Extreme-Right politics
Recent News
Around 100 supporters of the English Defence League, including its leader, threw bottles at the police and chanted anti-Muslim slogans after the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich.
Four people were arrested for being drunk and disorderly and public order offences at an English Defence League demonstration in Leeds against the planned opening of a Muslim-run community centre.
The BNP has called on its members to have more children as a way of ‘building up the white population’. This follows its failure to secure a single seat in last week’s local elections.
This week, we publish a briefing paper on the future of human rights in Britain, written by the IRR’s vice-chair, Frances Webber.
Recent Publications
April 4, 2013
Briefing Paper no. 6
State intelligence agencies and the far Right: A review of developments in Germany, Hungary and Austria examines the security services’ approach to the far Right and finds that far from clamping down on growing fascism, some of the tactics of security services are enhancing conditions for its growth.
June 15, 2012
Pedlars of Hate: the violent impact of the European far Right
Brings together over 100 cases, mostly from EU countries, but also Switzerland and Norway, which documents patterns of violence, from the peddling of hate online and the drawing up of lists of ‘national traitors’, to violence, arson and murder on the streets, and the stockpiling of weapons in preparation for ‘race war’.
January 5, 2012
Race & Class, January 2012
The January 2012 issue of Race & Class contains two key articles which address pressing issues.
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