Title: Searchlight magazine
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Searchlight was founded in 1964 as an occasional newspaper publication, but from 1975 to present it has been published as a monthly magazine. Its primary purpose is to investigate and publish exposes on fascist, anti-Semitic, and racist groups operating both in Britain and abroad. The 62 Group, an anti-fascist coalition set up in 1962 in response to the resurgence of fascism in Britain, appointed Gerry Gable to work with their intelligence operation. In 1964 he established a press agency to make the information that they were gathering available to the public in the form of the Searchlight newspaper, under the editorship of Reginald Freeson MP. It was relaunched as a monthly magazine in 1975 and continues to publish today. Coverage has included a number of British far-right groups, including the British National Party (BNP), Combat 18, and the English Defence League (EDL), as well as international fascist and racist organisations, such as the Norwegian Nazi Party and the Australian National Socialist Party. Searchlight's network includes several anti-racist organisations from around the world and it has published many notable journalists, including Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, whose magazine Expo is often considered Searchlight's sister publication. Researchers interested in the evolution of far-right groups around the world in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century will find this publication indispensable for its coverage of a wide range of groups, individuals, and topics.
Subjects: Antisemitism, Fascism, Racism
Places: Great Britain