 In 1998, he and other ENM members founded the National Revolutionary Faction.In 2001, Southgate and the NRF were the subject of a "Sunday Telegraph" article, in which the NRF was accused of being a neo-Nazi organisation infiltrating animal rights groups to spread fascism.Southgate's national-anarchist ideology has been described as an opportunistic appropriation of aspects of leftist counter-culture in the service of a racist, right-wing ideology.