Gerry Gable
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Gerry Gable is a British political activist and long-serving editor and publisher of the anti-fascist Searchlight magazine.[1]
The son of a Jewish woman and a nominally Anglican father, Gerry Gable grew up in post-war east London identifying as Jewish. He stood unsuccessfully for the Communist Party on 10 May 1962 at Northfield Ward, Stamford Hill, North London. Gable left the Communist Party because of their anti-Israel policy and because "first and foremost [he has] always been a Jewish trade unionist".
Joined by other Jews and anti-fascists, many ex-servicemen and members of the (Spanish) International Brigades, the militant anti-fascist organisation 62 Group was formed to confront fascists organising on the streets.
Gerry Gable organised intelligence for the 62 Group on fascists, including using infiltrators to help build a defence policy for the community against fascist attacks. This led to the formation of the anti-fascist Searchlight magazine in the mid-1960s, along with Reg Freeson, Joan Lestor, Maurice Ludmer and others. Gable and Ludmer, who died in 1981, remained active in Searchlight Associates and re-launched the magazine in 1975.[2]
By November 1963, Holocaust denier David Irving was in England when he called the London Metropolitan Police with suspicions he had been the victim of a burglary by three men who had gained access to his Hornsey flat in London claiming to be General Post Office (GPO) telephone engineers. Gerry Gable was convicted in January 1964, along with Manny Carpel. They were fined £20 each, with Gable being fined an additional £5 for the theft of a GPO pass.[3]
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