Fascist Forge
Fascist Forge was a neo-Nazi web forum launched in April 2018 as an explicit Iron March successor, reaching over 1,500 users before its hosting registrar took it offline in February 2020.
Fascist Forge was a neo-Nazi web forum launched in April 2018 by a user operating under the name "Mathias," explicitly framed as a replacement for the defunct Iron March and intended to "continue where they left off." It was the most prominent immediate successor platform for the international neo-fascist accelerationist community that had organized on Iron March between 2011 and 2017.
Founding and Structure
Fascist Forge replicated several of Iron March's distinctive operational features, most importantly its vetting process. Prospective members were required to submit ideological essays as a condition of full forum access, a mechanism designed to filter out casual observers, law enforcement monitors, and individuals deemed insufficiently committed to neo-Nazi ideology. This essay requirement had been one of Iron March's distinguishing features and was credited by researchers with maintaining the forum's relatively high commitment level relative to its small size.
The founder "Mathias" framed the platform's purpose explicitly in a founding note, positioning it as an organizational continuation rather than a fresh start. Former Iron March members migrated to Fascist Forge, and the forum drew on the same international community of users who had built organizations on Iron March.1
Growth and Closure
By February 2020, Fascist Forge had accumulated more than 1,500 registered accounts, exceeding Iron March's peak registered user count of 1,207 in under two years of operation. The forum's hosting registrar took the platform offline in February 2020, and no clear successor forum emerged immediately. Activity dispersed into encrypted messaging applications, Telegram channels, and alternative platforms that did not offer the persistent, searchable community structure that Iron March and Fascist Forge had provided.2
The ADL and GNET (Global Network on Extremism and Technology) documented Fascist Forge's operation. The Counter Extremism Project noted that the absence of a strong consolidated successor to Fascist Forge following its takedown diffused rather than eliminated the network, as former members spread across multiple decentralized communication channels. A later forum called "Fash Front" emerged in 2025 and positioned itself as the latest in the Iron March lineage.2
Sources
- ADL. "Fascist Forge: A New Forum for Hate." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/fascist-forge-new-forum-hate; GNET. "From Iron March to Fascist Forge: How the Global Far Right Makes Use of Social Networking." December 31, 2019. https://gnet-research.org/2019/12/31/from-iron-march-to-fascist-forge-how-the-global-far-right-makes-use-of-social-networking/ ↩
- Vice. "Fascist Forge, the Online Neo-Nazi Recruitment Forum, Is Down." February 2020. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/43zn8j/fascist-forge-the-online-neo-nazi-recruitment-forum-is-down; Counter Extremism Project. "Will a Fascist Forge Successor Emerge?" https://www.counterextremism.com/blog/will-fascist-forge-successor-emerge ↩
Local network
Fascist Forge's direct connections. Click any node to navigate, drag to pan, scroll (or pinch) to zoom. + 2‑hop expands the neighborhood one level further.