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Terezin – memorialised in music
Originally posted online 24 January 2022 Holocaust Memorial Day falls this week, and the BBC’s contribution, yesterday, was an extraordinary day of music at the Barbican Centre, music written in Nazi camps and wartime ghettos by Jewish composers. Most were held in Terezin, or Theresienstadt as the Nazis called it, just north of Prague in Read more
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Infiltrating a right wing plot to “smash” Searchlight – the inside story
Forty years on – the inside story of how we infiltrated a right wing plot to “smash” Searchlight Read more
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Your tour guide is a wanted terrorist…
How a Searchlight investigation into a tour guide company first exposed links between the National Front and London-based Italian fascists wanted for terrorism Read more
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British Movement – Our part in its downfall
The last of my articles about the exploits of anti-fascist super mole Ray Hill. This time – how he engineered the collapse of British Movement, then the UK’s biggest openly neo-Nazi organisation. Read more
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When a fugitive fascist terror cell broke cover…
How an Italian fascist terror cell broke cover in London to support a comrade accused of murder and a £10 million pound bank raid … Read more
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Avtar Singh Jouhl (1937-2022) : Founder of the Indian Workers’ Association, and friend and ally of Searchlight
The Searchlight team was saddened to hear of the death Avtar Singh Jouhl, an old friend and ally of the magazine, who died on on 7th October 2022. Searchlight worked with Avtar Jouhl throughout his time at the Indian Workers’ Association and we had spent time with him more recently when we gathered at the Read more
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About Me
I’ve been an active anti-fascist since 1974, working for Searchlight magazine from 1975 till 1989. From 1983 till 1989 I was its editor and co-wrote ‘The Other Face of Terror’, with Ray Hill, the celebrated Searchlight infiltrator into the European neo-Nazi movement. After that, and for the next 20 years, I worked as an investigative journalist with ITV’s World in Action and the BBC’s Panorama. I blog about the history and practice of anti-fascism, especially in the UK.
Recent Posts
- Obituary: Gerry Gable (1937-2026), architect of modern British anti-fascism
- Peter Marriner: undercover hero of the anti-fascist movement
- My time as Searchlight editor – unremitting but worth every single second
- This lazy Guardian hatchet job on a great journalist is simply a disgrace
- The Music of Terezin
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