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Iron March was a far-right Neo-fascism and Neo-Nazism Internet forum open from 2011 to 2017. The site attracted neo-fascist and Neo-Nazi members, including from organized far-right groups and members who would later go on to commit acts of terror. People linked to Iron March have been connected to 100 hate crimes.9781003502173 . ISBN 9781003502173
After the site closed, former users moved to alternative websites and social networking services, such as Discord. In 2019, an anonymous individual leaked the database that hosted all Iron March content.
Iron March became a platform for militant Neo-fascism and Neo-Nazism violent extremist organizations, including the Nordic Resistance Movement, National Action, Azov Battalion, CasaPound, and Golden Dawn. Some of the board's members were later linked to several acts of terrorism and murder, such as the murder of an Anti-fascism in Helsinki in September 2016. A group consisting of Serbian Combat 18, "Motorcycle club Srbi", and Atomwaffen Division also used the forum to traffic firearms. The forum's users organized a number of violent Neo-Nazi groups, including the Atomwaffen Division, Antipodean Resistance, and National Action. The userbase embraced the accelerationist ideology of James Mason, a Neo-Nazi militant and associate of Charles Manson. Members of Iron March republished and popularized Mason's book Siege and its brand of explicitly Neo-Nazi terrorism. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
In 2016, posters urging students to visit the Iron March website were posted on university campuses, including those of Boston University, Old Dominion University, and the University of Chicago. These posters included racist and antisemitic slogans, including "#Hitler Disapproves", "No Degeneracy, No Tolerance, Hail Victory", and "Black Lives Don't Matter".
The website closed in November 2017; the reasons for its closure remain unclear as of late 2019. According to an investigation conducted by BBC News Russian, it is suspected Mukhitdinov was pressured by the government of Russia for raising funds for the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which is considered a terrorist group in the Russian Federation. A spokesperson for the Azov Battalion refused to comment on the case.
In February 2018, Iron March-affiliated Discord servers alongside several other hate group servers were removed by the messaging service. In April 2018, a networking site called Fascist Forge was launched; according to a note by its founder, it was meant as a replacement for Iron March. The site continued Iron March's virulent propaganda and grew rapidly until February 2019, when the site was taken offline by its registrar.
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Devon Arthurs, an Iron March user and member of the Atomwaffen Division (AWD), killed his two roommates, also members of AWD, in May 2017. Police found neo-Nazi literature, radioactive materials, a photograph of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and explosives in his home. Arthurs' remaining roommate and fellow Iron March user Brandon Russell was arrested in Tampa, Florida, for stockpiling of illegal weapons and bomb-making materials. Russell had been among Iron March's most prolific users, having written around 1,500 posts on the site.
As a result of the Iron March leak in 2019, it was discovered the Latvian national-conservative politician and activist Raivis Zeltīts had posted on Iron March under the handle "Latvian_Integralist". Zeltīts acknowledged in a Facebook post that he had written using this handle, but Zeltīts said that he no longer held those views. Zeltīts remained in contact with Iron March administrator Benjamin Raymond as late as 2015.
Zack Davies, 26, of Mold, North Wales, attacked a Sikhs man with a machete and claw hammer while shouting "White Power". Davies Attempted murder; in the judge's view, the victim would have died had Davies not been stopped by passers-by. In 2015, a British court found Davies guilty and assigned him a life sentence (with a minimum tariff of 14 years). Davies had an Iron March account and was a member of the British terrorist group National Action, which was proscribed in 2016.
A variety of individuals and organizations used information from the leak:
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