The massacre on 2 August 1980 at Bologna railway station when a bomb planted by fascists killed 85 people, including two British students, Catherine Mitchell and John Andrew Kolpinski, will be remembered on this 45th anniversary with the usual ceremony under the clock with frozen arms at 10.25, the moment of the explosion. But a […]
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Poland’s far right targets refugees
Just as in Britain, the US and Hungary, the far right in Poland is now mobilising around the question of immigration. Over the last month the country has witnessed a number of worrying developments. The first was in the run up to the presidential elections in May when a thousand-strong anti-immigration protest took place in […]
Nick Tenconi’s US mates join Epstein child abuse cover-up
The American parent organisation of Nick Tenconi’s Turning Point UK has caved in to pressure from President Trump and dropped demands for the release of the notorious Jeffrey Epstein paedophile ‘client list’. Despite loudly calling for the release of the list until last weekend, Turning Point USA founder and leader Charlie Kirk has now surrendered […]
Labin 1921: miners lead Europe’s first anti-fascist revolt
The Labin Uprising of 1921, often heralded as the first anti-fascist revolt and workers’ republic in Europe, is a landmark in miners’ history. Taking place in the Istrian town of Labin, now Croatia, then under Italian rule, this often-overlooked miners’ uprising showcased the power of workers’ solidarity and foreshadowed the anti-fascist struggles that would engulf […]
UK bans far-right Russian terror group
The controversy surrounding the UK government’s recent ban on Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 has tended to obscure the act that a far-right Russian organisation, the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), was banned at the same time. Once considered a fringe nationalist group, RIM has become an international hub for training and radicalizing far-right […]
Mark Collett – Putin’s nazi propagandist
Last weekend, Patriotic Alternative’s führer Mark Collett again took on the role of Moscow propagandist, hosting Evgeniy (Eugene), a spokesman for the Russian Brotherhood of Academists. A fortnight previously this Russian student “Brotherhood” broadcast an interview with Elon Musk’s racist father Errol, who is touring Russia spouting Putin’s propaganda for the benefit of the international […]