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Cambridge dons revolt over ‘racist’ fellow’s role

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More than 200 academics have signed a letter accusing a controversial scholar of “racist pseudoscience” after he was appointed to a fellowship at Cambridge University, The Times reported on 7 December 2018. Noah Carl is a social scientist who has spoken at a eugenics conference and has said that hostility to immigrant groups draws on […]

Analysis: the ‘Free Tommy’ demo and a year of far right protests (with table and video)

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This article by Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin first appeared on Dream Deferred on 11 June 2018. Thousands of protestors turned out in Whitehall, central London, on Saturday 14 July for the latest “Free Tommy Robinson” demo – and the latest in just over a year of far right racist street protests, which we have listed […]

Analysis: behind the ‘Free Tommy’ demo – what’s going on in the new far right?

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This article by Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin first appeared on Dream Deferred on 11 June 2018. The far right in Britain has mobilised its biggest ever demonstration. Around 15,000 people joined the “Free Tommy Robinson” demo in Whitehall, central London on Saturday 9 June. We look here at what the march means in the context […]

A sudden escalation: fascists and far right mobilise in London, Leeds and Manchester in a week

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This article, by Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin, first appeared on Dream Deferred on 7 June 2018. A sudden escalation in far right and fascist street mobilisations has taken place in Britain over the space of just seven days. Snap demonstrations called at 24-hours notice and each turning out several hundred protestors took place in Whitehall, […]

Analysis: Tommy Robinson’s ‘Day for Freedom’ – a new turning point for fascism and the far right

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This article, by Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin, first appeared on Dream Deferred on 10 May 2018. Thousands of racists, far right activists and fascists marched through central London and staged a festival of hate outside Downing Street on Sunday 6 May. We want to set this event in a wider context – it illustrates how […]

Joint liaison group brings together FLA, Tommy Robinson, EDL, hardcore nazis and a UKIP MEP

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This article by Tash Shifrin first appeared on Dream Deferred on 22 February 2018. Figures from a range of fascist and far right groups in Britain have come together in a joint liaison group with the aim of coordinating their activities and seeking a “political direction”. They include key personnel from the Football Lads Alliance, […]

Earthday 2017: Exploring the ‘Green’ Racism of Ann Coulter

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This article has been contributed by Frank Houghton. Frank Houghton is a tenured Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health & Health Administration at Eastern Washington University. He has experience of working in Public Health and academia in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, and the USA. By training he is a Public […]

International Nazi movement meets again in Norway

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Erik Olson writes: The world’s two largest National Socialist publishing houses are engaged in an acrimonious dispute, Searchlight can reveal. Earlier this year we were able to supply the international media with details of yet another international Nazi gathering in Sweden, a regular feature since the creation of Generation Identity early in this decade. Exposure of […]

The growing Nazi axis

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At the end of February 2017 an international Nazi conference took place in Stockholm organised by the National Socialist publishing group Arktos Media. Some of the key groups present are those that Searchlight has been monitoring for several years, some of which have appeared more publicly since the election of Donald Trump. These groups have […]

Dead members keep BNP alive

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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, […]

Extremely strange political bedfellows

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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 […]