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A former British National Party organiser is at the centre of an increasingly chaotic far‑right muddle in Kent, lurching from one newly-launched party to another and back again, leaving a trail of confusion and recriminations in his wake.
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A group of Manchester fascists, still smarting from the embarrassment of last weekend's Britain First march, and including a notorious far-right 'auditor', tried to attack a Stop The War meeting in the city on Thursday.
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A 23-year-old from Buckinghamshire has become the latest far-right extremist to be jailed for terrorist offences.
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Photos of a jet set lifestyle posted online by his son expose the truth behind the Tommy Robinson poverty scam.
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On the same day as the death of a man who opened fire in the Spanish parliament leading an attempted military coup, documents were released implicating senior military and intelligence officers in the plot.
Some are still alive and active today on the Spanish far right.
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The Gorton and Denton by‑election will be remembered less for the identity of the victor than for the method of victory.
It was a decisive demonstration of anti‑Reform tactical voting, on a scale capable of stopping them in their tracks.
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A teenage Reform UK councillor who tried to legitimise the disruption of council meetings in Kent by racist activists, has defected to Restore UK.
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A leading American neo-nazi, banned from the UK for his extremist views, has been allowed to join Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain.
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Further evidence that Advance UK is relaxed working with known extremists comes in the form of a lengthy online interview given by Gorton & Denton candidate Nick Buckley to the far‑right National Housing Party.
Despite its name, the NHP's lineage is unmistakably fascist.
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One of Britain’s most active nazis, notorious as Burnley BNP organiser in the early 2000s, has been campaigning for the Advance UK candidate, Nick Buckley, in this week’s Gorton & Denton by-election.
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Talk TV's Alex Phillips launched an extraordinary tirade against Searchlight, calling us "very left-wing...relentless ...an attack dog against the right wing" and accusing us of being responsible for a musician's career going into a nosedive.
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A 17‑year‑old boy frolm Northumbria has been found guilty of multiple terror offences after joining a banned neo‑nazi terrorist group, collecting extremist propaganda, and researching a local synagogue as a potential target.
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The possibility of a far-right merger between Advance UK and Restore Britain has all but collapsed after a virulent online attack by Advance leader Ben Habib on Restore's Rupert Lowe, whom he calls a 'dictator'.
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The price of admission: a snip at £1,000 a month for a year.
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UKIP has unveiled its latest fundraising wheeze, the “UK12 Donor Club”, a scheme to sign up a group of supporters to keep both Leader and Chairman salaried for the year.
Only twelve places, like they’re recruiting apostles, not just high‑net‑worth sympathisers with a taste for purple branding...
Eighty‑three years after their execution in Munich’s Stadelheim Prison on this day in 1943, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their fellow White Rose resisters to Hitler remain among the most luminous figures in the history of anti‑fascism.
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After Saturday’s Britain First march in Manchester which was repeatedly stalled, split, and ultimately overshadowed by a far more organised anti‑fascist mobilisation, BF leader Paul Golding has finally delivered his verdict on the cause of BF's humiliation
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UKIP’s much‑trailed “Christian” march through Birmingham yesterday didn’t so much slide into farce as hurl itself headlong into it, with leader Nick Tenconi dutifully assuming the role of altar boy during a pre‑march prayer ritual staged outside a pub.
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The Greek government has launched an urgent effort to recover long‑lost photographs of one of the most searing atrocities of the Nazi occupation: the execution of 200 communist political prisoners on May Day, 1944.
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Britain First's latest attempt to march through Manchester city centre was harried and frustrated by anti-fascists and had to be diverted twice by police, denying them their planned rallying place.
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A Reform UK councillor elected to Kent County Council in the Reform wave of last May has been jailed for a decade-long campaign of coercive behaviour and threats against his wife.
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A local councillor who defected from Reform to Restore Britain has quit Rupert Lowe's party after just two days, denouncing it as 'sinister'.
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Dozens gathered in London yesterday for the funeral of Searchlight founder and anti- fascist legend, Gerry Gable. It was a beautiful and moving occasion.
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As the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) moves through its later phases, a picture is emerging of the scale and intent of police infiltration of anti‑fascist organisations from the late 1980s through the 2000s.
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This is how Searchlight reported it at the time, also drawing out the links to Roberto Fiore and his fugitive terror cell who had found sanctuary in London.
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From the Searchlight archive: Bologna accused linked to London terror cell.
In February 1986, Italian investigating magistrates believed they knew who was behind the bomb attack on Bologna railway station in August 1980, when 85 died and over 200 were injured...
The British far right has spent the past decade talking about “Uniting the Right” while doing almost everything possible to avoid it.
So is Rupert Lowe’s Restore UK the long‑promised realignment, or just another reshuffle of the same exhausted deck?
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Fascists in the west country have escalated their activities with a series of attacks and threats against anti‑fascists.
An anti‑fascist fundraiser in Bristol was attacked last weekend, and threats have been made against a Together fundraiser in Tavistock, Devon, tomorrow.
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Two weeks later than advertised fugitive nazi Germar Rudolf broadcast his Holocaust denial ‘summit’ conference last weekend.
It was a pale shadow of previous events but thanks to the stupidity of elected politicians in the US state of New Hampshire, Rudolf could claim one victory.
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The fascists of Britain First are planning to march in Manchester next Saturday.
Anti-fascists should be out in force to oppose them.
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