Anti-fascists set sights on last Burnley BNP councillor
Anti-fascist campaigners said today that they hope to kick the last British National Party (BNP) councillor off Burnley Council in next Thursday’s local council elections. The far-right party took three seats on the council in 2002, cashing in on the neglect suffered by the former industrial town. The BNP concentrated its attack on Burnley’s Asian … Read more
BNP To Field Lowest Number Of Local Election Candidates In A Decade
The British National Party will field their lowest number of candidates for over a decade in local elections across England this year, with just 90 as opposed to 450 four years ago. Anti-fascist campaigners Hope Not Hate reported that the far right party only realistically has the possibility of winning two or three seats, with … Read more
Leave Holocaust in the past, BNP Griffin tells radio station run by JFS students
British National Party leader Nick Griffin gave an interview to a small digital radio station run by JFS students last weekend — and told the interviewer that the Holocaust “needs to be left in the past”. During the heated hour-long interview on Wizard Radio, which attracted 3,700 listeners, Mr Griffin said he supported Holocaust denier … Read more
Neo-Nazi former BNP members launch new far-right party
They hope the new British Democratic Party will kill off the BNP, while security for the launch meeting will be provided by EDL activists. Andrew Brons, a former Chair of the National Front and until recently one of the British National Party’s MEPs, will launch a new far-right party this weekend – one he and … Read more
The BNP is having another facelift. But its new poster boy Jack Buckby is just an old-school nationalist
British nationalism has got itself a brand new face. Jack Buckby isn’t exactly the boy next door, but he could be the hipster sitting at his laptop next to you in Starbucks (“working on a novel” – yeah, right). Young, educated, articulate, John Lennon glasses, excessive facial hair, ironic satchel: the only unusual things about … Read more
The U.K. extreme right is undecided on who to hate: Jews or Muslims?
A new report by the British National Party may recycle Fascist language and conspiracies, but the main item of interest is a new argument in the European far-right: Who’s the enemy, Jews or Muslims? Who’s a confused white supremacist to salute and who to hate? It’s gotten complicated. Photo by IPTC The battle … Read more
The far right is fragmenting. The BNP is in freefall but there is potential for one of its many rivals to move into the space it vacates.
Last week, a new report on the English Defence League was released. Detailing the key personalities within the movement and their links to the global “counter-jihad” movement, the document sought to set out what “really lies behind” the group that attracts considerable attention but remains little understood. The author, however, was not a researcher, campaigner … Read more
Sunderland: protesters see off fascist anti-mosque protest
Anti-racists saw off a National Front-organised protest in Sunderland on Saturday. The fascist National Front was protesting at Sunderland council’s recent decision to grant planning permission for the construction of a new mosque in the Millfield area of the city. Up to 150 people – local Muslims, trade unionists, Greens and socialists – responded despite … Read more
Stand up to Griffin and his Nazi thugs
Vile … BNP leader Griffin BNP Fuhrer Nick Griffin was chased out of Scotland last week by locals in Dalkeith protesting against the ‘Da Vinci Rapist’. It’s easy enough to criticise those who repeatedly turn out to stop the far-right in Scotland, but what would happen if they didn’t? If we could turn … Read more
BNP chief’s terror in clash with protesters
Coward … Griffin cowers behind his security BNP leader Nick Griffin cowers behind his security heavies — as his fanatics clashed with protesters campaigning against the Da Vinci rapist. Hated Griffin and his cronies were accused of hijacking the move to boot sex beast Robert Greens out of their community in Dalkeith, Midlothian. And police … Read more
