28 October – 11 November 2025

We publish today a  new IRR briefing paper aimed at providing community sector voices, concerned politicians and policy makers with an overview of trends on the far Right, also examining developments in electoral politics, and international hard Right movements, that serve to amplify far-right themes.

The last six months have seen far-right manipulation of protests outside asylum accommodation, the Unite the Kingdom rally in London on 13 September, a rapid escalation in racial violence across the UK and threats issued against NGOs working on migration and refugee issues. The paper was also reported on in the Morning Star, that highlighted its finding  that US far-right influence is on the rise, as British politics shifts toward hard Right  polices associated with Trumpism.

Liz Fekete author of the report says,”Today, the violent enforcers of Britishness are active across the country, enforcing the internal racist frontier, the frontier between ‘us’ and ‘them’.  It’s vital that we fight back against this intimidation, which also shrinks the space in which NGOs operate. While people will be rightly concerned with safety, we also need to recognise that real security comes from ending corrosive culture wars, expanding  local democracy, and developing an everyday anti-racism, in recognition that solidarity is strength and neighbourhood belongs to all of us.”

This week’s calendar forcefully demonstrates the theme of our report. The competition among MPs to come up with the most ferocious anti-migrant proposals. And the consequences of this kind of politics revealed in the streets, with 27 documented attacks on mosques between July and October. But from Sheffield to Southsea, anti-racists are taking on the far Right.