The headliner for Saturday’s Boston Free Speech rally is canceling his plans to attend the event on Boston Common and believes other organizers will also drop out, citing hostility towards the gathering on the part of Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh in the wake of the deadly attack at a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday.

“Nope, I am not going. The context has changed,” Gavin McInnes told Herald Radio. “Charlottesville has changed everything. Mayors have a language you can suss out if you're careful. The mayor of Charlottesville said, ‘I am going to revoke your permit’…that’s mayor speak for ‘I want a riot to happen so I can take more power.’ ”

McInnes, the founder of Proud Boys, a far-right men's organization that advocates "western values," added: “Boston’s mayor is acting the same way. That means he is calling this a Nazi thing. He is going to let a riot happen and tell the police to stand down. I can tell the mayor is going to make sure we are endangered…it is a common political tactic.”

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh yesterday said his message for organizers of the Boston Common event is, "I don't want them here. … I don't want that type of hate to come to our city."

The city said no one has pulled a permit for the rally.

McInnis claimed the organizers had been given a permit by Boston that was then rescinded, but provided no evidence to back up his contention.

McInnes said he had spoken to others who had planned to attend Saturday's event, including billed speakers Cassandra Fairbanks and Joe Biggs, and believed they too will not be coming to Boston.

A woman was killed and 19 others injured when a 20-year-old Ohio man allegedly plowed a car into a gathering of counter-protesters Saturday following a protest against removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from downtown Charlottesville.

“Charlottesville unified the extreme paranoid of the left,” McInnes said. “That (expletive) who killed that innocent woman confirmed the radical left's worst fears and made Nazism into a thing.”

McInnes, a 37-year-old Canadian citizen, said he does not like going to rallies like the one planned Saturday because of their tendency to draw counter-protestors. Left-leaning groups promised a robust response to Saturday’s rally, and Walsh himself did not rule out participating if a march or other counter-protest was put together.

“I don’t enjoy being screamed at by mentally ill communists,” McInnes said.