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Searchlight opposes racism and fascism in Britain and abroad
Searchlight was founded in 1964 as an occasional publication and press agency, and became a monthly magazine in 1975. From the outset it has been uniquely successful in gathering and analysing intelligence on the far right. The results of this work are used far beyond the pages of the magazine and our other publications.
Searchlight exposes the fascists and racists’ activities and alerts the antifascist community to our opponents’ intentions, plans and trends. We are the only publication regularly to investigate and analyse the far right’s ideological powerhouse, the New Right, and to expose the groups that bridge the fascist and Tory right such as the Traditional Britain Group. Searchlight is the first port of call for activists, journalists, politicians and academics seeking information on organised racism in Britain.
Until autumn 2011 Searchlight worked alongside the Hope Not Hate campaign to help bring about the defeat of almost all the British National Party’s local councillors. Searchlight’s accurate investigations of the BNP, especially its financial mismanagement, contributed greatly to the party’s present problems. Searchlight continues to focus on combating the BNP, which remains by far the largest and best organised fascist party in Britain, but also investigates the various organisations that have grown or emerged as a result of the BNP’s internal dissent, and closely followed the moves by former BNP MEP Andrew Brons to form a new party.
Since early 2011 Searchlight has worked with academics at the Radicalism and New Media Group at Northampton University who provide an academic input to Searchlight magazine. In conjunction with them Searchlight publishedFar-right.com, which examines the fascists’ widespread use of the internet and social networks. This was the first in a book series titled Mapping the Far Right, which aims to be a fairly priced resource for students, academics and anti-fascist activists. The second in the series, White Power Music: Scenes of Extreme-Right Cultural Resistance, was published in 2012.
Searchlight is happy to work with all antifascists and is not aligned with any political party. Searchlight works with trade unionists, union branches and national TU organisations through Trade Union Friends of Searchlight.
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Derek Holland, involved in 2001 founding of IHS Press, a publisher that has been accused of fascist and antisemitic ties. (searchlight)
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Mr Taylor’s apparent nonchalance towards our revealing the antecedents and connections of those with whom he is involved. When warned of the presence of neo-Nazis within the group trying to takeover the SSPX, Taylor denied any knowledge of such persons and stated they were unwelcome. It is odd, therefore, to see people such as Derek Holland, Michael Fishwick and Gareth Hurley in the Mission, because the antecedents of these individuals are well known, and easily discovered.
Holland has deep roots in far-right extremism. He stood as a National Front candidate at the 1979 general election. But he is far from being the stereotypical right-wing thug. Holland was a leading light in the NF’s Political Soldier wing, with his influential pamphlet, The Political Soldier: A Statement of 1984, providing the far right in Britain with a religious and spiritual ideology derived from the Italian philosopher Julius Evola. Holland’s role in the far right has received serious attention from academics, not least because of his prominence in providing the far right with a coherent ideological basis. Other activities that have gained Holland some notoriety include a fundraising visit with Nick Griffin to Colonel Gaddafi, and, in 2001, the founding of IHS Press, a publisher that has been accused of fascist and antisemitic ties.
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