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Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaking during a campaign event at Stafford Showground, Stafford, whilst campaigning for this week's local elections, April 30, 2025
Politics / 7 May 2025
Labour movement must ‘reclaim its mantle’ as voice of working-class anger to beat Reform, say communists
7 May 2025
Ve Day Celebrations in London, 8 May 1945
Editorial / 7 May 2025
Celebrate VE Day, and remember the lessons of the anti-fascist war
7 May 2025
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Features / 7 May 2025
Resistance never sleeps: confronting fascism’s long shadow over history
7 May 2025

This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH 

Social media apps displayed on a mobile phone screen
Britain / 2 May 2025
New NASUWT Scotland leader calls for 'vigilance' against far-right
2 May 2025
A man stands in front of the logo at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2025, after the German national election
Far Right / 2 May 2025
German intelligence agency lists AfD as a ‘right-wing extremist’ party
2 May 2025

Decision allows Germany’s spooks to use informants and other tools to spy on the far-right party’s activities nationwide

The Morning Star fringe at STUC 2025
STUC 2025 / 29 April 2025
Rebuild labour movement to beat far right, Morning Star fringe hears
29 April 2025
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism during a counter-protest against a Pro-UK rally endorsed by Tommy Robinson in central London, October 26, 2024
Editorial / 28 April 2025
Rebuilding local labour movements is key to defeating the far right
28 April 2025
Lilian Macer
STUC 2025 / 28 April 2025
Scottish Trades Union Congress opens in Dundee with message of solidarity at home and abroad
28 April 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at a press conference in Dover in Kent, whilst on the local election campaign trail, April 24, 2025
Features / 28 April 2025
Joint statement: stop Reform UK
28 April 2025
People take part in the annual Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) annual St Andrew's Day march and rally in Glasgow, in solidarity with those impacted by racism and racial discrimination throughout Scotland, November 25, 2023
Editorial / 27 April 2025
Scotland’s trade unionists know that class politics can beat the populist right
27 April 2025
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 28 April 2025
‘Taking the shackles off’ workers is the key to beating the far-right, STUC says
28 April 2025
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow's George Square, in a counter protest to a far-right rally, September 7, 2024
STUC 2025 / 28 April 2025
Scotland’s political class remains in deep denial
28 April 2025

As Reform UK threatens to capitalise on public anger, our Establishment politicians simply refuse to acknowledge their role in creating the very alienation that gives succour to Farage, writes CRAIG ANDERSON
 

Jacob Hersant speaks outside the Melbourne Magistrates' Cour
World / 25 April 2025
Australian PM condemns anti-Indigenous protests during Anzac commemorations
25 April 2025
A person wears a dodgy jumper at a Reform UK event in Glasgow, March 6, 2025
Britain / 22 April 2025
Scottish First Minister accused of ‘talking-up’ Reform UK Ltd as a ‘political tool for his party’
22 April 2025
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 16 April 2025
‘Tommy Robinson’ loses appeal against contempt of court sentence
16 April 2025
Counter protesters ahead of an anti-immigration protest in W
Editorial: / 14 April 2025
MPs rightly reject claims of ‘two-tier policing’ – now they must defend the right to protest
14 April 2025
Scott Greenwood (background centre in St George's flag bucke
Britain / 14 April 2025
MPs find no evidence of ‘two-tier policing’ during summer riots
14 April 2025
Counterdemonstrators in Paisley
Britain / 13 April 2025
Far-right front faced down in Paisley
13 April 2025
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 13 April 2025
Black workers highlight concerns over the rise of the far right
13 April 2025
Aw That / 12 April 2025
The dangerous tempo of politics shifting rightward
12 April 2025
Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
ANGER GROWS: Protesters demonstrate in Dover against migrant
Features / 10 April 2025
The unpopularity of immigration remains a dilemma for the left
10 April 2025
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen (left) reacts with Jor
Editorial: / 7 April 2025
Le Pen: far-right but not Eurosceptic now money and power are on offer
7 April 2025
People gather during a leftist demonstration at Place de la
World / 7 April 2025
Thousands gather in counter protests over the guilty verdict against far right Le Pen
7 April 2025
Former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood (left) and ex-Labour M
Britain / 6 April 2025
Winter and Wood hold meetings in the valleys to combat Reform
6 April 2025
Clothing showing an image of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Eyes Left / 2 April 2025
An opportunity for left advance?
2 April 2025
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the National Ra
World / 1 April 2025
French far-right leader Le Pen slams ban on her standing for public office
1 April 2025
A retiree rallies calling for higher pensions and against au
Features / 1 April 2025
On the streets in Argentina, the rebellion grows
1 April 2025
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom a
World / 31 March 2025
Le Pen found guilty of embezzlement and barred from French elections for five years
31 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussio
Editorial: / 31 March 2025
Starmer copies the Tories in misrepresenting migration
31 March 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a visit to Staffordshire
Britain / 30 March 2025
‘The more you try to appease the right, the more power you give them’
30 March 2025
Campaigns hit out as Cooper tub thumps on migrant family life with public threat to human rights act
FACING THE RIGHT: Anti-racist protesters in Walthamstow, 202
Features / 27 March 2025
Capitalism, not immigrants, drives immigration anarchy
27 March 2025
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
A far-right protest in Belfast city centre an anti-racism â€
Britain / 24 March 2025
Public service cuts fuel extremism, TUC warns Labour
24 March 2025
Tommy Robinson, October 25, 2024
Britain / 21 March 2025
High Court throws out Tommy Robinson's bid to challenge his segregation in prison
21 March 2025
A soccer fan joins retirees protesting for higher pensions a
World / 13 March 2025
Cops clash with pensioners in Argentina after football fans join anti-austerity protest
13 March 2025
FAR-RIGHT LEADERS: (L-R) Italy’s Giorgia Melon, Germany’
International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
Women’s rights and the growth of the far right
8 March 2025
There’s no room for feminists to be complacent about the growth of extremism and misogyny worldwide, warns HAILEY MAXWELL
Britain / 5 March 2025
Trade unionist women warn of threat of far-right
5 March 2025
Protesters rally outside of a Tesla store in Boston, March 1
World / 2 March 2025
Activists demonstrate outside Tesla stores in US in protest against Musk's slashing of federal jobs
2 March 2025
A man stands in front of the logo at the far-right AfD party
Features / 27 February 2025
Germany’s crisis of working-class politics
27 February 2025
In the recent federal elections the far-right AfD was able to reach sections of the working class on issues over which the left is divided and unable to articulate a coherent position, a situation that is replicated in a number of other European countries, argues NICK WRIGHT
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 26 February 2025
Swinney announces summit to tackle far-right threat
26 February 2025
Friedrich Merz (centre) leader of the Christian Democratic U
World / 24 February 2025
Christian Democrats win the German election amid far-right surge
24 February 2025
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-rigt Alternative for Germ
Editorial: / 24 February 2025
Green shoots amid the doom loop? Lessons from Germany
24 February 2025
Merseyside Fire & Rescue service help repair a broken window
Britain / 19 February 2025
Tell Mama reports sharp rise in anti-Muslim hate cases
19 February 2025
MI5 director general Ken McCallum delivers a speech at Count
Britain / 12 February 2025
MI5 lied to three courts to protect violent neonazi agent, BBC reports
12 February 2025
Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) carrying cut outs
World / 9 February 2025
India's ruling far-right BJP wins New Delhi election
9 February 2025
Fascist goons throw objects towards police officer at the Ho
Eyes Left / 5 February 2025
Riots, class politics and democracy: all is not as it seems
5 February 2025
ANDREW MURRAY reviews studies on the motivations of last August's rioters and dwindling support for 'democracy' in its modern Western incarnation
Protesters hold up lights on the street in front of the CDU
World / 3 February 2025
Tens of thousands hit German streets to protest against proposed immigration rules backed by the far right
3 February 2025
Stand Up to Racism marches in London
Britain / 2 February 2025
United to defy the racist lies
2 February 2025
Thousands take to streets to protest against far right
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Features / 1 February 2025
Build the movement against racism – build working-class solidarity
1 February 2025
Today’s far-right demo called by ‘Tommy Robinson’ from prison to ‘free the political prisoners’ is a dark sign of today’s politics. We need a class-based fightback now, argues TONY CONWAY
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 31 January 2025
‘It’s vital that all good people unite and mobilise against the scourge of racism’
31 January 2025
Campaigners express concerns about the of safety black and minority ethnic communities in London ahead of far-right march
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Editorial: / 31 January 2025
Fighting the far right means confronting the Labour government too
31 January 2025
Moronic billionaire Elon Musk is shown during a live video l
Features / 31 January 2025
The Young Americans: Lessons from the US 
31 January 2025
LOUISE RAW reports back from the United States on the dystopian future its ruling tycoons have planned for us – and our need to take a stand against the far right in Britain now
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 30 January 2025
Thousands set to counter far-right Robinson protest in London
30 January 2025
Features / 30 January 2025
March with us this Saturday against Robinson, racism and hate
30 January 2025
Donald Trump’s inauguration has emboldened fascists in Britain, warns SABBY DHALU 
Britain / 28 January 2025
Teenagers joined summer’s far-right riots due to distrust of police and thrill-seeking, children’s commissioner says
28 January 2025
Worshippers taking part in Friday Prayers at the London Isla
Britain / 26 January 2025
New Muslim Council of Britain leader says condemns use of grooming gang scandal to smear all Muslims
26 January 2025
People take part in a protest organised by Stand Up to Racis
Britain / 23 January 2025
Anti-racism demo called as Elon Musk emboldens fascists
23 January 2025
US President Donald Trump salutes as Melania Trump (third ri
World / 20 January 2025
‘The far right is on the march’
20 January 2025
Activists vow to oppose Trumpism by fighting for ‘social and environmental justice, working-class organisation and universal human and civil rights’
Elon Musk, with his son X Æ A-Xii, arrives on the dais with
Britain / 20 January 2025
Outgoing Muslim Council of Britain leader warns against normalisation of far-right figures
20 January 2025
Richard Tice, Deputy Leader of Reform UK and Member of Parli
Britain / 20 January 2025
Reform's Richard Tice commitment to constituency under question as he splits time between Skegness and Dubai
20 January 2025
PROGRESS AND REACTION: Right-wing Bolsonaro followers attemp
Features / 18 January 2025
Trump’s return will boost the far right in Brazil
18 January 2025
With Trump coming back to power, interventions aimed at regime change and a far-right resurgence in the region are heavily on the agenda, writes MATT WILLGRESS, calling on the international left to prepare to act in solidarity
AUF WIEDERSEHEN NEOLIBERALISMUS? AfD election poster ‘Time
Features / 17 January 2025
Why is western democracy faltering?
17 January 2025
Many Western countries are grappling with deep political instability. What are the causes of this, and what could be a possible way forward? asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Demonstrators at an anti-racism protest in Walthamstow, Lond
Features / 15 January 2025
The right is hijacking outrage over grooming gangs
15 January 2025
The failure on grooming gangs that has suddenly received a new wave of attention isn’t a failure of multiculturalism; it is a failure to tackle an epidemic of violence against women and girls, write JESS BARNARD and BEN LIAO
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during the Reform UK South Eas
Britain / 12 January 2025
Reform UK targets winning the Senedd 2026 election
12 January 2025
ENABLERS OF FASCISM: German police break up a protest outsid
Features / 11 January 2025
Mass mobilisation needed to bring us back from the edge of the abyss
11 January 2025
KEVIN OVENDEN cautions against a simplistic ridiculing of Trump, Musk or Farage as any such laughter might turn out to be at our expense
RISING RIGHT: Activists wearing masks of far-right politicia
Features / 6 January 2025
The far right’s dangerous new playbook for 2025
6 January 2025
Driven on by novel forms of hard-right populism like Modi and Trump, European neofascists are skillfully rebranding themselves and taking power by copying the left's language — just as they did in the last century, writes JOHN GREEN
Exterior view of the Austrian Peoples' Party's headquarters
World / 5 January 2025
Speculation grows that Austrian president will ask far-right leader to form a government
5 January 2025
Mike Tapp speaks prior to a speech by Labour Party leader Si
Britain / 30 December 2024
Labour ‘pandering to the far-right’ as MP claims counter-terror powers will stop Channel crossings
30 December 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk as he a
World / 29 December 2024
Musk causes outrage in Germany after backing far-right AfD in newspaper column
29 December 2024
Public workers clean the Christmas Market, where a car drove
World / 22 December 2024
German authorities warned last year about suspected Christmas market car attacker
22 December 2024
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf, and Refor
Eyes Left / 10 December 2024
Reform UK outpoll Labour as a moment of truth approaches our politics
10 December 2024
From boozy banker renegade to man-of-the-people populist, Farage’s evolution continues — if he can win constituencies like the Welsh mining areas, the left will need new and better answers, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
TUC Racial Discrimination and Equality Conference ’24 / 4 December 2024
The left has four years to stop the far right coming to power
4 December 2024
Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave War
Features / 4 December 2024
Working-class unity and the new deal: the next steps
4 December 2024
Communications Workers Union general secretary DAVE WARD says combatting a resurgent far right means uniting the working class behind a positive vision for change – with collective bargaining at its heart
Calin Georgescu, running as an independent candidate for pre
World / 25 November 2024
Far-right independent secures first round victory in Romanian presidential poll
25 November 2024
Co-chair of Welsh Labour Grassroots Dylan Lewis-Rowlands
Features / 14 November 2024
Welsh Labour must choose socialism to defeat the far right
14 November 2024
Co-chair of Welsh Labour Grassroots DYLAN LEWIS-ROWLANDS argues that only radical left policies can counter Reform UK’s growing appeal in Wales as communities face continued devastation from neoliberal policies
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer holds a press conference at
Editorial: / 12 November 2024
Dangerous plans to escalate the Ukraine war before Biden steps down
12 November 2024
Police officers stand in a building entrance during a raid a
World / 5 November 2024
German police arrest eight members of far-right group
5 November 2024
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 27 October 2024
‘We will put you in the dustbin of history,’ anti-racists tell Tommy Robinson's goons
27 October 2024
RACIST RAGE: Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth, Staffordshire
Features / 26 October 2024
Fascism: capitalism's weapon against the working class
26 October 2024
Western social democracy's timidity has emboldened the fascists. TONY CONWAY looks at the far right's resurgence in Britain
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Features / 26 October 2024
Anti-racism begins in the classroom
26 October 2024
Every student needs an anti-racist education and teachers need appropriate training and encouragement to help bring about an end to racial exclusion and fear, writes DANIEL KEBEDE of the National Education Union
An anti-racism ‘Unity Over Division’ counter-protest in
Features / 26 October 2024
Make no concessions to racism and the far right
26 October 2024
Our message on today’s demonstration is that we can stop the fascists – but to do so it’s essential that we mobilise, says WEYMAN BENNETT of Stand Up to Racism
Counter protesters ahead of an anti-immigration protest in W
Britain / 25 October 2024
‘Tommy Robinson and his band of thugs are not the voice of the working class’
25 October 2024
Biggest anti-fascist demonstration in decades to take place in London
Tommy Robinson outside Folkestone Police Station, he has sai
Editorial: / 25 October 2024
We must outnumber Robinson's racists on the streets of London
25 October 2024
NO PASARAN: (Above and below) Anti-racism protest organised
Features / 17 October 2024
Why trade unionists should march on October 26
17 October 2024
We need the biggest possible mobilisation next weekend against Tommy Robinson and the forces of the far right, who are looking to exploit social misery to spread division and hatred against minorities, write MARK SERWOTKA and KEVIN COURTNEY
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 17 October 2024
Diane Abbott, Mick Lynch, Jeremy Corbyn to join rally against Tommy Robinson
17 October 2024
Fema employee Jirau Alvaro works with Daniel Mancini, doing
World / 15 October 2024
US aid workers face threats due to rising hurricane conspiracy theories
15 October 2024
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the party's an
Editorial: / 1 October 2024
Farage haunts Tory conference as a hard right government haunts Britain’s future
1 October 2024
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen answers reporters at t
World / 30 September 2024
French far-right leader Le Pen denies embezzling EU funds
30 September 2024
Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria celebr
World / 30 September 2024
Protesters slam Freedom Party parliamentary election victory in Austria
30 September 2024
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 27 September 2024
Counter-protests against the far right to take place in 8 cities this weekend
27 September 2024
Governor of Brandenburg and Germany's Social Democratic Part
World / 23 September 2024
Scholz's Social Democrats score win over German far-right in Brandenburg poll
23 September 2024
RMT president Alex Gordon speaks at a protest outside the La
Labour Conference 2024 / 22 September 2024
Campaigners call for ‘emergency measures’ to stop rise of far right
22 September 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (left) and British Pri
Labour Conference 2024 / 21 September 2024
Where is Britain going?
21 September 2024
The government mantra that ‘things will only get worse’ is almost designed to fuel the far right – and grim warnings from Europe suggest Britain’s future direction of travel too, says DIANE ABBOTT MP
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, and British Pr
Editorial: / 16 September 2024
‘Britannia rules the waves’ no more, and the nation must face its post-imperial responsibilities
16 September 2024
Demonstrators at an anti-racism protest in Walthamstow, Lond
TUC Congress 2024 / 10 September 2024
The summer’s far-right riots must be a watershed moment for change
10 September 2024
The trade union movement needs to step up to confront the menace of fascism head on, argues DANIEL KEBEDE
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 8 September 2024
Anti-racists outnumber far-right protesters in Glasgow
8 September 2024
NAZI INFLUENCER: (Above) Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer
Opinion / 3 September 2024
The perils of romantic nationalism
3 September 2024
As Caspar David Friedrich’s 250th anniversary is celebrated in Berlin and New York, JENNY FARRELL urges viewers of the German Romantic painter to understand its true historical context, and beware its co-option by the far-right
Participants in a demonstration against the right hold a ban
Editorial: / 2 September 2024
Confronting the far right in Germany, Britain and France
2 September 2024
A car burns on Parliament Road, in Middlesbrough, during an
Britain / 29 August 2024
Muslim groups ask Starmer for investigation into far-right riots
29 August 2024
Features / 28 August 2024
The extreme right is becoming internationalised – the left must be too
28 August 2024
Capitalist exploitation and the civilisational crisis are global in nature. The left needs to transcend its frequently localised outlook if its to address the concerns of the exploited sectors worldwide, warns LUIS GARATE
MASS TURNOUT: Anti-racism protesters during a march in Birmi
Features / 26 August 2024
Far-right riots and the state’s response both pose a threat to our civil liberties
26 August 2024
The shortsighted moves of out-of-touch politicians put in jeopardy the great traditions of dissent that have long been a hallmark of this country, argue DAVID MORGAN and ESTELLA SCHMID
Police officers with protesters as trouble flares during an
Britain / 25 August 2024
UN calls on Britain to rein in racist hate speech from its politicians and prominent public figures
25 August 2024
ACTION AND REACTION: (L to R) Anti-racist activists confront
Features / 24 August 2024
Racism is the cause of the far-right riots, not deprivation
24 August 2024
DIANE ABBOTT takes issue with the way politicians and the media are portraying the recent wave of violence which lets racists off the hook
Tommy Robinson (centre), whose real name is Stephen Yaxley L
Features / 24 August 2024
‘Netanyahu made me do it’
24 August 2024
It’s myopic to suggest that fascist ideology has been ‘imported’ into Britain and could not possibly be home-grown, argues JULIA BARD
GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS: (L to R) Tim Walz speaks during
Features / 23 August 2024
Politicians deliberately provoking language sets off race riots
23 August 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES points at the Establishment as the inspirers of recent race riots and explains why Brits have a blinkered view of US politics
Rock band, Hard-Fi, perform at the Love Music Hate Racism fe
Features / 22 August 2024
The rebirth of Rock Against Racism
22 August 2024
STEPHEN ARNELL hails the comeback of RAR for the 21st century in the form of Love Music Hate Racism
FACES OF HATE: Thugs seek to intimidate refugees housed in a
Opinion / 19 August 2024
The problem is fascism
19 August 2024
Successive governments have nurtured far-right sentiment through policies targeting minorities and protesters, while diverting attention from capitalism’s failures, meeting nine of Umberto Eco’s 14 points of fascism, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
REACTIONARY RAMPAGE: The house of radical dissenter Joseph P
Features / 19 August 2024
August’s riots echo the dark history of reactionary ‘Church and King’ mobs
19 August 2024
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT traces the parallel evolution of violent loyalist rampages and the workers' movement's peaceful democratic crowds, highlighting the stark contrast between recent far-right thuggery and mass Gaza protests
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a walk through Lewisham
Editorial: / 18 August 2024
Cooper's crackdown on ‘extremism’: don't trust the British state
18 August 2024
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper arrives at Downing Street in ce
Britain / 18 August 2024
Home Secretary vows to crackdown on extremism
18 August 2024
People protest in Blackpool, following the stabbing attacks
Britain / 16 August 2024
Thirteen men who abused police during far-right riots jailed
16 August 2024
Aw That / 16 August 2024
Beyond the shouting: building lasting solidarity against the far right
16 August 2024
Pushing back fascists requires more than weekend protests, argues MATT KERR, as he recounts lessons from a year-long campaign to defend refugees in Erskine and calls for sustained community engagement
Counter protesters ahead of an anti-immigration protest out
Britain / 16 August 2024
Stand Up To Racism prepare weekend of mobilisations against the far right
16 August 2024
TROUBLE AHEAD: (Left to right) Tommy Robinson, Donald Trump
Features / 16 August 2024
How can we keep up this anti-fascist momentum?
16 August 2024
Mass protests may have put fascists on the back foot for now, but Nigel Farage and Reform UK are fanning the flames of a dangerous new racist offensive, warns WEYMAN BENNETT, announcing Stand Up to Racism’s new campaign
THEY SHALL NOT PASS! Demonstrators at an anti-racist protest
Features / 15 August 2024
Is there a rainbow beyond the riots?
15 August 2024
Following the wave of far-right violence, people came together across the land, demonstrating that we are so much better than the racists would have you believe and a better Britain can be built, writes ALAN SIMPSON
COMMUNITY RESPONSE: Locals defend the Abdullah Quilliam Mosq
Features / 15 August 2024
Britain’s anti-fascist awakening: will a new united initiative emerge?
15 August 2024
TONY CONWAY, convener of the Communist Party’s Anti-Racist and Fascist Commission and a PCS union activist, reflects on the past weeks and potential developments for the movement
NIGEL’S BARMY ARMY: The Reform UK leader addresses Clacton
Features / 14 August 2024
Understanding – and defeating – Farage and Reform UK
14 August 2024
NICK WRIGHT dissects the contradictory views of Reform UK voters, finding significant opportunities for the left to challenge far-right narratives by addressing its voters’ legitimate economic concerns
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, August 6, 2024
Britain / 12 August 2024
Starmer fails to meet Muslim representatives since far-right riots
12 August 2024
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Voices of Scotland / 12 August 2024
Organising hope: trade unions’ vital role in combating racism
12 August 2024
JOHN CARSON looks at how trade unions can move beyond the empty flags and slogans of the employers to create real change in workplaces and communities, with reps tackling the root causes of racism and xenophobia
(Right) anti-racist protesters in Glasgow and (left) a far-r
Features / 11 August 2024
We cannot allow the far right to reframe what misogyny is
11 August 2024
With fascists and their supporters cynically and falsely posing as ‘defenders of women,’ the left must take violence against women seriously and gain a better understanding of women’s oppression, warns HELEN O’CONNOR
Anti-racism protesters during a march in Birmingham, August
Britain / 9 August 2024
Britain gears up for weekend of resistance against the far-right
9 August 2024
Over 40 demonstrations planned following wave of Islamophobic and racist violence
Demonstrators and police officers at an anti-racism protest
Editorial: / 9 August 2024
Beware the Establishment co-opting of our anti-fascist movement
9 August 2024
A laptop user with their hood up
Britain / 9 August 2024
Online misinformation laws will be reviewed after riots, Starmer says
9 August 2024
PSNI officers man road blocks in Belfast following an anti-I
World / 9 August 2024
PSNI calls on public not to allow rioters to hide in their communities
9 August 2024
A youth aims a fence post towards police during an anti-immi
Opinion / 9 August 2024
We cannot close our eyes to the causes of these riots
9 August 2024
While far-right elements must be identified, isolated and opposed, a law and order response won't address the social conditions fuelling the unrest in Britain's forgotten communities, writes JACK MORRISS
Anti -racism protesters demonstrate in Brentford, London, Au
Features / 9 August 2024
Taking our country back
9 August 2024
While Wednesday night’s glorious anti-fascist turnout up and down the country was a heartening sight, the far right will seek revenge for their humiliation – our anti-racism work needs to kick up a gear, argues LOUISE RAW
Demonstrators at an anti-racism protest in Walthamstow, Lon
Britain / 8 August 2024
Campaigners call for unity to defeat the far-right
8 August 2024
25,000 counter-protesters take to the streets in show of clear resistance
LOUD AND CLEAR: Anti-racism march in central London orgainis
Features / 8 August 2024
Only class solidarity will defeat racism
8 August 2024
ROGER McKENZIE warns against accepting the lip service offered by politicians to the struggle against racism
An anti-fascists demonstrate in Liverpool, following violent
Features / 8 August 2024
We must organise collectively to defend our communities and resist ‘divide and rule’
8 August 2024
Communist Party statement on the wave of far-right violence targeting Muslims and migrants
A car burns during an anti-immigration protest in Middlesbro
Britain / 7 August 2024
‘We will not stand back and allow the far-right to divide us’
7 August 2024
Unions say politicians and media bear ‘share of responsibility’ as riots sweep Britain’s streets
Firefighters tend to a burning police car burns as officers
Editorial: / 7 August 2024
Keeping our workplaces and communities safe
7 August 2024
Trouble flares during an anti-immigration protest outside th
Britain / 7 August 2024
International students say far-right riots destroying Britain's reputation for safety
7 August 2024
Former first minister Humza Yousaf on the back benches in th
Britain / 7 August 2024
Riots force Yousaf to question his family's future in Britain
7 August 2024
A police officer extinguishes a small fire during an anti-im
Britain / 7 August 2024
Charity launches initiative to send supportive notes to asylum-seekers amid hotel attacks
7 August 2024
PSNI officers man road blocks in Belfast following an anti-I
World / 7 August 2024
Six arrested following hate crimes and disorder across Belfast
7 August 2024
A car burns on Parliament Road, in Middlesbrough, during an
Britain / 6 August 2024
Delivery drivers fear for their lives as far-right riots enter second week
6 August 2024
Features / 5 August 2024
Challenge racism, stand with the victims of far-right terror
5 August 2024
Migrants and refugees are not responsible for Britain’s ills – a message we must make absolutely clear, says JEREMY CORBYN MP
Police officers with protesters as trouble flares during an
Britain / 4 August 2024
Rotherham asylum-seeker hotel attacked as riots sweep Britain
4 August 2024
Scottish First Minister John Swinney speaking to the media a
Britain / 4 August 2024
Swinney warns against speculation over knife attack as far right spread false rumours
4 August 2024
Objects are thrown during an anti-immigration protest outsid
Editorial: / 4 August 2024
Defending communities and defeating fascist terror
4 August 2024
Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire Donna Jones, tal
Britain / 4 August 2024
Senior police commissioner sought to justify wave of riots incited by the far right
4 August 2024
Britain / 4 August 2024
Anti-fascist demonstrators see off the far right in Cardiff
4 August 2024
A cafe on the Donegall Road in south Belfast which has been
World / 4 August 2024
Cafe set alight by far-right activists during an anti-immigration protest in Belfast
4 August 2024
A Stand Up To Racism demonstration in Manchester after a pol
Britain / 2 August 2024
Anti-fascists to mobilise across Britain as racists expected to cause mayhem this weekend
2 August 2024
Kylian Mbappe of France celebrates after scoring a penalty k
Men's Football / 8 July 2024
Liberte, fraternite, Mbappe
8 July 2024
France's football stars celebrate the defeat of the far-right
Kylian Mbappe of France applauds to fans after a round of si
Men’s football / 5 July 2024
Mbappe warns of ‘catastrophic’ political situation in France
5 July 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macro
World / 30 June 2024
Popular Front advertises what it would do with power as France votes in first round of parliamentary election
30 June 2024
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summ
World / 30 June 2024
Orban announces new right-wing European bloc in trip to Vienna
30 June 2024
A participant displays a banner reading
World / 30 June 2024
Police clash with anti-fascist protesters in Essen as far-right AfD boasts of advances
30 June 2024
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) on a
Britain / 25 June 2024
RMT must inspire workers to oppose fascism, young members declare
25 June 2024
Armed police officers guard the entrance as family and survi
World / 21 June 2024
New Zealand government to relax gun laws introduced after 2019 white supremacist terror attack
21 June 2024
The minister leading the changes, Nicole McKee, is a former gun lobbyist
A protester holds an anti-far right banner during a rally in
Features / 19 June 2024
The New Popular Front in France and the balance of class forces
19 June 2024
Amid an enormously dynamic situation, can Le Pen’s National Rally be stopped in the forthcoming snap election and what role will the new left-wing anti-fascist pact play, asks KEVIN OVENDEN
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, speaks with Eu
Editorial: / 9 June 2024
The growth of Europe’s extreme right means trade unions need to mobilise
9 June 2024
Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders of the PVV, or Party for F
World / 6 June 2024
EU parliament elections begin in Netherlands as polls predict far-right gains
6 June 2024
Royal Marine commandos moving off the Normandy Beaches durin
Editorial: / 5 June 2024
Fight the far right to commemorate the D-Day heroes
5 June 2024
Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, sp
Editorial: / 3 June 2024
A community focus is key to effectively countering the far right
3 June 2024
Rise of the right in Europe / 3 June 2024
There's no space for complacency: the British hard right is flourishing
3 June 2024
We don’t need to peer into shadowy, secretive corners for extremist politics here in Britain — it is growing openly in the mainstream of the Tory Party, and without meaningful left opposition, things will only get worse, warns BEN CHACKO
People from Stand up to Racism take part in a counter-protes
Britain / 2 June 2024
‘Nazi scum off our streets,’ counter-protesters chant as Tommy Robinson's goons march through London
2 June 2024
Catarina Martins and Mariana Mortagua during a demonstration
Rise of the right in Europe / 31 May 2024
Portugal’s Left Bloc: ‘Fighting capitalism is the only way’
31 May 2024
In an interview with Carmela Negrete, the Left Bloc’s CATARINA SOARES MARTINS calls for economic policies that improve peopleʼs lives to defeat the extreme right
National chairman Tino Chrupalla (left), and party leader Al
Rise of the right in Europe / 30 May 2024
Germany's AfD is digging itself deeper into a pit of right-wing radicalism
30 May 2024
Germanyʼs far-right party AfD aims for a nationalist restructuring of the European Union into Fortress Europe, or a ‘D-Exit’ — Germany’s total withdrawal from the EU, says GERD WIEGEL
Demonstrators seen at a protest against the far right's 'Sum
World / 20 May 2024
Europe's far-right leaders launch campaigns for EU elections
20 May 2024
Geert Wilders (leader of the far-right party PVV, or Party f
World / 15 May 2024
Far-right in Netherlands set to form coalition government
15 May 2024
An AfD election poster for the European elections reading
World / 13 May 2024
Top German court rules the country's intelligence agency was right to put far right party under observation
13 May 2024
Franziska Giffey Berlin's top economic official speaks to me
World / 8 May 2024
Another German politician attacked ahead of EU elections
8 May 2024
Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right party PVV, talks to t
World / 13 March 2024
Breakthrough likely in stalled negotiations to form Wilders government in Netherlands
13 March 2024
Socialist Party supporters attend the announcement of the fi
World / 11 March 2024
Centre-right narrowly wins Portuguese election as far right surges
11 March 2024
Anti-fascists groups outside Portcullis House protesting aga
Britain / 5 February 2024
‘No platform for Nazi collaborators in Parliament’
5 February 2024
Anti-fascists mobilise against AfD visit to Commons
People stand on the Alter Markt square during the ‘Potsdam
World / 14 January 2024
Germans protest against far-right meeting on deportation plans
14 January 2024
Reform Party leader Richard Tice speaking at a press confere
Britain / 3 January 2024
Sunak facing fight on two political fronts as Reform Party surges in the polls
3 January 2024
Javier Milei speaks after his victory over Sergio Massa, Eco
Features / 21 November 2023
Javier Milei: back to the future in Argentina
21 November 2023
Riding to power on a wave of anger at the dire state of the economy, the ranting extremist is no true rebel — he plans to radically enforce the same neoliberalism that has failed before, explains BERT SCHOUWENBURG
VOX POPULI: Extinction Rebellion and Stand Up to Racism acti
Features / 18 November 2023
Tories suck up to far right
18 November 2023
As the Conservatives lose electoral ground some of them hope the extremists will shore them up, warns WEYMAN BENNETT
Far-right leader Tommy Robinson speaks to police officers as
Britain / 17 November 2023
Fascist street-gangs in Britain are encouraged by Conservative MPs, Griffiths warns
17 November 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and (then) Home Secretary Suella
Britain / 13 November 2023
Britain's ‘nastiest and most divisive home secretary’ sacked
13 November 2023
Campaigners welcome Braverman's sacking but warn protest rights still at risk
Home Secretary Suella Braverman during a visit to Greater Ma
Editorial: / 13 November 2023
Braverman's sacking is a victory, but the far-right threat is growing
13 November 2023
People hold flares as they take part in a yearly march on Po
World / 12 November 2023
Thousands march through Warsaw in march organised by Poland's nationalist and far-right groups
12 November 2023
Features / 9 November 2023
The Tory right's shift to rude
9 November 2023
STEPHEN ARNELL argues one side of the political spectrum is pushing British discourse towards the gutter
A protester, supporter of Brazil's former far-right Presiden
World / 8 November 2023
Brazil’s court sentences five for their role in the January 8 coup attempt
8 November 2023
Jewish Anti-Zionist Action members and their supporters prot
Editorial: / 2 November 2023
Socialists must confront surging anti-semitism as we fight for peace in Gaza
2 November 2023
A person logs in to the Twitter website which is now display
World / 19 October 2023
Far-right social media activist sentenced to seven months over voter suppression scheme
19 October 2023
Home Secretary, Suella Braverman delivers her keynote speech
Conservative Party Conference 2023 / 3 October 2023
‘Utterly despicable’
3 October 2023
Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed for speech ‘straight out of the far-right playbook’ and for emulating Enoch Powell
Unemployed actor Lawrence Fox pictured outside the Honor Oak
Britain / 1 October 2023
Anti-racists gather to counter far-right activists in England
1 October 2023
Parliamentary party leader of Die Linke, Dietmar Bartsch, ma
Features / 25 August 2023
In Germany, fascists are on the up and Die Linke is in a worsening crisis
25 August 2023
VICTOR GROSSMAN assesses the impact of the Ukraine war on the German economy, the far-right and the Left party — and what may happen next
(From left) The League's Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia's Silv
Features / 16 August 2023
Italy: far-right government has no answer to deepening poverty
16 August 2023
Unable to stand up to the banks, Giorgia Meloni’s administration cannot agree to a minimum wage and has already cut essential benefits programmes, plunging thousands into turmoil, reports NICK WRIGHT
Yolanda Diaz, leader of the left-wing coalition Sumar, casts
World / 23 July 2023
Spanish voters could return far-right to power, polls suggest
23 July 2023
Protesters raise copies of the Quran in Baghdad, Iraq, durin
World / 23 July 2023
Hundreds protest in Iraq against Koran burnings in Scandinavia
23 July 2023
An idiot hangs a St George Cross flag with the words ‘Refu
Features / 22 July 2023
It’s more important than ever to speak out against far-right hatred
22 July 2023
Anti-asylum-seeker protests are on the rise as a result of Home Office policy that pits people against each other, warns DAWN EVANS
A banner displayed Pedro Zerolo Square, urging people to vot
World / 19 July 2023
Debunked voting fraud claims spread in Spain as left-wing government could face defeat this weekend
19 July 2023
Morons from far-right group Patriotic Alternative face abti-
Britain / 16 July 2023
Fascism beckons if the left cannot offer working-class communities a real alternative, Corbyn tells Matchwomen's Festival
16 July 2023
Anti-racist protesters in Llenelli
Britain / 16 July 2023
Anti-racism campaigners mobilise against far-right protests in Wales and Scarborough
16 July 2023
Paul Jamrowski, father of Jordan Anchondo and father in-law
World / 7 July 2023
White gunman set for life sentences for killing 23 in a racist attack in Texas
7 July 2023
Antifascists on the Bury streets
Features / 19 June 2023
Mobilisation against far-right group ‘New Hope’
19 June 2023
BARRY BROOKS reports on anti-fascist protests against a Polish extremist group in Bury
Alek Yerbury attending the Patriotic Alternative protest in
Britain / 15 June 2023
Anti-fascists to oppose Hitler admirer and his far-right gaggle in Elgin
15 June 2023
A swastika flag (left) is displayed for sale at a store at t
World / 8 June 2023
Australia plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols
8 June 2023
Antifascists protest in Leipzig, Germany, Wednesday, May 31,
Features / 8 June 2023
'Lina E' case: angry protests after German anti-fascists jailed
8 June 2023
Progressives have taken to the streets across Germany, accusing the state of persecuting those who oppose fascism while proceeding far more slowly on crimes by neonazi groups, reports PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, speaks to media as
Features / 5 June 2023
Meloni's government is a regime of private corporations that is normalising fascism
5 June 2023
MAURIZIO COPPOLA from the Italian leftist party Potere al Popolo talks to Muhammed Shabeer of People’s Dispatch about the policies of the far-right government in Italy and the campaigns by the Italian working class to resist the anti-worker, anti-refugee and misogynist policies of the ruling coalition
Referee Szymon Marciniak gestures as he speaks with Argentin
Men’s Football / 2 June 2023
Uefa confirms Marciniak will referee Champions League final
2 June 2023
AfD's Alice Weidel (centre) answers journalists' questions a
World / 2 June 2023
Support for German far-right party on record high, poll suggests
2 June 2023
Masked police officers lead the arrested suspect Heinrich XI
World / 23 May 2023
Germany detains three more suspects linked to far-right coup plot
23 May 2023
An STUC rally for refugee solidarity rally outside the Erski
Britain / 21 May 2023
Britain's anti-fascists take a stand against far-right groups
21 May 2023
Unite Community activists outside the Clyde Hotel in Erskine
Britain / 19 May 2023
STUC calls for ‘all-out opposition to neonazis throughout Scotland’
19 May 2023
Trade unionists and anti-racists urged to rally in Erskine on Sunday to oppose fascist targeting 200 refugees housed at the Muthu Glasgow River Hotel
Members of fascist group Patriotic Alternative protest in To
Britain / 19 May 2023
Anti-racist campaigners in Cardiff call for mass support to stand up to a planned fascist protest on Saturday
19 May 2023
Judiciary vans, each carrying defendants, drive in a courtya
World / 17 May 2023
Five go on trial in Germany over far-right coup plot
17 May 2023
Britain / 16 May 2023
Ant-fascists welcome jailing of anti-semitic and white supremacist podcaster
16 May 2023
Unite Community activists outside the Clyde Hotel in Erskine
Britain / 7 May 2023
STUC calls for Erskine solidarity on 21 May
7 May 2023
Forensic police operate on a car in the village of Dubona, s
World / 5 May 2023
Serbia shocked by another mass shooting
5 May 2023
World / 18 April 2023
Antisemitic incidents on the rise across the US, according to a new report
18 April 2023
An auto rickshaw drives past a huge hoarding showing Indian
World / 6 April 2023
Indian communists condemn the Modi government's plans to rewrite the history textbooks
6 April 2023
Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at his Mar-a-
Features / 6 April 2023
You may destroy Trump, but Trumpism is another beast entirely
6 April 2023
Whether he is convicted or not, Donald Trump has already cast himself as an anti-establishment martyr, and his followers will make sure his legacy of white supremacy blossoms, writes JOHN WIGHT
Rumours and allegations of sexual offences connected to migr
Features / 29 March 2023
No space for complacency after Patriotic Alternative resisted in Cornwall
29 March 2023
Even after two demos against a hotel housing migrants were comfortably outnumbered, we have to look at how dangerous the appeal of the hard right is in our poverty-stricken areas, writes DAWN EVANS
Britain / 24 March 2023
Antifascists to hit back at planned neonazi protest in small south Wales town
24 March 2023
Members of the far-right ‘student movement’ protest agai
Features / 8 March 2023
Meet the far-right activist moonlighting as a humanitarian aid worker
8 March 2023
While at a counterprotest against a group of far-right transphobes near his local pub a few weeks back, WALTER SCHOLL was shocked to find that he recognised one of their speakers as the founder of ‘Vans Without Borders’
Anti-fascists from Cornwall Resists, stand outside the Beres
Britain / 26 February 2023
Anti-racists across Britain oppose series of far-right demos targeting asylum-seeker hotels
26 February 2023
Police officers on the scene outside the Suites Hotel in Kno
Features / 17 February 2023
Unity is needed against far-right hatred
17 February 2023
The Tory government has deliberately whipped up anti-migrant feelings in a cynical attempt to draw attention away from the economic crisis it created, says MARC WADSWORTH
PEOPLE POWER: Lula supporters at a May Day rally in Sao Paul
Features / 27 January 2023
Celebrate Lula’s return and show solidarity with the continuing fight against the far right in Brazil
27 January 2023
PATRICK FOLEY welcomes the return of the democratically elected president, but warns that the far-right assault on Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace shows international solidarity remains vital
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during t
World / 22 January 2023
Lula fires Brazil's army chief, days after warning some military figures were ‘complicit’ in far-right uprising
22 January 2023
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks at the World Eco
World / 18 January 2023
Spanish Prime Minister warns of the rise of the far right across Europe
18 January 2023
A protester, supporter of Brazil's former far-right Presiden
World / 9 January 2023
World leaders condemn Bolsonaro supporters' ‘outrageous’ coup attempt in a Brazil
9 January 2023