Antifascist Groupings or Pro-EU Apologists=Searchlight?

[conspiracy analyst]

Throughout the 1970's and 1980's a campaign occurred against what was called British fascism. For anyone who was anyone being progressive meant No Platform for Fascists.

By the late 1990's this same idea had been adopted by the USA-UK which was in a mad rush to rid the world of Dictators despite the fact that the USA had both supported Hitler in his rise to power and Britain did nothing when Germany rearmed despite this being in contravention to the Versailles Treaty of 1918.

Now the label anti-fascist invariably means being pro-EU. Much in the same way as being a member of the Labour Party means being in bed with the Texas oil lobby.

On the history of Searchlight the premier 'anti-fascist' journal in Britain.

This has been documented in Notes from the Borderland.
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Illuminating as well is that there was an anarchist 'terrorist' group prior to the IRA on British mainland called the 'Angry Brigade' at the same time as the Red Brigades in Italy...

Anyone ever come across them?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,644062,00.html

http://www.spunk.org/cat-us/agb.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angry_Brigade

They targeted Tory politicians businesses, no one died because of their bombs yet a few were imprisoned. Was this the trial run for the IRA campaign on the mainland?

After all what are the chances of a group having the same name as the one in Italy? One allegedly being communist the other anarchist?

[PaulStott]

Searchlight do not even deny their links to the security services, and only the most gullible people on the British left have anything to do with them. Larry O'Hara's Searchlight for Beginners is the core text on their history.

It would be great to see people in the 'truth' movement taking this sort of stuff seriously, and looking at how people have tried to expose secret state manipulation of progressive forces for some time.

On the Angry Brigade though, what is your evidence that they were related to the state?

[conspiracy analyst]

[PaulStott]

Well, in the case of AB defendant John Barker, he famously commented that the police framed a guilty man i.e. he had not done what they charged him with, but had done plenty of other things!

[ian neal]

[Mark Gobell]

Does history not teach us that the default position should be to assume infiltration of every counter culture?

What leads you to assume that folk involved in 9/11 truth have little interest in or scant knowledge of these things?

[PaulStott]

[Mark Gobell]

Why do you think nobody has mentioned Mr Gable & Co before Paul?

[conspiracy analyst]

[paul wright]

I can't see much argument against Paul on this.
It's almost onside. Searchlight and Gable is admittedly MI5 controlled as almost certainly are the fascist factions.I don't know about Irving who, while obnoxious has an independence about him. Griffin - almost certainly an agent of the state

[Keith Mothersson]

I knew many of the people who ended up on trial as the Angry Brigade and helped them with a 'radical community newspaper' which in retrospecct may have been a front for AB communiques. I have my suspicions that one of their number may have been an agent provocateur.

Talking of revising my past assumptions:
a) May 68 was for many of us the quintessence of radicalism! But now I can't help wonder how the Cohn-Bendit-led?/not-led? student movement almost brought De Gaulle down, weakened him a lot. Did it get a fair wind as kind of early 'velvet revolution' to remove a thorn in the flesh for US imperialism,
e.g. De Gaulle had recently pissed Nato off by kicking them out of France (and withdrawing france from military part of Nato);
what is more he had 'called' the US on its habit of getting lots of real stuff from the rest of the world in exchange for dollars - de Gaulle had said, no thanks, we want payment in gold (the untrusting cad!), which led to the US being forced off the gold standard a yea or two later.

b) I also remember my amazement from one term to the next how suddenly the Keele University student 'readicalsim' scene went from politics to suddenly being awash with drugs being dished out by two very dashing and way out gentlemen who had suddenly turned out as students, and who were rumored (I know not whether truly) to know posh people such as Annabella Churchill. Was this the equivalent of sending drugs into Watts after the riots?

Regarding Searchlight, anarchist circles were always trying to warn the straight Left about their MI5 links.

Paul, I started a defence of David Griffin, often absurdly accused of being a sinister 'globalist'. Now I realise you meant Nick Griffin. Peace

[John White]

[PaulStott]

[Mark Gobell]