Searchlight
Fighting against racism and fascism
-
The lies behind a Cornish councillor’s antisemitic tirade
Searchlight magazine and anti-fascist groups warned that last weekend’s ‘British National Strike’ would enable the most extreme forces to spread their bile in public. But even we were astonished at the video that emerged of Peter Lawrence, a British Democrat…
Get a copy of the last Searchlight in print
The last ever printed edition of Searchlight magazine is out now and selling fast. It is a 72-page bumper edition charting the 50-year life of Searchlight and it won't be available for long...
-
‘Great British Strike’ gets piss poor support
“The Great British National Strike, taking place this weekend, is set to see more than 500,000 people across the country…
-
Portuguese elections: chronicle of a vote foretold
Across Europe, election coverage increasingly follows a familiar script: journalists must already have the template and it’s simply a matter…
-
The Resistible Rise of Reform UK
The May election results were a warning, if one was needed, of the danger of an insurgent Reform UK. Sarah…
-
Birmingham day out with a nazi troublemaker
Meet Ryan Ferguson. He’s the piece of work who turned up at the Britain First march in Birmingham on Saturday…
-
Tenconi humiliated in Bristol – again
UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi can’t have long left as a street fascist. You could see it in his eyes and…
-
Britain First breakdown in Birmingham
They were outnumbered by anti-fascists, corralled by the police and ignored by the public. Britain’s First’s latest attempt to whip…
-
Sinister links of groups targeted by German authorities
Large scale police raids and prosecutions in Germany targeting the extremist ‘Reichsbürger’ movement are linked to international networks of nazis and Holocaust deniers that have been monitored for years by Searchlight. Searchlight reported yesterday on this week’s raids by 800…
-
Pass the collection plate for the batshit preacher
So, doubtless after an appropriate period of prayer and reflection, and with a firm purpose of amendment, the batshit preacher…
-
‘Tommy Robinson’ ally Rikki Doolan quits UKIP
‘Pastor’ Rikki Doolan, UKIP’s spokesman on Culture and Arts, has announced this morning that he is quitting the party. He…
-
‘Batshit preacher’ sacked by his new church – after just one day
Britain’s ‘batshit preacher’, Calvin Robinson, who fled to the US last year ‘in fear of his life’ has been sacked…
-
Fascists target Reform for infiltration
In a move predicted by Searchlight last year, UK neo-nazis led by Patriotic Alternative boss Mark Collett are planning to…
-
Germany bans far-right ‘Kingdom of Germany’ group
The German government has officially banned the far-right group ‘Kingdom of Germany’ (Königreich Deutschland, KRD), some of whose members were…
-
Birmingham Council spikes Britain First rally with bollards ban
Birmingham City Council have put a spoke into the wheel of the rickettty old bike that is Paul Golding’s Britain…
-
Remembering Maurice Ludmer, giant of the post war anti-fascist movement
On 14 May,1981, at the age of only 54, Searchlight’s editor Maurice Ludmer died suddenly, depriving the post war anti-fascist…
International news
-
Portuguese elections: chronicle of a vote foretold
Across Europe, election coverage increasingly follows a familiar script: journalists must already have the template and it’s simply a matter…
-
Sinister links of groups targeted by German authorities
Large scale police raids and prosecutions in Germany targeting the extremist ‘Reichsbürger’ movement are linked to international networks of nazis…
-
Germany bans far-right ‘Kingdom of Germany’ group
The German government has officially banned the far-right group ‘Kingdom of Germany’ (Königreich Deutschland, KRD), some of whose members were…
-
Conor McGregor – a rapist lionised by Ireland’s far right
Conor McGregor’s recent announcement that he plans to run for the Irish presidency has come as no surprise to those…
-
Britain First in Birmingham – the final shakedown?
Paul Golding has promised thousands of “patriots” will attend his Britain First rally in Birmingham this coming weekend. There will be “a larger turnout of patriots from around the country compared to our last event in Nuneaton”. That would not…
-
Homeland candidate echoes nazis with ‘untermensch’ slur
We said only recently that the problem with nazis trying to be respectable is that they just can’t keep their…
-
Traditional Britain Group – secrecy, elitism, and the far right’s academic mask
On Saturday May 10, 2025, the Traditional Britain Group will host a luncheon in London to replace its annual black-tie…
-
VE Day – celebrating victory in the people’s war against fascism
The build up to the 80th anniversary of VE Day has been blighted by US President Donald Trump’s public disregard…
-
UKIP licks its wounds and ponders an uncertain future
One of the happy consequences of the recent local council elections – and there weren’t many – is that it…
-
‘Treachery’ to stop terrorism say nazi ‘intellectuals’
Those self-styled ‘nazi intellectuals’ at Heritage and Destiny magazine are very unhappy that we have paid tribute to Peter Marriner,…
-
Farage, Reform UK, and the Shadow of the Kremlin
As Reform UK rides a surprising wave of electoral support across parts of England, the party’s populist rhetoric and its…
-
Peter Marriner: undercover hero of the anti-fascist movement
Peter Marriner, who has died at the age of 77, was an undercover informant in the extreme right for many…
Research and analysis
-
The Resistible Rise of Reform UK
The May election results were a warning, if one was needed, of the danger of an insurgent Reform UK. Sarah…
-
Traditional Britain Group – secrecy, elitism, and the far right’s academic mask
On Saturday May 10, 2025, the Traditional Britain Group will host a luncheon in London to replace its annual black-tie…
-
Local elections 2025 – Farage surges and far right turn on Homeland
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that…
-
Book Review: The Little Black Book of the Populist Right, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
This short, highly readable book explores the growing influence of what Bloomfield and Edgar describe as the ‘populist right’. This…
-
A Searchlight mole and a nazi weapons hoard
When this article was first published in 2024, we were not able to identify Peter Marriner as the Searchlight informant who smashed this nazi plot to assemble a huge weapons cache. In the final print edition of Searchlight, published this…
-
So why was Charlie Veitch trying to photograph everyone on May Day march?
Last week, YouTube ‘film maker’ and blogger Charlie Veitch was seen in Manchester joking and cosying up to some the…
-
Local elections 2025 – Farage surges and far right turn on Homeland
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that…
-
Anti-fascist action in 2025
Some personal thoughts on two successful anti-fascist actions last weekend, and what they can teach us. The past weekend was…
-
Remembering the Admiral Duncan attack
Today, on the anniversary of nazi David Copeland’s third and most deadly nail bomb attack on London in 1999, we…
-
Behind the Leeds crossbow attack: Lone-actor extremism and online radicalization
The recent crossbow attack in Leeds has attracted national attention not only because of its shocking nature but also because…
-
Homeland – where ‘sensible nationalism’ meets sniggery antisemitism
Last weekend’s Homeland Party Remigration Conference was predictable in many ways. The party of ‘sensible nationalism’ ordered its (male) troops…
-
Conor McGregor – a rapist lionised by Ireland’s far right
Conor McGregor’s recent announcement that he plans to run for the Irish presidency has come as no surprise to those…
Culture
-
Review: Celebrating Billie Holiday, jazz great and civil rights activist
A great night at the Jazz Café, Camden, on 7 April when we were transported back to the Jim Crow…
-
‘Lili Marlene’: the song that haunted the Nazis
One song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second World War. The most beautiful…
-
Berlin and the red triangle
The red triangle was in the news recently when the city of Berlin senate banned its use on activities related…
-
Theatre Review: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a play that arose from events in December 1969, when Italian fascists bombed…
-
British Movement Hitler partygoers unmasked
Some British Movement members celebrating Hitler’s birthday obviously thought they were being smart when they posted pixilated photos of themselves online. They posed with nazi flags and a swastika-decorated cake. We reproduced it in an earlier article you can read…
-
Council launches enquiry into Homeland conference booking
Ashley Baxter, the Leader of South Kesteven District Council released the following statement yesterday announcing an enquiry into how council…
-
Tenconi does a runner as Manchester demo flops
Deranged and disorganised. The best way to describe today’s illuminating get together in Manchester of racists, cranks, criminals, and conspiracy…
-
Oxford’s shame – procession of far-right speakers invited to Union
When the Home Secretary banned the French racist Renaud Camus from travelling to the UK to speak at tomorrow’s conference…
-
Leonard “Lenny” Zeskind – comrade and friend
Leonard – he was always Lenny to me – Zeskind left a positive impression on all who knew him. He…
-
British Movement’s floral tribute to nazi traitor
William Joyce. Nazi. Jew-hater. Traitor. Loathed, tried and hanged after the war for his services to Hitler. Loved, remembered, and…
-
‘Intellectual’ magazine brings together dregs of British nazism
Mark Cotterill, editor of Britain’s self-styled ‘intellectual’ nazi magazine Heritage and Destiny, is plainly enjoying playing mein host to social…
-
Nick Griffin launches new ‘Christian’ party
Failed BNP führer and twice-bankrupted Nick Griffin chose Easter Sunday to launch his latest political party. That might seem strange…
Anti-fascism
-
Remembering Maurice Ludmer, giant of the post war anti-fascist movement
On 14 May,1981, at the age of only 54, Searchlight’s editor Maurice Ludmer died suddenly, depriving the post war anti-fascist…
-
Peter Marriner: undercover hero of the anti-fascist movement
Peter Marriner, who has died at the age of 77, was an undercover informant in the extreme right for many…
-
A Searchlight mole and a nazi weapons hoard
When this article was first published in 2024, we were not able to identify Peter Marriner as the Searchlight informant…
-
Anti-fascist action in 2025
Some personal thoughts on two successful anti-fascist actions last weekend, and what they can teach us. The past weekend was…
-
Homeland Party – the anatomy of a split
The great Homeland Party split (reported by Searchlight as it unfolded during the Easter weekend) has hardened within the past 24 hours. 2025 is starting to look very much like 1980. After the 1979 general election setback, the National Front…
-
Crisis in Homeland Party as leading figure quits
Steve Laws, one of the leading and most high-profile members of the Homeland Party, has resigned from the party in…
-
‘Gay’ row threatens to split Homeland Party
Following our report yesterday, Homeland Party leader Kenny Smith’s Easter has got even worse. On Thursday night Smith lost his…
-
Reprieve for nazi land buying scheme
Sadly, we have to report that the Woodlander Initiative, the neo-Nazi land buying scheme which looked like it might be…
-
Homeland Party blow as star speaker is banned
It’s going to be a long Good Friday for Kenny Smith, leader of what he calls the “sensible nationalist” Homeland…
-
When We Started Working Together
Yesterday, Searchlight heard the dreadful news that Lenny Zeskind had died. Lenny was one of our closest and dearest friends,…
-
Neo-nazi ‘white homelands’ money and land may be confiscated
A neo-nazi scheme which raised thousands of pounds to buy land all over the UK to establish white enclaves seems…
-
The cheek of Old Nick…
“Every metric at UKIP is being smashed. New members are joining in healthy amounts, our candidates list is steadily growing,…
Holocaust
-
An anniversary David Irving would rather forget
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over…
-
Fascists and antisemites mourn death of rogue bishop
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative…
-
Heritage Party leader bemoans ‘injustice’ for holocaust-denying nazi
Searchlight has been reporting for several months on the increasing radicalisation of right-wing parties. Not just the obviously racist and…
-
Kristallnacht remembered
To mark the anniversary of the 1938 November Pogrom, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, we reprint a special article published by…
-
UKIP Chairman in denial about his criminal convictions
UKIP Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker appears to be in a strange and inexplicable state of denial about his criminal convictions. A UKIP admirer (and boy does she admire him!) who appears on X (Twitter) as @Tammy8762535565, posted recently her…
-
Is ‘Tommy Robinson’ having second thoughts about UKIP link-up?
One man who will be hoping desperately that Tommy Robinson wins his appeal against sentence and gets out of jail…
-
Spanish darling of UK nazis locked up for race hate
A Spanish neo-nazi who caused a public row three years ago when she was allowed into the UK to address…
-
The strange tale of the fascist terrorist, a banned British charity and a hoard of gold bullion
Earlier this week, the media reported that the Charity Commission had shut down an ostensibly Roman Catholic-supporting charity, sacked its…
-
Review: Celebrating Billie Holiday, jazz great and civil rights activist
A great night at the Jazz Café, Camden, on 7 April when we were transported back to the Jim Crow…
-
Britain First leader staring Brum failure in the face
As Britain First’s 17 May Birmingham demo approaches, co-leader Paul Golding is getting increasingly desperate. His bizarre antics over recent…
-
Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer – murdered by Hitler’s nazis
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the murder of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the final days of the Second World war.…
-
Yorkshire fascist wins council seats – but without an election
A huge victory! A stunning success! Total vindication of our strategy! Yes! Set up by ageing nazis whose political careers…
Today's top ten most read articles
-
Local elections 2025: far-right runners and riders
Britain’s fastest growing far-right party Homeland, led by an ex-BNP organiser with a swastika tattoo on his chest but now…
-
Britain First leader Paul Golding in ‘You’re nazis’ attack on Homeland Party
Hostilities between groups on Britain’s extreme right have taken a bizarre turn with Paul Golding, leader of Britain First, launching…
-
Far-right crook Marine Le Pen banned from running for French presidency in 2027
The leader of the French far-right party National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, has been sentenced to four years in…
-
Fascist candidate announced for Doncaster mayor
The fascist British Democrats have announced they will be contesting Doncaster’s mayoral election in May. Their candidate will be Frank…
-
Birmingham rally makes clear the challenge of Nigel Farage and Reform
Nigel Farage arrived on the stage of the Reform UK rally in the Arena Birmingham on a JCB accompanied by…
-
An anniversary David Irving would rather forget
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over…
-
UKIP leader in panic mode as branches collapse and demos flop
UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi is becoming increasingly deranged. The man with the megaphone, making a nuisance of himself in town…
-
PA leader Collett in desperate ‘state asset’ attack on Homeland Party boss
Patriotic Alternative, the neo-fascist political entity that has housed and harboured many a convicted criminal, is in trouble and leader…
