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Six people who were filmed celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday while wearing Nazi uniforms and saluting in front of a burning swastika have been found guilty of promoting fascism. The group were all given suspended prison sentences, a punishment prosecutors argue is too light. Read more on Notes from Poland website here

The trial and investigation into the 1980 Bologna bombing has unearthed unholy alliances and revealed that those involved in the terrorist atrocity were not the first fascists to arrive in London to escape justice Read the latest article from Alfio Bernabei from the Spring 2022 issue of Searchlight  click here 16 SL Spring 2022_Italy_v2

Payton Gendron, aged 18, is accused of scrawling the n-word on his rifle before carrying out Saturday’s massacre at Tops Friendly store in Buffalo, New York. The 18-year-old is said to have live-streamed the slaughter – in which 11 of the 13 shot were black – just moments after publishing his horrific 180-page manifesto. Read […]

Exit polls came through at 7pm, British time and suggest a Macron win. See Reuters report here ahead of formal results tomorrow

Round 1 elections see Macron and Marine Le Pen on the ballot for the Round 2 elections on 24th April 2022. See the BBS website overview of the 2022 French Elections here

More than 40 people have been arrested after violent clashes in Sweden between police and people angry at plans by a far-right group to burn copies of the Quran. See report on BBC website here

To see the Home Secretary Priti Patel speech in full on 14 April 2022 go to the government website here  Commentators, such as Joint Council of the Welfare of Immigrants, The Red Cross and countless others have expressed grave concerns. The details are sketchy but it appears that the scheme will see single males arriving through […]

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New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said “at no point was I worried about my safety” after her van was chased and forced on to a curb by anti-vaccination protesters. Read more on The Guardian website here

A French court has found the far-right presidential candidate Éric Zemmour guilty of racist hate speech for a tirade against unaccompanied child migrants. Read more on The Guardian website here

Asylum seekers who are intercepted while crossing the English Channel in small boats have not broken the law, the Court of Appeal has found. Judges quashed the convictions of three men who were wrongly jailed for “assisting unlawful immigration” for steering dinghies, after finding they had not committed the offence. A fourth man who appealed against his conviction will face […]

President Sandra Mason was sworn in as the new head of state in the Barbados capital Bridgetown. The celebrations were attended by Prince Charles, who acknowledged the ‘appalling atrocity of slavery, which forever stains our history’. Singer and entrepreneur Rihanna was designated a National Hero of Barbados. See video report via The Guardian website here  […]

Boris Johnson’s public letter to Emmanuel Macron on Channel drownings deemed ‘unacceptable’ Read full article in The Guardian here

They’ll have to pay more than $25 million in damages to the nine plaintiffs Read full article at Mother Jones here 

In a courtroom in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on October 18, the future of a gang of online misogynist thugs who call themselves the ‘Male State’ (Muzhskoye gosudarstvo in Russian) looked to be hanging in the balance. Read more on Bellingcat website here

On the night of Aug. 11, 2017, a crowd of mostly young White males wearing khaki pants and polos marched with rage at the University of Virginia, carrying torches and chanting “Jews will not replace us.” The next morning, white supremacists wielding weapons, including shields, clubs and long guns, descended on downtown Charlottesville along with self-styled […]