Searchlight Magazine

Searchlight is a British anti-fascist magazine, which was founded in 1975 and publishes detailed reports on racism, anti-Semitism and fascism in Britain. The main focus of Searchlight is on the British National Party (BNP ), Combat 18 and other representatives of right-wing, although criticism has been published in the United Kingdom Independence Party and parts of the Conservative Party. She is a member of Antifa -Net. International Antifascist Network for Research and Action.

Relationship to communism

The driving force behind Searchlight is editor Gerry Gable. Gable and Morris Ludmer, the first editor of Searchlight, were members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In October 1992, published Searchlight anonymous meeting an exhibition of works by the communist artist John Heartfield at the Barbican Art Gallery. It communism in the 20th century was defended and glorified:

Criticism

Over the years, developed into a monopoly Searchlight 's claim to possess the alleinge expertise in the field of right. Searchlight, however, was criticized both by radical left and extreme right-wing organizations than by dubious source. Left-wing critics accuse Searchlight prior connections to British security authorities. The Anti- Fascist Action resolved refused to cooperate with the magazine because of this connection.

The most continuous and in-depth left-wing critics of the organization Searchlight, the anti-fascist and editor of Notes From the Borderland, Dr. Larry O'Hara. 1992 O'Hara expressed as follows:

In his study Searchlight for beginners 1996 accused O'Hara Searchlight knowingly fabricate horror stories and exaggerating in the representation of current anti-Semitism in order to obtain financial support from Jewish lobbyists. Searchlight called it a conspiracy theory and classified beyond O'Hara's study A Lie Too Far as the product of "Nazi counter -intelligence " one. In O'Hara, a member of the Green Party, Searchlight saw no independent journalists, but "a political errand boy for Patrick Harrington " (formerly leader of the National Front ) and a " Nazi fellow traveler " ( Searchlight No. 216, June 1993 ).