The extreme right wing scene in New Zealand is a funny old freak show.

While there are plenty of young guys prepared to shave their heads and cover themselves in nazi tattoos, there are a few old guys who like to pretend that they aren’t like that. Kerry Bolton is one such person.

While being quietly supportive of the young guys, Kerry spends a lot of his time publicly trying to disassociate himself from nazism, but ends up in some rather interesting situations. Take for example, the Fascist Union. This was set up in early 1998 by old-school nazi Colin King-Ansell who hit the headlines a few months ago.

Kyle Chapman and Kerry Bolton were also involved in the Fascist Union. Kerry busied himself by denying in a few media articles that the Fascist Union had anything to do with racism or nazism, even though they had issued a somewhat extraordinary poster:

…which declared that ‘immigrants wouldn’t get beaten up if they didn’t come to New Zealand.’

A little more light has been shed on the situation via an article authored by none other than former NF National Director Kyle Chapman. The article outlines a basic history of skinhead crews and gangs in New Zealand. As can be expected, most of them were of a racist disposition. The funny thing is that, despite all of Kerry’s claims to the contrary, explicitly white supremacist skinhead organisations were affiliated to the Fascist Union.

Have a look at this extract from the article:

“The leaders of the Skinhead Union were linked with the New Zealand Fascist Union in 1998.
1999 The Skinhead Union joined the National Front. It then changed its name to National Front Skinheads (NFS). This caused more problems and eventually most of the clubs that had joined the Skinhead Union left or chose to not support the new Federation. By this time there were so many individual Skinheads involved that National Front Skinheads T-shirts were printed and sold throughout New Zealand.“

Notice that the Skinhead Union had affiliated to the Fascist Union in 1998. Kerry was issuing media statements for the Fascist Union in 1998 and 1999. Was Kerry therefore lying about having no connection to racist and nazi gangs, or did he not notice that affiliation? We know which option he’d have everyone believe.

A few years after the Fascist Union died, Kerry became National Secretary of the National Front. Now we all know that the NF spent a lot of their time saying the “nazi” label was just a smear tactic against them, but take another look at Kyle’s article. That’s right, the Skinhead Union had become the National Front Skinheads. And as Kyle stated, it involved those who he described as being “the Leading White Power Organisation in New Zealand, the first to have a pure white policy”.

The National Front Skinheads were very conspicuous with their t-shirts on a number of NF demos that Kerry and his wife Kathy attended. The NFS even produced a website. Some of it was cached before it was taken down, but unfortunately the hand-drawn images of muscle-bound skinheads in buttock-hugging tight black jeans were lost. But you can still laugh yourself silly as Kerry’s associates inform you about Beserkers, information about skinheads, their organisation, fighting strategies and structure and of course, the need to be seen fashionably dressed in the best uniforms.

Kerry claims that his book distribution service Renaissance Press is to allow the circulation of hard to obtain books, most of them promoting very questionable politics and racial views. He cited the fact that some have been used in academic studies as being proof of his claim that they are made available solely for the mature study of the subjects. In his booklet Red Alert, Bolton claimed that he didn’t use the internet to promote his booklist, as if to explain the unusual situation from 2004 onwards of the openly nazi National Socialist Movement in the USA publicising his books.

Despite Kerry trying to have us believe that the NSM have nothing to do with him or his various groups in New Zealand, there was an interesting person who attended a few NF demos in 2004 when Kerry was NF National Secretary.

Here he is (standing behind the banner) at a NF demo in June 2004 outside the Chinese Embassy in Wellington:

He was also seen at an NF demo in Palmerston North the same year.

This character attended other NF events and was often seen talking to Kerry.

So what?

Well, the National Socialist Movement issued a DVD of some rally they held in 2004. One of the listed speakers at the rally was “Sgt Wilson of New Zealand”

Here he is again in a charming group shot:

Now there’s a surprise, another of Kerry’s mates with a uniform fetish! But didn’t Kerry state that the NF had a “No nazi insignia” policy?

‘Sgt Wilson’ even turned up in Unit 88, the nazi skinhead gang Colin King-Ansell was funding before he fell out with them and started the Fascist Union. That’s him on the right.

Doesn’t the guy in the Hammerskins t-shirt next to him look like Kyle Chapman?

Uncanny.