The remaining rump of the fascist English Defence League (EDL) are returning to London, on 24 June, Unite Against Fascism writes. This is just a few weeks after their humiliation at the hands of over 1,000 anti fascists in Liverpool. The supposed reason for their demonstration is concern over the recent terror attacks in the […]
Oppose fascist and Islamophobic Britain First in Birmingham – 24 June
Birmingham Unite Against Fascism is calling upon anti-fascists to oppose another fascist attempt to inflame race hate in Birmingham. The Islamophobic and fascist sect, Britain First, plan to visit the city of Birmingham on 24 June. They had aimed at an earlier, unwanted intrusion, but had to postpone this, as their leaders were arrested on various […]
Norscarf to celebrate 40 years of struggle
The NORSCARF Group (North Staffordshire Campaign Against Racism and Fascism) are celebrating 40 years of struggle this autumn, and will be publishing a study of the group’s activities. They are anxious to contact all those who have been active over the years, especially in the very early years when the group was set up. The […]
EDL haters never learn
Liverpool lived up to its historic record as being one of the most unfriendly places for the extreme right to visit when the English Defence League tried to hold a march on Saturday 3 June. For the EDL it was an unmitigated disaster. Just 60 supporters scraped up from gutters nationwide turned out, supported by […]
SOVA Center needs your help
SOVA Center was fined 300 thousand rubles for having failed to voluntarily register itself as a “foreign agent”, before that was done by the Ministry of Justice. Unfortunately, they lost the appeal. Now they have to pay a considerable sum before mid-July and would be grateful for any help. SOVA Center for Information and Analysis […]
Jew-hating fascists and their Iranian sponsors gather in Tehran for their fourth international hate fest
An international gathering of mainly Iranian and Italian antisemitic fascists opened in the Iranian capital Tehran on 17 May under the title “On the brink 2”. The Iranian news agency Tasmin described it as a “New Horizon Conference” and claimed it was focusing on human rights issues. Tasmin reported: “Twenty-five human rights figures and experts […]
Holocaust-denying German lawyer Horst Mahler on the run – now arrested in Hungary
STOP PRESS 15 May at 17.45 News has emerged in the past hour that Mahler has been arrested in Hungary and intends to ask Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for political asylum. One of Germany’s most notorious Holocaust deniers, once loyal to leftist terrorist group RAF, has left the country despite having another jail term to […]
The growing Nazi axis
At the end of February 2017 an international Nazi conference took place in Stockholm organised by the National Socialist publishing group Arktos Media. Some of the key groups present are those that Searchlight has been monitoring for several years, some of which have appeared more publicly since the election of Donald Trump. These groups have […]
News of an alleged Identitarian conference held in Budapest on 19 March
While monitoring Nazi websites, we came across this report, reproduced below, written by Daniel Friberg, the head of Arktos Publishing, about a conference that was supposedly held on 19 March in Budapest. It appeared on the new Alt-Right website, which is jointly hosted by Arktos and Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute. If the conference did […]
Michael Gold RIP
On Sunday morning I was among around 300 people who gathered at Silver Street Cemetery in Waltham Cross to give a wonderful send-off to Mike Gold, who died suddenly last week aged 51. Apart from his family, there were rabbis from Chabad-Lubavitch, the Jewish educational, outreach and welfare organisation in which Mike had been involved most […]
UAF Scotland anti-fascism demo – oppose the Nazi White Pride march in Edinburgh
Unite Against Fascism Scotland is disgusted to announce that the poisonous nazi rump called the National Front intend to come to Edinburgh city centre on 25 March to hold a national, racist, ‘White Pride March’. The National Front are a pale shadow of what they were in the 1970s, when they achieved 100,000s of votes […]
Confronting the rise in racism: public meeting, Redbridge, 2 March
Belgian fascist visits Russians in Aleppo
Filip Dewinter, the Belgian fascist MEP, seen here happy in the company of the Russian butchers of Aleppo during his visit to the devastated Syrian city at the beginning of February. Last May Dewinter spoke at the Trump-supporting far-right American Renaissance conference on: “The Islamisation of Europe. How Europe becomes an Islamic State”. He is […]
Blogger ‘who posted a grossly offensive and antisemitic song on YouTube’ denies hate crime charge
A blogger accused of calling Auschwitz a ‘theme park’ and gas chambers a ‘hoax’ appeared in court today in what is believed to be the first private prosecution in the UK for anti-jewish racism, the Daily Mail reports. Alison Chabloz, 52, is accused of posting a ‘grossly offensive’ video, called ‘Survivors’, online on June 8 […]
Ex-leader of Britain First Paul Golding jailed for breach of High Court injunction
The former leader of Britain First was jailed for breaching a court order banning him from entering mosques or Islamic Centres in England and Wales, TellMAMA reports. Paul Golding, 34, was served with a court summons by Bedfordshire Police on 2 November after breaching a High Court injunction granted on August 11. He will serve […]
Labour urged: Actions not words on Syria
The Peter Tatchell Foundation has reported on the Human Rights Day protest by Syria Solidarity UK. Syria Solidarity UK activists were joined by Peter Tatchell when they protested during a speech by Jeremy Corbyn at Westminster Central Hall on Saturday 10 December. They urged the Labour Party to pursue “actions not words” to save civilians […]
Fidel Castro’s paradoxical relationship with Israel and Jews
This article was written in Havana a couple of weeks ago shortly after the announcement of Fidel Castro’s death and published in the Jewish Chronicle. Last Shabbat, the prayer for the state of Israel was recited in the main Havana synagogue. It was also the day when the announcement was made of the passing of […]
More questions than answers: a Searchlight investigation
Thomas Mair has been jailed for the brutal murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. But serious questions about the police approach to a fascist group remain. I write as Nazi assassin Thomas Mair begins a whole-life sentence for the murder of a well loved MP, wife and mother and an advocate for the long-suffering people […]
Racist acid attack – Barking vigil Tuesday 29 November at 5pm
On 15 November, Barking resident Imran Khan was subject to a horrific Islamophobic, racist attack by a large gang of youths while he was delivering a pizza. He was surrounded and subjected to racist abuse. He had acid squirted all over his face and eyes through his car window. Barking & Dagenham Post article here. […]
Extremely strange political bedfellows
In the past week the media have reported on the delegation of British right-wing politicians led by Nigel Farage who met US president-elect Donald Trump at his New York headquarters. Present with Trump was his head strategic adviser Steve Bannon, who controls the alt-right Breitbart news service. Farage came with Raheem Kassam, Breitbart’s London editor. […]