Editing Gerry Gable (section)

==Background==
The son of a [[Jewish]] woman and an [[Church of England|Anglican]] father, Gable grew up in post-war east London identifying as Jewish.<ref name="Internet">{{cite web |url=http://www.aijac.org.au/review/1999/242/gable.html |title=''Smashing Against Rocks'' |access-date=2006-07-13 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516212859/http://www.aijac.org.au/review/1999/242/gable.html |archivedate=May 16, 2011 }} 1999 Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council article on Gable</ref> As a youth, Gable was a member of the [[Young Communist League]] and the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]], and worked as a runner on the Communist Party's ''[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Daily Worker]]'' newspaper, leaving after a year to become a Communist Party [[trade union]] organiser. He stood unsuccessfully for the Communist Party in 1962 at Northfield Ward, [[Stamford Hill]], [[North London]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/wwq0mz |title=Searchlight and the State |work=Anarchy 36, 1983, as reprinted on the Kate Sharpley website}}</ref> He left the Communist Party because of their anti-Israel policy and because "first and foremost [he has] always been a Jewish trade unionist".<ref name="Internet"/>

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.<ref name="Internet" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/features/article/4/standing-up-to-fascism-a-celebration-of-the-43-group |title=Neo-Nazi leader Colin Jordan's legacy] |website=www.hopenothate.org.uk}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725100430/http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/features/article/4/standing-up-to-fascism-a-celebration-of-the-43-group |date=2011-07-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/neo-nazi-leader-colin-jordans-legacy |title=Standing up to fascism: A celebration of the 43 Group |website=www.thejc.com}} {{dead link|date=March 2025}}</ref>

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 magazine [[Searchlight (magazine)|''Searchlight'']] in the mid-1960s, along with [[Reg Freeson]], [[Joan Lestor]], [[Maurice Ludmer]] and others. Gable and Ludmer remained active in Searchlight Associates and re-launched the magazine in 1975.<ref name="Internet" />