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Nov 8, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
The NRP, a new party led by the fascist caricature Alek Yerbury, seems destined for electoral failure. However, it has recruited a potentially dangerous collection of nazis and other maladjusted individuals. HOPE not hate explores the group’s ideology, strategy and key figures. The National Rebirth Party (NRP) is a new fascist microparty led by Alek Yerbury, an oddball would-be dictator now based in Manchester.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
Patriotic Alternative, the UK’s largest neo-Nazi group, is rebranding as a “white civil rights” organisation and has raised £14,500 to “support the families” of convicted rioters. But where exactly is this money going? Five years after its launch, Mark Collett, the leader of Patriotic Alternative (PA), announced a shift in his organisation’s direction. Despite its early successes, the fascist group has spent years grasping for a clear purpose.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
Mein Kampf, UFOs and Fascist Fitness: this is the latest in a series of articles investigating the Homeland Party’s core activists, following our exposés of its branches in the West Midlands, Eastern and South East England and Scotland. The Homeland Party is a fascist microparty that splintered from Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s most active neo-Nazi group, in April 2023.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
In the second instalment of a series, HOPE not hate exposes the links between individuals convicted for the recent disturbances, far-right organisations and ongoing anti-migrant campaigns. Find the first instalment here. The week of 29 July to 5 August 2024 witnessed the largest outbreak of far-right rioting and disorder in the post-war period.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
HOPE not hate exposes the individuals behind the disturbances and their links to far-right organisations and longstanding anti-migrant campaigns. The week of 29 July to 5 August 2024 witnessed the largest outbreak of far-right rioting and disorder in the post-war period. As we have previously written, these events reflect the “post-organisational” nature of the modern far right.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
While the recent spate of far-right riots and disorder seems to have abated, the anger that propelled them has not gone away. We must be wary of simplistic narratives and false cures. The week of 29 July to 5 August 2024 witnessed the largest outbreak of far-right rioting and disorder in the post-war period. Over that seven day period, a spate of extraordinarily violent far-right protests upturned towns and cities across the country, many of which spilled over into full-blown riots.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
2pm, Wednesday 7 AugustHOPE not hate are prioritising 48 locations today that have been mentioned as possible locations for far-right mobilisations today. However, some reports suggest that there could be as many as 100 mobilisations across the country. Several days ago, a list of 39 locations was compiled and released in an extreme far-right Telegram channel which was one of the central online spaces behind this week’s racist violence in Merseyside.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
This past week has seen what is likely the most widespread wave of far-right violence in the post-war period. Over the weekend, the UK was rocked by a wave of startlingly violent far-right demonstrations in numerous towns and cities, at least seven of which descended into all-out riots.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
Following the horrific attack in Southport, as many as 35 protests are due to take place across the UK this weekend under a broad anti-multiculturalism, anti-Muslim and anti-Government agendaThere is no single organiser. Many have the support of the organised far right but appear locally-ledThe events will vary in size and nature, but some have the potential to turn violentIn Liverpool, two mosques have been singled out for attack by a small group of anonymous far-right extremists.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
hopenothate.org.uk | David Lawrence
Last night a riot broke out in Southport, Merseyside following the horrific killing of three children and the serious injury of five others by a 17-year old knifeman on Monday 29 July. Following a peaceful vigil, crowds began to gather at St Luke’s Road, close to the scene of the attack, and things quickly turned ugly. Attendees, some in balaclavas and face masks, surrounded and attacked a local mosque as well as the police who tried to stop them.
