Analysis: Suella Braverman, Far-Right Activists and the Media Are Stoking Tensions Ahead of Saturday’s Palestine March
Simon Childs
Far-right activists plan to defend the Cenotaph from a march that's going nowhere near it.
Tag: far-right
Downstream: How Conspiracy Theories Gain Their Power | Ash Meets Naomi Klein
In Doppelganger, Naomi Klein takes a journey into the uncanny world of anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory and far right propaganda. As she goes through the looking glass, she discovers dark forces bent on warping our politics in their image. What starts as a story of mistaken identity with her namesake Naomi Wolf, soon becomes a parable […]
Downstream: Social Mobility Is a Lie. Aaron Bastani Meets Dan Evans.
With more strikes taking place and ever rising inequality, you’d think the left would be well-placed to talk about class with authority. But what if the movement had made a disastrous error when trying to understand the state of our nation? And what if we’re still missing a fundamental bit of understanding? Sociologist and trade […]
Downstream: Going Undercover With Neo-Nazis. Aaron Bastani Meets Julia Ebner
Since 2016 we’ve seen mainstream politics take a turn for the weird, epitomised by the surprise success of populist projects like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. And fringe views have continued to muscle into the middle ground, with conspiracy theories and far-right talking points trickling into political discourse. Julia Ebner has been charting […]
Opinion: The Greek Left Had One Chance and Blew It
Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou
The leader of Greece’s main leftwing political party resigned on Thursday following a catastrophic general election defeat. That’s what happens when you promise revolution and deliver a whole lot of nothing, writes Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou.
Report: Turning Point UK Questions Inanimate Object After Bloodshed at Demonstration
Simon Childs
After an antifascist activist was beaten and bloodied while protesting a Turning Point UK rally, the rightwing group asked the 'burning' question: ‘why did they have a red pen in their pocket?’
Report: ‘I Felt My Rib Give’: People Attacked By Police While Protesting Anti-Drag Demo Speak Out
Clare Hymer
People opposing a rightwing demo say they were crushed, kicked and beaten by police officers, with one even being “picked up by the throat and thrown”.
Report: ‘Shaming, Othering and Scapegoating’: Protestor on Why He Ambushed Jacob Rees-Mogg
Simon Childs
Dirk Campbell was bundled off stage after he interrupted the former Brexit minister to warn about fascism.
Report: These Conservatives Won’t Let Us Watch Their Weird Far-Right Conference
Simon Childs
Novara Media was denied accreditation to a conference where cranks are talking about the future of conservatism due to “limited space”.
Report: Fascist Party Patriotic Alternative in Messy Break Up
Simon Childs
Key activists have left Patriotic Alternative after becoming ‘exasperated’ with its leadership - and will now try and get a new fascist party registered by stealth.
Opinion: The Culture War Doesn’t Exist
Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Why, asks Amardeep Singh Dhillon, do we reduce trans and minority rights to questions of culture as if their impacts weren't grimly material?
Report: The Organiser of an Anti-Migrant Protest to Protect Women Is a Woman Beater
Simon Childs
Philip Milo Gregory spread disinformation about a rape case to promote a protest against an asylum seeker hotel.
Feature: London Asylum Seekers Are Refusing to Be Flung Around the Country by Profit-Seeking Private Companies
Charlotte England
Exclusive: A second group of asylum seekers is resisting removal out of London, to isolated hotels threatened by the far right.
Feature: Drag Queens Are the Latest Target for Homophobic Culture Warriors
Simon Childs & John Lubbock
How British reactionaries followed the US far right to attack drag queens reading stories for children.
Feature: Asylum Seekers in South London Are Resisting Removal to a Bedfordshire Hotel Targeted by the Far Right
Charlotte England
A group of asylum seekers has been resisting eviction from a south London hotel for the last three weeks. But layers of outsourcing mean they don't even know who's trying to move them. Charlotte England reports.
Feature: White and Hindu Supremacists Are a Match Made in Heaven
Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Tommy Robinson’s Hindutva rant has cemented an alliance long in the making, writes Amardeep Singh Dhillon.
Report: ‘Racist NIMBYs’, Neo-Nazis and Bigoted Politicians: How an Anti-Migrant Riot Broke Out on Merseyside
Simon Childs
Anti-fascists warn of more violence to come as the far-right steps up its efforts to oppose asylum seekers staying in hotels.
Report: The Anti-Fascist Research Group Exposing Britain’s Neo-Nazi Threat
Simon Childs
Novara Media joined grassroots investigators Red Flare on an anti-fascist winter walk as they trained a new generation of researchers in how to expose neo-Nazis.