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 […]
From Searchlight 40 years ago – Hurd’s ‘no change’ policy on Italian terror cell
The presence in the UK of wanted Italian fascist fugitives was a running scandal throughout the 1980s and 1990s. They arrived here to avoid the crackdown which followed the bombing of Bologna railway station in 1980 and stayed here, making huge amounts of money from dodgy accommodation and employment agencies, till their prison sentences expired […]
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 […]
‘Help’ – Italian fascist leader Roberto Fiore begs Pope to keep him out of jail
Roberto Fiore, the leader of Italy’s far-right party Forza Nuova, has written an open letter to Pope Leo XIV urging the pontiff to intervene in his appeal against a jail sentence for his part in the violent attack on the headquarters of Italy’s largest trade-union federation in 2021. The 65-year-old fascist, who was sentenced at […]