On 7 August last year, in response to direct fascist threats of violence against organisations helping migrants and asylum seekers, tens of thousands of anti-racists turned out to physically protect those organisations. It was a phenomenal show of strength and helped put an end to a week of horrendous racist violence. Searchlight wrote at the […]
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Poland’s far right targets refugees
Just as in Britain, the US and Hungary, the far right in Poland is now mobilising around the question of immigration. Over the last month the country has witnessed a number of worrying developments. The first was in the run up to the presidential elections in May when a thousand-strong anti-immigration protest took place in […]
Farage’s false claims risk stoking racist violence
Last year’s race riots became known as the Farage Riots for one simple reason – Nigel Farage went online and suggested that the truth was not being told about the Southport murders. It was untrue, but it immeasurably boosted far-right claims and stoked the racist fires. Now he’s doing it again. Yesterday, on GB News, […]
Gang of fruitbats and convicted crooks to descend on Wales
The Tommy Robinson fanboys who make up the far-right, self-styled Voice of Wales are holding a public event in south Wales this Saturday with a dazzling array of fruitbats and convicted crooks on the platform. VoW is run by two UKIP activists, who double up as wannabee mates of Tommy Robinson. One, Stan Robinson (no […]
‘Tommy Robinson’ winds up Canary Wharf protests
So, if you were wondering how far-right protestors turned up so suddenly yesterday at a hotel in Canary Wharf in London, said to be housing migrants, you need look no further than the inciter-in-chief, Tommy Robinson. The protests began yesterday evening following reports spread online that migrants from the Bell Hotel in Epping, scene of […]
Exclusive: Homeland defector exposes ugly truth behind ‘sensible nationalism’
Alex Bramham has always been on the right of politics. Last year he stood in the General Election for the right-wing Social Democratic Party. Before that he had been active in the Conservative Party in Manchester where he ran several times as a council candidate. He has also been a prominent activist in gay politics, […]