Next week The Underworld in Camden is scheduled to host a solo performance by Michale Graves, a musician whose early fame came from fronting the horror-punk band the Misfits in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But more recently Graves’ name has become increasingly linked with the American extreme right. Graves’ career began in the […]
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Soft, pink branding, hard-right politics
The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s safety. Styling themselves ‘Kent Women First Pink Ladies – British Women First’, they have begun organising publicly in north Kent, and are advertising a meeting in Chatham next month. The group is a local offshoot […]
Yorkshire nazi had ‘library of terrorist publications’
A nazi-sympathiser from West Yorkshire has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to a series of terrorist offences. 36-year-old Tygue Crowther was convicted of encouraging terrorism, disseminating a terrorist publication and six counts of possessing documents likely to be useful to a terrorist. He was arrested in June 2024 […]
Antisemite invited to speak at London Polish cultural centre
Stanisław Michalkiewicz is a Polish lawyer and political commentator with a longstanding history of antisemitic and misogynistic comments. Despite this, he was recently invited to speak at POSK, a Polish cultural centre in West London. The event, titled ‘Will there be a war?’, was hosted by the ‘Association for Independent Thought’, a right-wing debate club […]
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: […]