January 2022 – Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right

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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part II)

Part 2: Modernisation, Funding & International Activism Attempts to Soften the BF Image Overall, BF presents a bizarre, schizoid image of a party that claims to be very strong on…

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‘Britain First’: Harmless Patriots, or Trump’s Heroes and Russia’s Dupes? (Part 1)

Part 1: Origins, Ideology & Activism The far-right political party Britain First (BF) was originally formed in 2011 as an activist group campaigning on a white supremacist, anti-immigration and anti-Islam…

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Problems of Remembering the Holocaust in the time of Covid-19

As memorial events develop around International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, the intersection between debates over tackling Covid-19 and forms of Holocaust trivialisation become ever more concerning. While robust…

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Proscribing the Far Right: Is Spain Doing Enough?

Spain is no longer an exception when it comes to the growth of right-wing extremism. Proscription, the listing of some groups or organizations as terrorists, has become a crucial counterterrorism…

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Radicalisation in the Military – A Pressing Issue

Recent years have seen a number of alarming cases involving currently serving soldiers and veterans engage in extreme right wing activity. In June 2020, following intelligence reports that there were…

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Does Ukraine Need the Light of Hannukah?

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is celebrated (like all Jewish holidays), according to the lunar calendar. It means that each year they fall on a different date according to the…

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The Swords of Wayland: from family television to fascist mythos

Thirty-five years ago, in June 1986, the BBC broadcast the last episode of Robin of Sherwood; this cult television programme retold the Robin Hood story with added supernatural and pagan…

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The Borderline between Poland and Belarus: A Spotlight on the Transnational Far Right

Polish far-right sympathisers marched through Warsaw on November 11 2021 for the annual Independence Day gathering. Warsaw’s liberal mayor and courts originally banned the march, but, after the country’s nationalist elite…

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The Sobibor Area Labour Camps – Part II

In this two-parter, CARR Senior Fellow and Holocaust historian, Chris Webb, describes the horrors, lifes and times of prisoners in labour camps around the Sobibor area of Poland in the…

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The Sobibor Area Labour Camps – Part I

In this two-parter, CARR Senior Fellow and Holocaust historian, Chris Webb, describes the horrors, lifes and times of prisoners in labour camps around the Sobibor area of Poland in the…

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