Steve Silver
@steve1silver.bsky.social
Leaden Skies contains writing from Steve Silver on racism, fascism and antisemitism
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"Work was a mugs game." My Grandad lived by that rule - even when it landed him two years in jail for a botched post office robbery. From "poyer" to prison, and his biggest lie of all. ⬇️ Full story: open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
#JewishHistory #TrueCrime #LondonHistory
#JewishHistory #TrueCrime #LondonHistory
Grandad was a Post Office Robber: The Story of Harry Silver
Harry Silver – my grandfather – walked into a trap when he attempted to rob Harrow Post Office in the spring of 1955.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Work was a mugs game." My Grandad lived by that rule - even when it landed him two years in jail for a botched post office robbery. From "poyer" to prison, and his biggest lie of all. ⬇️ Full story: open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
#JewishHistory #TrueCrime #LondonHistory
#JewishHistory #TrueCrime #LondonHistory
Maccabi: The name, the hammer, the hooligans. Maccabi Tel Aviv, carry a name symbolising militant Jewish defence. Read my latest Substack article here. #MaccabiTelAviv #FanBan #AstonVilla #SportsSecurity #Antisemitism
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Maccabi: The name, the hammer, the hooligans
The controversy surrounding tonight’s Aston Villa vs.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Maccabi: The name, the hammer, the hooligans. Maccabi Tel Aviv, carry a name symbolising militant Jewish defence. Read my latest Substack article here. #MaccabiTelAviv #FanBan #AstonVilla #SportsSecurity #Antisemitism
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Mike Cohen: The Jewish anti-fascist whose camera was his gun. 📸 The 62 Group activist & co-founder of Searchlight, who fought fascism not just with his fists, but with a lens. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
#AntiFascism #UKHistory #Searchlight #MikeCohen #JewishActivism #Socialism
#AntiFascism #UKHistory #Searchlight #MikeCohen #JewishActivism #Socialism
Mike Cohen: The anti-fascist whose camera was his gun
Mike Cohen was one of Britain’s great Jewish anti-fascists, whose significant contribution to the movement came through his camera lens.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Mike Cohen: The Jewish anti-fascist whose camera was his gun. 📸 The 62 Group activist & co-founder of Searchlight, who fought fascism not just with his fists, but with a lens. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
#AntiFascism #UKHistory #Searchlight #MikeCohen #JewishActivism #Socialism
#AntiFascism #UKHistory #Searchlight #MikeCohen #JewishActivism #Socialism
A fragile dawn: The war may be ending, but the storm clouds of political failure & rising #Antisemitism are just beginning to clear.
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#Geopolitics #IsraelPalestine #UKPolitics #AntiZionism
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#Geopolitics #IsraelPalestine #UKPolitics #AntiZionism
A fragile dawn: The war’s end and the aftermath
The hope for peace and the challenge of statehood
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October 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A fragile dawn: The war may be ending, but the storm clouds of political failure & rising #Antisemitism are just beginning to clear.
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#Geopolitics #IsraelPalestine #UKPolitics #AntiZionism
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#Geopolitics #IsraelPalestine #UKPolitics #AntiZionism
The Left has a choice: fight the anti-Nazi battles of the past, or fight for a concrete vision of a better Britain rooted in the rebuilding of the NHS & social housing. My view on the challenge ahead. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk... #UKPolitics #PoliticalStrategy
From slogans to solutions: The left’s new anti-racist challenge
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.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Left has a choice: fight the anti-Nazi battles of the past, or fight for a concrete vision of a better Britain rooted in the rebuilding of the NHS & social housing. My view on the challenge ahead. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk... #UKPolitics #PoliticalStrategy
My latest article on the surprising historical ties between Irish and Jewish nationalism, and what the band Kneecap's current controversy reveals about their own history. #Kneecap #IrishNationalism #Zionism #History #Politics #Language tinyurl.com/2tha82t7
The shared roots of two nationalisms: What Kneecap forgets about its own history
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...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My latest article on the surprising historical ties between Irish and Jewish nationalism, and what the band Kneecap's current controversy reveals about their own history. #Kneecap #IrishNationalism #Zionism #History #Politics #Language tinyurl.com/2tha82t7
The Age of Unreason is here. My latest article explores how identity politics and misinformation are eroding our shared reality.
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#Culture #Politics #Enlightenment #Antisemitism
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#Culture #Politics #Enlightenment #Antisemitism
The decay of reason in the digital age
How social media, identity politics, and conspiracy theories are eroding the foundational principles of the Enlightenment
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August 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Age of Unreason is here. My latest article explores how identity politics and misinformation are eroding our shared reality.
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#Culture #Politics #Enlightenment #Antisemitism
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#Culture #Politics #Enlightenment #Antisemitism
Meir Vilner: The communist who signed Israel’s independence declaration. My latest article on Substack tinyurl.com/meirvilner #Israel #Zionism #Communism
Meir Vilner: The communist who signed Israel’s independence declaration
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...
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August 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Meir Vilner: The communist who signed Israel’s independence declaration. My latest article on Substack tinyurl.com/meirvilner #Israel #Zionism #Communism
The unlikely leader: Rudolf Rocker and London's Jewish Anarchists. He led Jewish workers against sweatshops and built inter-communal solidarity, leaving an often overlooked legacy. #anarchism #antisemitism #rudolfrocker
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The unlikely leader: Rudolf Rocker and London's Jewish Anarchists
He led Jewish workers against sweatshops and built inter-communal solidarity, leaving an often overlooked legacy
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August 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The unlikely leader: Rudolf Rocker and London's Jewish Anarchists. He led Jewish workers against sweatshops and built inter-communal solidarity, leaving an often overlooked legacy. #anarchism #antisemitism #rudolfrocker
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The Black Book of Soviet Jewry highlights the suffering of Soviet Jewry under the Nazi occupation during the Second World War. It was a tragically suppressed. Read my latest Substack here:
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#Nazis #Holocaust
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#Nazis #Holocaust
The Black Book of Soviet Jewry
Eyewitness to annihilation: The Black Book's enduring power
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July 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The Black Book of Soviet Jewry highlights the suffering of Soviet Jewry under the Nazi occupation during the Second World War. It was a tragically suppressed. Read my latest Substack here:
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#Nazis #Holocaust
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#Nazis #Holocaust
Leopold Trepper: The anti-Nazi spy who defied all odds. From socialist-Zionist to Soviet master spy he commanded one of WWII's most effective anti-fascist networks. My latest article on Substack: #leopoldtrepper #redorchestra #antifascist #antinazi leadenskies.substack.com/p/leopold-tr...
Leopold Trepper: The anti-Nazi spy who defied all odds
From socialist-Zionist to Soviet master spy he commanded one of WWII's most effective anti-fascist networks
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July 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Leopold Trepper: The anti-Nazi spy who defied all odds. From socialist-Zionist to Soviet master spy he commanded one of WWII's most effective anti-fascist networks. My latest article on Substack: #leopoldtrepper #redorchestra #antifascist #antinazi leadenskies.substack.com/p/leopold-tr...
Henri Curiel: The unsolved assassination of a Jewish revolutionary. From Cairo exile to Parisian target, his life was a nexus of liberation movements and Cold War shadows My latest article on Substack #antiimperialism #antifascism open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
Henri Curiel: The unsolved assassination of a Jewish revolutionary
From Cairo exile to Parisian target, his life was a nexus of liberation movements and Cold War shadows
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June 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Henri Curiel: The unsolved assassination of a Jewish revolutionary. From Cairo exile to Parisian target, his life was a nexus of liberation movements and Cold War shadows My latest article on Substack #antiimperialism #antifascism open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
"It took some serious guts to infiltrate, expose, and then carry on campaigning against the Ku Klux Klan in the USA in the 1940s..." My latest article on Substack is about Stetson Kennedy and can be found here leadenskies.substack.com/p/stetson-ke... #StetsonKennedy #antifascist
Stetson Kennedy: The man who unmasked the Klan
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.
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May 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"It took some serious guts to infiltrate, expose, and then carry on campaigning against the Ku Klux Klan in the USA in the 1940s..." My latest article on Substack is about Stetson Kennedy and can be found here leadenskies.substack.com/p/stetson-ke... #StetsonKennedy #antifascist
How antisemitism killed my lecturer: My latest Substack on how antisemitism led to the death of university lecturer Dr Laurinda Stryker bit.ly/4kryrNj #antisemitism
How antisemitism killed my lecturer
Dr Laurinda Stryker was never fully comfortable in Brighton, teaching history at a south coast British university in the 1990s.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
How antisemitism killed my lecturer: My latest Substack on how antisemitism led to the death of university lecturer Dr Laurinda Stryker bit.ly/4kryrNj #antisemitism
VE Day: Celebrating the victory of a people's war against fascism. An anti-fascist perspective. leadenskies.substack.com/p/ve-day-80t...
#VEDay #VEDay80
#VEDay #VEDay80
VE Day 80th anniversary
Celebrating the victory of a people’s war against fascism
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May 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
VE Day: Celebrating the victory of a people's war against fascism. An anti-fascist perspective. leadenskies.substack.com/p/ve-day-80t...
#VEDay #VEDay80
#VEDay #VEDay80
The visit of two great Soviet Jews to Britain and the tragic aftermath. My latest article on the 1943 trip by Itzik Feffer and Solomon Mikhoels. #Mikhoels #Feffer #antifascism #antisemitism tinyurl.com/3j27r2jk
The visit of two great Soviet Jews to Britain and the tragic aftermath
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.
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April 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The visit of two great Soviet Jews to Britain and the tragic aftermath. My latest article on the 1943 trip by Itzik Feffer and Solomon Mikhoels. #Mikhoels #Feffer #antifascism #antisemitism tinyurl.com/3j27r2jk
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. My latest article on Substack. #Gorbachev #Watford #Communism #CPGB
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Gorbachev, Watford and Eurocommunism
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.
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April 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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. My latest article on Substack. #Gorbachev #Watford #Communism #CPGB
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My lastest Substack article about TV documentary pioneer Stephen Peet and his BBC TV series Yesterday's Witness who made groundbreaking programmes about The Battle of Cable Street, Conscientious Objectors and the Jarrow crusade amongst other things.
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Yesterday’s Witness and documentary pioneer Stephen Peet
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 ...
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March 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My lastest Substack article about TV documentary pioneer Stephen Peet and his BBC TV series Yesterday's Witness who made groundbreaking programmes about The Battle of Cable Street, Conscientious Objectors and the Jarrow crusade amongst other things.
bit.ly/4l5C5Nr
bit.ly/4l5C5Nr
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
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
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
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
My article in today's Morning Star newspaper. #HolocaustMemorialDay #Auschwitz morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/au...
The Auschwitz death marches: 80 years after the frozen hell
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...
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January 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My article in today's Morning Star newspaper. #HolocaustMemorialDay #Auschwitz morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/au...
Holocaust Memorial Day: Against denial and relativisation: Today – 27 January – marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where the Nazis murdered 1.1 million people. #HolocaustMemorialDay #Auschwitz open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
Holocaust Memorial Day: Against denial and relativisation
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...
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January 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Holocaust Memorial Day: Against denial and relativisation: Today – 27 January – marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where the Nazis murdered 1.1 million people. #HolocaustMemorialDay #Auschwitz open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Auschwitz death marches. Here's my article commemorating that day. bit.ly/40MvMGB
Remembering the Auschwitz death marches: 80 years after the frozen hell
The death marches from Auschwitz-Birkenau were a final act of Nazi barbarism, born of desperation as the Soviet Red Army closed in.
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January 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Auschwitz death marches. Here's my article commemorating that day. bit.ly/40MvMGB
"Pills with Plenty of Lead": The Aid Spain movement in 1930s’ East End of London. My latest article on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
“Pills with Plenty of Lead”
The Aid Spain movement in 1930s’ East End of London
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January 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Pills with Plenty of Lead": The Aid Spain movement in 1930s’ East End of London. My latest article on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...
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Police have asked the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to move their next march so it doesn't clash with Shabbat morning services at a nearby synagogue. PSC have refused. The row gets to the heart of what the marches are for & their impact on community tensions everydayhate.substack.com/p/move-the-m...
Move the march
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...
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January 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Police have asked the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to move their next march so it doesn't clash with Shabbat morning services at a nearby synagogue. PSC have refused. The row gets to the heart of what the marches are for & their impact on community tensions everydayhate.substack.com/p/move-the-m...