White Aryan Resistance

White Aryan Resistance (also known by its initials WAR) was an alliance of white power skinhead gangs accross the United States. They were named for a newspaper they read that was published by Tom Metzger, a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon in California. Founded in 1980 as the White American Political Association, Metzger changed the name in 1983 as the group's focus shifted to social revolution, as opposed to electoral campaigning. He promoted the group on a public access cable show called Race and Reason, and by the late 1980s was recruiting skinheads to his cause.

In 1990 the group faced legal trouble when members of a Portland skinhead gang called East Side White Pride, which was part of the alliance, murdered an Ethiopian immigrant named Mulugeta Seraw. Seraw's family sued WAR for 12.5 million dollars, which were paid in WAR's profits and Metzger's residence. Despite this, WAR continued publication, and made a website in 1997 which is still up to this day.