Fighting against racism and fascism

Isabel Peralta, one of Spain’s most prominent neo-Nazi activists, and closely linked to UK nazis, was at the centre of violent disorder in Madrid on Sunday, as members of her organisation, Núcleo Nacional, attempted to disrupt the city’s International Women’s…

The last ever printed edition of Searchlight magazine is out now and selling fast. It is a 72-page bumper edition charting the 50-year life of Searchlight and it won't be available for long...

Just days after their humiliating “March for Unity”, in which a paltry 40 far-right activists required the protection of more…

Last Saturday (7 March) the amorphous far-right ecosystem in the south of England pulled off the feat of staging a…

Fascists in Manchester yesterday tried to attack Hannah Spencer, the newly-elected MP for Gorton and Denton as she left a…

A former British National Party organiser in Kent may be about to throw a spanner in the works of Reform…

An embarrassing collection of around 40 far-right activists called out by the Bristol ‘Patriots’ attempted to march through Bristol city…

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland positions itself as anti-elite; an alternative to Germany’s establishment parties. However, a strong culture of…

Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…

Pop the champagne corks at UKIP HQ, or at least crack open whatever discount lager remains after Nick Tenconi’s close protection goons have been at the drinks cupboard. The party that once shook up British politics has achieved a remarkable…

More than twelve years after the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek appeals court has delivered a decisive…

A Cambridgeshire neo-nazi sympathiser, already convicted of serious child pornography offences, has been found guilty of a range of terrorism-related…

In the heart of Hitler’s Berlin, a small group of young Jewish men and women chose to fight back. On…

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the man who trades under the alter-ego “Tommy Robinson” like some pound shop superhero, has issued an ill-tempered…

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has built a career on weaponising sexual violence allegations against Muslim men. Grooming…

The Italian government has appointed Mario Vattani as its new ambassador to Japan, closing a circle that began with one…

Meet the latest recruit to be welcomed into Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain – one of the UK’s most notorious nazis…

Isabel Peralta, one of Spain’s most prominent neo-Nazi activists, and closely linked to UK nazis, was at the centre of…

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland positions itself as anti-elite; an alternative to Germany’s establishment parties. However, a strong culture of…

The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecevičius, better known in Scotland…

More than twelve years after the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek appeals court has delivered a decisive…

For weeks, the “Patriots of Worcester”, a local far right group that operates and organises primarily on Facebook, had been plugging their weekend march against the Fownes Hotel, calling for the people of Worcester to rise up and express their…

A Glasgow school has been hit with a wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson circulated false claims online about an…

This extraordinary production at Stratford East lands with the quiet, cumulative force of a dossier being opened in front of…

A former British National Party organiser is at the centre of an increasingly chaotic far‑right muddle in Kent, lurching from…

A 23‑year‑old from Buckinghamshire has become the latest right-wing extremist to be jailed for terrorism offences, Nicholas Gilpin, from Farnham…

After Britain First’s distastrous day out in Manchester last weekend, local fascists have tried to up the ante with a…

Tommy Robinson’s insistence that he is a destitute family man living hand‑to‑mouth becomes rather harder to swallow when his son…

The Gorton and Denton by‑election will be remembered less for the identity of the victor than for the method of…

Dr James Orr, a theologian and philosopher of religion at the University of Cambridge was last month appointed senior adviser…

In the wake of Nathan Gill’s guilty verdict on multiple counts of bribery for taking payments in exchange for pro-Kremlin…

The May election results were a warning, if one was needed, of the danger of an insurgent Reform UK. Sarah…

On Saturday May 10, 2025, the Traditional Britain Group will host a luncheon in London to replace its annual black-tie…

Yesterday we were all reminded – as if we needed reminding in the age of Trump, Farage and Lowe – that even in Western Europe democracy can’t be taken for granted. On the same day as the death of a…

Kieran Mishchuk, the 19‑year‑old Reform UK Swale councillor, has announced his defection to Rupert Lowe’s new outfit, Restore Britain, by…

Restore Britain has admitted a high‑profile American white supremacist as a member, despite the fact he is banned from entering…

Further evidence that Advance UK is relaxed about working with established extremists comes in the form of a lengthy online…

One of Britain’s most active nazis has been campaigning for Advance UK candidate Nick Buckley at this week’s Gorton &…

A small anti‑migrant demonstration in Wrexham last Sunday brought together activists from several well‑known far‑right groups. On the ground, the…

Searchlight has been blamed for many things over the years, but being the puppet‑master behind the downward career trajectory of…

A 17‑year‑old boy has been found guilty of multiple terror offences after joining a banned neo‑nazi terrorist group, collecting extremist…

The anti-migrant march in Faversham last November led to some unfortunate consequences for up-and-coming local musician Dylan Kirk after he…

The Underworld in Camden, London, has cancelled the scheduled gig by Michale Graves, the far-right aligned American rock singer. We…

Next week The Underworld in Camden is scheduled to host a solo performance by Michale Graves, a musician whose early…

Amelia was never meant to be real. She began life as a cartoon character in a government-backed game designed to…

The uneasy courtship between Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s newly-launched Restore Britain party has collapsed into open hostility, with Habib issuing an extraordinary nine‑minute denunciation of Lowe’s leadership, structure and political direction. The intervention confirms Searchlight’s earlier reporting…

UKIP has unveiled its latest fundraising wheeze, the “UK12 Donor Club”, a scheme to sign up a group of supporters…

After Saturday’s Britain First march through Manchester, the one that, as Searchlight reported yesterday, was repeatedly stalled, split, and ultimately…

Eighty‑three years after their execution in Munich’s Stadelheim Prison, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their fellow White Rose resisters…

UKIP’s much‑trailed “Christian” march through Birmingham yesterday didn’t so much slide into farce as hurl itself headlong into it, with…

The Greek state has launched an urgent effort to recover a set of long‑lost photographs depicting one of the most…

A day of resistance, a day of solidarity, a difficult day for the rump of Britain First losers who attempted…

A member of Kent County Council who was elected last year as a Reform UK candidate was jailed on Friday…

Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…

In the heart of Hitler’s Berlin, a small group of young Jewish men and women chose to fight back. On…

After Saturday’s Britain First march through Manchester, the one that, as Searchlight reported yesterday, was repeatedly stalled, split, and ultimately…

Eighty‑three years after their execution in Munich’s Stadelheim Prison, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their fellow White Rose resisters…

A North Northamptonshire local councillor has quit Restore Britain just two days day after defecting to it from Reform, describing Rupert Lowe’s new party “far more sinister than I first thought”. Cllr Darren Rance, who represents Brickhill and Queensway, announced…

Dozens gathered yesterday to bid farewell to Gerry Gable, Searchlight’s founder, whose funeral was held in London. People came from…

As the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) moves through its later phases, a picture is emerging of the scale and intent…

In February 1986, five years after the event, Italian investigating magistrates believed their enquiries had revealed who had been behind…

The British far right has spent the past decade talking about “Uniting the Right” while doing almost everything possible to…

Fascists in the west country have escalated their activities with a series of attacks and threats against anti‑fascists. An anti‑fascist…

Eleven days later than advertised, fugitive nazi and all-round weirdo Germar Rudolf managed to broadcast his Holocaust denial ‘summit’ conference…

Next Saturday, 21st February, the fascists of Britain First will march into Manchester’s city centre, shielded by a costly police…

Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…

The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecevičius, better known in Scotland…

This extraordinary production at Stratford East lands with the quiet, cumulative force of a dossier being opened in front of…

Eleven days later than advertised, fugitive nazi and all-round weirdo Germar Rudolf managed to broadcast his Holocaust denial ‘summit’ conference…

The anti-migrant march in Faversham last November led to some unfortunate consequences for up-and-coming local musician Dylan Kirk after he was unwise enough to take part – and to pose for a photograph with Paul Golding, the visiting leader of…

Yesterday’s announcement by Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe that he will convert his far-right, anti-migrant lobby group, Restore Britain, into…

The Underworld in Camden, London, has cancelled the scheduled gig by Michale Graves, the far-right aligned American rock singer. We…

Far‑right activist Stephen Yaxley‑Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, has announced on X that he has “left the country”, after a…

A court in Bari has delivered a landmark judgment against members of the neo‑fascist organisation CasaPound, convicting 12 activists for…

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s recent claim that the UK has been “colonised by immigrants” is not merely an ill-informed gaffe; it…

Next week The Underworld in Camden is scheduled to host a solo performance by Michale Graves, a musician whose early…

The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s…

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s recent claim that the UK has been “colonised by immigrants” is not merely an ill-informed gaffe; it…

Next week The Underworld in Camden is scheduled to host a solo performance by Michale Graves, a musician whose early…

The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s…

A nazi-sympathiser from West Yorkshire has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to a…

Stanisław Michalkiewicz is a Polish lawyer and political commentator with a longstanding history of antisemitic and misogynistic comments. Despite this,…

Russian authorities are investigating alleged neo-Nazi links after a 15-year-old boy carried out a racist knife attack at a medical…

On a bitterly cold weekend at the end of January, thousands of people converged on Mount Igman in Bosnia and…

Fewer than a hundred far-right activists answered Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett’s call for a rally for “remigration” in Warwick…