On the 25 April, the quiet, picturesque town of Predappio in Emilia Romagna, the birthplace and burial place of Benito Mussolini, will become a gathering point for Europe’s radical far-right. Among the better-known attendees will be Nick Griffin, the former leader of Britain’s now-defunct British National Party (BNP). The meeting is rather optimistically titled ‘The […]
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Roberto Fiore’s pro-Putin roadshow rolls across Europe
Vladimir Putin’s intelligence service continues to use the European far right for both propaganda and terrorism. Some of the most pro-Moscow fascists from across the continent gathered last month at a luxury hotel in Rome, the Cristoforo Colombo, following an earlier event in Madrid. As Searchlight recently reported, there have been police raids against a […]
Gone-to-seed Griffin is past his sell-by date
Nick Griffin’s big comeback in Madrid on 23 November only proved that he is yesterday’s man. Perhaps that’s putting it too kindly. Griffin is ten or fifteen years past his sell-by date. He’s now 66, a year older than John Tyndall was at the time of the 1999 leadership contest when Griffin was describing the […]
Nick Griffin to be star speaker at fascist pro-Putin fest
Some of Europe’s most extreme fascists – including the UK’s Nick Griffin – are heading to Madrid later this month for an international gathering where the far right’s pro-Putinism will be on noisy display. Several of those hosting the event conference were at the recent St Petersburg event run by Aleksandr Dugin and the Putinist […]
Nick Griffin launches new ‘Christian’ party
Failed BNP führer and twice-bankrupted Nick Griffin chose Easter Sunday to launch his latest political party. That might seem strange timing. England is just ten days away from county council elections, when real political parties are competing at the ballot box. However, Easter Sunday this year also happened fall on a date celebrated by nazis […]
Wars and culture wars fracture Britain’s far right
Britain’s fascists are tearing into each other with accusations of selling out and betrayal, and big problems are looming ahead of a high-profile conference next month. Searchlight is never surprised when far right leaders place personal ambitions and financial greed above their supposed principles. But the most recent name-calling between Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative and […]