Searchlight
Fighting against racism and fascism
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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 advertising itself as the voice of “sensible nationalism” will have just four candidates nationwide at the local elections on 1…
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 an 72-page bumper edition charting the 50-year life of Searchlight and it won't be available for long...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 Mark Collett has launched a desperate smear attack on one of his leading rivals accusing him of being a state…
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George Galloway fields friend of Holocaust deniers in Runcorn by-election
We still don’t know how many (if any) far right candidates will compete with Reform UK at the Runcorn &…
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Right-wing anger as ‘Tommy Robinson’ short changes family of riot ‘martyr’
Or, how a ‘Tommy Robinson’ whip-round divvy-up has fired up a right wing Lynch mob. Can you remember when, before…
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Patriotic Alternative register political party – under another name
Patriotic Alternative, one of Britain’s most overt nazi organisations, has secretly registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission…
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UKIP leader Tenconi to Rupert Lowe MP: Come into my hate-filled parlour
Sitting in a pub with a beer in front of him, UKIP Leader Nick ‘The Kick’ Tenconi makes an offer…
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Searchlight Magazine’s final issue – more of an ‘au revoir’ than a ‘goodbye’
Searchlight the printed magazine is bowing out after half a century in continuous publication. It was launched with a February…
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50 years and counting: Searchlight’s Past, Present and Future
In early 1975 two antifascist activists published a small magazine. It was 20 pages long, black and white, and most…
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The end of an era for the anti-fascist movement – Searchlight founder Gerry Gable retires
With the publication of the final print edition of Searchlight, the magazine’s founder and often-times editor, Gerry Gable, has announced…
International news
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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…
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Obituary: Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-2025), a thug and a fraudster
In a lifetime of political thuggery, fraud and nepotism, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who has died aged 96) typified fascist politics.…
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Italian police smash fascist plot to kill Meloni and spark race war
One of Europe’s leading Holocaust deniers, with close links to UK historical revisionists, has been arrested as Italian police foiled…
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Anniversary of a fascist outrage – and how the NF lauded the man behind it
Fifty five years ago today, in December 1969, members of the Italian fascist terror group Ordine Nuovo detonated a bomb…
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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 Catholics and a world of antisemitic bigotry, Holocaust denial and fascist politics. Williamson died last month aged 84, a few…
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‘Batshit preacher’ accused of ‘intentionally antisemitic rhetoric’ by his former church
The Anglican Catholic Church in Michigan, which withdrew Calvin Robinson’s licence to minster in January, has accused the far-right clergyman…
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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…
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British Democrats host ‘well-oiled’ Webster
It would be remiss of us not to report the latest outing for one of the oldest Jew-haters in town,…
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Wars and culture wars fracture Britain’s far right
Britain’s fascists are tearing into each other with accusations of selling out and betrayal, and big problems are looming ahead…
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Britain First’s Nuneaton humiliation
A thousand flags. £10,000 on PA system, staging and a dozen portaloos. Much boasting. Claims that hundreds would be attending.…
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Uniformed nazis parade in Wetherspoon’s pub
Members of the North-West branch of British Movement must have thought they were being rather clever. Just before Xmas they…
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Tenconi’s fascists flop in Manchester
Reports of planned march and rally organised by the fascists of UKIP were doing the rounds for several weeks. Those…
Research and analysis
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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…
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“I’ll tell you who most despises so-called ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ – honest-to-goodness Muslims”
You probably don’t notice or think about it a lot of the time, but one of us may well be…
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Reform candidates benefit from low turnouts in council by elections
”We came a close second. The Conservatives got 1,304 votes. We got 977. Nearly a thousand votes in 4 weeks.…
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Britain First: The end of the road?
As the party lurches from defeat to disaster, Mark Scholl wonders how much longer its leader, Paul Golding, can continue…
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Tice sliced and diced as Farage and Yusuf tighten grip on Reform UK
Stung by repeated accusations – not least from former deputy leader Ben Habib, and indeed Searchlight – that Reform UK was not in any normal sense a political party, despotic leader Nigel Farage eventually issued a promise to democratise the…
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No meringue for Lennon – or, how the state is NOT trying to kill ‘Tommy Robinson’
It’s official! The state is deliberately starving Stephen Lennon (alias Tommy Robinson) in his prison cell. Well, almost official. In…
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Blobs, swastika tattoos and Zionist spies – new Gaza row splits far right
A simmering feud among Britain’s most extreme racists has again exploded into a war of fierce insults. So far this…
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UKIP and the deranged Mr Bean
UPDATE: Only 24 hours after we posted this story, our UKIP sources called in to say that the party’s ’Heritage…
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Britain First desperately rattle begging bowls as Nuneaton disaster looms
Britain First are banging the begging bowl rather loudly ahead of their 1 March jamboree in Nuneaton. One might almost…
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UKIP pledges to set bounty hunters after ‘illegal immigrants’
UKIP, already sinking to new racist depths under recently appointed leader Nick Tenconi, hit a new low yesterday when they…
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‘Batshit’ preacher sacked by his own church for nazi salute
Well, Calvin Robinson, the batshit and increasingly self-important preacher, thought he was being so funny, and so clever, when he…
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The case of UKIP’s vanishing candidates
The last NEC meeting of the increasingly Tommy Robinson-adjacent UKIP was entertaining for a number of reasons, not least of…
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Homeland announce ‘literary giant’ as star turn at £40-a-head remigration snoozefest
“We will make ‘remigration’ the word of 2025,” boasts Homeland’s Kenny Smith. Well, we’re probably going over the top in calling it a boast. In far-right terms, it probably already is the word of the year. The world and his…
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UKIP slavering at prospect of Musk money
Two people who will be watching the news a little nervously this weekend are UKIP’s Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker…
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Panic in Collett country as Patriotic Alternative nervously awaits BBC undercover investigation
In the 1980s, it was widely rumoured and widely believed that all you needed to get into a Mark 2…
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“I’ll tell you who most despises so-called ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ – honest-to-goodness Muslims”
You probably don’t notice or think about it a lot of the time, but one of us may well be…
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Reform MPs out to smear all British-Pakistani men
In yesterday’s Children’s debate in the House of Commons, Nigel Farage treated us to this revealing little outburst: ”What we…
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Obituary: Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-2025), a thug and a fraudster
In a lifetime of political thuggery, fraud and nepotism, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who has died aged 96) typified fascist politics.…
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Will Reform candidate who refused election fix be dumped for Nick Tenconi’s Tory mate?
Most people will certainly have missed yesterday’s online announcement from Andrew Southall, Reform UK’s parliamentary candidate for Dudley in July’s…
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Let’s stomp on all child rapists, not just those whose ethnicity irks Tory-Reform swing voters
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch leapt on to Twitter/X yesterday to demand a national public inquiry into what she called…
Anti-fascism
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Searchlight Magazine’s final issue – more of an ‘au revoir’ than a ‘goodbye’
Searchlight the printed magazine is bowing out after half a century in continuous publication. It was launched with a February…
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50 years and counting: Searchlight’s Past, Present and Future
In early 1975 two antifascist activists published a small magazine. It was 20 pages long, black and white, and most…
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The end of an era for the anti-fascist movement – Searchlight founder Gerry Gable retires
With the publication of the final print edition of Searchlight, the magazine’s founder and often-times editor, Gerry Gable, has announced…
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Britain First’s Nuneaton humiliation
A thousand flags. £10,000 on PA system, staging and a dozen portaloos. Much boasting. Claims that hundreds would be attending.…
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Traditional Britain Group’s nutty professors raise eyebrows
The Traditional Britain Group regards itself as the most upmarket outfit on the British far right, purveyor of prejudice to the finest families of the gentry and aristocracy. But two of its favourite professors have raised eyebrows among some of…
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Will ‘new wave’ Christian nationalists be the death of Britain First in 2025?
As so-called ‘Christian Nationalism’ begins to grip the far right in Britain, Mark Scholl asks how long Paul Golding’s Britain…
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Italian police smash fascist plot to kill Meloni and spark race war
One of Europe’s leading Holocaust deniers, with close links to UK historical revisionists, has been arrested as Italian police foiled…
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The UKIP plan to run Tommy Robinson for Parliament – as more Robinson supporters pack party NEC
The growing unity between Tommy Robinson’s racist ‘cultural movement’ and UKIP proceeds apace with a full-fledged embrace only held up…
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Nazi terrorist was being groomed for UKIP leadership role
Cavan Medlock – the Nazi terrorist sentenced a week ago to an ‘indefinite hospital order’ (in other words psychiatric facility…
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Reform candidates benefit from low turnouts in council by elections
”We came a close second. The Conservatives got 1,304 votes. We got 977. Nearly a thousand votes in 4 weeks.…
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Traditional Britain fiasco sparks accusations of betrayal on far right
The cancellation of the Traditional Britain Group annual Xmas event in London last weekend has kicked off a bitter blame…
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UKIP liars not welcome in Southampton
UKIP ‘Leader’ (he’s still unelected) Nick Tenconi has go the hump that a meeting he was due to address in…
Holocaust
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Kristallnacht remembered
To mark the anniversary of the 1938 November Pogrom, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, we reprint a special article published by…
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Fascists upset at a taste of their own medicine
Well, those nazi ‘intellectual’ poseurs at Heritage and Destiny magazine are getting themselves into a right lather over the Traditional Britain gig in London that was called off last weekend when anti-fascists turned up outside, sporting a banner saying (wonderfully)…
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Anniversary of a fascist outrage – and how the NF lauded the man behind it
Fifty five years ago today, in December 1969, members of the Italian fascist terror group Ordine Nuovo detonated a bomb…
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Homeland Party recruit fires up old far right rivalries
As we reported yesterday, the Traditional Britain Group (TBG) will tonight welcome Pete North (above), an ex-UKIP activist and recent…
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Hero’s welcome for far right assassin of ANC leader
Janusz Walus, the racist fanatic who murdered Nelson Mandela’s right-hand man Chris Hani in 1993, has been deported from South…
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Homeland Party speaker to star at Traditional Britain Group Xmas event
While we are not hugely surprised to see that Traditional Britain Group (TBG) have unveiled Pete ‘No Dick’ North (above)…
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UKIP – all aboard Chairman Walker’s magic roundabout
A flurry of activity in UKIP-world following the ‘appointment’ of eleven new members to the party’s National Executive Committee has…
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Rival nazi groups come together at mystery international conference
On 24 November an international nazi conference took place in Sweden. Only one of the participants – Holocaust denier Lady…
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AfD comes first in Thuringia elections
Dr Kat Williams and Dr Siobhan Hyland examine the ascendance of the German far right party in recent elections. Voters…