Swinton Circle - Rival Group

Rival Group

Alan Harvey was expelled from the Swinton Circle in 2008 after disrupting the business of the group and amidst allegations, as noted in The Guardian, that he was a "Searchlight mole".

Following his expulsion, Alan Harvey, a former neo-fascist and publisher of "racist and antisemitic" material, along with Gary Cartwright, a former National Democrats candidate and organiser and regular contributor to holocaust denier David Irving's historical revisionist Focal Point website began using the Swinton Circle name in 2009 as a front for the 'Springbok Club'; the Club has been described by Johann Hari as a "racist organisation". Harvey "claimed he was in charge of the Swinton Circle and even called meetings, however as they rapidly degenerated into occasions for him to attack anyone he felt like, they have not been a great success". The two groups clashed at a meeting featuring Philip Hollobone MP, with members of the London Swinton Circle being barred from attending. Harvey later told Searchlight magazine that he had "won" in his struggle against the Swinton Circle. Alan Harvey has recently linked up with Canadian neo-Nazi William John Beattie.