Preview and analysis: far right racist DFLA march in London, 13 October
UPDATE 13 October 2018: For some live coverage of the day’s events see the Dream Deferred twitter page. We’ll have a full report, with pics and video, and a post-demo analysis on this site later.
UPDATED WITH RESULTS: big gains for fascists in Sweden’s election
The fascist Sweden Democrats party has made huge gains in Sunday’s general election – up substantially on its record vote in 2014. Despite the party’s name, this is not a party for “democrats” but one with nazi roots
Amazing Grace – Aretha Franklin, God, Soul and Respect
Detroit, is where musical talent ran strong and free. Everyone was singing and harmonizing, everyone was playing piano and guitar. Aretha came out of this world, but she also came out of another far-off magical world none of us really understood. She came from a distant musical planet where children are born with their gifts fully formed.
Analysis: the ‘Free Tommy’ demo and a year of far right protests (with table and video)
Thousands turned out on Saturday 14 July for another “Free Tommy Robinson” demo – the latest in just over a year of far right racist street protests listed in our table. Now elements of the new far right movement see an opening amid the Tories’ Brexit crisis.
The refugee ‘crisis’ – Trump, the EU and new levels of barbarism
As we prepare to “unwelcome” US president Donald Trump to Britain, the fallout from his policy of separating families at the Mexican border continues. But if people watching Trump’s actions with horror comfort themselves by thinking that nothing so dreadful happens in Europe, they would be mistaken. Refugee solidarity activist Margaret Woods explains
Analysis: behind the ‘Free Tommy’ demo – what’s going on in the new far right?
The far right in Britain has mobilised its biggest ever demonstration. Around 15,000 people joined the “Free Tommy Robinson” demo in Whitehall, central London on Saturday 9 June. We look here at what the march means in the context of the fast-developing new far right movement in Britain.