The Greek state has launched an urgent effort to recover a set of long‑lost photographs depicting one of the most searing atrocities of the Nazi occupation: the execution of 200 communist political prisoners at the Kaisariani shooting range in Athens on 1 May 1944. The images, unseen for more than eight decades, surfaced this month […]
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From Searchlight 40 years ago – Bologna accused linked to London terror cell
In February 1986, five years after the event, Italian investigating magistrates believed their enquiries had revealed who had been behind the bomb attack on Bologna railway station in August 1980, when 85 people died and over 200 were injured. They presented a picture of a galaxy of actors, from the wealthy powerful men who planned […]
New Hampshire idiocy saves day for Holocaust denial ‘summit’
Eleven days later than advertised, fugitive nazi and all-round weirdo Germar Rudolf managed to broadcast his Holocaust denial ‘summit’ conference last weekend. We reported two weeks ago how his first attempt to hold the event had to be called off when Amazon pulled the plug on it. He was a little more successful second time […]
Neo-nazi link investigated after Indian students stabbed in Russia
Russian authorities are investigating alleged neo-Nazi links after a 15-year-old boy carried out a racist knife attack at a medical university hostel in the city of Ufa three days ago, injuring several students and police officers. The teenager is believed to have had connections to the banned Russian neo-Nazi organisation National Socialism/White Power. Reports state […]
Remembering the Igman march – a defining episode of anti-nazi resistance
On a bitterly cold weekend at the end of January, thousands of people converged on Mount Igman in Bosnia and Herzegovina to mark the 84th anniversary of the Igman March, a defining episode of resistance during the Second World War. More than a mere act of commemoration, this year’s gathering carried a starkly political message: […]
Minneapolis stands firm against Trump’s brownshirts
Minnesota is an upper Midwestern state with a history of welcoming immigrants and refugees. In the 1890s, 40% of the state’s population was foreign-born. Today, it’s just over 6%, well below the national average. It has, however, become the epicenter of the Trump Administration’s war for racial purity. In recent weeks, as thousands on the […]