Mike Cohen was one of Britain’s great Jewish anti-fascists, whose significant contribution to the movement came through his camera lens. He passed away in October 2002 at the age of 67, and with the passage of time I often think of Mike, convinced that he deserves to be remembered. Mike came from a time when […]
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Searchlight Magazine’s final issue – more of an ‘au revoir’ than a ‘goodbye’
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 […]
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 […]