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Rock Against Racism
It was a movement formed in reaction to rising xenophobia and racism fuelled by Nazi organisations like the National Front. Rock Against Racism stood for "Rebel music, street music. Music that breaks down people's fear of one another. Crisis music. Now music. Music that knows who the real enemy is. Rock Against Racism. Love Music Hate Racism."
X-Ray Spex, The Clash, Steel Pulse, and Tom Robinson were on the bill - a diverse selection of music for a diverse multi-cultural crowd. Today the Anti Nazi League is campaigning again in the name of Love Music Hate Racism - a demonstration of the positive energy of the music scene against the hate-fuelled beliefs of the British National Party, National Front and Combat 18. |
Twenty years ago, a group of musicians and political activists came together to form Rock Against Racism.
The most memorable Rock Against Racism event was the April 1978 "Carnival against the Nazis". A huge rally
of 100,000 people marched the six miles from Trafalgar Square through London's East End - the heart of National
Front territory - to a Rock Against Racism concert in Victoria Park, Hackney.