Each April, at this time, Budapest confronts one of the darkest chapters in its history: the mass murder of Jews from the city’s ghetto in the final months of the Second World War. By late 1944, Hungary’s Jewish population had already endured ghettoisation, forced labour and the deportation of hundreds of thousands to Auschwitz. Racial […]
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Second far-right Polish speaker this year at London cultural centre
A leading far-right Polish politician is due to speak in London later this month. His visit continues a concerning pattern of far-right events hosted at POSK, a Polish cultural centre in Hammersmith, by the debating group ‘Association for Independent Thought’. According to the group’s Facebook advertisement, Robert Bąkiewicz, a prominent nationalist politician, will deliver a […]
Died standing: Henk Sneevliet and the fight against Nazi occupation
On this day in April 1942, a 58-year-old Dutch socialist went to his death by firing squad at the Leusderheide, near Amersfoort. He went singing the Internationale. His name was Hendricus “Henk” Sneevliet, and his execution by the Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands brought to an end one of the earliest and most dedicated resistance […]
Hungary’s general election – is Viktor Orban running out of road?
Tomorrow’s Hungarian parliamentary election is being described, with some justification, as the most consequential vote anywhere in the European Union this year. Viktor Orbán, who has held political power for sixteen years since the 2010 parliamentary election, is seeking a fifth consecutive term in office. The question is whether he will get it and, if […]
British far-right connections to the men who killed Chris Hani
On this day in 1993, Chris Hani, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party and the most popular ANC figure after Nelson Mandela himself, was shot dead outside his home in Dawn Park, Boksburg. His daughter Nomakhwezi, then fifteen years old, was with him at the time. The plot had British connections that are […]
‘Gender-change’ neo-nazi fugitive arrested in Czech Republic
Marla-Svenja Liebich, the German neo-Nazi whose cynical exploitation of Germany’s gender recognition law Searchlight reported on in January, has been apprehended after eight months on the run. Czech police arrested Liebich in the town of Luby, close to the German border, on the basis of a European arrest warrant, a spokesman for prosecutors in the […]