The English Volunteers were a right-wing militia organized in the late 1940's with the purported purpose of overthrowing the Socialist government of England and breaking apart many of the stifling bureaucratic institutions imposed upon the English people during the Socialist era. The Volunteers were initially a mostly rural organization enjoying a steady supply of munitions and supplies from smugglers backed by the French government and navy, but by mid-1950 they had a strong presence within northeastern London and much of central England.