#IronMarch
13 entries tagged IronMarch.
People (7)
- Alisher Mukhitdinov Alisher Mukhitdinov, operating under the alias 'Alexander Slavros,' founded and administered Iron March from 2011 to 2017; his identification rests on a WHOIS record linking his personal site to a Moscow address, corroborated by BBC Russia's physical investigation in January 2020.
- Andrei Soshnikov Andrei Soshnikov is a Russian investigative journalist who exposed the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency troll factory while at Moy Rayon and later at BBC News Russian, and authored the definitive January 2020 investigation identifying Iron March founder Alisher Mukhitdinov.
- Benjamin Hannam Benjamin Hannam was a probationary Metropolitan Police constable convicted on 1 April 2021 at the Old Bailey of National Action membership, fraud by false representation on his police vetting forms, and possession of terrorist documents, becoming the first serving UK police officer convicted of a terrorism-related offence, with his identification tracing directly to the 2019 Iron March database leak.
- David Cole Tarkington David Cole Tarkington was a U.S. Navy aviation machinist mate identified via the Iron March data leak as a prolific Atomwaffen Division online recruiter, and was administratively separated from the Navy in April 2020 following an NCIS investigation.
- John Cartwright II John Cartwright II, username 'Blood and Iron,' was an Iron March moderator who joined the forum in September 2011 at its founding and was identified through the 2019 database leak as a U.S. Navy member residing in Millersville, Maryland.
- Liam Collins (AWD) Liam Collins was a former U.S. Marine and Iron March leader who co-conspired with other AWD-adjacent Iron March members to attack power infrastructure in the northwestern United States, and was sentenced to 10 years in the Eastern District of North Carolina in July 2024.
- Travis Frey Travis Frey was an ICE detention center captain at a CoreCivic facility in Nevada who was identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak as an active neo-Nazi forum user who had described himself as a fascist and sought to organize for the Traditionalist Workers Party.
Organizations (5)
- Antipodean Resistance Antipodean Resistance was an Australian neo-Nazi organization announced on Iron March in October 2016 by founding member Tim Heibach, several of whose leadership members were identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak.
- 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.
- FashFront FashFront is an accelerationist neo-Nazi web forum that emerged in mid-2025 positioning itself as the successor to Iron March and Fascist Forge, with 941 registered users as of late 2025 and documented connections to former Atomwaffen Division and Terrorgram Collective members.
- Iron March Iron March was a Russian neo-fascist web forum founded by Alisher Mukhitdinov in 2011 that served as the primary incubator for Atomwaffen Division and several other neo-Nazi organizations until its closure in 2017, after which a 2019 database leak exposed 1,207 user accounts and enabled identification of military personnel, law enforcement employees, and organizational moderators across multiple countries.
- National Action National Action was a British neo-Nazi organization proscribed in December 2016 as the UK's first banned terrorist group since World War II, producing more than a dozen criminal convictions for membership and terrorism offenses between 2018 and 2022.
Concepts (1)
- Siege Culture Siege Culture is the accelerationist neo-Nazi ideological ecosystem organized around James Mason's collected writings, which advocate leaderless resistance and lone-wolf violence, adopted as foundational doctrine by Atomwaffen Division and circulated into successor networks by Iron March and Terrorgram Collective.