While monitoring numerous streams of far-right rhetoric on various social media sites, the British Resistance came to our attention. Their virulent anger, obsessional writing and tenuous if not completely distorted relationship with reality set them apart from the host of generic right wing parties squabbling for support and political recognition within the UK. As a result of in-depth research and inexhaustible reading back through the archives, what becomes clear is that the British Resistance website has operated as the source of incessant hate, anger, paranoia, disillusionment and abuse, offering their diminutive readership a place to vent their frustrations and seek 'virtual' (if not actual) acceptance.

Their extremely limited readership should provide some level of solace in that the vast majority of white-British do not hold these views and are in fact appalled by them. However it is still of the upmost importance that we take the time to clearly identify these groups, decipher their message and unpack their methods and mechanisms; this process is essential in order to increase public awareness and cultivate a culture of social accountability to counter fascist and far-right groups. Awareness and education is the key to fighting the kind of ignorance and intolerability that is proliferated by groups such as the British Resistance.

This piece is written as a general overview focusing on the British Resistance website and blog posts. It also includes critiques and highlights common-sense hypocrisies as well as blatant fallacies propagated by this group. Its’ aim, as noted above, is to call attention in the hopes of opening up a new public space for dialogue and debate around far-right extremism including the most progressive methods for countering it. We hope this piece is informative and serves as the basis for challenging and thought-provoking discussion.