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Steve Silver
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Steve Silver | Former Editor, Searchlight magazine. Insights on the fight against antisemitism, racism, and fascism, documenting the stories and struggles that shaped our movement.
https://leadenskies.substack.com/
In 1955, a wanted Nazi collaborator appeared at the Bandung Conference to help birth the post-colonial world.

Read how sectarian hatred was rebranded as anti-imperialism—from Cairo to the Soviet bloc and the UN.

leadenskies.substack.com/p/nazi-roots... #History #AntiFascism
February 14, 2026 at 9:51 AM
“The Nazis did not gas enough Jews.”

In 1957, Ludwig Zind’s rant in a bar sparked a national crisis in West Germany. It led to a Nazi safehouse in Cairo, and a a 12-year flight from justice.

The full account of the Zind scandal: leadenskies.substack.com/p/ludwig-zin...
February 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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. Link to my Substack article in next post. #antifascist @searchlightmag.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
John Peet: The Englishman who exposed West Germany’s Nazis. "There used to be a fortnightly publication that exposed former Nazis, German revanchism and a new generation of nazis in West Germany..." Link to full article below. #Nazis #antifascist #DDR
February 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The Jewish International Brigaders and why they are little remembered. My latest article on Substack in post below. #antifascist #antisemitism
January 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
What do you think of when Woody Guthrie comes to mind? The Dust Bowl Ballads? An iconic rambling Okie who sums up a slice of America? His song “This Land is Your Land”? Or his labour movement songs like “Union Maid”?
#woodyguthrie
Link to my latest Substack article in next post
December 19, 2024 at 5:04 PM