A MAJOR financial services company has been urged to stop letting a far-right party use its payment system.
Stripe, which allows organisations to take money through its websites, has been warned that allowing the Homeland Party – which calls for non-white people to be removed from Britain – the services helps them “finance fascism”.
The activist group Red Flare has written to Stripe, headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, urging the firm to block the far-right group from using its systems.
In an email to company bosses, seen by the Sunday National, spokesperson Allan Jones said: “Stripe is helping the Homeland Party process membership payments, donations, event tickets and merchandise sales via its website.”
They pointed out that this included tickets for the party’s 2025 “remigration conference” in April, which featured far-right French author Renaud Camus, the originator of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory.
Camus is notorious for his 2011 work Le Grand Remplacement, which argues that European rulers are systematically replacing white people with Muslims from the Middle East and Africa.
Homeland revealed on their Facebook page last month that Camus had been “shamefully banned from entering the United Kingdom by the Home Office, on the grounds that his views on mass migration were deemed politically inconvenient”, though he delivered a speech through a video link.
Jones, of Red Flare, said: “Stripe is helping Britain’s largest fascist party build its infrastructure – processing payments for membership, merchandise and events where speakers push racist conspiracy theories.
“Homeland’s leadership includes Holocaust deniers, Hitler admirers and men with deep roots in Britain’s neo-Nazi scene. This is a party that wants to deport millions of people based on the colour of their skin.
“Stripe has policies against hate and harmful political fundraising. If those mean anything, Homeland should be dropped immediately. Tech platforms shouldn’t be neutral when it comes to fascism, they should draw a line.”
The company was sent a dossier on the Homeland Party showing how they had formed as a breakaway sect from far-right group Patriotic Alternative.
Party chair Kenny Smith was a member of Patriotic Alternative’s leadership team in 2022, when the organisation hosted Andreas Johansson, of the Nordic Resistance Movement, at its conference.
The Nordic Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi group from Sweden, was designated a terrorist organisation by the US State Department in 2024.
A Homeland spokesperson said: “This is guilt by association at its most dishonest. Red Flare is recycling old headlines and smearing the Homeland Party with individuals and events that have no connection to us.
“We are a lawful political party. We reject these lies and this ideological blackmail, and we will not lie down and accept it. Enough is enough.”
Stripe was approached for comment.
