Alfio Bernabei reports on the commemoration of an event addressed 100 years ago by suffrage campaigner and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst, who was one of the first to warn the world outside Italy of the dangers of fascism – a warning that still holds today First published in the Spring 2023 issue of Searchlight magazine Dondi’s […]
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One Week in Warsaw – David Rosenberg reports from Warsaw where a poignant anniversary was being commemorated
First published in the Spring 2023 issue of Searchlight magazine 16th April 2023 commemorative march led by women activists photo by David Rosenberg Warsaw, Sunday 16 April. Three days before the Polish Government is due to host the official 80th anniversary commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when their chosen guests will assemble in front […]
Frene Ginwala (1932–2023), Activist who helped expose genesis of plot to kidnap ANC leaders
Searchlight was saddened to hear, just as our last issue went to press, of the death of Frene Ginwala, the veteran ANC activist and first Speaker in the post-apartheid South African parliament [National Assembly] who has died aged 90 years. Searchlight had worked closely with her in the late 1980s, when she was based in London. […]
The Budaházy case, terrorism and the state
Martin Smith uncovers the unholy alliances between far-right and neo-nazi parties, and why they are campaigning for the release of terror gang members responsible for violent attacks on government officials and LGBT+ groups in the latter 2000s Far-right unity: Campaigners to free Budaházy come from across the far-right spectrum. (The banner reads: ‘Freedom to Budaházy! […]
Endgame for Oath Keepers – by Leonard Zeskind
In the first conviction of its kind against white supremacists, many of the group’s leaders were found guilty of seditious conspiracy. These verdicts will certainly lose the group its lawful kudos, suggests Leonard Zeskind Proud Boy: EnriqueTarrio Oath Keeper: Stewart Rhodes Photo: Anthony Crider More than two years after a Trump-inspired […]
Key evidence of fascist terrorists’ activities in London to be kept classified
Published in latest issue of Searchlight magazine: Winter 2023 As one of the killers implicated in the 1980 Bologna bombing prepares to appeal his sentence, Alfio Bernabei learns that, in an unprecedented move, the Home Office will not be making public a file linked to the Italian fugitives who fled to London Lawyers acting for […]