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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · Sep 14

Historic fascist turnout heralds dangerous times

Searchlight's take on yesterday's huge fascist rally in London

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Historic fascist turnout heralds dangerous times | Searchlight

Heading off - Robinson leads the rally with (l to r) Laurence Fox, Ant Middleton, Katie Hopkins and Liam Tuffs There is just one major takeaway from yesterd ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 4h

seeking to find western voices prepared to amplify pro-Russia views and perspectives.

Among them were a number of Brexit Party MEPs.

Read about it here.

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 4h

it appeared at first glance to be a niche story about a Polish activist accused of espionage...

But also featuring in the 80-page report were names that were more familiar in Westminster and Brussels than in Warsaw.

They had, Shekhovstov said, been targeted by a Russian spy network...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 4h

The Russian spy network that targeted Brexit Party MEPs

When Anton Shekhovtsov, a Ukrainian researcher of Europe’s far right and a former Searchlight contributor, published his forensic 2021 study “The Niedźwiecki case: The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence”,

The Russian spy network that targeted Brexit Party MEPs | Searchlight

Accused Russian spy Janusz Niedźwieck, here welcoming a pro-Putin biker gang to Poland When Anton Shekhovtsov, a Ukrainian researcher of Europe’s far right ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 1d

The ego and the echo chamber: our full report on UKIP leader Nick ‘Taco’ Tenconi’s London flop - not so much a show of force, more a whimpering retreat.

Read it here:

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The ego and the echo chamber: 'Taco' Tenconi's London flop | Searchlight

Nick Tenconi leads off his underwhelming London march They came promising a show of strength. What unfolded instead was a pitiful spectacle. In Central Lond ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 1d

at Whitechapel station to make sure they didn't try anything.

And SUTR held a 200-strong counter-protest at the Albert Memorial, the nearest site to Tenconi's event which fell outside the police 'blue zone' where SUTR was banned from assembling.

Full report to follow.

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But if 100 turned out, that would be a generous estimate, and it was a sorry, straggly bunch who paraded off to Hyde Park Corner.

Meanwhile 3000 or more from the local community and anti-fascists rallied in Whitechapel where UKIP had threatened to march, closing the road...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 1d

Another thoroughly embarrassing day for Nick 'Taco' Tenconi's UKIP in London.

After boasting he would "reclaim Whitechapel from the Islamists" and being thoroughly relieved when the police banned him from going there, he rallied his troops in the more congenial setting of Knightsbridge instead.

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 2d

Gemma Mattinson, the Pink Lady child abuser, is a liar.

She has posted a sickening defence of her crimes, minimising the cruelty that she inflicted on small children and which got her jailed.

But it's all lies.

Read what really happened here:

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The lies and lies of the 'Pink Lady' child abuser | Searchlight

Gemma Mattinson with partner Ian Barclay - child abusers Gemma Mattinson, the vile 'save our kids' Pink Lady with a conviction for child cruelty, ...

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What's left of the British National Party is at the centre of an entertaining row as a group of former members and activists mount a campaign to wrest control from current leader Adam Walker accusing him of corruption and fraud.

Read more here:

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BNP rump faces allegations of corruption and fraud | Searchlight

The British National Party (BNP), for years the pre-eminent force in British far-right politics but now an irrelevant rump, is at the centre of an entertain ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 3d

Manchester Police have authorised the destruction of the Britain First 'battle bus'.

BF leader Paul Golding is not happy.

Read about it here:

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Police authorise destruction of Britain First battle bus | Searchlight

Not smiling now - Paul Golding (left) parading his battle bus in Manchester As we predicted , Britain First leader Paul Golding has found it very difficult ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 3d

European fascists are mourning the death of the last man to attempt an old-school fascist coup, Lt Col Antonio Tejero of the Spanish Civil Guard, who died this morning aged 93.

Read about him here:

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Obituary: Antonio Tejero (1932-2025), Civil Guard officer who led failed fascist coup in Spain | Searchlight

"Sit down you c***s. Lt Col Antonio Tejero launches his coup attempt in 1981 European fascists are mourning the death of the last man to attempt an old ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 3d

How a smirking Tommy Robinson, on a controversial visit to Israel, killed off any chance of Israeli football fans watching the Europa League game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Aston Villa.

Read about it here:

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Smirking Robinson wrecks chances of Israeli football fans watching Aston Villa game | Searchlight

Tommy Robinson in Maccabi shirt - but the club soon wiped the smirk off his face When the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv visit Villa Park on 6 Novem ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 3d

‘Disgrace’: Knesset Diaspora panel chair pans Minister for inviting Tommy Robinson to Israel

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‘Disgrace’: Knesset Diaspora panel chair pans Chikli for inviting British firebrand

Opposition MK Kariv says Tommy Robinson's visit shows Diaspora minister 'uninterested in fighting antisemitism'; representatives of his ministry and Foreign Ministry deny involvement

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where they will "reclaim Marble Arch from the Islamists".

More to follow.

Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 5d

UKIP will be marching in Central London on Saturday, following the ban on their hugely provocative rally in Whitechapel.

UKIP leader Nick Tenconi has announced that because of "two-tier policing" they will march from the London Oratory on Brompton Rd, to Speakers Corner...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 5d

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Met intervenes to prevent serious disorder at Whitechapel protest

UKIP cannot hold their protest in Whitechapel or anywhere else in the borough of Tower Hamlets.

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This ban is a major victory: there is no doubt that it was the promise of a massive anti-racist and community counter-demonstration that has given the police pause for thought.

More to follow.

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police have banned the provocative UKIP demonstration planned for Whitechapel on Saturday.

A statement from the Met says the event is banned from Whitechapel and anywhere else in Tower Hamlets though they are ready to discuss alternative proposals from UKIP.

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 5d

An Austrian army colonel and member of the country's General Staff, was held when armed police raided a far-right weapons exercise recently.

Read more here:

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Austrian army colonel held as police raid far-right 'weapons exercise' | Searchlight

An assault rifle seized by police during raid at Vorchdorf Well-connected European nazis and extreme conspiracy theorists are under investigation after heav ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 6d

The event was organised by a far-right oligarch with Kremlin connections.

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Last month saw the launch, in St Petersburg, of an international axis bringing together far-right, neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist movements from all over the world, under the banner of the International League of Anti-Globalist Paladins...

International far-right, pro-Putin axis launched in Russia | Searchlight

Fascists from all over the world assemble in St Petersburg Last month, St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Palace — the city’s Legislative Assembly building — quietly ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 7d

The elite funders behind Italy’s far-right CasaPound movement

A covert network of high-profile financiers – including diplomats, academics, lawyers, military officials, and media figures – has been secretly funding Italy’s neo-fascist CasaPound movement.

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The elite funders behind Italy’s far-right CasaPound movement | Searchlight

CasaPound - on the march A covert network of high-profile financiers - including diplomats, academics, lawyers, military officials, and media figures - has ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 7d

Remembering the nazi massacre at Kerdyllia

On 17 October 1941 German troops arrived at the villages of Ano Kerdyllia and Kato Kerdyllia in northern Greece.

They rounded up some 230 men, forced them to dig mass graves, shot them, and reduced the villages to ashes.

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Remembering the massacre at Kerdyllia | Searchlight

The ruins of Kerdyllia after the Nazi massacre As dawn broke on 17 October 1941 in the villages of Ano Kerdyllia and Kato Kerdyllia in the Serres region of ...

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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 8d

This editorial, from Searchlight in October 1995, highlighted what happened when some of these cases came to trial.

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Ever since it opened, racial attacks and harassment in the area soared.

The event became violent as a result of extremely aggressive actions by the police who blocked it, contained it, then attacked it.

Several hours of fighting ensued and many anti-fascists were arrested.

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