The British National Party (BNP), for years the pre-eminent force in British far-right politics but now an irrelevant rump, is at the centre of an entertaining row as a group of former members and activists claim they are mounting a campaign to wrest control from current leader Adam Walker. The campaign, described by its organiser […]
British National Party
From Searchlight 30 years ago – ‘The scales of justice are out of balance’
On October 16, 1993, a massive demonstration marched in Welling, south London, protesting against the presence there of a British National Party ‘bookshop’ – in fact, the party’s national organising base. It had been bought by Richard Edmonds, and ever since it opened, racial attacks and harassment in the area soared. It was a huge […]