Hope Not Hate
We say ‘a plague on both their houses’ when looking at both far-right and Islamist extremism
Anjem Choudary and the al-Muhajiroun extremist network provide a gateway to terrorism, according to a new report co-authored by Nick Lowles of HOPE not hate.
Don’t turn Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer into free speech martyrs
The anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate (HNH) has started a petition to prevent two American bloggers from being given permission to enter the UK.
People in Guildford don’t vote BNP
Yesterday Ed Miliband made another step in reframing Labour's position on immigration. With Ukip surging in the polls and likely to come first in next year's European elections, and the media already beginning their racist attacks on Bulgarians and Romanians, Labour has a choice. They can follow the Conservatives in drifting to the right in the hope of choking off Ukip support or they can offer a positive, more progressive alternative that deals with concerns over immigration but in a wider context.
Stephen Lawrence: The legacy that lives on, the hope, the dreams of a better future
Shamik Das looks at Stephen Lawrence’s legacy of hope for the future, as his racist killers David Norris and Gary Dobson are jailed for his murder.
The English Democrats welcome ‘ex’ BNP members into the fold
Alex Hern talks about how the English Democrats are fast becoming a front for the BNP, as “ex” members come over in droves.
Vote 2011: Labour campaign diary
Labour activist Shelly Asquith continues Left Foot Forward's dispatches from the front; the campaign diaries of party activists on the election trail.