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Author RENTON, DAVID

Title NEVER AGAIN : rock against racism and the anti-nazi league 1976-1982
Published [Place of publication not identified] ROUTLEDGE, 2018

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Series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Ser
Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Ser
Contents Cover; Praise; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Preface; Notes; Chapter 1: In England, dreaming; The absence of empire and the memory of war; Ruining the government's plan; Because you were there; Notes; Chapter 2: A history of coups and expulsions; Oswald Mosley and the English voodoo; The loved and hated leader; Kicking their way into the headlines; Opportunities, modernisation; Red Lion Square; Populists, Strasserites; Racism: state and popular; Notes; Chapter 3: The other young believers; Dreamers and practical people
The second generationNotes; Chapter 4: Reggae, soul, rock 'n' roll; Notes; Chapter 5: Lewisham; The police against black youth; The sky darkened; Notes; Chapter 6: Even God has joined the Anti-Nazi League; The first squaddists; Plans to Hyde; Naming the Front Nazis; Workers against the Nazis; University, schools, football; Campaign -- or front?; Notes; Chapter 7: We got high, we touched the sky; Whose Carnival?; Storming sexism; Nazi funk; Carnival two; Notes; Chapter 8: Southall; The kids are innocent; Blair Peach; The justice campaign; The Cass Report; Shaping the memory of the events; Notes
Chapter 9: Keeping on keeping onRock Against the Tories; Those born later; Squaddism; Notes; Chapter 10: Conclusion; Notes; Index
Summary By 1976, the National Front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. In a context of national decline, racism and fears that the country was collapsing into social unrest, the Front won 19 per cent of the vote in elections in Leicester and 100,000 votes in London. In response, an anti-fascist campaign was born, which combined mass action to deprive the Front of public platforms with a mass cultural movement. Rock Against Racism brought punk and reggae bands together as a weapon against the right. At Lewisham in August 1977, fighting between the far right and its opponents saw two hundred people arrested and fifty policemen injured. The press urged the state to ban two rival sets of dangerous extremists. But as the papers took sides, so did many others who determined to oppose the Front. Through the Anti-Nazi League hundreds of thousands of people painted out racist graffiti, distributed leaflets and persuaded those around them to vote against the right. This combined movement was one of the biggest mass campaigns that Britain has ever seen. This book tells the story of the National Front and the campaign which stopped it
Subject Anti Nazi League (Great Britain) -- History -- 20th century
National Front (Great Britain) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Anti Nazi League (Great Britain) fast
National Front (Great Britain) fast
Subject Anti-fascist movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Fascism & Totalitarianism.
Antifa.
Anti-Fascist Action.
Cable Street.
National Front.
Socialist Workers Party.
43 Group.
62 Group.
Anti-fascist movements
Politics and government
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1964-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056923
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056924
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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