Fighting against racism and fascism
Only last month Ben Habib’s Advance UK had plans for a launch event in Wales rather spoiled when the venue cancelled the booking.
So they’re trying again. They are advertising a launch meeting in South Wales 0n 29 November. But the venue is not yet being disclosed.
So perhaps we can help. It’s being held at Chepstow Racecourse.
It would be quite dreadful if they had to cancel this one as well.
Searchlight’s voice is more important than ever, and I am delighted that it will now be available to a wider audience than ever before in its new incarnation online. Searchlight has been extremely helpful over the years in exposing the far right, corruption, criminality and the murky links between organised crime and powerful interests in the UK and abroad. I wish Searchlight the very best.
To investigate fascists takes real courage and unusual commitment. The government, police, mainstream media occasionally take a look, but in the UK only Searchlight have kept at it, relentlessly and admirably, regardless of threat or obstacle. It’s journalism that matters. A rare thing.
British Jews have been persecuted over the centuries; British blacks since the Windrush generation of the 1950s; British Muslims, especially after the Islamist 9/11 and then 7/7 terrorist attacks in New York 2001 and London 2005. But until the last few years there has not been a simultaneous threat against all three British communities of Jewish, Black and Muslim Britons – meaning the need for Searchlight has never been greater.