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Searchlight, Gerry Gable and ‘Maggie’s Militant Tendency’ – setting the record straight

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In 1984 BBC Panorama made a programme called Maggie’s Militant Tendency, which investigated far-right extremism in the Conservative Party. It was the subject of successful libel action by Tory MPs Neil Hamilton, Gerald Howarth and others, and led to a major crisis for the BBC. The Director General, Alasdair Milne, lost his job over it. […]

Obituary: Gerry Gable (1937-2026), architect of modern British anti-fascism

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The death of Searchlight’s founder Gerry Gable at the age of 88 marks the passing of a man without whom modern British anti-fascism would scarcely be recognisable. For more than sixty years, he stood at the centre of the struggle against fascism and the extreme right, as a relentless organiser, investigator and strategist. To many, […]

An anniversary David Irving would rather forget

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Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over year, in failing health. But this year marks another anniversary which, though he will not, we celebrate happily. It is 25 years since Professor Deborah Lipstadt’s victory over Irving in a historic libel action. He […]

The end of an era for the anti-fascist movement – Searchlight founder Gerry Gable retires

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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: […]