This item from the Searchlight archive, an editorial published in April 2006, is self-explanatory. In the early 2000s the British National Party were doing increasingly well in local elections in certain parts of the country. The fear was that they would break through on a national scale. In 2004, Searchlight launched Hope Not Hate as […]
From Searchlight 40 years ago: Blueprint for genocide
In March 1986, Searchlight magazine exposed how the National Front was peddling a blueprint for extermination written by the leader of one of the most hardline nazi organisations in the United States. Published in the form of a novel, the book set out how terrorism could get results for a committed elite of racist fanatics […]
From Searchlight 20 years ago – Nazi prisoner’s death plot exposes security failure
In the early 2000’s Searchlight publisher Gerry Gable was heavily involved in dealing with the problems of fascist activity in prisons. The article reproduced here, written by him in January 2006, typified the work that led him to engage with the prison service during this period to help bring about change. Nazi prisoner’s death plot […]
Israeli government hosts fascism’s heirs on Holocaust Memorial Day
This month’s second International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem will again provide a platform for far-right activists from racist organisations – some with a history of antisemitism. Last year’s conference proved a watershed moment exposing a deep divide between the man behind the conference – Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs – and […]
From Searchlight 40 years ago – Hurd’s ‘no change’ policy on Italian terror cell
The presence in the UK of wanted Italian fascist fugitives was a running scandal throughout the 1980s and 1990s. They arrived here to avoid the crackdown which followed the bombing of Bologna railway station in 1980 and stayed here, making huge amounts of money from dodgy accommodation and employment agencies, till their prison sentences expired […]
From Searchlight 25 years ago – The company they keep
At the Conservative Party conference in 2000, attendees were greeted by the sight of a Tory shadow minister sharing a platform with a leading far-right antisemite who claimed to speak for for Britain’s small businesses. In the November 2000 issue of Searchlight, Steve Silver and Nick Lowles revealed what was going on The Federation of […]