This review is not meant to give you all the typical facts and highlights of the movie. Standard movie reviewers have already presented their perspectives, the basic story line.  Whereas this essay is meant to take more seriously what is really a rather stupid plot, but still within a beautiful movie and action packed piece of entertainment, and to speculate how it may fit "within" the too often v…

Nick Griffin was forced to retreat from the Frontline Club after he arrived to take part in a Q&A panel session on the documentary film 'The Battle for Barking'. The UAF forced him and his security unit to retreat. London, UK. 13/01/2011

Formed less than a year ago, the English Defence League has become the most significant far-right street movement since the National Front. The Guardian spent four months undercover with the movement, and found them growing in strength and planning to target some of the UK's biggest Muslim communities

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This article is about the rise of Islamophobia in Europe. It discusses the last November referendum in Switzerland that banned building a mosque with a minaret in that country.

Over 500 members of the EDL took to the streets of Bolton to rally in Victoria square. In similar style to the London demonstration, the Unite Against Fascism supporters were on one side of the square and the EDL on the other with a heavy police presence. Bolton, United Kingdom, 20/03/2010.

The sport of legends Muhammad Ali and Amir Khan, is being hijacked this weekend at the world-famous Caesars Nightclub venue at Streatham in South London. This coming Sunday, the 28th February 2010, a team of eight fascist-friendly semi-professional English boxers will supporting the neo-Nazi EDL, entering a boxing ring displaying EDL logo shorts and flags for an official EBC prizefighter contest.

"In front of us, they would refer to the immigrants that they'd arrested as 'chinkees', 'niggers' etc. They'd call black people 'spear-chuckers' and 'savages'..."

Jamil Ahmed, was employed by the Home Office from 1992 until 2007. Whilst a senior immigration officer, he launched a race discrimination case against the Immigration and Nationality Department in 2004 and was subsequently sacked by the…

a few photos from the "journalists and the 'terror' laws" workshop, and the second plenary which was a question and answer session

This is a very full report and a few pictures from the "under siege: islam, war and the media" conference which took place on saturday at the LSE, organised by MWAW (media workers against the war)

The report covers in detail the speeches made during the first plenary

Read about the the 'journalists and terror laws' workshop here.