Seven people were stabbed when members of a “neo-Nazi” extremist group clashed with counterprotesters during a rally outside the California state Capitol Sunday, authorities said.

Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said that at least two people had critical injuries.

“There was a large number of people carrying sticks and rushing to either get into the melee or see what was going on,” Harvey said.

Members of the Traditionalist Worker Party — a self-identified white nationalist group — were getting set to rally on the west steps of the Capitol building at around noon local time when they were met by a large group of anti-fascists.

The TWP said on its Web site that the rally was a “protest against globalization and in defense of the right to free expression.”

Members of the group were greatly outnumbered by the counterprotesters, who held up signs that read “Nazi scum,” according to social-media photos.

TWP Chairman Matthew Heimbach said that his group organized the rally along with a group called Golden State Skinheads, and blamed the violence on “leftist radicals,” according to the LA Times. He added that one of his group’s members had been stabbed in the neck, but that the others injured were with the counterprotestors.

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