If the organisers’ estimates of half a million attending are accurate, yesterday’s Together Alliance demonstration in London against the far right in general, but Farage and Reform in particular, is a fantastic achievement. Certainly if you were there it was clear that many tens of thousands had flocked to the capital to march from Park […]
Anti-fascism
“Homosexuals are not cowards” – The man who bombed the nazi files
On this day in 1943, a small group of Dutch resistance fighters carried out one of the most audacious acts of sabotage of the Nazi occupation, an operation that saved countless Jewish lives and struck a blow against the machinery of fascist persecution. Led by sculptor Gerrit van der Veen and painter and writer Willem […]
Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written by Julie Waterson, National Organiser of the Anti-Nazi League from 1992-2005, who herself sadly died in 2012.
The 22 martyrs of Plötzensee: remembering the anti-nazi Baum Group
In the heart of Hitler’s Berlin, a small group of young Jewish men and women chose to fight back. On this day in 1943, nine of them were beheaded by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison. They were mostly in their early twenties. Their crime was resistance. The Baum Group was founded in 1933, almost immediately after […]
Paul Golding blames police conspiracy for Manchester humiliation
After Saturday’s Britain First march through Manchester, the one that, as Searchlight reported yesterday, was repeatedly stalled, split, and ultimately overshadowed by a far more organised anti‑fascist mobilisation, Paul Golding has finally emerged from his hotel room to deliver his verdict. And, in a twist that shocked absolutely nobody, he has concluded that the real […]
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose: anti-fascist resistance that still inspires
Eighty‑three years after their execution in Munich’s Stadelheim Prison, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their fellow White Rose resisters to Hitler remain among the most luminous figures in the history of anti‑fascism. Their lives were brief, their organisation small, and their resources meagre, yet their moral clarity and quiet courage continue to cut through […]