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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 19, 2020 16:13:10 GMT
Looks good.... Rubika Shah’s energising film charts a vital London protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 18:20:04 GMT
Worth a look.
Have you ever read'Walls Come Tumbling Down' by Daniel Rachel?
Also'Beating the Fascists'by Sean Birchall?
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Post by personunknown on Jun 19, 2020 18:57:29 GMT
Looks good but a tenner to watch it over a 48 hour period is a bit steep. It's not downloadable for permanent use.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 19, 2020 19:35:45 GMT
I've got Walls Come Tumbling Down but have yet to read it
Yep, a tenner is a bit steep for a stream but guess it'll come down in price soon enough
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 19, 2020 19:36:08 GMT
Wonder if it mentions that Conroy Hall gig that Crass wrote that song about?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 19, 2020 19:40:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 22:18:24 GMT
I've got Walls Come Tumbling Down but have yet to read it Yep, a tenner is a bit steep for a stream but guess it'll come down in price soon enough Well worth a read apart from the Red Wedge section which is utter rubbish. A tedious rewrite of a doomed 'project'.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 22:20:13 GMT
Wonder if it mentions that Conroy Hall gig that Crass wrote that song about? That's in the Sean Birchall book. Actually, I'll have to re-read the RAR and Two Tone sections of Walls Come Tumbling Down again as I really enjoyed them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 22:20:43 GMT
I've got Walls Come Tumbling Down but have yet to read it Yep, a tenner is a bit steep for a stream but guess it'll come down in price soon enough Where can you stream it from?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 20, 2020 6:52:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2020 14:48:54 GMT
Cheers👍
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Post by zeopold on Jun 21, 2020 20:37:59 GMT
I missed the first big RAR in town but caught the second... the Fingers stepped up to replace Sham when Pursey bottled it for fear of alienating his nazi bonehead fans
The Fingers played a blinder
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 22, 2020 6:48:32 GMT
What was the difference between Rock Against Racism and the Anti Nazi League? And who had the better logo?
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Post by personunknown on Jun 22, 2020 8:20:16 GMT
RAR was formed mainly in response to Clapton's racist outburst whereas ANL was mainly a Socialist Workers Party construct to repel the rise of the National Front. What I can recall without googling, RAR had more longevity and put on big and small concerts all over Britain whereas the ANL gigs were a handful of big affairs. I had both those logos on button badges, the ANL one stood out more. In fact there was a series of 'arrowed' badges, Gays against the Nazis, Schoolkids against etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2020 16:52:47 GMT
There was a crossover of membership between the ANL and SWP. Although as PU states RAR had more of a mixture of people involved from different backgrounds.
The rich kids of the SWP leadership 'stood down'the ANL (and as a consequence RAR suffered)in 1980/81 because they claimed they had 'beaten' the Front.
However, a lot of working class right wingers had voted for Thatcher in 79 which saw the real collapse of the Front's vote.
For Asian and black people the fascists and the racists didn't go away as the British Movement started organising para-fascist attacks on both blacks and asians and the British Left.
As a consequence of this the Stewards group of the ANL had a lot of its members expelled by the SWP leadership-some of whom went onto form Red Action and latterly Anti Fascist Action(AFA)
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