Slide 1: Brainstorm what students know about the riots in the summer of 2024.

Slide 2: Point out that Britain has a long history of violence from the far right. In the 1930s, the British Union of Fascists, led by Sir Oswald Mosley, was a political party that supported Hitler and opposed democracy.

Slide 3: Watch a newsreel from 1936 portraying the ‘Battle of Cable Street’, in which Jews and Communists fought against the British Union of Fascists.

Ask students: Why do some people like to riot? What do riots achieve?

Slide 4: Far-right organizations have continued ever since the Second World War.

Ask students: Why do you think people still support the far-right even after the Holocaust?

Slide 5: Discuss the definitions of the words in the word cloud. These are words describing far-right groups.

Slide 6: Today the alt-right is recognizable by the memes they use online. Here are some memes commonly associated with the alt-right. Keep in mind that other, non-racist communities also use some of these memes.

From ‘Memes & the Extreme Right-Wing’, Institute for Strategic Dialogue:

Ask students: How do you feel about racists using these memes? How should you react when you see people using them online?