This year sees the 50th anniversary of David Edgar’s anti-fascist play Destiny, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford in 1976. The play then transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in London’s west end and was then broadcast as a BBC Play for Today. Performed at the height of the National Front’s 1970s success, Destiny […]
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From Searchlight 40 years ago: Blueprint for genocide
In March 1986, Searchlight magazine exposed how the National Front was peddling a blueprint for extermination written by the leader of one of the most hardline nazi organisations in the United States. Published in the form of a novel, the book set out how terrorism could get results for a committed elite of racist fanatics […]
Anniversary of a fascist outrage – and how the NF lauded the man behind it
Fifty five years ago today, in December 1969, members of the Italian fascist terror group Ordine Nuovo detonated a bomb at the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura, in Piazza Fontana in Milan, killing 17 people and wounding 88 more. Other bombs were planted in Milan and Rome on the same day. It was a key moment in […]