Tommy Robinson’s visit to Dubai has attracted attention both because of the hugely entertaining and widely circulated confrontation with boxer Ty Mitchell, and because it appears so at odds with everything Robinson represents. But it could also place him in legal jeopardy in the Emirates. Known internationally for his anti-Muslim activism, Robinson (real name Stephen […]
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From Searchlight 40 years ago – Hurd’s ‘no change’ policy on Italian terror cell
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 […]
Chile’s far-right president: heir to the dictator
In a stunning political shift, far-right candidate José Antonio Kast has been elected as Chile’s next president with 58% of the vote in a decisive runoff against left-wing candidate Jeannette Jara. This election is not just as a change in leadership, but a pivotal choice between two distinct visions for Chile’s future. Kast’s personal and […]
Anger over possible release of German nazi terrorist
This week, the German courts were again having to confront the case of the terrorist National Socialist Underground, which went on a rampage of racist murders a quarter of a century ago. At a hearing to consider the process of releasing Beate Zschäpe, a founder of the group, the daughter of one of its murdered […]
Veteran Euro-nazi makes comeback at terrorist-run conference
On the same weekend that Nick Griffin was trying to return to the limelight in Madrid, an even older nazi, who’s just as disliked by the rest of the jackboot tendency, made his own comeback at a conference run by the terrorist Nordic Resistance Movement near Gothenburg, Sweden. Povl Riis-Knudsen first became politically active aged […]
Croatian anti-fascists push back against resurgent far right
On Sunday, tens of thousands of Croatians poured into the streets in cities from Zagreb to Rijeka, Pula, Zadar and Split in a striking show of anti-fascist solidarity. Marches organized under the banner “United Against Fascism” drew people chanting “We are all anti-fascists!” and carrying banners that warned against the return of a politics that […]