From Poland to London Town: Brothers in Arms

24th April 2026

Almost 3 years ago, While documenting the rise of the far-right in Europe, I came face to face with the fascist organisation “All-Polish Youth”. 

“All-Polish Youth” (or APY) was founded in 1922 as a nationalist academic union, focusing mainly on the exclusion of Jewish people from education and campaigning heavily for segregation. The modern branch of APY that we know today was relaunched in 1989 by the former leader of the christian conservative party, ‘League of Polish Families’ (or LPF). APY still seeks to infiltrate the education system, recruiting and indoctrinating malleable young minds. APY have been condemned on multiple occasions by ‘Amnesty International’, the ‘United Nations’ and ‘Human Rights Watch’ as an extremist and particularly homophobic organisation. They were founders of the Polish annual Independence march alongside ‘National Movement’, a neo-fascist political party and National Radical Camp (or ONR), who existed pre-war as violent lobbyists against Jewish communities and integration. In 2021, the Polish Supreme Court ruled that ONR can be referred to as a Fascist organisation. This ruling came after a multitude of street violence incidents, including the arson of a property displaying the LGBT rainbow flag during the annual independence march. In 2021, the march was banned due to the extreme risk of violence and what was cited by the courts as an extreme risk of violence against women. Though this ban did not deter the precession which as predicted and as happens each year, descended into violent disorder. This is unsurprising when you take a look at the kinds of symbols and slogans displayed annually at this event, there has been no effort or attempt to distance the march from nazi-ism, white supremacy or violent nationalism. “White Europe” and “clean blood” are among some of the common slogans. 

Attendees of the annual rally include Polish MEP, Dominik Tarczyński, who called for the criminal prosecution of a Holocaust scholar who insinuated that Poland was complicit in the Genocide. In 2017, the march and its ensuing violence attracted so much criticism that the European Parliament voted to enact a process that would suspend Polands voting rights in the European Union. In the days following the march and the condemnation of what was rightfully branded as fascism, Tarczyński pledged legal support for those being accused of such activity. 2017 also saw the attendance of none other than Tommy Robinson, who had earlier that year been arrested for contempt of court due to jeopardising an ongoing rape trial in Canterbury. The following year, attendees of the rally included Sam Sibbons (an integral member of Generation Identity, a group which the Christchurch Mosque attacker was a large donor of) and former members of Tommy Robinsons team. 2018 was also the year that it was revealed the Polish Embassy had in-part funded the hosting of far-right Polish speakers in the UK. In addition to this, MPs were swamped with emails from alleged Polish accounts and individuals that cited support for Tommy Robinson and demanded also his release from prison. 

September 13th 2025 in London saw the biggest far-right mobilisation in British history with hundreds of thousands of attendees and a roster of internationally based speakers. Including of course, Dominik Tarczyński, who used his platform, much like the other speakers, to ramble islamophobia and push anti-migration and anti-integration narratives. A number of weeks later, Robinson was invited by Tarczyński back to Warsaw to join the annual Independence march. It is clear to see that the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally was inspired by the Polish Independence march. The links between both run deep and have been soldered together over at least a decade. Polish fascists have had and continue to have a stronghold in certain areas and organisations in the UK, which shows quite frankly that none of this is really about migration and it is in fact about racism and islamophobia. In 2015, two dozen polish nazis attacked a music festival in North London and stabbed a member of an opposing anti-fascist group. In 2016, several polish nazis were arrested after joining the North West Infidels in violent acts of disorder. It is well known that Poland is home to many militant and active training camps for self-styled fascists and nazis, all the signs suggest that these camps are not just parallels of the more recently exposed Active Clubs but one and the same. For several decades, ‘Combat 18’ was operating from home shores and collaborating with foreign fascists, establishing off-shore groups too. This is very similar to ‘Generation Identity’ and other ensuing organisations that exist somewhat as the fragments and somewhat as the foundations for what has and is to come. 

The violence and political turmoil which occurs on mainland Europe is absolutely a problem for the UK. Polish intervention in British fascism has and always will signal a readiness for the stepping up of tactics and intensity. From the streets of Warsaw, to the streets of London, the agitating grifters are much the same. 

Photographs from ‘All-Polish Youth’ rally in Warsaw at the screening of the controversial film ‘Green Border’. 2023