselves as representing a much larger constituency. Bastión Frontal claims a membership in the low 100s -- hardly a mass movement unto themselves -- but through slick video production and the stated support of international groups, they can also claim to be pan-European and assert a kind of authority in pursuit of additional recruits. And all in the service of, in Peralta's own words, "normalizing National Socialism".

Peralta is now banned from entering Germany, and for good reason. The problem with a person like her isn't just that she's a hateful scumfuck, but that she's an organized, networked hateful scumfuck. People like her need to be impeded and combated at every opportunity.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/home-secretary-faces-uproar-over-entry-spanish-neo-nazi-far-right-extremist-britain-1719878

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