Despite alleged links with foreign powers and remarks about the SS, leading to France’s National Rally pulling out of an alliance with the party in the European Parliament, Germany’s AfD made significant gains in the Euro elections. Dr Kat Williams and Dr Siobhán Hyland report The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) election campaign for the European […]
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‘I am proud of you, you are splendid!’
So proclaimed Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (right), lauding her party’s youth wing, even as a video emerged of its members praising Mussolini and Hitler. Alfio Bernabei reports Barely ten days had passed since the European elections in June, in which Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party consolidated its leading position with nearly 29% of […]
AfD election victory is win for nazis in disguise
By Werner Klein Germany’s far-right are celebrating their biggest election victory since the 1930s, after Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the largest party in one eastern German state and the second-largest in another. Yesterday’s results have strengthened the hand of the most extreme faction in AfD, the so-called Flügel or “wing”, headed by Björn Höcke […]
Mixed fortunes for Russia’s far right assets
By Roger Pearce Vladimir Putin’s network of supporters among European fascists are celebrating today after the victory of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern German state of Thuringia. AfD’s Thuringian branch is led by the Kremlin’s main German asset, Björn Höcke. They will have 32 of their state parliament’s 88 seats. […]
Top US nazi sneaked into UK for strategy talks
Adrian Davies, the far right’s favourite barrister, recently hosted his fellow lawyer, the leading American nazi Sam Dickson, on a private tour of the UK. When riots broke out in Manchester city centre, Davies and Dickson were in the thick of it. Being in their 60s and 70s respectively, they weren’t scuffling with police, merely […]
Small but concerning gains for Irish far right in 2024 elections
BRYAN WALL warns that, despite low polling numbers for far-right groups in Ireland’s recent local and European elections, we must remain alert to their growing numbers This year’s election results in Ireland show that the country is not immune from far-right politics. Held on 7 June, the local elections and European Parliament (EU) elections attracted […]
United front blocked Le Pen’s path to power
Scaremongering about a so-called left threat failed to panic French voters. Instead, writes ROGER PEARCE, the majority set aside their differences, voting against Le Pen’s toxic xenophobia and so stopping her taking a step closer to the presidency As part of her effort to disguise a reinvention of French fascism, Marine Le Pen renamed the National Front […]
Putin on the Ritz…
Internet-monitoring police and intelligence agencies have, according to some journalistic sources, uncovered evidence that Russian trolls and bots have infiltrated the British far right on social media in order to foment rioting and anti-Muslim / anti-immigrant sentiment more generally. Reports Bloomberg: ”Along with homegrown posts, UK authorities now suspect foreign state-backed actors are using bots […]
White Nationalist Motown Meltdown
By Chuck Tanner and Devin Burghart, IREHR On 15 June, influential white nationalist “Groyper” leader Nick Fuentes attempted to hold a fourth version of his America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC IV) in Detroit, Michigan. It was his latest move to pull the right in a more antisemitic and fascist direction. Amidst the chaos of […]
Italian antifascists march against fascist thuggery
By Mark Scholl Anti-fascists demonstrated in Rome last Thursday to protest about right-wing street thuggery – in particular the actions of a group of CasaPound fascists who had opportunistically pounced on and beaten up some passer-by students. The event drew opposition politicians, trade unionists and ANPI, the organisation dedicated to keeping alive the spirit of […]
The European Elections: A Paradigm Shift for the Far Right?
By Martin Smith The evening the French European election results were announced, Marine Le Pen held a party at a swanky night club in the woodlands of the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. It was a select gathering of dignitaries from the far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National – RN). In attendance was the party’s […]
Don’t be ambushed by the D Day opportunists
Photo: www.britishnormandymemorial.org We are reflecting, exactly 80 years after the events, on the D Day landings. And sighing in exasperation at the efforts of tinpot populists to make some cheap political capital out of the anniversary, moaning that children and young adults are unaware of the history of D Day. Of course, D Day should […]
Meloni’s reckoning
By Alfio Bernabei Exhibition: 15th April – 13 June 2024 Centenary of Matteotti’s visit to London, Charing Cross Library (see below) Event: Talk by Alfio Bernabei : Thurs 30th May 7pm-8pm@ Charing Cross Library (see below) Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni still refuses to answer the question: “Are you anti-fascist or are you not?” She […]
Under new management: Trump takes over Republican Party apparatus
By Leonard Zeskind Donald Trump has effectively won the Republican Party nomination and is all over TV, the newspapers and the web. He fumes against immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country”and, when critics point out the similarity between his language choices and Hitler’s, he simply repeats himself. He has been transforming the party into […]
CPAC at 50: white nationalism • deportations • war on ‘wokeness’
By Devin Burghart Previously billed as “the most influential gathering of conservatives in the world,” this year’s 50th-anniversary gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was a diminished version of the pre-Trump glory days. Corporate conservativism has been replaced with MAGA conspiracy-mongering and acceptance of white nationalism. CPAC 2024, dubbed “Where Globalism Goes to […]
Farmers’ revolt: A fertile pasture for the far right
By Huw Davies European Parliament, Brussels (Feb 2024) Photo: Matthias Berg/EPP Group In the past few years, European far-right parties have climbed the polls, shaped the policies of mainstream right-wing parties, and even occupied ministerial roles in coalition governments. The reasons for the rise of far-right and populist politics vary from country to country. In […]
Is Russia using the extreme right to carry out operations in Europe? By Roger Pearce
As Searchlight has previously reported, the British far-right is bitterly divided over whether to support Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. For the past two years this has caused splits among nazis and other extremist groups around the world. Recent events in the UK – including arrests for terror offences allegedly carried out on behalf of […]
AfD support falls after plans for mass deportations spark demos across Germany
Support for Germany’s far right AfD has dipped below 20% for the first time since mid-2023, after massive demonstrations across the country against plans for mass deportations which the AfD had been secretly discussing with other extreme right wingers. The revelations came from investigative group Correctiv which revealed in November that senior AfD politicians and […]
Far right and nazis mobilise on Madrid streets
The Spanish election results have served to energise the more astute of nazi elements, who are busy bolstering links with like-minded Europeans. Roger Pearce reports This article was first published in the Winter 2023/24 of Searchlight magazine A narrow victory for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his allies has brought a coalition of conservatives, […]
Bigots whipped up hatred to incite Dublin riots
Austin Harney explains how the right uses social media to spread poisonous lies about asylum-seekers and specifically how this tactic led to recent events in Dublin This article was first published in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine The end of November saw the Irish far right organise a dangerous riot in Dublin after […]