Category: Southall 1979
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Southall 1979 pamphlet
Today is the anniversary of the police riot in Southall on 23 April, 1979 when police attempted to break up a demonstration against the National Front outside Southall Town Hall. There were numerous injuries and over 300 arrests, while one protestor, Blair Peach, was killed. Recently declassified files reveal much more about what happened at…
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IS/SWP Internal & Pre-Conference Bulletins 1974-1984 on anti-racism/anti-fascism
Next in the bunch of documents that I am looking to digitise is the internal and pre-conference bulletins of the International Socialists and Socialist Workers Party. The documents that I have scanned were especially requested by another researcher so they are no the full IBs, but selections relating to anti-racism, anti-fascism and the SWP’s black…
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The Communist Party and the 1981 riots
Over the weekend of April 10-12 1981 (34 years ago this last weekend), black and white youth rioted on the streets of Brixton and these riots, along with the riots that spread across the country’s inner cities in July of the same year, became a symbol of the unrest caused by Thatcherism, as well as…
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35 years since Southall 1979
23 April is the 35th anniversary of the Southall ‘riot’ when police violently attacked a counter-demonstration against the National Front in the West London district – an act of police violence that left dozens injured and one protestor dead. David Renton’s blog Lives Running has been documenting the aftermath of Blair Peach’s death at Southall…
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Historical research into black power in Britain
This article in The Guardian today caught my eye, arguing that the history of the black power movement and radical black activism in Britain was in ‘danger of being forgotten’. The article was referring to a new biography of Darcus Howe, the black activist and editor of Race Today during the 1970s and early 1980s, by Robin…
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Article on black youth rebellion hits 1000 downloads
I’m just writing a quick post to let readers of this blog know that my 2010 article on black youth rebellion in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s has reached 1000 downloads via the website academia.edu. Thanks to everyone who has downloaded the article. If you haven’t seen it already, you can find it…
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Anti-fascist history: More from the interweb
Following on from this post the other day, those interested in anti-fascist history will be pleased to know that David Renton has added three more posts on British anti-fascist history. The first is on the events at Southall in April 1979 when an anti-fascist protestor was killed (I have written about the recently opened sources…
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