The presence in the UK of wanted Italian fascist fugitives was a running scandal throughout the 1980s and 1990s. They arrived here to avoid the crackdown which followed the bombing of Bologna railway station in 1980 and stayed here, making huge amounts of money from dodgy accommodation and employment agencies, till their prison sentences expired […]
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From Searchlight 25 years ago – The company they keep
At the Conservative Party conference in 2000, attendees were greeted by the sight of a Tory shadow minister sharing a platform with a leading far-right antisemite who claimed to speak for for Britain’s small businesses. In the November 2000 issue of Searchlight, Steve Silver and Nick Lowles revealed what was going on The Federation of […]
From Searchlight 30 years ago – ‘The scales of justice are out of balance’
On October 16, 1993, a massive demonstration marched in Welling, south London, protesting against the presence there of a British National Party ‘bookshop’ – in fact, the party’s national organising base. It had been bought by Richard Edmonds, and ever since it opened, racial attacks and harassment in the area soared. It was a huge […]