HOPE not hate seeks to challenge and defeat the politics of hate and extremism within local communities, building resilience against the politics of hate and fear, at a national and grassroots level and this podcast explores the myriad of ways it does so. Email us at digital@hopenothate.org.uk for tips, feedback, and opportunities.
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The false QAnon conspiracy theory features aspects of ancient antisemitic narratives, its rise and spread across the globe has also seen its transformation into ever more virulent, localised forms. This should be alarming to antifascists everywhere. A major new piece of research from Gregory Davis and David Lawrence is discussed and read here by Joe Mulhall.
Journalist, Author and Playwright Paul Mason spoke with Joe Mulhall about the recent prosecution of the Greek Neo-Nazi Party, their sudden rise, and what the significance of the verdict means for antifascists combatting resurgent fascism internationally.
Caleb Cain and Cynthia Miller-Idriss join Nick Ryan for a conversation about the far right online ecosystem, and discuss their mutual work in challenging it.
Joe Mulhall dives back into the HOPE not hate archive for the second in our new series, this time reading new work from Simon Murdoch looking at the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, an important part of our movement. Simon investigates if the arguments between anti-racists and antifascists could better be resolved through a mutual understanding against the common enemy.
This compelling round table between three leading writers (including Hope not Hate's Joe Mulhall) is a useful insight into the origins and continued importance of race science. With many thanks to the Wiener Library for allowing us to reproduce the recording here.
Juliana Rordorf details the many ways that free speech is unevenly distributed, and outlines a liberal approach for its protection that accounts for how the far right violates the speech of others. Central to this is the work of deplatforming hate.
Researcher Juliana Rordorf reads her first in a series of articles on the varying ways that the far right co-opts and abuses arguments around free speech.
In this first episode of a new series where we look at objects in the HOPE not hate archive, Joe Mulhall discusses one of the oldest publications we keep. The Hidden Hand was the newspaper of The Britons, a small, antisemitic group, that flogged it's shabby wares in the violently tumultuous interwar period. Although marginal, with a small print run, the personalities around The Britons became some of the most influential propagators of antisemitic conspiracy theory in the UK, throughout the 20th...
Eric K. Ward grew up in Los Angeles. Coming up in a punk scene that was volatile and tribal. In the context of rising hatred Eric and his friends learnt that they had to fight hard for their values. This was the start of a journey that would bring Eric to his work today as an anti-racist and antifascist, in a world on the brink. This interview was recorded before the situation in Portland reached the dangerous levels of conflict today. Eric K. Ward is Executive Director of Western States Center ...
Joe Mulhall discusses the new report from Gregory Davis on the many failings of Bitchute. Bitchute is a video content platform that has hosted to terror videos from groups such as ISIS and National Action, as well as gaining huge numbers on conspiracy theory videos during the recent crisis.
The Uyghur crisis in western China has led to over 1 million – some upwards of 2 million – Muslim Uyghur people being interned in what the Chinese government calls "re-education" centres. They've steadily faced an erosion of their cultural and religious rights, forcible birth control and increasingly oppressive surveillance. Now a shrinking minority within their own lands, Sophie Richardson, China director of Human Rights Watch, speaks to HOPE not hate's Nick Ryan about what's really happening i...
HOPE not hate's Joe Mulhall spoke with the authors of Reactionary Democracies. Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter's new book which challenges the idea that liberal democracy provides a consistent bulwark against racism. Arguing that popular notions of 'the people' justify the exclusion of others and the normalisation of racist ideas, the authors point to mainstream racism, islamophobia and anti-migrant sentiment coming from across the spectrum of mainstream politics as examples of how the threat i...
Matthew McGregor, HnH Campaign Director, spoke with two MPs about their importance work combatting the extreme right. Both Stephanie Peacock and Stephen Doughty have contributed so much to the fight against extremism today, and have joined with HOPE not hate in arguing for a ban against the Order of the Nine Angles. Matthew McGregor discusses with both guests why a ban of the nazi-satanist O9A makes sense, and recent events related to the findings of BBC Panorama, and the indictment of a US sold...
Afrida pitched questions to Joe as a part of the Great Get Together, taken from Afrida, and the audience. This was the first of our live webinars.
How one soldier conspired to have his comrades attacked by terrorists, as a part of a nazi-satanist murder plot.
Rosie Carter discusses the important work of building communities that are resistant to hatred. She discusses the urban approaches that can lead to a better community in the wake of the pandemic with Will Jennings and Nick Malyan and later Rosie spoke with Kim Leadbeater of More in Common and the Jo Cox Foundation. This work, of building communities, is crucial to building a world where hatred is unable to spread.
In this final episode of our Heroes of the Resistance series we review some of the most powerful parts of our previous interviews. Matthew McGregor discusses the story that most resonated with him, that of the Ulma family, who attempted to rescue a family of Jews, but were denounced. Anthony Silkoff of the Board of Deputies of British Jews reads his article on the Ringleblum archive, a collection of documents that was produced by the captives of the Warsaw ghetto.
Because homosexuality remained criminalised after the Nazis were defeated, many of the stories of LGBT persecution and LGBT resistance went undocumented, it's victims and heroes were at risk of prosecution if outed as gay. Gad Beck's story of resistance is one exception to that secrecy. Gad, was both Jewish and gay, and therefore was thoroughly stigmatised by Nazi law, but nonetheless found ways to resist. Josh Bradlow, Head of Policy at Stonewall, told us how Gad found his identity in resistanc...
Krystyna Skarbek was travelling outside of Poland when the country fell to the Nazis. In order to fight back after the occupation she threw her lot in with British intelligence offering her unique courage and skills to courier early reports back of the Nazi plan - Operation Barbarossa. Skarbek would go on to serve in three theatres of war and became one of the highest trained and most effective of British spies. Clare Mulley, the author of A Spy Who Loved, tells us a short part of Skarbek's rema...
Witold Pilecki, a resistance fighter in the Polish underground, was sent on a mission of great danger and crucial importance to the fight against the Nazis. Witold was tasked with the infiltration of a new camp, that there was scant intelligence on. That camp was Auschwitz. What Witold found there continues to be remembered today for its unimaginable horror, but at the time Witold's reports from inside the camp fell on deaf ears. Pilecki's time in the camp was documented by Jack Fairweather in h...
Sonia Purnell discusses Virginia Hall, who she wrote about in A Woman of No Importance. Working for SOE Virginia was able to do what many of her male colleagues had tried and failed to do- she build a strong resistance network that was able to undermine fascist authority in Vichy France from below. Additional audio taken from School for Danger, licensed by IWM.
We spoke to Caroline Moorehead about her book A House in the Mountains, the story of four partisan women and their struggle against fascism.
On 19th of April 1943, armed with only a pistol and a lamp, 3 Belgian resistance fighters stopped a train destined for Auschwitz. Outgunned, they nevertheless were able to fend off the Nazi guards, and their heroism rescued 233 prisoners from almost certain death. The history books remember the War of 1939-1945 as one of a clash between nations, but World War 2 was also fought from below. We remember the heroism of those who resisted even when they were occupied or ruled by imposibly cruel regim...
Matthew Collins spoke with some of the remaining heroes of the resistance. The Italian partisans he spoke with were messengers and fighters, saboteurs and agitators against Nazism and fascism on Italian soil. Now elderly, each and every one of the antifascists that Matthew spoke with said they would again suffer the pains they felt in their youth again today, if it was needed to see off a new far-right threat. Those that Matthew interviewed have dedicated their lives to helping teach children of...
Patrik Hermansson discusses the spread of conspiracy theories and denialism in the Coronavirus outbreak. Patrik discusses how the divergent theories related to the disease's development have shaped online, far-right spaces, leading to fractious conversations as conspiracy theorists catch the disease and get sick, or where competing theories contradict, and are forced to adapt. The spread of these conspiracies is a good case study in how the far right uses misinformation and false narratives to s...
Matthew McGregor spoke with Rosie Carter regarding her work in tracking the changing attitudes during the Corona virus outbreak. Far from what you would expect in this gloomy period, Rosie's polling found a rise in optimism, at at time of desperate economic outlooks. Amidst rolling news coverage of the disastrous pandemic, certain key indicators have actually improved. But what's behind the numbers? HOPE not hate's measure of these attitudes, and our analysis of their direction is something with...
"This is a pandemic, this is a virus it knows no boundaries[...] therefore we need an international response, not one that seeks to spread division and hatred" Sarah Owen MP. With the contagion spreading internationally, the responses from governments have varied from the lacklustre to the authoritarian. Hard right politicians have ramped up nativist language and elements in the west and the east have sought to blame the other side for the outbreak. With Trump and others labeling the virus the '...
In this, the first episode in Metapolitics, a new strand of the HOPE not hate podcast that looks at the cultural fronts in resisting hate, we look at Black Metal Resistance. Nick Spooner from HOPE not hate speaks with Kim Kelly and also George Parr about where this comes from and what antifascists both inside and outside of the subculture, can do to resist it. Illustrative Clips used for Educative purposes are Credit as: Unicorn Riot for their NeckBeard Deathcamp interview, Full interview here: ...
Safya Khan-Ruf discusses the ongoing struggle to define islamophobia, and describes why its such a political issue. Nick Lowles talks on the recent media smears targetted against Qari Asim, and what really lay behind them.
