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, […]
Fanning the flames – far right aims to whip up summer of race riots
Let’s be under no illusions about the significance of this week’s events in Epping – this is simply the first chapter in determined efforts by the far right this summer to engineer a repeat of last year’s post-Southport race riots, using whatever pretext presents itself. This week the pretext was three alleged sexual assaults on […]
‘They’re calling us nazis’ protests ‘Heil Hitler’ nazi
That troublemaking POS Ryan Ferguson was arrested yet again yesterday, this time at the racist demonstration against the construction of a mosque in Dalton-in Furness. It has to be said that Ryan certainly has a mouth on him. And yesterday he gave it full vent when the police approached him about his abusive behaviour. “They’re […]
Grim up north : far-right ‘Manchester Protest’ flops
When Claire Walsh, the organiser of the much-vaunted and much-hyped Manchester Protest, aka National Strike, disappears off to Dover for the main national event you know something is wrong. And today’s shambolic, utterly pathetic “rally” at St Peter’s Square, in Manchester, drew considerable ire from passers-by. If you’d blinked you might have missed it but […]
No rain, but far-right Dover ‘National Protest’ is still a washout
Although the promised south coast thunderstorms didn’t materialise, the Great British National Protest on Dover beach today turned out to be a totally damp squib. Organiser and ex-squaddie Richard Donaldson had forecast that millions would attend – though he did prudently scale down his expected numbers from 16 to 9 million. In the event around […]
Nick Tenconi’s US mates join Epstein child abuse cover-up
The American parent organisation of Nick Tenconi’s Turning Point UK has caved in to pressure from President Trump and dropped demands for the release of the notorious Jeffrey Epstein paedophile ‘client list’. Despite loudly calling for the release of the list until last weekend, Turning Point USA founder and leader Charlie Kirk has now surrendered […]
Tommy Robinson on his sunbed again – in £10k a week Portuguese resort
Tommy Robinson’s supporters need to get their wallets out. There’s almost certainly another appeal for funds on its way for the lad’s ‘legal fund’. Because Tommy’s on his sunbed again, and this time he’s at a £10k a week Portuguese resort. Tommy – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – flew out of the UK on 9 […]
Labin 1921: miners lead Europe’s first anti-fascist revolt
The Labin Uprising of 1921, often heralded as the first anti-fascist revolt and workers’ republic in Europe, is a landmark in miners’ history. Taking place in the Istrian town of Labin, now Croatia, then under Italian rule, this often-overlooked miners’ uprising showcased the power of workers’ solidarity and foreshadowed the anti-fascist struggles that would engulf […]
Reform UK election candidate attends neo-nazi Summer camp
Searchlight can reveal that a Reform UK election candidate is actively involved with a neo-Nazi organisation. One of their most prominent county council candidates recently attended a Summer camp in Lancashire run by Patriotic Alternative. In this year’s Lancashire County Council election, Portuguese businessman Joe Custodio was Reform candidate for Preston North West. But a […]
White Vanguard nazi is prominent Reform activist
Meet Kai Cunningham. He’s a law student whose LinkedIn profile says he wants to develop his public speaking skills. So he practises at every opportunity. The first photo shows him addressing a Reform UK party East London branch meeting in Rainham, Kent. The second shows him, as a leader of the neo-Nazi White Vanguard, delivering […]
Gloves off, balaclavas on in nazi ‘informants’ feud
Well, you can’t deny that when nazis fall out, it really can be quite entertaining. The latest online spat is between National Rebirth Party boss Alek Yerbury – he of the Hitler moustache and 1930s apparel – and White Vanguard, a micro-group of deranged kinder-nazis, who made quite a scene at a recent Britain First […]
Outrage in Northern Ireland as loyalists plan bonfire of migrant effigies
Outrage in Northern Ireland. When the Democratic Unionist Party says something is extreme, you know it’s really extreme. Not known for its moderation, in its relationship with the Catholic community in Northern Ireland, or for its views on immigration or lgbtq rights, the DUP has spoken out against a disgusting effigy of refugees in a […]
‘Tommy Robinson’ hints at link up with Habib’s Advance UK
Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few days ago we suggested that Tommy Robinson had given up the idea of a hook up with UKIP and might be seeking to link up with Ben Habib’s Advance UK instead. And today Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – has signalled that this might indeed be […]
UK bans far-right Russian terror group
The controversy surrounding the UK government’s recent ban on Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 has tended to obscure the act that a far-right Russian organisation, the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), was banned at the same time. Once considered a fringe nationalist group, RIM has become an international hub for training and radicalizing far-right […]
Mark Collett – Putin’s nazi propagandist
Last weekend, Patriotic Alternative’s führer Mark Collett again took on the role of Moscow propagandist, hosting Evgeniy (Eugene), a spokesman for the Russian Brotherhood of Academists. A fortnight previously this Russian student “Brotherhood” broadcast an interview with Elon Musk’s racist father Errol, who is touring Russia spouting Putin’s propaganda for the benefit of the international […]