Daily Record investigations have unmasked several sinister Nazi groups operating throughout Scotland, with followers recruited via social media platforms like WhatsApp, TikTok, and Telegram. These groups promote white supremacist principles, plot 'revolution,' and hold hate-filled demonstrations.
Scots Active Group
The Scots Active group, launched in 2025, came to public attention during an anti-immigration protest in Glasgow on June 13. Members operate a WhatsApp group under the banner 'Get These C**** Out!' and clashed with police, targeting ethnic minorities and making Nazi salutes. The group denies being racist, claiming it 'patrols' Glasgow streets to rescue women and children from criminals.
Founder Darren Docherty, a joiner, recruited members on social media, quickly amassing 1,000 followers. Despite Docherty’s claims that his group is neither far right nor racist, it was previously banned from TikTok for violating guidelines. Docherty is believed to have been inspired by fascist 'active clubs' in the US and Eastern Europe, which encourage young men and women to get fit to 'protect their nation's white heritage.' Videos shared on TikTok show hooded members harassing a black man.
Active Club Scotland
Active Club Scotland, a far-right fight club, signed up hundreds of Scots in 2023. The group promotes white supremacist principles through macho physical training drills, including mixed martial arts and boxing. Members pose topless in balaclavas on Telegram, urging others to join. They released a video bearing a banner demanding 'Free Rundo,' referencing American white supremacist Robert Rundo, whose Rise Above Movement drove the first active clubs in the US in 2017. Rundo was extradited to the US after being arrested in Romania on anti-riot charges related to violent clashes with anti-fascist protesters in Los Angeles.
Caledonia Club
Young Scottish racists from Caledonia Club joined neo-Nazis in Germany last year at a boot camp to plot 'revolution.' The event, organised by neo-Nazi party The Third Way (Der Dritte Weg), included hand-to-hand combat training, lectures on anti-immigration theory, and a 25km march. More than 100 activists from Germany, the Netherlands, England, and Scotland participated. Recruits were awoken at 5.30am for breakfast and taught how to make graffiti to spread their extreme views in Scotland.
Patriotic Alternative Scotland
Patriotic Alternative Scotland, regarded as the UK’s most active fascist group, held its first annual conference at the Stirling Highland Hotel in October 2022, booking the venue without revealing its identity. The group also demonstrated at Stirling Castle with a banner stating 'White lives built Britain.' Stirling MP Alyn Smith condemned the group, saying: 'These bams abused our hospitality with their ultra hate-fest and their daft wee stunt.' The group includes members associated with proscribed Nazi terrorist group National Action, a former member of which plotted to kill a Labour MP. It was founded in 2019 by former BNP press officer Mark Collett, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist inspired by Hitler’s book Mein Kampf.
Homeland Party
The Homeland Party, a splinter from Patriotic Alternative, was granted official political party status by the Electoral Commission in February 2024, sparking outrage. Led by former PA senior official Kenny Smith from Skye, the party lists its HQ in Kirknewton, West Lothian. Its nomination officer, Anthony Burrows, has promoted Adolf Hitler and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke online. Anti-fascist campaigners condemned the decision, noting several PA members have been jailed for hate crimes.
