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Fighting against racism and fascism
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Red Lion Square, June 1974 – the killing of an anti-fascist
There is much on the internet about this demonstration, and the death of Kevin Gately. I was there, and this note just adds some personal recollections of my own. On this day, in 1974, at an anti-fascist demonstration in London,…
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...
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Big names of Irish far right come together in Cork anti-migrant demo
Around 1,600 anti-immigration and far-right agitators came together to hold a rally in Cork a week ago. Billed as “Ireland…
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Charlie Veitch and friends attack Palestine march
At a large Palestine march in Manchester city centre today, YouTube clickbait merchant Charlie Veitch and a handful of his…
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UKIP Chairman crashes out to humiliating vote in council by-election
UKIP Chairman Ben Walker’s social media accounts are unusually quiet today – perhaps that’s because he has just led the…
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UKIP, the ‘rogue builder’ and a matter of trust
Tomorrow is polling day in Severn Ward of Stroud District Council where one of the candidates is UKIP Chairman Ben…
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Tommy Robinson’s latest luxury hideaway – in the Bahamas
‘Tommy Robinson’, aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is once again on holiday abroad and stretched out on his sun lounger, this time…
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Far-right ‘National Protest’ to defy demo ban on Dover beach
The far-right Great British National Protest is planning to defy a ban by the local council and hold a protest…
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UKIP chief launches goon squad fundraiser
If you thought the ‘Batshit Preacher’ Calvin Robinson took the prize for most brazen fundraising grifts, you’d be wrong. He’s just been overtaken, in spectacular fashion, by Ben Walker, Chairman of UKIP. Walker has just launched a crowd funding appeal…
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Mystery behatted nazi revealed
So, our friends over at HOPE not Hate have put a name to the mystery behatted lady in the Patriotic…
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Victory for far right in Poland’s Presidential elections
Right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki defied the pollsters by winning the Polish presidential election on Sunday. Nawrocki polled 50.89% of the…
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Who’s the mystery lady with the nazis?
In the wake of Britain First’s embarrassing showing in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago, Patriotic Alternative posted a picture…
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The Muslim heroine whose memory shames Paul Golding
I am working undercover for Searchlight magazine. Despite being a Muslim, I blend in rather well so, two weeks ago,…
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UKIP to march in Whitechapel – they will regret it
The latest list of UKIP demonstrations demanding ‘mass deportations now’ contains few surprises. Most are city centre events which will…
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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…
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‘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…
International news
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Victory for far right in Poland’s Presidential elections
Right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki defied the pollsters by winning the Polish presidential election on Sunday. Nawrocki polled 50.89% of the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 of filling in the blanks with the names of the local parties. Portugal’s vote on 18th May was no exception.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
Research and analysis
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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‘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 by his second American church – after just one day. Robinson left the ‘Satanic’ UK last August claiming he feared…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Culture
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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 for the contributions of the Allied nations, particularly the Soviet Union and Britain. Trump’s proposal to rename VE Day as…
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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…
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‘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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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-fascism
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The Muslim heroine whose memory shames Paul Golding
I am working undercover for Searchlight magazine. Despite being a Muslim, I blend in rather well so, two weeks ago,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 very instructive as far as anti-fascists were concerned. In Manchester and Birmingham fascists were repulsed. In Manchester, so called hard-core…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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 of the fascist Homeland Party, Camus revealed that he had also been due to speak at the Oxford Union during…
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Leonard “Lenny” Zeskind – comrade and friend
Leonard – he was always Lenny to me – Zeskind left a positive impression on all who knew him. He…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
Today's top ten most read articles
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…