Searchlight welcomes Unite Against Fascism’s fast response to the news of the arrests of four serving soldiers under counter-terrorism legislation. Many of our readers who have followed closely our investigation of paramilitary training by the far right in the UK, with the assistance of Russian and Polish expert trainers, will be reminded by the UAF […]
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Commemorating the ‘Battle of Lewisham’ 40 years on
August 13 marks the fortieth anniversary of what has become known and celebrated as The Battle of Lewisham. On that day in 1977, a fascist organisation, the National Front (NF) attempted to march through Lewisham and New Cross, in south London. It was a deeply provocative move in an area with a sizeable black population. […]
Rochdale unites against fascist EDL!
For the second time in a week, anti fascists protested at a fascist incursion into the town of Rochdale, last Saturday, Unite Against Fascism writes. Following a far from successful Britain First gathering, last Saturday, the English Defence League (EDL) held a march and rally, over this weekend. The fascists tried to exploit the issue […]
Antisemitic crime soars to highest ever level as police and prosecutors fail Jewish community
Geoffrey Alderman wrote on 20 July in the Jewish Weekly as follows: Last Sunday the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism released details of an investigation it had undertaken into the level and intensity of anti-Semitic hate crime in the UK in 2016. This audit was grounded in figures obtained from all UK police forces. The data makes […]
Can you stand with the NAFSAT community centre in Manchester, targeted by an arson attack?
TellMama writes as follows: On 15 July, the NASFAT family of mosques walked towards their national peace rally in Trafalgar Square. A deeply spiritual group who believe in community and family, this predominantly African group of social activists and organisers came to show their support against extremism and against groups like Boko Haram. One of […]
Fascist EDL – not wanted in Rochdale, this Saturday, 29 July
Just seven days, after the fascist group Britain First held a hate gathering in Rochdale, another group of fascists, the EDL, will be making an incursion into the town. The EDL are, like Britain First, trying to create division by racialising the issue of crimes of sexual exploitation. Our thoughts must be with all those […]
Protest against fascist Britain First, Rochdale, 22 July
Pictured below, alongside Paul Golding (second from left), leader of the fascist group Britain First, is Jason Marriner (blue shirt), an ex Combat 18 fascist thug and convicted football hooligan. This is the sort of person that Britain First keep company with. One reason, among many, to demonstrate against Britain First next Saturday. Unite Against […]
International Nazi movement meets again in Norway
Erik Olson writes: The world’s two largest National Socialist publishing houses are engaged in an acrimonious dispute, Searchlight can reveal. Earlier this year we were able to supply the international media with details of yet another international Nazi gathering in Sweden, a regular feature since the creation of Generation Identity early in this decade. Exposure of […]
A second warning for antifascists: thousands on the streets of London as far right reorganises
This article is reproduced with permission of the authors, Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin and first appeared on the Dream Deferred website on 24 June 2017 here. It includes their eyewitness report from the FLA march. Up to 5,000 assorted Islamophobes, racists and fascists marched through central London today, mobilised by a rightwing coalition of […]
On the streets again: ‘Tommy Robinson’ and the EDL reloaded
This article is reproduced with permission of the authors, Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin and first appeared on the Dream Deferred website on 19 June 2017 here. This post was written shortly after the fascist march in Manchester, but we decided to hold back its publication in the wake of the tragic fire at Grenfell […]
Update on anti-EDL protest in London, Saturday 24 June
The fascist Islamophobes of the English Defence League have called a march in central London this Saturday, 24 June. The EDL is seeking to scapegoat Muslims following the appalling terror attacks in the UK. We must ensure the EDL’s poison is countered. Last Sunday 18 June several thousand racists, fascists and Islamophobes demonstrated in Manchester. […]
No to the fascist EDL in London – 24 June
The remaining rump of the fascist English Defence League (EDL) are returning to London, on 24 June, Unite Against Fascism writes. This is just a few weeks after their humiliation at the hands of over 1,000 anti fascists in Liverpool. The supposed reason for their demonstration is concern over the recent terror attacks in the […]
Oppose fascist and Islamophobic Britain First in Birmingham – 24 June
Birmingham Unite Against Fascism is calling upon anti-fascists to oppose another fascist attempt to inflame race hate in Birmingham. The Islamophobic and fascist sect, Britain First, plan to visit the city of Birmingham on 24 June. They had aimed at an earlier, unwanted intrusion, but had to postpone this, as their leaders were arrested on various […]
Norscarf to celebrate 40 years of struggle
The NORSCARF Group (North Staffordshire Campaign Against Racism and Fascism) are celebrating 40 years of struggle this autumn, and will be publishing a study of the group’s activities. They are anxious to contact all those who have been active over the years, especially in the very early years when the group was set up. The […]
EDL haters never learn
Liverpool lived up to its historic record as being one of the most unfriendly places for the extreme right to visit when the English Defence League tried to hold a march on Saturday 3 June. For the EDL it was an unmitigated disaster. Just 60 supporters scraped up from gutters nationwide turned out, supported by […]
Former BNP candidate takes college to court for firing him
Richard Barnbrook has managed to get himself in the news again as the report below from the Bournemouth Echo reveals. The writer has overlooked some of Barnbrook’s political activities. As well as being a BNP parliamentary candidate and leader of the BNP group on Barking and Dagenham council until the party lost all its seats […]
The growing Nazi axis
At the end of February 2017 an international Nazi conference took place in Stockholm organised by the National Socialist publishing group Arktos Media. Some of the key groups present are those that Searchlight has been monitoring for several years, some of which have appeared more publicly since the election of Donald Trump. These groups have […]
Never Again! 50 years since the Greek military coup
The Greek Solidarity Campaign has sent us this report of its commemorative event. On Friday 28 April almost 100 activists and veterans gathered at the Unite the Union London headquarters to remember the events 50 years ago when Greek democracy was again overturned by a ruthless military junta. The colonels brought tanks on to the […]
Four more in court over clash between neo-nazis and anti-fascists
This report appeared in the Liverpool Echo on 2 May. Go to the original report for pictures of the accused. FOUR more people have appeared in court today charged over violent clashes between far-right activists and anti-fascist protesters. Troubled flared between neo-nazi North West Infidels group and counter demonstrators at St George’s Plateau, Liverpool city […]
Remembering the Greek military coup 50 years on
Diana Shelley writes: On the evening of 28 April 1967 a removal van pulled up outside the Greek Embassy in London’s Upper Brook Street. Two women carrying daffodils knocked; the door opened. From the back of the van 50 demonstrators jumped out and ran inside. We were mainly supporters of the Committee of 100, the […]
