Researchers who infiltrated Action Zealandia say the group's members identify as neo-Nazis and fascists in violent, private online chats, Marc Daalder reports Two new academic studies on New Zealand's main white supremacist group, based on 18 months of covert research, indicate Action Zealandia sees itself "as the seeds of a larger fascist social movement, and as a street fighting spearhead in the manner of the Nazis Sturmabteiling or brownshirts", rather than as a terrorist organisation. University of Auckland terrorism and conflict lecturer Chris Wilson and then-independent journalist James Halpin (who now works at Stuff ) published a paper in late...