The 2015-2018 Refugee Crisis The 2015-2018 European refugee crisis has provided significant challenges to mainstream centre left parties, as well as the governance of the European Union (EU). As a result, the salience of immigration as a political issue has skyrocketed to prominence and remained high in the public domain. This has created distinct electoral… Continue reading “Opening up Pandora’s Box? How Centre Right Parties can outperform the Far Right”
Chemnitz shows how collaboration across three right-wing sectors is a recipe for disaster, as the extreme right understands very well. Haunting video footage of groups of German right-wing extremists chasing, harassing and attacking ethnic minorities, journalists and counter-protesters circulated widely on social media last week, along with footage of overwhelmed police. “If the mob attacks,”… Continue reading “The united German extreme right”
In the below guest op-ed at the News Statesman, Senior Fellow, Dr Bharath Ganesh, talks about the exploitation of social media by the extreme right and what practical actions social media platforms (such Facebook) can do in order to stop this. In it, he suggests that: “The rapid growth of hate and extremism on these platforms… Continue reading “The Silicon Valley mantra of ‘move fast and break things’ has fallen miserably short”
Britain’s radical right is at a worrying crossroads. ‘[P]olitically marginalised, fractured, leaderless and increasingly violent’, Britain’s radical-right is now more ‘isolated and in retreat’ than at any point over the past twenty years – ‘becoming more extreme and violent’ in the process. Despite popular outbursts of nationalism and xenophobia after the 2016 EU referendum, it… Continue reading “A Peculiar Turn for Britain’s Radical Right? ‘Islamisation’, Vigilantism and Britain First”
The DAAD Workshop on “How to Tackle the Extreme Right: American, British, and German Perspectives” – February 12, 2018. Speaker: Dr Craig McCann, CARR Senior Fellow and a former member of the Metropolitan Police’s anti-terrorism force, discussed counter-terrorism strategies of the British police force.
Here is CARR’s premier educational pack for ‘Countering Radical Right Narratives’: This comprises of an Educators Pack & Learners Pack. It is designed to guide KS5 teachers and pupils through the design stage of a Creative Arts Project.
On behalf of the Steering Group, Senior and Doctoral Fellows, a warm welcome to the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (#CARR)! As the centre’s director, I’d like to draw your attention to a few considerations motivating the launch of this specialist-led website and research collective. First and foremost, CARR is a child… Continue reading “Director’s Welcome”
“An alleged member of banned neo-Nazi group National Action had an image of murdered MP Jo Cox captioned ‘Chat s**t. Get banged’, a court heard.” Read the full article in The Independent.
“Combat 18 and Adolf Hitler disciple Connor Ward was captured with a stun gun, knuckle dusters, knives, metal bars, ball bearings and rocket tubes.” Read more on the Daily Record website.
An article for Vice.com by Matthew Feldman: “In March of 2017, a terror attack in Westminster left 49 people injured and six dead or dying. While victims were still being driven away in ambulances, English Defence League (EDL) founder Tommy Robinson rushed to the scene with a camera crew to pace around outside the police… Continue reading “Is It Okay to Be Gay (and in the Far-Right)?”