HOPE not hate

Matthew McGregor, HnH Campaign Director, spoke with two MPs about their importance work combatting the extreme right. Both Stephanie Peacock and Stephen Doughty have contributed so much to the fight against extremism today, and have joined with HOPE not hate in arguing for a ban against the Order of the Nine Angles. Matthew McGregor discusses with both guests why a ban of the nazi-satanist O9A mak...

Afrida pitched questions to Joe as a part of the Great Get Together, taken from Afrida, and the audience. This was the first of our live webinars. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

How one soldier conspired to have his comrades attacked by terrorists, as a part of a nazi-satanist murder plot. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Rosie Carter discusses the important work of building communities that are resistant to hatred. She discusses the urban approaches that can lead to a better community in the wake of the pandemic with Will Jennings and Nick Malyan and later Rosie spoke with Kim Leadbeater of More in Common and the Jo Cox Foundation. This work, of building communities, is crucial to building a world where hatred is...

In this final episode of our Heroes of the Resistance series we review some of the most powerful parts of our previous interviews. Matthew McGregor discusses the story that most resonated with him, that of the Ulma family, who attempted to rescue a family of Jews, but were denounced. Anthony Silkoff of the Board of Deputies of British Jews reads his article on the Ringleblum archive, a collection...

Because homosexuality remained criminalised after the Nazis were defeated, many of the stories of LGBT persecution and LGBT resistance went undocumented, it's victims and heroes were at risk of prosecution if outed as gay. Gad Beck's story of resistance is one exception to that secrecy. Gad,  was both Jewish and gay, and therefore was thoroughly stigmatised by Nazi law, but nonetheless f...

Krystyna Skarbek was travelling outside of Poland when the country fell to the Nazis. In order to fight back after the occupation she threw her lot in with British intelligence offering her unique courage and skills to courier early reports back of the Nazi plan - Operation Barbarossa. Skarbek would go on to serve in three theatres of war and became one of the highest trained and most effective of...

Witold Pilecki, a resistance fighter in the Polish underground, was sent on a mission of great danger and crucial importance to the fight against the Nazis. Witold was tasked with the infiltration of a new camp, that there was scant intelligence on. That camp was Auschwitz. What Witold found there continues to be remembered today for its unimaginable horror, but at the time Witold's reports f...

Sonia Purnell discusses Virginia Hall, who she wrote about in A Woman of No Importance. Working for SOE Virginia was able to do what many of her male colleagues had tried and failed to do- she build a strong resistance network that was able to undermine fascist authority in Vichy France from below.  Additional audio taken from School for Danger, licensed by IWM. Visit the HOPE not hate website to...

We spoke to Caroline Moorehead about her book A House in the Mountains, the story of four partisan women and their struggle against fascism. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

On 19th of April 1943, armed with only a pistol and a lamp, 3 Belgian resistance fighters stopped a train destined for Auschwitz. Outgunned, they nevertheless were able to fend off the Nazi guards, and their heroism rescued 233 prisoners from almost certain death. The history books remember the War of 1939-1945 as one of a clash between nations, but World War 2 was also fought from below. We remem...

Matthew Collins spoke with some of the remaining heroes of the resistance. The Italian partisans he spoke with were messengers and fighters, saboteurs and agitators against Nazism and fascism on Italian soil. Now elderly, each and every one of the antifascists that Matthew spoke with said they would again suffer the pains they felt in their youth again today, if it was needed to see off a new far-...

Patrik Hermansson discusses the spread of conspiracy theories and denialism in the Coronavirus outbreak. Patrik discusses how the divergent theories related to the disease's development have shaped online, far-right spaces, leading to fractious conversations as conspiracy theorists catch the disease and get sick, or where competing theories contradict, and are forced to adapt. The spread of t...

Matthew McGregor spoke with Rosie Carter regarding her work in tracking the changing attitudes during the Corona virus outbreak. Far from what you would expect in this gloomy period, Rosie's polling found a rise in optimism, at at time of desperate economic outlooks. Amidst rolling news coverage of the disastrous pandemic, certain key indicators have actually improved. But what's behind...

"This is a pandemic, this is a virus it knows no boundaries[...] therefore we need an international response, not one that seeks to spread division and hatred" Sarah Owen MP. With the contagion spreading internationally, the responses from governments have varied from the lacklustre to the authoritarian. Hard right politicians have ramped up nativist language and elements in the west and...

In this, the first episode in Metapolitics, a new strand of the HOPE not hate podcast that looks at the cultural fronts in resisting hate, we look at Black Metal Resistance. Nick Spooner from HOPE not hate speaks with Kim Kelly and also George Parr about where this comes from and what antifascists both inside and outside of the subculture, can do to resist it. Illustrative Clips used for Educative...

Safya Khan-Ruf discusses the ongoing struggle to define islamophobia, and describes why its such a political issue. Nick Lowles talks on the recent media smears targetted against Qari Asim, and what really lay behind them. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

In her speech Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP discusses the State of Hate, and the importance of HOPE not hate's work in confronting, exposing and campaigning against hate over the coming year.  Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Nick Lowles, CEO of HOPE not hate, sat down to discuss the neo-Nazi Satanist group the Order of the Nine Angles, and their promotion of terror in the digital space. The O9A have been linked to violent far-right groups such as Combat 18, the National Socialist Movement, National Action, Sonnenkrieg Division, Atomwaffen Division, and many more.  The leading light of the O9A, David Myatt, a man known...

In 2010 the BNP were able to run 338 candidates for Parliament,  humiliatingly the 2019 general election saw them field just one - and he lost his deposit. This trajectory marks a historical low-point for the traditional British far-right parties. But it doesn't tell us the whole story. With many of the far-right's ideas mainstreamed, and Brexit shifting the agenda from immigration, the...

HOPE not hate's Joe Mulhall and Patrik Hermansson discuss the circumstances that lead to the publication to their new book 'The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?'. The work of researchers Simon Murdoch, David Lawrence, Hermansson and Mulhall contributed to an important new collection that assesses the Alt-Right from a range of angles, all of which have been info...

Every month a range of conspiracy theorists from across the political spectrum meet. They come together to share their doubts about everything from the moon landings to 9/11. HOPE not hate and Community Security Trust have been observing the Keep Talking group for years. Our findings reveal how toxic these meetings truly are. Holocaust deniers, neo-nazis, Labour party members and trade unionists h...

25 years since the murder of over 8,000 unarmed Muslims in the days that followed the fall of Srebrenica, Bosnia, we discuss the latent prejudices that allowed for the rapid radicalisation of the former Yugoslavian people towards ethnic bloodshed and mass-murder of their neighbours. Owen Jones, Head of Education and Training, talks of his experience of visiting survivors and campaigners for justic...

When HOPE not hate heard of Generation Identity’s plans to try and prevent migrant rescue in the Mediterranean, we teamed up with antifascists across the world; including at Sleeping Giants and Avaaz, in order to stop the far right from risking lives. When GI started a branch in the UK, we infiltrated and exposed their figurehead Martin Sellner making racist comments. We exposed their leaders for...

In the wake of the Second World War Jewish ex-servicemen returned from war on the continent to find the same hatred being spouted by Mosley's followers in the diverse communities of East London and beyond.  Utterly incensed and with the memory of war and the revelations of the holocaust still fresh in their minds, the decorated war heroes and rebellious youths of the 43 Group pioneered a new...