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and after years in exile, returned to britain to become a prominent activist for the group hope not hate. what is the most effective antidote to hate—fuelled neo—nazi extremism 7 matthew collins, welcome to hardtalk. yourjob is rooting out, exposing, the most vile forms of racism neo—nazism. yep. the twist is that you, yourself, in your youth, were one of them. do you see traits of yourself in today's neo—nazis? some. some traits. poacher turned gamekeeper. i see some traits. i see in some of them the uncertainty about what they believe, the doubts about what they believe, th...

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Yeah. ..because before you renounced all this, you did some terrible things. i did, and from a very... from an early age, in my teens, i was involved in violence. the minute i got involved in these far—right groups, you understand, they take these fears, your concerns about society and your life, and they come back to you and they say the only way to address these is by violence. so, from... i got involved in the national front, as it was back then, when i was 15 years old. i think it was my second or third meeting, iwas involved in a violent confrontation with other people. did you...? yes....

Active in the community? well, i guess it is, isn't it? these are the sort of people that would be saving my hospital, myjob, my classes. so, on the spot, i looked around, i said, "i am completely on the wrong side. "and i've completely misread this and everything about it." that's more than 30 years ago... yeah. ..and there's been a lot of life since then. a lot. you, for a while, were informing on the far right within the uk... can ijust be clear? when you say an informant, i was informing to anti—fascists. this is constantly... i was informing to anti—fascists, not to the... well, not d...

Socialists, the left, trade unionists, people like that. and in the �*80s and the �*90s, the people who were most likely to physically confront fascists were generally trade unionists and left—wing groups. yeah, but you were very happy to yell the n—word into people's faces. absolutely, absolutely. the n—word, the p—word, the w—word, all kinds of words. and we need briefly to talk about welling, cos it's sort of a watershed moment in your life. it was a meeting of anti—fascist activists, campaigners... anti—racists. ..anti—racists... the general good and great of the commun...