UKIP’s leader, the infamous “Liar and Cheat” Neil Hamilton is stepping down, opening up the way for a leadership battle and renewed attempts to seek mergers with other small far right groups. The decision was recorded at the party’s most recent National Executive Meeting where, apparently, “it was decided that it was time to elect […]
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Glenys Kinnock: Staunch anti-fascist and friend of Searchlight
Glenys Kinnock, 3rd from left, alongside Joan Lestor MP, a former editor of Searchlight in the 1960s, at an ANC ‘Year of the Woman’ meeting, London 1984 Searchlight is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, a long-time friend and supporter of Searchlight who worked with us on […]
Le Pen’s UK rep and the man who believed synagogue bombing was “well intentioned”
So, if Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National have rejected antisemitism and now stand with Jewish people, how do they explain this? Her UK representative, Max Begon, recently addressing the conference of a party led by a man who once wrote that synagogue bombing was “well-intentioned”. As Searchlight has reported on other occasions, Andrew […]
Traditional Britain Group guest speaker offered to pay for “hit”
The far-right Traditional Britain Group has announced that the guest speaker at its annual Xmas Social in central London on 16 December will be Rhodri Phillips, or Viscount St Davids. They describe him as someone who “got himself into hot water for criticisms he made of the pro-EU campaigner and self-publicist Guyanese-origin Gina Miller, who […]
Spain’s Vox in flux with fascists calling the shots reports David Karvala
Former leading lights in Vox Macarena Olona, pictured above right with party General Secretary Ignacio Garriga, and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros (left) Before the parliamentary elections in July many people in the Spain feared a right-wing victory, and the formation of a coalition government between the main conservative party, Partido Popular […]
The Spartans: the fascists return to the Greek Parliament reports Panagiotis Sotiris
Ilias Kasidiaris Credit DTRocks The failure of neo-nazi Golden Dawn to pass the electoral threshold of 3% in the 2019 Greek general election, along with the disintegration of its organisational network and the conviction of its leadership in October 2020 on charges of forming a criminal organisation at the end of a five-year long trial, gave […]
ANL footy fans had no truck with spycops disruptors – Paul Sillett reports
Nazi crew The National Front on the terraces in 1987 Pic credit: Searchlight It has long been known that the state uses undercover agents to infiltrate political organisations and feed back to the security services all manner of information. The quality of this intelligence, however, is another matter. Recent revelations about police infiltration of an anti-fascist […]
A beacon of intolerance – Dr Siobhan Hyland reports
Global ambitions AfD co-leader Alice Weidel Pic credit: Alice Weidel/Facebook At the beginning of September, municipal elections were held in Nordhausen, in the state of Thuringia. This is not the first time that Searchlight has discussed this eastern German state – over the past few years it has become a hotbed for Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) activity. […]
Trump indictments point to early trials – Leonard Zeskind reports
Lawbreaker A billboard in Times Square, New York, scrolling through the list of Trump’s felony charges. It was displayed in September as part of the Republican Accountability Project campaign to highlight Trump’s contempt for the law Pic credit Elvert Barnes Photography Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for crimes in four different courts, and future […]
Patriotic Alternative running scared after trial reveals terrorist link
Costello – jailed for inciting racial hatred Mark Collett and Patriotic Alternative are running scared following the jailing last week of James Costello for multiple offences of inciting racial hatred. Costello, whom they are describing merely as “a member of our community” despite being a leading member of the organisation, was sentenced to five years […]
UKIP crooks and jokers try to capitalise on anti-migrant success in Llanelli
UKIP leader Neil ‘Liar and Cheat’ Hamilton, with anti-migrant campaigners at Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli Having stirred up the racist pot in Llanelli, which they claim now hosts their largest branch in the country, UKIP is trying to capitalise by holding a ‘general election hustings’ in the town at the end of the month […]
Braverman, Robinson to blame for Remembrance weekend of shame
So, after the hysteria whipped up by (now former) Home Secretary Suella Braverman and others that the pro-Palestine march on Saturday would disrespect the nation’s annual commemoration of its war dead, it was those mobilised by her inflammatory rhetoric that defiled the occasion – and how! Braverman deliberately provoked a far-right mobilisation on Saturday by […]
Patriotic Alternative nazis and holocaust deniers defile Remembrance Day ceremonies
Railing against Tommy Robinson’s call out to the football firm troops at the weekend as a ‘Zionist trap’, Patriotic Alternative, the neo fascist group run by Mark Collett, Sam Melia and Laura Towler, gleefully posted pictures of their activists besmirching the memories of the millions who died fighting fascism. PA is claiming 20 activities nationally, […]
Britain First leader abandons Remembrance weekend for Polish junket – then gets banged up at airport
Paul Golding (2nd from right) and Ashlea Simon (2nd from left) with MEP Dominic Tarczynsi (3rd from left) Having told his followers to avoid the Cenotaph at the weekend, Britain First leader Paul Golding was free to hop off on a fascist junket to Poland. So much more congenial for him and Ashlea if not […]
Jane Loftus – trade union and anti-racist stalwart
Searchlight would like to pay tribute to Jane Loftus, President of the Communication and Workers Union who died yesterday after a short illness. Having joined CWU in Liverpool in 1982, Jane became the first woman to hold the position of Chair of the Postal Constituency as well as the first woman to become National President. […]
Curiouser and curiouser: strange moves afoot in the surreal world of UKIP
Strange things are afoot in UKIP territory. In September, UKIP and Robin Tilbrook’s English Democrats filed an application with the Electoral Commission to register a merged organisation to be called the Patriots Alliance. This immediately provoked outrage among veteran former members of UKIP, who issued a statement denouncing the move. The statement read: ‘Mr. […]
1985-1991: the Searchlight War Crimes Campaign
Amassing evidence on Nazis who fled to the UK – Siobhan Hyland reflects on Searchlight’s investigations into Nazi war crimes more than 30 years ago, as part of a campaign to seek justice for victims and their families Anton Gecas on the August 1987 cover of Searchlight, with articles inside on his war crimes and the […]
Good riddance, we say
Sam Swerling IT IS WITHOUT a scintilla of regret that Searchlight reports the death of lifelong fascist and racist Sam Swerling, at the age of 83. He first came to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the far-right Monday Club. He had earlier been a member of the League of Empire Loyalists, one […]
Anti- Holocaust Memorial campaigner faces extradition
Vincent Reynouard ONE OF THE key figures in the anti-Semitic campaign against a UK Holocaust Memorial, nazi and Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard (pictured above), was arrested last November while hiding out in a coastal resort near St Andrews, in Scotland, and now faces extradition to France. The decision in his extradition case is not expected […]
GB News – The loopy channel
The loopy channel Tweets by Bev Turner, the latest GB News star to put her foot in the proverbial, has Martyn Lester pondering how the channel selects its cohort of blundering presenters Sometimes I pause to wonder whether it is actually built into the contracts of GB News presenters that they must periodically say something […]
