Gerry Gable – the Die-Hard Communist

Gerry Gable is the official publisher of Searchlight Magazine. While pretending to be an “objective journalist watchdog” Gable is in fact, a hard-line Communist who has, contrary to party orders, specialised in his own form of Zionism, causing a not inconsiderable number of his erstwhile extreme leftist colleagues to either disavow or disown him completely, accusing Gable and his cronies of being state agents.

Gable’s objectivity has always been twisted. He joined the Young Communist League in 1952, before reaching his full political maturity around 1960 as a Tape Room Boy and junior writer on the Daily Worker newspaper, the official organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). (The Daily Worker was renamed the “Morning Star” in 1966).

From 1960 to 1961, Gable worked as a fulltime Communist Party Industrial Organiser, and then decided to get down to the real business of standing in an election.

His political career was, however, as much of a spectacular failure as his journalistic career.

Being a devoted Communist, Gable took the hammer and sickle party banner to the polling booth in May 1962, standing for the Communist Party as its official candidate in Northfield Ward, Stamford Hill, North London . He came last, much to the amusement of observers.

Mortified and humiliated, Gable realised that he had no political ability whatsoever, and started to look around for another way to make a living off his extremist views.

His search soon produced results: in 1964, the Searchlight Magazine, already being published in newspaper format by fellow Communists, offered him a job as a “research editor.”

By 1969, he had been made editor of the paper, but quickly ran it into the ground, his appalling journalistic skills soon becoming evident and driving the paper out of business.

For many years, Gable ran “Searchlight” purely as a self-described “press bureau” (actually just a clipping collection) with fellow Reds Maruice Ludmer (a one-time journalist for the Communist Party newspaper Morning Star) and Mike Cohen, only receiving a subsidy from an unnamed private source to restart the magazine in 1975.

Once again, Gable managed to run the new magazine into the ground, and he was forced to go and seek work elsewhere.

Incredibly, despite his open Communist Party membership, Gable was appointed as an “investigative journalist” at London Weekend TV, a job he managed to hold down until 1983.

In that year, Ludmer died, and there was no-one else to run Searchlight, and the magazine was once again entrusted to his care. This time, with a carefully worked out budget and massive subsidies, Gable managed to produce the magazine format Searchlight until 1998, when he was made ‘publisher,’ a post he still holds today.

It is remarkable then, that any newspaper or media source takes this overt Communist as an authority on anything except his own extreme views, much less than being able to comment “objectively” on any matter of the day.