Unite Against Fascism (UAF) will oppose the leader of Hungary’s fascist Jobbik party at Gloucester Road tube station in west London tonight. Gabor Vona had been due to speak at Kings College London, but due to anti-fascist pressure his meeting was “postponed’’. We sincerely hope the meeting is cancelled permanently. Jobbik supporters in London are […]
Hungary
Civil society under attack in Hungary
This article has been contributed by Amnesty International. The Hungarian government has proposed a set of laws that if adopted will have a devastating and chilling effect on civil society. The legislative package is part of a wider crackdown on human rights and civil society organisations in Hungary, which have been under attack for several […]
German Nazis fail to save terrorist Horst Mahler from prison
Horst Mahler will be known to most long-time anti-fascists and readers of Searchlight as a man who has spent a lifetime as an active terrorist and the guru for thousands of hardline National Socialists and those who frequent up-and-coming extreme-right groups around the world. His father, a man of the cloth, was an underground opponent of the […]
News of an alleged Identitarian conference held in Budapest on 19 March
While monitoring Nazi websites, we came across this report, reproduced below, written by Daniel Friberg, the head of Arktos Publishing, about a conference that was supposedly held on 19 March in Budapest. It appeared on the new Alt-Right website, which is jointly hosted by Arktos and Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute. If the conference did […]
Extremely strange political bedfellows
In the past week the media have reported on the delegation of British right-wing politicians led by Nigel Farage who met US president-elect Donald Trump at his New York headquarters. Present with Trump was his head strategic adviser Steve Bannon, who controls the alt-right Breitbart news service. Farage came with Raheem Kassam, Breitbart’s London editor. […]
Hungary blocks more than 20 websites for Holocaust denial
The World Jewish Congress has reported a statement by the Budapest chief prosecutor that a Budapest court has ordered the temporary shutdown of nearly two dozen websites that carry content denying the Holocaust. The websites sell the Hungarian edition of a Swedish author’s book that denies the Holocaust and other crimes committed by the Nazi […]