An anti-Muslim extremist has been filmed joining a hate-filled group hunting down asylum seekers in Bulgaria, the Daily Mirror wrote on 24 October. Far-right Jim Dowson donned camouflage gear to join the heavily-armed Shipka Bulgarian National Movement stalking migrants who cross the Turkish border. Dowson, founder of the Britain First group, has made a series […]
Faith Matters and TellMama launch First Annual National Hate Crime Awards
Faith Matters and TellMAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) have created and launched the first Annual National Hate Crime Awards (#NHCA 2016). For far too long, people within communities as well as organisations have worked tirelessly to challenge hatred, intolerance and prejudice without any national recognition. We believe that this has to change and this is why […]
Support the petition for an end to terror in Aleppo
Earlier this year Searchlight reported that the only picket of the Syrian regime’s embassy in London had been organised by Nazis from the London Forum and Polish Nazis from the NOP. We hope that opponents of fascism everywhere will support the petition below to halt an even worse aerial bombardment than the one by German […]
National Hate Crime Awareness Week – public meeting in Redbridge
Thursday 13 October, 7.30pm to 9pm, Gloucester Room, Central Library, Clements Road, Ilford IG1 1EA Hate crime – crime driven by prejudices against certain groups in society – has never gone away. The police, the council and voluntary sector groups like us, have been supporting victims of hate crime every day in Redbridge. The reality […]
1936 – they did not pass; 2016 – they still do not pass
Next month we will remember those anti-fascists who in their ten of thousands prevented the march of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists into the heart of the Jewish working class borough of Stepney (now Tower Hamlets). We also salute those of them who went on to defend […]
Three weekends and two flops for London Forum
A fascist thief is to receive an award for his crime at the London Forum meeting on Saturday 24 September. David Czerwonko, a Polish chef who has lived in England for two years, was fined £185 at Westminster magistrates’ court on 19 September after admitting snatching a pink beret from the head of the comedian […]
Finnish man dies after assault by Nazis
A Finnish man, Jimi Joonas Karttunen, who was assaulted by neo-Nazis from the Finnish Resistance Movement (FRM) on Saturday 10 September has died of his injuries, the Finnish investigative journalism website Kaivuri reported on 17 September. The news was broken by his father, Kauko-Vesa Karttunen, on Facebook and the identity of the man has since […]
Behind the lone wolf
Extreme right violence is poorly understood and poses questions that are increasingly relevant today. How common are violent attacks by extreme right activists? Do they pose as large a threat as Islamist-inspired violence? Often the perpetrators of the most violent and murderous extreme right attacks are casually labelled “lone wolves” in the media, but are […]
Turning the searchlight on the enemies of democracy
Welcome back to the Searchlight website. After we posted several reports that exposed the increasing violence of the British extreme right and their international links, we were bombarded with attacks. As we were planning a relaunch of Searchlight later in the year, we temporarily suspended the website, but of course carried on with our work […]
Extreme right awareness workshop
Northampton University is putting on a one-day workshop led by Dr Paul Jackson, an academic expert in the dynamics of the British far and extreme right. The workshop on Friday 16 September will draw on the latest academic research, material from the extreme right itself, and intelligence from Searchlight to offer the latest analysis of […]
