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Searchlight’s
Hard Core Communist Backers
Apart
from Gerry Gable’s own explicitly Communist record, almost every single
other activist within the Searchlight stable has an equally extremist
leftist origin: DAVID
EDGAR, who is a Searchlight Publishing Ltd. Shareholder, also served on the
editorial board of Marxism Today, Britain’s largest Communist magazine for
many years. GRAEME
ATKINSON, Searchlight's European correspondent and criminal. Like his mentor
Gable, Atkinson worked for the Communist Party's Morning Star newspaper as
its district reporter in When
in He
was convicted and fined together with Searchlight activist Michael Avril
Loft of distributing an illegal leaflet during the October 1974 General
Election. The
April 1994 issue of Searchlight had, on its back page, an advert for the
“Anti Nazi League”, listing 'Anti Fascist fightback' (formerly entitled
'Anti-Fascist Action contact addresses'), under which are local
'anti-racist' addresses - mostly those of AFA. This was run for many issues
(at least from Feb 93 until April 94). An
advert on the back of the April 1988 issue of Searchlight urged their
readers to "Join Anti-Fascist Action" with AFA's address in AFA
are extremists led by Red Action and Direct Action. RA are violent Marxists
unequivocal in their support of the IRA and its bombing of civilian targets.
Indeed, two of their members have been jailed (in a much publicised case)
for planting bombs for the IRA in In 1983, a bomb exploded at Harrods in London, killing six, including three police officers, and wounding 75. The terrorists responsible were Jan Taylor and Patrick Hayes. Hayes was also the East London organiser of AFA! When the police swooped on his Hackney flat they found AK47 assault rifles, ammo and bomb making equipment. These are the sort of
people with who Gable and Searchlight associate themselves! |
More
than 15 years have passed since the