A “NEO-FASCIST leader” has stoked fresh anger ahead of his Aussie tour as he was spotted drawing a replica sword at a disturbing violent rally earlier this month.

Openly bragging about the virtues of violence to achieve political goals, Gavin McInnes, the British-born Canadian comedian and founder of the pro-Trump men’s rights group The Proud Boys, is touching down in Australia next month.

However his sword stunt in New York earlier this month and the violence which followed have renewed calls for Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to block him from the country.

He and his band of fighters — whose members are notorious for engaging in street brawls with left-wing Antifa protesters — have drawn renewed ire after five associates of the alt-right mouthpiece were arrested in the US.

The five were all slapped with serious assault charges this month following an event which included the disturbing re-enactment by Mr McInnes of the assassination of a Japanese socialist by a nationalist which was broadcast on live television in 1960.

Before channelling the sickening on-air murder of the Chinese Communist Party supporter Inejiro Asanuma, Mr McInnes wrote on Instagram that he would be “re-enacting this inspiring moment at the Metropolitan Club (Manhattan Republican club in New York).”

It began when a few dozen Proud Boys, many clad in MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats and trademark Fred Perry black-and-yellow polo shirts, roamed New York’s Upper East Side after the event shouting homophobic slurs and “I like beer” — a reference to the line of defence offered by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh against allegations of binge drinking related to sexual assault.

Footage from the scene shows Proud Boys members violently beating and kicking protesters. One can be heard on a video bragging about “kicking a foreigner”.

However, the co-founder of Vice magazine claims that the group of Proud Boys are the victims of a liberal media hit job.

Here's Gavin McInnes brandishing a sword in front of NYPD officers:

(after giving a speech at NY Repub Club praising a far-right extremist who stabbed the leader of the Japanese Socialist Party on live television -- with a sword) pic.twitter.com/5jGIrKvGYD — BLOOP! (@susiemcdonnell) October 14, 2018

Gavin McInnes: "i cannot recommend violence enough. It is a really effective way to solve problems." pic.twitter.com/XcWBWBkrh8 — Media Matters (@mmfa) October 15, 2018

“The important thing you also have to know about all of this reporting is these reporters aren’t just pro-antifa: they’re in antifa,” he told the US Spectator.

One of those reporters he took aim at, Huffington Post’s Christopher Mathias, hit back on Twitter, calling Mr McInnes a “neo-fascist leader of a violent neo-fascist gang”.

The violence and glorification of murder in New York has led to renewed calls for Peter Dutton to stop the bearded provocateur’s Aussie tour and for him to be barred from the country.

However, Mr Dutton has so far refused to comment on whether he would block Mr McInnes’ entry to Australia.

The tour will see Mr McInnes speaking in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

“The Left has declared war on free speech and we’ve declared war on them,” Mr McInnes said in a statement to promote the tour. “Why Australia? It’s the last vestige of masculinity in the free world. I’m coming to recruit soldiers for the war on censorship.”

Mr McInnes, who is also known as the “godfather of hipsterdom” for his early work with Vice, first made a name for himself in Australia when he delivered a tirade against Waleed Aly for criticising Donald Trump over two years ago. Mr McInnes left Vice in 2008.

Organisers say he is “known for his raucous and irreverent take on the world and controversial, no holds barred opinions”, with his “brash, comedic style of commentary” earning him “millions of fans”.

The controversial tour has been organised by Penthouse publisher Damien Costas, who also organised the tours of US right-winger Milo Yiannopoulos last year and former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage earlier this year.

He told news.com.au the allegations that Mr McInnes was a white supremacist were “nonsense”.

“These people are not white supremacists, they’re Western supremacists. They believe in the great values that built the Western world,” he said. “Free speech is the cornerstone of Western civilisation.”

— with Frank Chung