In Epping, organised fascists and their racist supporters have scored a notable victory over the last couple of weeks. The situation was not turned around by yesterday’s creditable anti-racist turnout but maybe a line has been drawn, and a moment signalled when the real, hard work of winning hearts and changing minds in that divided […]
Epping this Sunday – anti-racists must nip far-right violence in the bud
On 7 August last year, in response to direct fascist threats of violence against organisations helping migrants and asylum seekers, tens of thousands of anti-racists turned out to physically protect those organisations. It was a phenomenal show of strength and helped put an end to a week of horrendous racist violence. Searchlight wrote at the […]
Exclusive: Homeland defector exposes ugly truth behind ‘sensible nationalism’
Alex Bramham has always been on the right of politics. Last year he stood in the General Election for the right-wing Social Democratic Party. Before that he had been active in the Conservative Party in Manchester where he ran several times as a council candidate. He has also been a prominent activist in gay politics, […]
Apology and correction
Last Sunday (22 June) we ran an article about right-wing photographers who were taking pictures of people attending left-wing or anti-fascist demonstrations. Two of those pictured, including the person captioned number 2, have contacted us to say they have no involvement with the far right. Others have contacted us on their behalf. We are happy […]
Correction:
Yesterday, in an article entitled ‘Reform suspends branch chairman – for reporting concerns to police’, we wrote that the election agent for Reform UK in the recent elections to Exeter City Council was Mr Robert Sheridan, a barrister and husband of former UKIP and Brexit Party activist Alison Sheridan. Mrs Sheridan is now a Conservative […]
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 seems to have persuaded UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi to keep his mouth shut for a while. In fact, there has been pretty much radio silence from UKIP HQ since the results came rolling in. Utter […]
‘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, the Searchlight mole in the far right for many, many years, who has just died. “Death of a traitor” trumpets their article, where they denounce as ‘treachery’ Peter’s success in stopping terrorist attacks. They write: […]
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 most vile fascists in the UK. This weekend he was out in Manchester again, but this time he was spotted at a May Day worker’s rally in the centre of the city, where hundreds of […]
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 remember his victims; those who died in the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho and the many more injured there, and in Brick Lane and Brixton. 25 years ago, Searchlight worked with BBC Panorama to investigate […]
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 here: British Movement’s floral tribute to nazi traitor But now they have come a cropper: […]
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 premises came to be booked by the fascist Homeland Party for its ‘Remigration’ conference on Saturday. The venue, kept a closely guarded secret by Homeland, was first revealed by Searchlight yesterday morning. At 9.44 this […]
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 theorists. And it ended with the sight of UKIP leader Nick ‘The Kick’ Tenconi abandoning all his macho pretentions and fleeing across the centre of the city. Gathering under the banner of Patriots for Britain, […]
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 May. There was no confirmation from the Union, and this term’s events had not yet […]
‘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 gatherings of the dregs of British national socialism. Two recent events in less than a fortnight brought together veteran fascists, Ulster Loyalists – including some with records of serious violence – and former members of […]
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 shut down, seems to have earned a reprieve. We reported two days ago that the scheme to purchase land around the UK to establish ‘white enclaves’ was being threatened with closure by the Registrar of […]
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 Party, after he suffered two serious setbacks in the past 24 hours. First, the star speaker at Homeland’s remigration conference, one of Europe’s most infamous Islamophobes, was barred from the country on the Home Secretary’s […]
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, comrades and collaborators. He was a giant of the anti-fascist and anti-racist movement in the United States over many decades, and his loss is inestimable. For many years Lenny was Searchlight’s US correspondent. He also […]
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 to have hit serious problems. The Woodlander Initiative (TWI), run by Simon Birkett (aka Woodlander), has so far raised over £150,000 from extremists in the UK, some of which has already been used to buy […]
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, investment is being sought at every opportunity, and our support base is not only growing but pro-actively asking how they can help develop and campaign for the party’s purple wave now sweeping the United Kingdom”. […]
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 passionate belief that Ben is some kind on patriotic superhero: There was a lot of […]