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''Searchlight'' is a British magazine, founded in 1975 by Gerry Gable, which publishes exposés about racism, antisemitism and fascism in the UK and elsewhere. ''Searchlights main focus is on the British National Party (BNP), Combat 18, the English Defence League (EDL) and other sections of the Far right in the United Kingdom, as well as covering similar entities in other countries. The magazine is published and edited by Gerry Gable. ==History== The current ''Searchlight'' magazine was preceded in the early 1960s by a newspaper of the same name, edited by left-wing Labour Party Members of Parliament Reg Freeson and Joan Lestor with Gerry Gable as "research director". It ceased publication in 1967, but Gable, Maurice Ludmer and others stayed together as Searchlight Associates before re-launching a regular journal. The pilot issue of the new Searchlight appeared in February 1975, with Maurice Ludmer as its editor.〔(Searchlight and the State )〕 Ludmer and Gable were also amongst the first sponsors of the Anti-Nazi League, with Ludmer sitting on its first steering group.〔(David Renton, “The Anti-Nazi League as social movement” Paper at the New Socialist Approaches to History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, 6 June 2005 )〕 In the Ludmer years, ''Searchlight'' had a close relationship with CARF, the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, whose magazine was published as an insert from 1979. After Ludmer's early death in 1981, British academic Vron Ware briefly took over the editorial role until 1983.〔(Arcadia Books )〕 The British National Party made a complaint to the Charity Commission of England and Wales about ''Searchlight'' and the associated Searchlight Educational Trust. The two anti-fascist bodies were investigated as it had been claimed that the Educational Trust had been engaging in political activity incompatible with its charitable status. The Commission's report stated that, in its opinion, the Searchlight Educational Trust had gone beyond the Commission's guidelines on political activities. The charity agreed to follow the Commission's recommendations, after the complaint was upheld in 2003 with the Commission deciding that there was a need for a greater distinction between the public activities of ''Searchlight'' magazine and the educational trust. No action was taken against Searchlight. Searchlight was, consequently, divided into three main bodies: ''Searchlight'' magazine, the monthly anti-fascist and anti-racist magazine; Searchlight Information Services (SIS), a research and investigatory body which briefs governments, politicians, journalists, and the police; and, finally, Searchlight Educational Trust (SET), a charity devoted to teaching the negative aspects of racism and fascism. SIS and SET later joined the HOPE not hate campaign and are no longer associated with ''Searchlight'' magazine. Since ''Searchlight'' split with HOPE not hate in September 2011, ''Searchlight'' has opposed co-operation with the state. Larry O'Hara commented in a book on political organisations published in 1994: "Without doubt there are matters on which ''Searchlight'' is usually reliable—election results, court-cases, as well as the occasional publication of primary source documents. Outline sketches of individual careers are of rather more mixed reliability. And When it comes to actual interpretation of the significance of events on the far Right, ''Searchlight'' is often very questionable indeed."〔Paul Mercer ''Directory of British political organisations 1994''. Longman, 1994, p.299.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Searchlight (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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