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.
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