Searchlight the printed magazine is bowing out after half a century in continuous publication. It was launched with a February 1975 cover date, and the 50th anniversary issue is out now. The new magazine was in part the reincarnation of a (very) occasional newspaper of the same name, launched by some of the people who […]
The end of an era for the anti-fascist movement – Searchlight founder Gerry Gable retires
With the publication of the final print edition of Searchlight, the magazine’s founder and often-times editor, Gerry Gable, has announced that he is stepping back from running the magazine. The final issue, a huge 72-page look back over the magazine’s history and achievements, comes shortly after Gerry’s 88th birthday, and in it he writes that: […]
Fascists and antisemites mourn death of rogue bishop
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative Catholics and a world of antisemitic bigotry, Holocaust denial and fascist politics. Williamson died last month aged 84, a few days after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church […]
‘Batshit preacher’ accused of ‘intentionally antisemitic rhetoric’ by his former church
The Anglican Catholic Church in Michigan, which withdrew Calvin Robinson’s licence to minster in January, has accused the far-right clergyman of using “rhetoric that was clearly and intentionally anti-Semitic”. The ACC had been Robinson’s church since last September when he decamped from the UK to take charge of an ACC parish in Grand Rapids, West […]
British Democrats host ‘well-oiled’ Webster
It would be remiss of us not to report the latest outing for one of the oldest Jew-haters in town, Martin Webster, who turned up as guest speaker at a British Democrats meeting in Kent last weekend. Webster, who will be 82 in a few weeks’ time, began his hatemongering odyssey in A.K. Chesterton’s League […]
Uniformed nazis parade in Wetherspoon’s pub
Members of the North-West branch of British Movement must have thought they were being rather clever. Just before Xmas they met up in a pub for their regular branch meeting, paraded in their new BM phoenix emblazoned-shirts, then went out stickering streets in the centre of Manchester. They posted all this online, but hid their […]