Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written by Julie Waterson, National Organiser of the Anti-Nazi League from 1992-2005, who herself sadly died in 2012.
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From Searchlight 40 years ago – Bologna accused linked to London terror cell
In February 1986, five years after the event, Italian investigating magistrates believed their enquiries had revealed who had been behind the bomb attack on Bologna railway station in August 1980, when 85 people died and over 200 were injured. They presented a picture of a galaxy of actors, from the wealthy powerful men who planned […]
From Searchlight 20 years ago – Nazi prisoner’s death plot exposes security failure
In the early 2000’s Searchlight publisher Gerry Gable was heavily involved in dealing with the problems of fascist activity in prisons. The article reproduced here, written by him in January 2006, typified the work that led him to engage with the prison service during this period to help bring about change. Nazi prisoner’s death plot […]
From Searchlight 40 years ago – Hurd’s ‘no change’ policy on Italian terror cell
The presence in the UK of wanted Italian fascist fugitives was a running scandal throughout the 1980s and 1990s. They arrived here to avoid the crackdown which followed the bombing of Bologna railway station in 1980 and stayed here, making huge amounts of money from dodgy accommodation and employment agencies, till their prison sentences expired […]
From Searchlight 25 years ago – The company they keep
At the Conservative Party conference in 2000, attendees were greeted by the sight of a Tory shadow minister sharing a platform with a leading far-right antisemite who claimed to speak for for Britain’s small businesses. In the November 2000 issue of Searchlight, Steve Silver and Nick Lowles revealed what was going on The Federation of […]
From Searchlight 30 years ago – ‘The scales of justice are out of balance’
On October 16, 1993, a massive demonstration marched in Welling, south London, protesting against the presence there of a British National Party ‘bookshop’ – in fact, the party’s national organising base. It had been bought by Richard Edmonds, and ever since it opened, racial attacks and harassment in the area soared. It was a huge […]