Searchlight (magazine)
| Editor | Gerry Gable |
|---|---|
| Categories | Politics |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Gerry Gable |
| Year founded | 1975 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | searchlightmagazine.com |
Searchlight is a British magazine, founded in 1975 by Gerry Gable, which publishes exposés about racism, antisemitism and fascism in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Searchlight's main focus is on the British National Party (BNP), Combat 18, the English Defence League (EDL) and other sections of the far right in the United Kingdom, as well as covering similar entities in other countries. The magazine is published and edited by Gerry Gable.
The current Searchlight magazine was preceded in the early 1960s by a newspaper of the same name, edited by left-wing Labour Party Members of Parliament Reg Freeson and Joan Lestor with Gerry Gable as "research director". It ceased publication in 1967, but Gable, Maurice Ludmer and others stayed together as Searchlight Associates before re-launching a regular journal. The pilot issue of the new Searchlight appeared in February 1975, with Maurice Ludmer as its editor.
Ludmer and Gable were also amongst the first sponsors of the Anti-Nazi League, with Ludmer sitting on its first steering group.
In the Ludmer years, Searchlight had a close relationship with CARF, the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, a magazine published by the (London) Anti Racist-Anti Fascist Co-ordinating Committee (a Federation of the Anti-Fascist Committees that had sprung up all over London in the mid 1970s). In 1979 CARF merged with Searchlight to become an insert (with separate editorial control) at the back of the magazine but this arrangement ended following disagreements in the early 1990s over allegations that Searchlight was promoting pro-Zionist/pro-Israeli groups who the CARF Collective regarded as racists.
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