Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine website

[rowan]

Very useful website www.searchlightmagazine.com/


Lots of articles to read, and as a pagan I find some of them truly shocking - it seems a lot of people think of paganism and racist as the same thing


Quote from one such article:

The crude attempt by the BNP to “Christianise” its racial message is particularly ironic given that the BNP website harks back to the halcyon days of pre-Christian paganism (!) calling for the resurrection of “ancient faiths” while extolling the virtues of “ancestral folk traditions”.

The BNP and Christianity

[Boojum]

I should probably mention that Searchlight are a pretty controversial topic among many antifascists.

I have my own views on the subject, but I'll leave it to people to make up their own minds.

This is the other side of the argument (from an antifascist perspective)- libcom.org/library/searchlight-for-beginners-larry-o-hara

[rowan]

Just had a look at your link and I see what you mean!
I've never been involved with any anti-fascist groups (my background is mainly environmental issues so this is new to me) but it's just as well that we know which ones we can trust AND those we can't.

[rowan]

I've just seen an Antifa article which states they will have nothing to do with Searchlight.

I think it's things like this that highlight the need for websites such as this one - as I said before I've never had any dealings with any anti-facist groups before and it's so easy to assume any group that is anti facist is ok. Searchlight clearly isn't and I'm glad I posted the link here now otherwise I'd never have known, nor would plenty of others I'm sure.


Any others we should be wary of?

[Boojum]

Insert the usual disclaimer here about not taking my word alone without looking into stuff yourself.

Be very wary of Dave Hann and Steve Tilzely, the authors of No Retreat- www.amazon.co.uk/No-Retreat-Dave-Hann/dp/1903854229

I've never met the blokes personally, but there's some pretty serious allegations about them- www.redaction.org/news/oct_03.html