How Fifty Years of Industrial Militancy Held the Line

The story of British Mandatory Palestine in the 1920s is usually framed as a one-way journey: Eastern European Jews fleeing Tsarist violence and civil war pogroms, arriving on the shores to drain mala...

“Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews.

The internationalist backbone of British socialism was partly forged in the sweatshops and print rooms of London’s East End at the turn of the 20th century.

On the Easter weekend of 1903, the streets of Kishinev, a provincial trading hub on the southwestern fringe of the Russian Empire, ran with blood.

Why does the ultra-left excuse the slaughter of civilians? The answer lies in a century-old script. Tracing the 1929 'Hebron alibi' to October 7th, and the warning the Comintern gave — and then ignore...

How an SS ideologue rebuilt the infrastructure of antisemitism from the ruins of the Third Reich

THE greatest barrier to a fascist revival after the second world war was the public revelation of its crimes.While these events remained in living memory, the stark facts and evidence made it nearly i...

From a 60% collapse in UK school participation to the cynical far-right alliances of the 'Chikli Doctrine,' the 25th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day faces an unprecedented assault on historical ...

Gerry Gable, the most tenacious post-war anti-fascist Britain ever produced, had been ill for some time when he finally passed away on Saturday, January 3, 2026.

The British Left — if you can call it ‘left’ nowadays — has essentially evicted the working class.

Yiddish as a first language was already largely gone by the time the majority of the Jewish population migrated out of the East End of London in the decades following the Second World War.

Harry Silver – my grandfather – walked into a trap when he attempted to rob Harrow Post Office in the spring of 1955.

The controversy surrounding tonight’s Aston Villa vs.

Mike Cohen was one of Britain’s great Jewish anti-fascists, whose significant contribution to the movement came through his camera lens.

The hope for peace and the challenge of statehood

For decades, the playbook for fighting a racist movement with anti-immigration at the fore was simple: expose it as a fringe ideology led by figures with ties to Nazism.

The Irish hip-hop group Kneecap went from having a dedicated cult following to global notoriety after their provocative comments and actions, including their controversial “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah” cha...

How social media, identity politics, and conspiracy theories are eroding the foundational principles of the Enlightenment

Meir Vilner (born Ber Kovner, 1918-2003) was an important figure in the complex world of Israeli politics, he infuriated the country’s right-wing and narrowly survived an assassination attempt as a re...

He led Jewish workers against sweatshops and built inter-communal solidarity, leaving an often overlooked legacy

Eyewitness to annihilation: The Black Book's enduring power

From socialist-Zionist to Soviet master spy he commanded one of WWII's most effective anti-fascist networks

From Cairo exile to Parisian target, his life was a nexus of liberation movements and Cold War shadows

It took some serious guts to infiltrate, expose, and then carry on campaigning against the Ku Klux Klan in the USA in the 1940s when racial segregation was still commonplace.

Dr Laurinda Stryker was never fully comfortable in Brighton, teaching history at a south coast British university in the 1990s.

Celebrating the victory of a people’s war against fascism

The Soviet writer Itzik Feffer’s Yiddish poem “Ikh Bin a Yid” – I am a Jew – is a rousing ode to Jewish survival throughout history.

On 6 April 1989 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s motorcade of seven armoured Zil limousines arrived in Watford Business Park as part of a two-day trade trip to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain.

When Stephen Peet joined the BBC documentary department in 1967 he sent a memo to the BBC controller David Attenborough about an idea he had for an “inexpensive film series of ordinary people talking ...

Searchlight, the anti-fascist magazine, rolled off the printing presses as a regular publication for the very last time recently, 50 years after the first edition came out in February 1975.

There used to be a fortnightly publication that exposed former Nazis, German revanchism and a new generation of nazis in West Germany.

STEVE SILVER tells the horrifying story of the Nazis' last act of mass barbarity when they forced tens of thousands of prisoners in the camp to march into the snow at gunpoint to hide the evidence fro...

Today – 27 January – marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where the Nazis murdered 1.1million people – 1 million of them Jews – over a near five-ye...

The death marches from Auschwitz-Birkenau were a final act of Nazi barbarism, born of desperation as the Soviet Red Army closed in.

The Aid Spain movement in 1930s’ East End of London

The news this week that the Metropolitan Police are trying to move the next pro-Palestine march away from a central London synagogue made me think of a comment made by US Secretary of State Anthony Bl...

The first Britons to fight in Spain were three tailors from Stepney – the heart of the Jewish East End of London – Nat Cohen, Sam Masters and Allick Sheller.

The Foreign Press Association has said the move "raises serious questions about press freedom".

What do you think of when Woody Guthrie comes to mind?

The toppling of Syria’s Baathist regime has exposed to full light of day the prison apparatus and torture methods that the regime used to suppress the population and maintain power over some 60 years.