Review
By Andy Brooks
Far-Right.com:
Nationalist extremism on the internet:
Searchlight Magazine & the Radicalism and New Media Research Group,
76pp, pbk, London 2011, £8.50.
This short
book is the result of recent joint work between Searchlight, the veteran anti-fascist magazine, and the Radicalism
and New Media Research Group at Northampton
University, headed by Dr Matthew
Feldman. It began with a seminar on exploitation of the internet by neo-Nazi
and racist movements that took place at Northampton
University last year.
A number of
leading academics took part in the discussion on Fascist Radicalism and the New Media organised by Dr Feldman’s
group. This was followed up with the Think
Global, Hate Local: England’s Far Right conference
in April this year and the launch of a new project to look in detail at
contemporary far-right extremism.
This book
reflects recent research and is the first of a planned series called Mapping the Far Right. Edited by Paul
Jackson of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group and Searchlight publisher Gerry Gable, it provides a detailed
examination of the way the world-wide web is being exploited by fascists and
racists in Britain
and throughout the world.
Topics range from the British National Party
and the English Defence League to the Aryan Strike Force, British People’s
Party, Racial Volunteer Force and the Blood & Honour music scene.
Critical
analysis by leading academic and Searchlight
experts reveals how online cultures developed by such far-right movements
have revolutionised extremist activity in recent years.
This volume is
a collection of well-researched academic papers that provides analysis for
campaigners searching for the latest thinking on far-right activity. It is not
a campaigning pamphlet for sale on the street and that is reflected in the
£8.50 price. But it is vital reading for all students and researchers of modern
British fascism.
It can be ordered from most booksellers or
post-free from: Searchlight, PO Box 1576,
Ilford, IG5 OHE.
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