Who is behind the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and, when all said and done, just plain racist riots that have spreading across the UK over the last couple of days? Fascist groups including Patriotic Alternative and Britain First, who have done their damnedest to incite such angry racism for years, are secretly whooping with delight at what […]
Research and analysis
Bungle in the Rumble: Mark Collett and Alek Yerbury trade blows in fash fight
By Mark Scholl Seventy years of hurt. Perpetual failure. Never had an MP elected. Scraped two MEPs in 2009 via the proportional voting system. Offer nothing except hatred and violence. Communities under attack. Ethnic minorities targeted. Terrorist plots failed. This is the miserable history of Britain’s extreme right. Its current representatives include Patriotic Alternative led […]
White Nationalist Motown Meltdown
By Chuck Tanner and Devin Burghart, IREHR On 15 June, influential white nationalist “Groyper” leader Nick Fuentes attempted to hold a fourth version of his America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC IV) in Detroit, Michigan. It was his latest move to pull the right in a more antisemitic and fascist direction. Amidst the chaos of […]
Knives being sharpened after extreme right election disaster
By Paul Gale As the dust settles on an election campaign which for them was universally catastrophic, the UK’s extreme right is licking its wounds and eyeing up potential targets for blame. The main factor behind their dire performance, of course, was the involvement of Reform UK especially after Farage announced his candidacy in Clacton […]
The election: breakthrough for Farage, disaster for the rest of the extreme right.
By Paul Gale It’s understandable for Labour Party members to be euphoric this morning. And anti-fascists outside Keir Starmer’s party might also be tempted to join in the celebrations and avoid looking too closely at the overnight results. That would be a mistake. After years of deliberate pandering to culture war rhetoric (in other words, […]
Yerbury outflanks Patriotic Alternative boss Collett and sets public showdown
By Paul Gale Alek Yerbury, founder and leader of the National Rebirth Party, and the chap with a penchant for pencil moustaches and military-style great coats, has again put pen to paper to offer a comment for the Searchlight website. Now, it has to be said that Mr Yerbury is, by a considerable distance, the […]