Steve Silver reviews The Flash in the Pan (originally published in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine) Merseyside historian Chris Jones has done the anti-fascist movement a great service in bringing out this concise history of the fascist movement in Liverpool. Flash in the Pan, which gets its name from what anti-fascists dubbed the […]
Research and analysis
Populist PVV take most seats in Dutch elections – Charles Fox analyses the results
Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration party gained the most seats in November’s elections, but forming a government in the Netherlands in never simple. Charles Fox sees parallels with past events This article originally appeared in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine Even by the standards of the often higgledy-piggledy world of Dutch politics, the results of the […]
Eco-fascism A new found ‘concern’ for the climate emergency – writes Luke Michael
Under the guise of concern for the planet, far-right parties are using green issues to legitimise and promote their extreme ideologies. Luke Michael highlights their tactics This article originally appeared in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine As the climate and ecological crisis starts to devastate communities worldwide, more people will consider green issues […]
Don’t underestimate Vox – warns David Karvala
Since the elections, the ultra-right Vox party has been busy mobilising street protests, but has failed to have a great impact. David Karvala warns, however, it is too early to relax This article originally appeared in Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine In our Autumn issue we carried an analysis of the biggest Spanish far right […]
Party Time Is Over (Again)
Former BNP leader says it’s time for ‘direct action’ Mark Scholl considers the implications. In October 1981 a certain Nicholas John Griffin, then aged 22, stood as the National Front candidate in a by-election for the Croydon North West constituency. The party had been crushed in the 1979 General Election, because of very well organised […]
Britain First wiped out in Wellingborough
Golding and crew before the result sank in Having polled just 477 votes, a paltry 1.6%, Britain First’s crestfallen leader Paul Golding went online this morning to observe that this was “a disappointing result”. For him maybe; not for us. He had his excuses oven ready, the main one being that, after all, “Wellingborough is […]