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Mikey read an article I wrote for the spring issue of Dissent about the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard), a new Hungarian far-right group and asked me to post something on the subject. The Garda is the new face of extremism: very image conscious, well advised legally and extremely internet savvy. The Garda avoids open […]

Martyn Gilleard was a “paid-up member of the National Front, the White Nationalist Party and the British People’s Party*”. He wanted to start a “racial war”. He wanted to murder Muslims. Now he is going to prison. I expect he’ll declare himself a takfiri jihadi, any time now.  
This is what police found, when they raided his house:
Officers […]

The BBC has an exclusive entitled “Muslim convert “recruits” inmates“:

A former British National Party activist who converted to Islam in prison is trying to radicalise young prisoners, the BBC can reveal.
Inmate Stephen Jones is being held in a segregation unit at Whitemoor Prison, Cambridgeshire, the BBC has been told.
Jones was put there after being suspected […]

Four suspects in the murder of Stephen Lawrence have been ordered to pay damages to Lawrence’s close friend Duwayne Brooks, who was with him when he died and was attacked by the same gang.
A judge at Central London county court has made an order that David Norris, Neil Acourt, Jamie Acourt and Gary Dobson, along […]

The BBC reports:
Brazilian-born Jefferson Azevedo’s hatred of foreigners led him to plant a hoax bomb and to send extremist letters containing white powder, racist content and threats.
All had the aim of targeting foreign nationals and supporters of the British immigration system.
Other self haters.
UPDATE
Duncan reminds us of Jews standing for the National Front back as far […]

Counterpunch’s front page story is an article by Eric Walberg.
Here are a few other stories by Walberg, a couple of which are published on neo-Nazi sites. A couple were written under the pseudonym “Simon Jones”, but Terry Glavin is clear that this is Walberg.
Does anybody here still seriously want to argue that Counterpunch is not […]

The argument is often made that the best way to respond to the British National Party is to bring them into the political mainstream and to take their arguments on, and defeat them.
My view is that it is right to seek to defeat the BNP by argument, and by organising to defeat them. That is, […]

The British National Party’s most powerful serving politician was stood up today by 100 young people he had arranged to meet at City Hall.
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In fact from when I arrived at just before 9.00 until when I left at just after 10.00, not a single young person came to join Barnbrook and his aides outside City […]

The Telegraph are reported to be giving a platform to a BNP London Assembly Member via their user-generated content:
Richard Barnbrook, the British National party’s London Assembly member, has used a blog on the Daily Telegraph’s website to blame immigrants and their sons for knife and gun crime among young people in the capital after a […]

The indispensable Terry Glavin writes in Canada’s National Post that this time around, in Afghanistan, the Canadian Left is largely missing in action.
This is not just “George Bush’s war.” This is a liberation struggle. It’s a war of resistance against clerical fascism, against the most unspeakably brutal kind of misogyny, against tyranny, slavery, illiteracy and […]