Searchlight Critical Bibliography
1987

 


The white discursive order: the British New Right’s discourse on cultural racism with particular reference to the Salisbury Review, by Gill Seidel, is pages 39-66 of APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE, POETICS AND PSYCHIATRY. *

Le discours d’exclusion: Les mises à distance, le non-droit, by Gill Seidel, published in Mots (Mars, 8, 5-16). **

[Not seen by compiler.]

* APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE, POETICS AND PSYCHIATRY Edited by Iris M. Zavala, Teun A. Van Dijk and Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz, Coordinated by Bill Dotson Smith, published by John Betjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, (1987). 241 pages. Index.

** APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE, POETICS AND PSYCHIATRY, page 65.


Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology, by Michael Billig, published by Cambridge Univesity Press, Cambridge, (April 1987).

This is the hardback edition; the paperback was published in September 1989.

[BBIP, 1991]


Attitudes towards the British Royal Family: schematic and rhetorical aspects by Michael Billig, unpublished manuscript, University of Loughborough, (1987).

[Not seen by compiler.]


FASCISM IN BRITAIN A History, 1918-1985 by Richard Thurlow, published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, (February 1987). 317 pages. Index. Illustrated.

The Acknowledgements to this book includes Gerry Gable and Searchlight.

Page 306: of Searchlight, Thurlow effuses: “This is the most interesting intelligence source for post-1945 British fascism. Gerry Gable is particularly keen that more academics should be made aware of his resources.”

One would imagine that goy historian and philo-Semitic creep Thurlow has got to be joking. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and this unconditional endorsement illustrates too well the extent to which this filthy cabal of Aryan-hating Jewish “anti-fascists” and goy fellow travellers has subverted academia, not only in Britain but throughout the Western world.

[BBIP, 1991 - where this book is listed erroneously as Fascism in Britain, 1918-86.]


Exposing the Hatemongers, Part 1, published in National Front News, March (1), 1987, issue 85, page 2.


The New Nostalgia by David Edgar, published in Marxism Today, March 1987, pages 30-1 & 33 & 35.


PLAYS: ONE by David Edgar, published by Methuen, London, (April 1987). 405 pages.

This is a paperback compilation of Edgar’s plays including The Jail Diary Of Albie Sachs and Destiny.

Edgar is pictured on the back cover where he is described as “one of Britain’s leading political playwrights”

On pages vi-vii is a chronology of his plays and screenplays.

The book has an introduction by the author.

[BBIP, 1991]


Exposing the Hatemongers, Part 2 published in National Front News, April (1), 1987, issue 87, page 2.

Covers the Gable Memorandum and an article on Searchlight from Sniper, the anarchist paper.


Exposing the Hatemongers, Part 3, published in National Front News, April (2), 1987, issue 88, page 2.

Lists playwright David Edgar as a Searchlight shareholder.


MR GERALD HOWARTH APOLOGY published in Private Eye, 29 May ’87, issue 664, page 8.

Substantial damages paid to this gentleman, and all costs re spurious Gable-inspired allegations.


June 1987: SEARCHLIGHT
THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-FASCIST MONTHLY
is issue 144, runs to 24 pages and is priced at 70p.

The front page story is THE QUIET COUP? and takes up pages 9-18 including several different reports.

Some of this is undoubtedly true, having been reported by other sources, but much of it is nonsense.

On page 12 is a photograph of Les Vaughan of Column 88; Gable inadvertently exposed Vaughan as one of his so-called moles when I sued him for defamation!

On page 14 is a photograph of Major Ian Souter-Clarence in full military garb. He is alluded to here as Ian Souter and is said to be the military instructor for Column 88. Total drivel.

On the previous page is an article from the Daily Telegraph, May 12, 1976 (in this bibliography) which points out that no (credible) evidence had been found for this Column 88 underground army nonsense.

For the full background to this see the pamphlet In Serving The Wicked Expect No Reward... on this site. Very briefly, Column 88 was a small number of Nazi fantasists whose most outrageous act was celebrating the birthday of a certain Austrian-born politician, and then only maybe. Nor was John Tyndall ever a member as claimed here.

CARF is relegated to pages 22-4 with the usual whining about something called racism.


The hysterical and academically dishonest polemic The Holocaust Denial was reviewed by Lobster, issue 13, undated but published circa June 1987.


National Characteristics by David Edgar, published in Marxism Today, August 1987, pages 32-4.

Edgar interviews the incoming director of the National Theatre.


Far-right in merger talks published in the Morning Star, August 10, 1987, page 3.

Quotes a report in Searchlight.


September 1987: SEARCHLIGHT
THE ANTI-FASCIST MONTHLY
is issue 147, runs to 20 pages and is priced at £1.

The front cover story is THE NEW AXIS which apparently is the so-called far right, the Nation Of Islam, Iran and Libya; the actual story is pages 3-4.

Pages 5-6 is a report of the apparent arson attack on the Islington home of a woman named Anna Sullivan, apparently a member of Anti-Fascist Action. Obviously, she lived in Islington. The magazine makes a thinly veiled accusation that Patrick Harrington was in some way responsible for it. On page 6, Sullivan is listed as a speaker at a London rally on September 23, Searchlight is also listed.

CARF is pages 8-9 & 18-20.

On page 20 is a short report on the case of Paula Otemah who was given a mere three month sentence for smuggling cocaine. An MP has called for the judge to be sacked because this woman is pregnant and should be in hospital.

I have three words for that: Natalie Veronica Knight.


The Morals Dilemma by David Edgar published in Marxism Today, October 1987, pages 20-1, 23 & 25.

Page 2 of this issue (and others) “Theoretical and discussion journal of the Communist Party”


Nazi hunters send Hurd new war crime dossier by Frank Thompson, published in the Daily Mail October 13, 1987, page 15.

Gable claimed to have made “‘a breakthrough’ after weeks in Moscow, and Riga in Latvia, examining official files about Paul Reinhards, a leading figure in London’s Latvian community.” It remains to be seen if this breakthrough involved forging documents himself or simply endorsing Soviet forgeries; whatever, these allegations were thoroughly investigated, and discredited, by judicial experts of unimpeachable integrity, something clearly Gable has never been.


War crimes action published in the Morning Star, October 13, 1987, page 1.

Searchlight and the UJS said to be organising a lobby of Parliament on November 25 against “the murderers in our midst.”


Relentless searchlight on hunting the hated is an article/interview by David Winner published in the Jewish Chronicle, October 23, 1987, page 10.

A real embarrassment to Gable, this. Repeats the rubbish about the Notting Hill bomb plot, among other things. This is a two part article; the other “anti-fascist” featured here is a shabbos goy, a certain Mrs Klarsfeld.


Put war criminals on trial by Marilyn Honigman published in the Jewish Chronicle, November 6, 1987, page 30.

Report of a campaign to hound old men, alleged war criminals. Aryan ones, of course. This campaign was run by Searchlight/Union of Jewish Students. “The heads of the American French and Israeli legal services departments agree the Soviet government has never produced forged documents in these cases”, says Gable. Who said anything about the Soviets, Gerry. Didn’t you go to Riga to fish out some documents? (See entry for Daily Mail, October 13, 1987).


FESTIVALS OF THE OPPRESSED by David Edgar published in NEW FORMATIONS, NUMBER 3, WINTER 1987, pages 19-32.

Page 31: this was first delivered as the George Orwell Memorial Lecture November 6, 1986 at the National Theatre, June 1, 1987.


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