The leader of the French far-right party National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, has been sentenced to four years in prison (two of them suspended, two under house arrest) and a €100,000 fine, and barred from standing for political office for five years after having been found guilty of being part of a conspiracy to […]
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Obituary: Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-2025), a thug and a fraudster
In a lifetime of political thuggery, fraud and nepotism, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who has died aged 96) typified fascist politics. We shouldn’t be surprised that he became a hero for his far less successful British imitators. Le Pen acquired his first criminal record as a teenager beating up opponents on the streets of Paris, where […]
Italian police smash fascist plot to kill Meloni and spark race war
One of Europe’s leading Holocaust deniers, with close links to UK historical revisionists, has been arrested as Italian police foiled a Day of the Jackal style plot by nazi terrorists to assassinate Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni and ignite a race war. Giuseppe Fallisi is a 76-year-old tenor who is best known for his pro-Palestinian activism, […]
Anniversary of a fascist outrage – and how the NF lauded the man behind it
Fifty five years ago today, in December 1969, members of the Italian fascist terror group Ordine Nuovo detonated a bomb at the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura, in Piazza Fontana in Milan, killing 17 people and wounding 88 more. Other bombs were planted in Milan and Rome on the same day. It was a key moment in […]
Hero’s welcome for far right assassin of ANC leader
Janusz Walus, the racist fanatic who murdered Nelson Mandela’s right-hand man Chris Hani in 1993, has been deported from South Africa to his native Poland. He arrived at an airport in Warsaw this morning. The assassin, who spent almost 30 years in South African prisons after his death sentence was commuted, was greeted as a […]
Rival nazi groups come together at mystery international conference
On 24 November an international nazi conference took place in Sweden. Only one of the participants – Holocaust denier Lady Michèle Renouf was English, but the speeches were all given in or translated into English, and the event’s title was in English: “European Unity – A Future to Fight For”. It seems that the organisers […]
AfD comes first in Thuringia elections
Dr Kat Williams and Dr Siobhan Hyland examine the ascendance of the German far right party in recent elections. Voters in the eastern German states of Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg went to the polls throughout September to cast their ballots in state elections, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) finishing first in Thuringia, and […]
‘Lili Marlene’: the song that haunted the Nazis
One song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second World War. The most beautiful and certainly most popular song of the Second World War was Lili Marlene. A poem written in 1915, it was first recorded by German singer Lale Andersen in 1939 and was titled Das Mädchen unter […]
Heritage Party leader bemoans ‘injustice’ for holocaust-denying nazi
Searchlight has been reporting for several months on the increasing radicalisation of right-wing parties. Not just the obviously racist and neo-nazi right, but the constellation of parties and groups that are just outside the Conservative Party (and sometimes overlap with the Tory right). The clearest example of this came a fortnight ago when David Kurten […]
The bigots of Baggot Street: a stain on Dublin publishing
An international publisher of anti-Semitic, white supremacist and conspiracy theorist literature is operating from Dublin. Omnia Veritas, translated roughly as “Truth conquers all things”, has been in business for the past 11 years. The company was originally registered in 2013 by Childéric Marcelou and David Marcelou, listed respectively as secretary and director. According to Irish […]
What Trump’s election means
We are not going to try to list all the ways in which the election of Donald Trump is a catastrophe. That is being comprehensively catalogued in many, many other places and we all know there is much to be feared. Suffice to say that those who believed that the election of Barack Obama in […]
The nazi who planned a US massacre and helped set up Combat 18
This weekend we remember the victims of the Greensboro massacre in 1979, when Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party gunmen attacked an anti-Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, leaving five anti-racist demonstrators shot dead. The main character behind this attack was Harold ‘Chubby’ Covington, the Nazi Party leader. Some of his gunmen involved were arrested […]
Austrian far right scores election success – and British fascists suck up to them
BY ROGER PEARCE The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) has become the latest far-right success story, finishing in first place in Sunday’s election with 28.9%, though a very long way short of a parliamentary majority. Unlike most other insurgent anti-immigration parties, it’s a party with deep historical roots. Searchlight readers will remember two earlier periods of […]
AfD and allies pitch up at Homeland conference
Attendees at this weekend’s Homeland Party conference will be addressed by speakers from the German AfD and a Polish party which is closely allied to it. Homeland is meeting in Derbyshire, at the Town Hall in Wirksworth which seems to have been booked under a pretext, and domestic speakers include Pete North and Steve Laws. […]
‘Batshit’ preacher to skip Yaxley-Lennon rally – he’ll be with ‘real men’
In his last interview before scooting off to the US, ‘Batshit preacher’ Calvin Robinson said he wouldn’t be able to come back for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s October 26 rally in London. He would have come back for an earlier date but couldn’t make that one. And now we know why. On that day he will be […]
Far-right Reich group members face trial for treasonous plans to grab power
By Dr Kat Williams and Dr Siobhan Hyland. In May, the alleged leaders of the suspected German far-right coup attempt went on trial. The case shocked Germany to the core when, in December 2022, 25 individuals were arrested on suspicion of preparing for a violent overthrow of the German government and the installation of a […]
AfD beats governing Social Democrats in EU elections
Despite alleged links with foreign powers and remarks about the SS, leading to France’s National Rally pulling out of an alliance with the party in the European Parliament, Germany’s AfD made significant gains in the Euro elections. Dr Kat Williams and Dr Siobhán Hyland report The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) election campaign for the European […]
‘I am proud of you, you are splendid!’
So proclaimed Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (right), lauding her party’s youth wing, even as a video emerged of its members praising Mussolini and Hitler. Alfio Bernabei reports Barely ten days had passed since the European elections in June, in which Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party consolidated its leading position with nearly 29% of […]
AfD election victory is win for nazis in disguise
By Werner Klein Germany’s far-right are celebrating their biggest election victory since the 1930s, after Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the largest party in one eastern German state and the second-largest in another. Yesterday’s results have strengthened the hand of the most extreme faction in AfD, the so-called Flügel or “wing”, headed by Björn Höcke […]
Mixed fortunes for Russia’s far right assets
By Roger Pearce Vladimir Putin’s network of supporters among European fascists are celebrating today after the victory of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern German state of Thuringia. AfD’s Thuringian branch is led by the Kremlin’s main German asset, Björn Höcke. They will have 32 of their state parliament’s 88 seats. […]