Politicians, media and some academics have spent years peddling narratives that racism and Islamophobia are the ‘will of the people’, but the facts tell a very different story.

Was Brandon Lewis trying to mislead over the extent of Islamophobia in the Party when he said there were no outstanding complaints - or are his systems just completely broken?

Globally connected groups are working together to threaten women’s rights – and they’ve landed in Spain for International Women’s Day.

What can the UK learn from those fighting the far right across Europe? Take history seriously

A street magazine vendor led protests against prime minister Victor Orbán’s rewriting of history. He tells openDemocracy how his life led him to that point.

Right wing members of Congress have invited the EDL founder to a major event in Washington DC, despite his criminal record.

Nativist, Islamophobic websites are flourishing in Sweden as politics takes a hard right.

Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first post-revolutionary president, discusses neo-liberalism, the crisis in western democracies, and the relationship between Islamic terrorism and the rise of far-right politics.

Where to start in discussing Marine Le Pen’s visit to Lebanon? The French “Trump without the crazy” got her first meeting with a head of state and performed a successful media stunt.

A child of the BNP and the EDL, Britain First has shifted the glare of bigots from race war to faith war. Meet the man behind the fastest growing far right movement in Britain, and find out what makes him tick.