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US Buffalo Shooting: The Depressing Predictability of Far-Right Terrorism and How to Stop It

Introduction In what has become an all-too-familiar script, in the early afternoon of Saturday, 14 May 2022, a heavily-armed young man in military gear attacked shoppers and workers at a supermarket…

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Response to “Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose”

Craig McCann’s recent article, “Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose,” I am told, does not necessitate a response. The piece is so noxious that it casts…

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How The Radical Right Infiltrates Suburban Communities

Much of the research conducted on the radical right focuses on what happens online, or on the end-stages of the radicalization process (events like rallies, protests or terror attacks and…

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Authoritarians Are Winning Their War On Western Democracy

What makes Western liberal democracy weak? This question must have been considered by its geopolitical adversaries: the authoritarian regimes in their effort to unlock Pandora’s box: the weapons that can…

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A Focus on Violence Creates Blind Spots in Assessing the Far-Right Threat

In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Madrid (2004) and London (2005), many Western governments developed countering violent extremism (CVE) strategies, with the UK’s PREVENT scheme, launched in 2007, being…

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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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