Strange goings on in Pendle where the British National Party’s only district councillor in the UK announced on 23 November that he was going to sit as an independent and on the following day told the BBC he was back with the fascist party. Brian Parker first won his seat, in Marsden ward, in 2006, […]
Research and analysis
Extremely strange political bedfellows
In the past week the media have reported on the delegation of British right-wing politicians led by Nigel Farage who met US president-elect Donald Trump at his New York headquarters. Present with Trump was his head strategic adviser Steve Bannon, who controls the alt-right Breitbart news service. Farage came with Raheem Kassam, Breitbart’s London editor. […]
Three weekends and two flops for London Forum
A fascist thief is to receive an award for his crime at the London Forum meeting on Saturday 24 September. David Czerwonko, a Polish chef who has lived in England for two years, was fined £185 at Westminster magistrates’ court on 19 September after admitting snatching a pink beret from the head of the comedian […]
Finnish man dies after assault by Nazis
A Finnish man, Jimi Joonas Karttunen, who was assaulted by neo-Nazis from the Finnish Resistance Movement (FRM) on Saturday 10 September has died of his injuries, the Finnish investigative journalism website Kaivuri reported on 17 September. The news was broken by his father, Kauko-Vesa Karttunen, on Facebook and the identity of the man has since […]
Behind the lone wolf
Extreme right violence is poorly understood and poses questions that are increasingly relevant today. How common are violent attacks by extreme right activists? Do they pose as large a threat as Islamist-inspired violence? Often the perpetrators of the most violent and murderous extreme right attacks are casually labelled “lone wolves” in the media, but are […]
Blocked identitaire
‘We announce tonight that Richard Spencer, of the American National Policy Institute, has this week been banned from the UK for life…” So ran a statement on Facebook by the Traditional Britain Group, which brings together Nazis and far right Tories. The 9 July statement said the ban had been announced by the then home […]