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v. t. e. The far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, fascist-right and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. The terms are often used to imply that someone is an extremist. The terms have been used by different scholars in somewhat conflicting ways.
v. t. e. Far-right politics are a recurring phenomenon in the United Kingdom since the early 20th century, with the formation of Nazi, fascist and antisemitic movements. One of the earliest examples of fascism in the UK can be found as early as 1923 with the formation of British Fascisti by Rotha Lintorn-Orman. [1][2] It went on to acquire more ...
Combat 18 (C18 or 318) [4] is a neo-Nazi terrorist organisation that was founded in 1992. [5] It originated in the United Kingdom with ties to movements in Canada and the United States. Since then, it has spread to other countries, including Germany.
The English Defence League (EDL) was a far-right, Islamophobic organisation active in England from 2009 until the mid-late 2010s. A social movement and pressure group that employed street demonstrations as its main tactic, the EDL presented itself as a single-issue movement opposed to Islamism and Islamic extremism, although its rhetoric and actions targeted Islam and Muslims more widely.
Ian Adams, in his Ideology and Politics in Britain Today, defines the British far-left as primarily those political organisations which are "committed to revolutionary Marxism." [1] He names specifically " orthodox communists, those influenced by the New Left Marxism of the 1960s, followers of Trotsky, of Mao Tse-tung, of Fidel Castro, and even ...
The National Front was established as a coalition of small extreme-right groups which were active on the fringes of British politics during the 1960s. [1] These were the British National Party (BNP), the League of Empire Loyalists (LEL), the Racial Preservation Society (RPS), the Greater Britain Movement (GBM), and some branches of the Anglo-Rhodesian Society. [1]
Tommy Robinson. Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (né Yaxley; born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British anti-Islam campaigner and one of the UK's most prominent far-right activists. [4] Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years. He was a member of the British National Party (BNP), a British ...
Neo-fascism. Patriotic Alternative (PA) is a British far-right, fascist, neo-Nazi and white nationalist hate group which states that it has active branches nationwide. [1][6][7][3] The Times described it in 2023 as "Britain's largest far-right white supremacist movement". [8] Its stance has been variously described as Islamophobic, fascist and ...