By Gerry Gable As Searchlight has already reported, the UK’s largest nazi organisation has split down the middle. Of the 54 organisers in Patriotic Alternative (PA), 32 deserted its founder and leader Mark Collett in late April 2023 and defected to a new breakaway movement, the Homeland Party, led by PA’s national admin officer Kenny Smith. […]
Election disaster may mean nazi groups unite
Andrew Brons, British Democrats Mark Collett, Patriotic Alternative The 2023 local elections were a disaster for the entire spectrum of Britain’s far right. The last remaining openly fascist councillor, Julian Leppert lost his seat, and votes for other high-profile extremist candidates were down on last […]
Remembering the victims of the nail bombings
On the anniversary of Nazi David Copeland’s third and most deadly nailbomb 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. Searchlight worked with BBC Panorama to investigate not just Copeland’s bombing campaign, […]
Patriotic Alternative split latest: Et tu, Wesley?
Photo: Alec Cave alias Wesley Russell When Searchlight broke the news of a split in PA, some analysts saw it as “content creators” (staying with Collett and Towler) against “serious political activists” (defecting to Kenny Smith’s new Homeland Party). Smith himself contributed to this impression, criticising Collett’s over-emphasis on the minor celebrities […]
Searchlight analysis: Fascist and far right candidates in local elections, May 2023
Photo: David Hyden, so-called Independent candidate for Cannock South, on the campaign trail with fellow ex Patriotic Alternative activist, Connor Marlow, one of the leaders of the Homeland Party split. British fascists remain confused and divided in their approach to electoral politics, even allowing for the large proportion who have always preferred bombs to […]
Remembering Blair Peach
Remembering Blair Peach On this day we remember Blair Peach, a teacher who was taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election Meeting in the Town Hall in Southall, West London in 1979. Blair Peach was hit on the head and died later that day in hospital. The police investigation concluded […]