This item from the Searchlight archive, an editorial published in April 2006, is self-explanatory. In the early 2000s the British National Party were doing increasingly well in local elections in certain parts of the country. The fear was that they would break through on a national scale. In 2004, Searchlight launched Hope Not Hate as […]
British National Party
British far-right connections to the men who killed Chris Hani
On this day in 1993, Chris Hani, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party and the most popular ANC figure after Nelson Mandela himself, was shot dead outside his home in Dawn Park, Boksburg. His daughter Nomakhwezi, then fifteen years old, was with him at the time. The plot had British connections that are […]
BNP rump faces allegations of corruption and fraud
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 […]
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 […]