HOPE not hate

Jake Hanrahan, journalist and creator of the Popular Front conflict reporting platform, spoke to Nick Ryan about Ukraine, nazis and anti-fascism, as well as investigating Atomwaffen Division, and his many other international experiences. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

The who, where and wtf?! of all the far-right candidates running in the upcoming local elections. Essential listening for all those who want to oppose fascists from establishing local power in their constituency. The team also turn to the brutal and callous Rwanda proposal for offshoring  asylum processing (and subsequently successful claimants) entirely from the UK and to Rwanda. The Archbishop o...

Joe and Nick giving the facts, and nothing but the facts you need to take on fascists today. It's a bumper episode. Tommy Robinson (Stephen Lennon) got deported from Mexico, the biggest and most humorous story of the day. The irony of a racist, Trump supporter, being deported from Mexico hopefully not lost on anyone... and meanwhile more and more evidence that Lennon has been lying about his...

Roxy and Nick meet to discuss the bumbling, useless and petro-pound fuelled human wreckage on the UK far right. -Tommy ducks court, and looks like he might be going back to jail (thanks to the work of HnH). -BF wave around silly petitions. -A climate denial campaign that is being SHOCKINGLY funded by petro-pounds. -Patriotic Alternative continue the fascist creep. Important info here for anti-fasc...

Roxana Khan Williams spoke with Azeem Rafiq ( @AzeemRafiq30 ), Professor Ann John (@ ProfAnnJohn ), Shaista Aziz ( @shaistaAziz ) & Kevin George ( @_KevinGeorge ) for a discussion of racism in sports and mental health. When life is difficult, Samaritans are here – day or night, 365 days a year. You can call them for free on 116 123, email them at jo@samaritans.org, or visit www.samaritans.org...

State of HATE 2022 – the leading annual report outlining the key trends and changes in the domestic and international far right – shows how the past year has led to an environment in which we will likely see the return of far right activists back on the streets, standing in elections and exploiting the uncertainties created by economic hardship. To discuss the report's findings and to take qu...

Nick and Joe are reunited with Roxana for an overview of the wasted lives on the British Far Right. Tommy Robinson gets involved in a very banged-up, clown car of a political party, it is unclear why he has, and its likely to all fall apart. PA did a conference, typically they were inept on security allowing info gathering all round. The Russian invasion of Ukraine thunders on into an ever-growing...

Nick and Joe are joined this week by Safya, a researcher at HOPE not hate. The war on Ukraine by Russia has summoned all kinds of ghosts of historical fascism, and while this podcast normally focuses on the UK  far right, we decided that the war was of high enough global importance to anti-fascists that we gave the issue precedent. The subjects under discussion are: The various responses to the wa...

Joe, Nick and Roxy have been banging out the Lemsips today in a particularly congested episode of R43.    They discuss:  -Neil Coyle and Sinophobia.  -Resistance GB, Ex-tory councillors involved in Keir Starmer bothering.  -Tommy Robinson's latest, embarrassing, and now deleted video, where he picks a bleeding spot from his forehead and brags about spending donations on booze.  -Tommy hanging...

Stephen Lennon's crusade in Telford continues apace. But while "Tommy Robinson" loudly protests horrific instances of grooming, he has overlooked how close to home abuse often is.  Elsewhere the gang discuss the pro-genocide "joke" of Jimmy Carr, as well as further convictions for nazi terrorists, who were planning novel  terror, with 3d printed guns, and bomb-making manua...

The three come together to discuss: The small showing Tommy managed in Telford. The Uyghur issues around the Beijing Olympics. Boris Johnson's disgraceful use of a misinformation meme the far-right prefers. And the upcoming Southend Byelection. Get your ears on the antifascist antidote. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Stephen Lennon's financial gameplaying looks like it will finally catch up with him. Asset after asset is being revealed to officials as a result of research done by antifascists at HOPE not hate, and with the support of our donors. You. Surely it's only a matter of time now before Stephen's houses get given to those he has victimized? Tick Tock, Stephen. Elsewhere the Tory's a...

Roxy and Nick, have lost Joe this week to some other work. Instead, Liron has been called in to explain the authoritarian government rumblings that he is working closely to observe and challenge. This and still more are covered in an episode that you need in your digital players and or download folder, immediately. Have a listen, like and subscribe, send it to a comrade, and enjoy it Visit the HOP...

CW for some discussion of sexual violence. Stephen Yaxley Lennon, Tommy Robinson, has been preparing a documentary looking at sexual crimes in Telford. While the scourge of sexual violence against women is disgusting, it's clear that Tommy's motives are less than pure. Why is it that Britain's noisiest islamophobe would want to focus solely on the crimes of Asian individuals and gan...

Roxana Khan Williams met with Nick Lowles to discuss Nick's work investigating Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) and how we believe we can put a stop to his shocking attempt to escape justice. We need your support to win this case- and potentially, together, we could set back the far right by decades. Prod. Jake Pace Lawrie Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Nick, Roxy and Joe, come together to assess the most recent goings on in the sad social lives of the far right. Britain First have lots of possibly made-up signatures on their anti RNLI, pro-drowning,  campaign, Ben Raymond is doing bird (8 years of a custodial that even an abolitionist might like to celebrate), the Reclaim Party has got into bed with a real crank, and 'Fenek Solere' of...

Ben Raymond thought of himself as one of the most important figures on the British far right. Raymond believed himself to be untouchable by the law and a genius of political organisation. An academic, an intellectual, a propagandist, all of it was a fiction, none of it was true, Raymond was an artist of moderate talent.  It was only a matter of time, thanks to the huge effort by antifascists, and...

Roxy, Nick and Joe come together to discuss the Patriotic Alternative report just published by HOPE not hate. We have the inside story from the PA event, and much much more. PA held their annual conference some weeks ago. But before the hors-d'œuvre could be quaffed, antifascists had leaked the location. Mark Collett had bungled things once again, and no amount of Sam Melia's sucking up...

Joe and Tricky Nicky Spooner meet to discuss the far right's crass reaction to the terror incident in Liverpool. Despite knowing nothing the gamut of far-right 'thinkers', 'citizen journalists' and 'activists' have projected their accumulated ignorance onto the attack with the hope that this will be the sort of misery that will validate their worldview once more....

Roxana, Nick S and Joe together again on the barricades of 21st century antifascism. Roxy reflects on the struggle against racism in cricket that's unfolding right now, and what hope there is in the coming weeks coming out of the stitch up by Yorkshire Cricket Club. Alan Leggett (aka Active Patriot, one of a drizzle-sodden millieux of 'migrant hunters') is going 'on tour'...

Nick Spooner sat down with the activist-author Chris Saltmarsh, to discuss Chris's new book Burnt, and to look at the impending climate breakdown and its effects on every one of us. In many ways Climate Breakdown, and denialism, intersects with wider antifascist issues This new episode of Metapolitics is the third in a series looking at broader cultural questions around the struggle to defeat...

Nick and Joe return (Roxy is off today) to discuss PA's most recent embarrassment, this time, and again, it's caused by their leader Mark Collett- the number one hiking enthusiast on the far right. Collett put his hiking boots away for a short moment to broadcast an especially putrid little stream where he blamed the recently murdered David Amess for his own death at the hands of a kille...

Roxana and Nick discuss the murder of David Amess, a killing that will be remembered as another example of violence being used to harm our democratic freedoms. The far right responded gleefully to the killing, instantly spotting an opportunity to weaponize it against minorities. In reality the far right only cares for nurturing their own hatred, as their responses in the wake of the murder of Jo C...

The R43 gang go over the big stories of the past week and a bit.  Namely - a Tory Councillor has been shunned by his party because HnH discovered he was involved in the fascist group Patriotic Alternative.  If you want to know about this, and more stories to help you confront 'the fash', or perhaps you are the fash, and just like to hear someone else take an interest in your pathetic tra...

It's Tory Party Conference. A spellbinding time for everyone. But the British far right are instead obsessed with their own irrelevance, exploiting fears and failing to win popular support again and again, with a little help from antifascists everywhere. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.