This year sees the 50th anniversary of David Edgar’s anti-fascist play Destiny, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford in 1976. The play then transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in London’s west end and was then broadcast as a BBC Play for Today. Performed at the height of the National Front’s 1970s success, Destiny […]
David Edgar
50 years and counting: Searchlight’s Past, Present and Future
In early 1975 two antifascist activists published a small magazine. It was 20 pages long, black and white, and most of its content was about the then fast-growing National Front. There was only one picture, on the front cover: a leather-jacketed young fascist, wearing dark glasses and carrying a union jack, above a familiar antifascist […]