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(PA PLAYS ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA)
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(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
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MAN: Oi! Oi!
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(YELLING)
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Oi! Oi.
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(YELLS INDISTINCTLY)
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(CHANTING)
Skinheads! Skinheads! Skinheads!
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National Front.
We're all National Front.
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WOMAN: You're all National Front.
Why? They're not English!
They don't belong here.
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Our campaign is a cultural campaign.
Therefore, if we're against racism,
we're a cultural organisation —
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we're against racism in all facets
of British life. We're not just
interested in...
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the fight against the National Front.
It's the fight against racism in
British society.
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The all—round, family British racism.
You know what I mean?
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# THE CLASH: London Calling
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Do you want this country
to become occupied
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by a load of khaki—coloured
multiracial bastards?
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# London calling to the faraway towns
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# Now war is declared
and battle come down
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# London calling to the underworld
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# Come out of the cupboard,
you boys and girls
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# London calling —
now, don't look to us
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# Phony Beatlemania
has bitten the dust
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# London calling, see,
we ain't got no swing
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# 'Cept for the ring
of that truncheon thing
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# The ice age is coming,
the sun's zooming in
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# Meltdown expected,
the wheat is growing thin
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# Engines stop running,
but I have no fear
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# Cos London is drowning,
and I live by the river
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# London calling to
the imitation zone
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# Forget it, brother... #
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I was involved, as I always had been,
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since I first became
culturally active on the left —
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or an artist on the left —
running a studio.
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My studio was in Soho,
in the West End.
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We had an agitprop theatre group
called the Kartoon Klowns.
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(HARSH MECHANICAL WHIRRING)
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WOMAN: Our information now
is that there is a strange phenomena
on planet Earth —
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a ruling class, which is corrupt.
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In the evenings, we'd rehearse
at my studio — in the day I'd be
a working photographer.
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I was asked by NME, 'Will you come
down and photograph the punk night?‘
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Here I am, down the ICA
and, suddenly, the Clash come on —
and'bangtu
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# THE CLASH: White Riot
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15 minutes of unbelievable
energy and power and volume,
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and lyrics about unemployment
and youth alienation and, like,
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'Jesus Christ'. And then
they were gone. They were off.
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The economic situation
was really bad.
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The IMF had moved in —
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they were putting pressure on
wage cuts and social services cuts.
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The whole atmosphere
was really dark and hard.
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The right—wing press
playing the same old tune —
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"We're gonna be swamped.
We're gonna be mobbed."
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To where would you repatriate those
immigrants who were born here?
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To where they wanted to go.
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In most cases, they are the citizens
of their countries of origin —
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although born in this country.
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A person would be
physically seized and deported —
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like a person being erm...
taken onboard
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Her Majesty's ships of war
at the end of the 18th century.
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So where would you draw the line,
Mr Powell?
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I draw it short of that.
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The National Front
were growing incredibly.
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Webster was a clever organiser.
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He started to march in the right
places — make the right noises.
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They were, as they said, 'kicking
their way onto the headlines'.
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Keep our country free from invasion
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when the invaders have got black,
brown and yellow faces!
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(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
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ROGER HUDDLE: I was talking
to Red in the pub.
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We was both really concerned about
the rise of the National Front,
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erm...especially around my area,
in Walthamstow.
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(MILITARISTIC DRUMMING)
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They was using the usual scapegoats
— Asians, blacks...whatever.
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And so, we said,
'What we need to do is do a gig.'
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A thing called Rock Against Racism.
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Also, Bowie was coming out with
a load of crap as well at the time.
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And then Clapton came out with
all that racist shit in Birmingham.
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We all know of Eric Clapton
as the great blues guitarist —
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the God...hero of blues guitar.
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And blues that came out of slavery,
and here he is supporting the man,
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Enoch Powell, who's the greatest
supporter of white supremacy
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in Britain at that time.
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At first, we just didn't believe it.
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I was so angry about it,
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I just went, 'We've got to do
something about this.‘
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I have the answer.
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(READS)
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I just went, 'I've got to send it
to all the music press.‘
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About two weeks later,
it was published.
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I saw Red's letter in the NME.
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I wrote back to Red quite quickly,
and he wrote back to me
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and invited me along to a meeting.
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One rainy night,
I went over to the East End,
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and the people in the room
were artists
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and writers and political activists.
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It was immediate — I thought,
'This is a gang I'd like to join.‘
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# 999: So Greedy
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I was going into the print shop
fairly regularly.
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There was Syd and Ruth,
so they naturally gravitated,
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and the energy and the excitement
of it, and the potential of it,
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was what pulled
all these people onboard.
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Syd, he'd been a documentary—style
photographer in Australia,
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so it was quite natural,
when he came here to London,
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that he would have his camera
with him.
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Ruth really knew what she was doing —
she had the graphic sensibility
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and power that sink right in
to the punk explosion.
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RUTH GREGORY: This photograph
comes out of ID Magazine.
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I have whited it out,
I think, using Tipp—Ex. (LAUGHS)
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This is the very first fanzine
we ever did.
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I'd had the idea of 'Temporary
Hoarding'. It said it so well —
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It was like a street hoarding,
like a rough thing in the street.
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Then, purely by accident, the word
'RAR' happened to be in 'Temporary',
which was great.
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It was very much a cut—and—paste
kind of approach.
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I found this quote from Rod Stewart.
I really liked Rod Stewart.
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He says, 'I think Enoch Powell
is the man. I'm for him.
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This country's overcrowded.
The immigrants should be sent home.
That's it.'
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This is the man who
just moved to Los Angeles, you know?
I mean, the man's full of shit.
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I got rid of all his albums.
I haven't listened to him since,
which is a great shame.
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We were interested in the idea
of people being able
to express themselves,
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and that the expression itself
was a political act.
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Dr David Widgery, who was one of our
great supporters in the early days...
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..he wrote these words. It's like a
little, mini one—paragraph manifesto.
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'We want rebel music, street music.
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Music that breaks down people's
fear of one another.
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Crisis music. Now music. Music
that knows who the real enemy is.
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Love music, hate racism.‘
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It was a scary moment because punk
could have gone either way.
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Some of the bands
did have NF following.
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The NF were selling their newspapers
outside kids' schools.
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They were recruiting on the streets.
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Most fights which happen in school
are caused by racism, right?
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It's not just by jealousy or hate,
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or something which crops up between
'em. It's mostly racism.
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I just think the National Front
wants someone to blame...
GIRL: Someone to pick on.
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..for what's happening
to the country at the moment.
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The whole point of RAR...we're
trying to put some bit of doubt —
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are you really NF? Are you really
someone who wants no future?
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This isn't martial music — the roots
of this are ska. They're black music.
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I went down to this club in Peckham,
and I was the only white person
in the whole place.
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And everyone was going,
'Who's this fucking bloke?'
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I met this man — Red Saunders.
And he was, like, talking sense.
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You know, he was like, 'We've gotta
get together. We've got to build
something that we're all proud of.
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We've gotta try and stamp out
this ugly demon
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that's coming into our community.
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And the only way to do it
is to bring people together.‘
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You don't mind the white kids
coming along?
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No, well, that is the idea, you see?
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Reggae is for everyone, you know?
It's not just for black people.
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It's for white people, it's for
yellow people, green people.
It's for people, you know?
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which was really lucky for us in RAR
because we were fans of all this,
and we stepped on the train.
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It's like there's a railway station.
The train pulls in.
The doors open. Punks get on,
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and all the reggae bands get on —
and 'Bang'.
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# C—C—C—C—C—C—Come on,
take a bite of the bait
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# You can't afford to hesitate... #
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This is the first RAR gig,
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with Matumbi — Dennis Bovell.
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# 999: Obsessed
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That was a hell of a line—up
that night.
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There was a brilliant punk band
called 999.
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To me, they had the energy
of The Clash
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and the outrageousness
of the Sex Pistols.
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The Royal College authorities
went bonkers
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because people were hanging off
the rafters and the balconies.
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999 came with white,
working—class punks.
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Always have black and white bands
together to break down the fear
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cos the NF is trading on
nothing but fear.
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That's why it was so important
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for RAR to have its own political
voice with its own fanzine —
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so Temporary Hoarding was able to go
a bit further than just antiracism.
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And I claim that in the ranks
of our Blackshirt legions
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march the mighty ghosts
of England's past.
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(CHEERING)
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In this country,
in 15 or 20 years' time,
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the black man will have the whip
hand over the white man.
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COLIN PRESCOD: Britain, mother of
the Empire, has had to welcome in her
children and to allow them to settle.
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They have not been allowed to settle
in a dignified manner.
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And because the blacks have refused
to accept indignity and victimage,
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Britain is stuck with a rebellious
black presence in its centres.
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RUTH GREGORY: We challenged
ideas of empire —
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the subjugation of people
all over the world,
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Partition in India, the attitudes
of the British as a dominant force —
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a superior race.
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RED SAUNDERS: My dad worked for
the Crown Agents of the old
British Empire.
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I was brought up as a kid
in West Africa — in Nigeria.
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I remember the extraordinary nature
of white supremacy
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with the European clubs.
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I mean, there was a sort of
unofficial apartheid
running through the entire system.
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My dad had reported
the Prague Spring in 1968,
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when a lot of writers and artists
had tried to take on the Soviets.
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And my mum had come from America —
had been involved in
the civil rights movement.
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We emigrated to Australia in 1960.
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Some of that time I spent
on an island called Palm Island.
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It was a situation
of complete apartheid.
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We didn't go to school
with the aboriginal children.
They had their own school.
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On my mother's side of the family,
my grandmother was a suffragette.
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So I have, at least, two generations
behind me of activism.
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(CHANTING) La, la, la, la
# We're gonna send the blacks back.
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# We're gonna send the blacks back,
la, la, la, la. La, la, la, la.
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# We're gonna send the blacks back,
we're gonna send the blacks back
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# La, la, la, la. La, la, la, la #
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JANET STREET PORTER: The Front
believe, as Hitler's Nazis did,
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that white Europeans are
naturally superior to other people,
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and that the white race
has got to be preserved.
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Britain will be taken out of
the Common Market
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and new links forged with
white Rhodesia and South Africa.
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Part of what RAR was doing was
trying to think about racism
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in terms of — it is a white problem.
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And the idea that
we were all still living,
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consciously or unconsciously,
with the legacy of colonialism.
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(APPLAUSE)
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# That's a plenty's got a beat in it,
the rhythm's got a lot of heat in it
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# Bet your bottom, ten to five,
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# It's gonna get you doing
what it's doing to me... #
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I've got a sort of knack of talking
to these native wallahs.
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Get on with that punkahing, you berk!
(AUDIENCE LAUGHTER)
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I wish to make a complaint against
a nig—nog. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER)
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Moved next door,
that's what he's done.
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What do you mean, 'Is that all?'
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(INAUDIBLE)
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Extreme racists
have become part of balance —
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an acceptable point of view within
the spectrum of political opinions.
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Can you imagine the media
displaying the rhetoric of, say,
black revolutionaries?
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I hope to achieve,
through the ballot box,
by getting people elected,
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first of all, an immediate halt
to coloured immigration.
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And thereafter,
the phased repatriation of all
coloured immigrants,
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their descendants and dependants
from Britain to their lands
of ethnic origin.
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INTERVIEWER: And if they don't go?
They're going to go.
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RED SAUNDERS: What would happen if
they don't want to go back?
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And he said, 'Don't you worry.
They're going back.'
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Then we enter cattle trains and,
you know, we know what that means.
Do you know what I mean?
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Rock Against Racism was white people
finally waking up to the fact
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that, 'Oh, my God,
there's racism here.‘
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Huh? Please. You know,
black people were living it.
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REPORTER: The Front got their best
results in Bethnal Green and Bow,
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where they polled 19.2% of the vote,
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and in Hackney South,
where they took I9%.
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MAN: The National Front
is a Nazi Front!
ALL: Smash the National Front!
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The focus was then absolutely on
the proper organised politics.
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# GANG OF FOUR: Damaged Goods
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Kate Webb was the youngest person
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who came to work full—time
in the RAR office.
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KATE WEBB: We were
absolutely overwhelmed.
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We were getting sackfuls of mail,
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and Red and the other photographers
let me have a desk.
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I used to corral gangs of people.
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We'd sit there with letters strewn
all around the floor —
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all of us picking up letters,
reading them out aloud
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and just writing back
as quickly as we could.
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# Your kiss so sweet
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# Your sweat so sour
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# Your kiss so sweet
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# Your sweat so sour
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# Sometimes, I'm thinking
that I love you
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# But I know it's only lust...
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It was the antiracist enthusiasm —
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the commitment to people
to the horror of possibility
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that we may have
a National Front administration.
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# Sweat's running down your neck
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# Heated couplings in the sun...
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I remember getting a letter
from a kid in Aberystwyth.
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He said,
'My schoolteacher's a fascist.‘
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Say — Ted in Bognor Regis.
You know, Ted who was 14
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and going to school in Bognor Regis.
And we would say, 'Dear Ted,
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There is no RAR group
in Bognor Regis, but you are now
Bognor Regis RAR.
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# I always knew it would
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# You know the change
will do you good
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# You know the change
will do you good
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# Damaged goods
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# Send 'em back
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# I can't work, I can't achieve
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# Send me back
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# Open the till
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# Give me the change
you said would do me good...
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This was a coup for
Temporary Hoarding at that time.
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# You said you're cheap,
but you're too much
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# Your sweat so sour
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We're working on Temporary Hoarding.
We're working on the next gig.
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# But I know it's only lust
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# The change will do you good...
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The Rock Against Racism banner
that's here, and here, is ironed on.
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That's the way, you know... It was
all hands—on guerrilla activities.
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# I'm kissing you goodbye
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# I'm kissing you goodbye
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# I'm kissing you goodbye
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# I'm kissing you goodbye
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# I'm kissing you goodbye #
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We used to do a gig guide,
and it would be instructions
to the RAR group,
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whether they were in Lowestoft
or Leeds, or wherever they were,
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'If you're gonna book a gig,
this is what you do.
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Make sure you control the stage —
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At no point do you let anybody else
get to the microphone.‘
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# ALIEN KULTURE:
Roots, Rock, Ratskank
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We're opposed to the idea
of the National Front,
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and we wanna stop it at the
beginning, at schools and that.
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Come and join the discussion
about what we can do
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to fight the Nazi National Front
in schools.
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'See there, we are black,
we are white, we are dynamite.
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Schoolkids against the Nazis.‘
That's rather good.
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I went to a Rock Against Racism gig,
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and at the end, there was black and
white people with fists like this,
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shouting, 'Black and white, unite.‘
301
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I got some literature from a friend,
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00:25:17,341 --> 00:25:22,581
and I just realised what
the National Front were up to.
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# Swamp her, better call
the rat catcher
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# Swamp her with an alien culture
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00:25:27,341 --> 00:25:30,021
# Swamp her, better call
the rat catcher
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# Swamp her with an alien culture
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00:25:32,661 --> 00:25:35,261
# Swamp her, better call
the rat catcher
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00:25:35,261 --> 00:25:38,061
# Swamp her with
an alien culture... #
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# X—RAY SPEX: Warrior In Woolworths
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# Warrior, warri—warrior
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# Warrior in Woolworths
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# Humble, he may seem
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# Behind his servile innocence
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# He plots and he schemes
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# He's the rebel on the underground
316
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# She's the rebel of the modern town
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# He's the rebel
on the underground... #
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She was one of the very first
artists that talked about
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things that people
never, ever talked about.
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PAULINE BLACK: She had fashioned
something for herself.
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The common way that black females
were supposed to present themselves
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is with plenty of flesh
and, you know,
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some exotic ripe
berries somewhere.
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PAUL SIMONON: The school
I went to, right,
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all the kids are supposed to, sort
of like, be factory fodder,
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you know? That sort of stuff.
And, like,
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the school's sort of built... It's
a real depressing school and that.
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You go there —
you don't learn nothing.
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00:27:27,901 --> 00:27:32,501
All you're working for is just
to go into the factory,
which is round the corner.
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00:27:32,501 --> 00:27:34,821
JANET STREET PORTER: Are a lot of
your fans on the dole?
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00:27:34,821 --> 00:27:36,981
I mean, do they feel the same way?
332
00:27:36,981 --> 00:27:40,581
Well, I mean, if there was jobs,
then they wouldn't be on the dole.
333
00:27:40,581 --> 00:27:48,581
And maybe we'd be singing about...
love and kissing or something.
334
00:27:49,061 --> 00:27:53,621
ROGER HUDDLE: There's all kinds
of historical references within
the layout, where thinking was,
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partly, to turn them into
a gang of outlaws.
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You know the famous pictures of
the James gang?
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00:27:58,621 --> 00:28:02,621
So it's partly that —
that they're all in their coffins,
and they're outlaws —
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00:28:02,621 --> 00:28:07,221
but also it's a famous reference
back to the 1871 Paris Commune
339
00:28:07,221 --> 00:28:15,221
where they lined up all
the Communards as they killed them.
340
00:28:15,221 --> 00:28:19,381
Temporary Hoarding was sold
mostly at gigs and demonstrations,
341
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and when we had enough money
to produce a new issue,
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then we'd produce a new one.
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Ah.
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Me and my beloved.
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(CALYPSO MUSIC)
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That is Notting Hill Carnival
in the year of Heavy Manners,
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which must have been 1977.
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Temporary Hoarding tried to pick up
specific issues.
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00:29:00,140 --> 00:29:04,820
This is a good one here
about sus laws.
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00:29:04,820 --> 00:29:08,820
At that time,
there was a massive amount of
police picking up black youth.
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00:29:08,820 --> 00:29:12,940
There's a great quote here. It says,
'Sus — on a date unknown,
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00:29:12,940 --> 00:29:20,940
you did conspire with people unknown
to rob people unknown.‘
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00:29:21,460 --> 00:29:25,180
DENNIS BOVELL: All it needed was the
police officer's word against yours,
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00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:27,500
and the magistrate
would send you down.
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00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:31,540
It was used, as my friend
Linton Kwesi Johnson says,
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'unscrupulously' against us.
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00:29:46,220 --> 00:29:48,970
You're nicked.
358
00:29:49,620 --> 00:29:53,620
(STRUGGLING AND YELLING)
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00:30:00,420 --> 00:30:05,545
(INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO CHATTER)
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00:30:12,020 --> 00:30:17,020
MYKAELL RILEY: You were warned by
your parents if you were going out,
'Be in before ten o'clock.‘
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00:30:17,020 --> 00:30:21,460
If we were going to a club
and someone didn't turn up,
362
00:30:21,460 --> 00:30:26,580
the first thing we thought of,
'Let's check out the local
police station.‘
363
00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:29,900
Cos that journey between the house
and wherever you're going —
the venue —
364
00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:32,740
could be intercepted by the police.
365
00:30:32,740 --> 00:30:37,340
And then the challenge was to get
them out of the police station
366
00:30:37,340 --> 00:30:45,340
because staying overnight
in the police station was also
a dangerous affair.
367
00:30:45,380 --> 00:30:50,060
I was a radiographer at that time.
I was stuck in the back of a car.
368
00:30:50,060 --> 00:30:54,260
I was taken to the local department
store and, to this day,
369
00:30:54,260 --> 00:30:58,180
I always wonder what would have
happened if the two white women
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00:30:58,180 --> 00:31:06,180
who came to look at me through the
window had said, 'Yes. That's her,'
how my life might have evolved.
371
00:31:18,940 --> 00:31:24,620
The police came to a club
where I was having a soundclash.
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00:31:24,620 --> 00:31:29,260
They were coming out of the toilets,
so they say, with a prisoner that
they had arrested in the toilets,
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00:31:29,260 --> 00:31:35,820
and the audience saw fit
to free the prisoner.
374
00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:40,900
They then accused me of standing
on the stage with a microphone
375
00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:44,020
saying, 'Get the boys in blue.‘
376
00:31:44,020 --> 00:31:47,580
At the end of six months' trial
at the Old Bailey,
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00:31:47,580 --> 00:31:50,740
I was sentenced to three years.
378
00:31:50,740 --> 00:31:55,540
After six months in Wormwood Scrubs,
my appeal comes up, and I win.
379
00:31:55,540 --> 00:32:01,260
And I'm told, 'Off you go, and think
yourself lucky that you didn't have
to spend three years in prison.'
380
00:32:01,260 --> 00:32:09,010
INTERVIEWER: For something
you didn't do. Absolutely.
381
00:32:32,180 --> 00:32:37,500
Webster, being a clever bastard,
designed a march to go right through
382
00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,700
an area of immigrants
and ethnic minorities, you know —
383
00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:44,575
a black area of London.
384
00:32:45,180 --> 00:32:50,660
We arrived quite early that morning.
385
00:32:50,660 --> 00:32:58,660
You went, 'Wow, this is a community
that's gonna defend itself.'
386
00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:16,950
(DRUMMING)
387
00:33:19,140 --> 00:33:23,620
There was a lot of messing around,
where people didn't really know
who was where or what.
388
00:33:23,620 --> 00:33:28,020
There was these continual things,
'They're coming. Everybody get
ready.' 'Oops, no, they're not.'
389
00:33:28,020 --> 00:33:33,180
'Yes, they're coming now. Right.‘
It was very, very frightening.
390
00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:38,580
MAN: The only chant today is
'National Front' — nothing else.
391
00:33:38,580 --> 00:33:42,900
Take orders from the police.
No backchat with the opposition.
392
00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:46,020
No leaving the column to fight,
393
00:33:46,020 --> 00:33:48,540
and no chanting except for
'National Front'.
394
00:33:48,540 --> 00:33:50,580
Have you got that?
395
00:33:50,580 --> 00:33:54,455
(CHEERING AND SHOUTING)
396
00:33:55,220 --> 00:33:58,020
(CHANTING) National Front,
National Front!
397
00:33:58,020 --> 00:34:00,620
National Front, National Front!
398
00:34:00,620 --> 00:34:07,620
National Front, National Front,
National Front!
399
00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:22,460
And it was only an hour later
when — 'Wap'.
400
00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:24,710
(SHOUTING)
401
00:34:32,220 --> 00:34:36,095
(CHANTING AND SHOUTING)
402
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:41,100
When the Front came up with
all the Union Jack banners,
403
00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:45,060
the honour guard, suddenly,
there was this amazing onslaught.
404
00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:50,380
And I looked across, and I saw
all these kids steaming into them.
405
00:34:50,380 --> 00:34:54,220
It was the Cypriot youth
who all just went straight in,
406
00:34:54,220 --> 00:34:58,595
'Fascists off our streets.'
407
00:35:00,340 --> 00:35:04,460
(CHANTING)
Nazis go! Nazis go! Nazis go!
408
00:35:04,460 --> 00:35:06,740
We stopped them going through
to Catford.
409
00:35:06,740 --> 00:35:10,820
We dealt the Nazis the biggest
defeat they've suffered so far!
410
00:35:10,820 --> 00:35:12,980
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
411
00:35:12,980 --> 00:35:17,500
(CHANTING) The workers united
will never be defeated!
412
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:19,740
REPORTER: Unknown
to the demonstrators,
413
00:35:19,740 --> 00:35:22,100
the National Front had been diverted
414
00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:25,500
before reaching
the Clock Tower area of Lewisham.
415
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:30,260
They were routed down Cressingham
Road and into a small car park,
416
00:35:30,260 --> 00:35:33,180
where they were allowed
to hold a rally.
417
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:36,300
MAN: (WITH MEGAPHONE) Before
we start the meeting,
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00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:40,020
we have a debt of gratitude
to pay to the police today.
419
00:35:40,020 --> 00:35:43,895
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
420
00:35:44,660 --> 00:35:48,980
As we usually do,
I want you to show your appreciation
421
00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:53,020
for the unfortunate police
who have had to stop us today
422
00:35:53,020 --> 00:35:56,180
by giving them three rousing cheers
for the police.
423
00:35:56,180 --> 00:35:58,860
Hip hip...
ALL: ..hooray!
424
00:35:58,860 --> 00:36:00,980
Hip hip...
ALL: ..hooray!
425
00:36:00,980 --> 00:36:02,900
Hip hip...
ALL: ..hooray!
426
00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:06,775
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
427
00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:18,420
(SCREAMING AND SHOUTING)
428
00:36:24,980 --> 00:36:32,230
MAN: Let him go! Let him go!
This is our borough!
429
00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:46,380
MAN: Some people are saying,
'No, I don't think the police
would do that.'
430
00:36:46,380 --> 00:36:50,380
But they did. They just came in, and
that was what took me by surprise.
431
00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:53,060
I didn't think they was gonna start
poking at my eyes
432
00:36:53,060 --> 00:36:55,780
and kicking me in the crutch
and things like that.
433
00:36:55,780 --> 00:37:00,405
But they did. Yeah, they did.
434
00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:05,740
MAN: (OVER POLICE RADIO)
..all the trouble is coming from
435
00:37:05,740 --> 00:37:08,460
the northbound carriageway where
there's no policemen...
436
00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:11,500
That was the first time, ever
since the Second World War,
437
00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:17,140
that the British police
broke out the riot shields.
438
00:37:17,140 --> 00:37:19,340
Webster always used to say,
439
00:37:19,340 --> 00:37:23,940
'You won't believe the amount of
senior police officers who support
the National Front.'
440
00:37:23,940 --> 00:37:29,065
Well, you did see it at Lewisham.
441
00:37:50,580 --> 00:37:56,020
I feel that the National Front isn't
a problem you can forget about,
442
00:37:56,020 --> 00:37:58,180
and it'll go away,
because it is a problem,
443
00:37:58,180 --> 00:38:00,140
and if you do leave it,
it'll grow and grow.
444
00:38:00,140 --> 00:38:03,515
It's like a cancer.
445
00:38:04,820 --> 00:38:09,620
There was a massive, massive
explosion of solidarity,
446
00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:13,380
from black militants,
like Darcus Howe,
447
00:38:13,380 --> 00:38:17,300
to Jewish businessmen saying,
'I don't like your politics, but...
448
00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:23,425
we'll do anything
to help fight the NF.'
449
00:38:31,260 --> 00:38:34,420
I was surprised it got covered.
We weren't superheroes —
450
00:38:34,420 --> 00:38:42,420
we were just ordinary people. We
were ordinary, antiracist citizens.
451
00:38:51,260 --> 00:38:55,180
Everybody from Aberystwyth to
Plymouth — youth were reading the NME
452
00:38:55,180 --> 00:38:57,140
and the Melody Maker
and all these papers.
453
00:38:57,140 --> 00:39:00,500
When they became really clear of the
fascist nature of the National Front,
454
00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:02,540
and they put their full support
behind it —
455
00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:09,415
well, the level of RAR support
went up 5,000%.
456
00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:13,660
# One, two, three, four!
First generation, illegal immigrants
457
00:39:13,660 --> 00:39:16,180
# Second generation,
juvenile delinquents
458
00:39:16,180 --> 00:39:18,220
# Torn between two cultures...
459
00:39:18,220 --> 00:39:22,300
RUTH GREGORY: Alien Kulture were
part of our RAR committee in London.
460
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:23,780
# (COUNTS IN URDU)
461
00:39:23,780 --> 00:39:26,380
# We're taught how to pray
five times a day
462
00:39:26,380 --> 00:39:28,980
# But that's not what we're about
463
00:39:28,980 --> 00:39:31,180
# We just want to live out
our lives...
464
00:39:31,180 --> 00:39:35,500
PERVEZ BILGRAMI: It's about
sending a message out to people
that we're not that different.
465
00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:38,700
This is the problem we have
as Asians —
466
00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:42,580
live in this culture,
but come from this culture.
So we have a culture outside,
467
00:39:42,580 --> 00:39:44,740
which is punk gigs and politics.
468
00:39:44,740 --> 00:39:47,740
We have a culture at home,
which is Bollywood films
469
00:39:47,740 --> 00:39:50,700
and, maybe, watching for the only
Asian programme at the time.
470
00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:56,380
# All we need is understanding
to be happy and content...
471
00:39:56,380 --> 00:40:00,980
The thing to do is organise more —
get involved in outside
organisations with white people,
472
00:40:00,980 --> 00:40:03,620
with black people. The only way
we can do it is together.
473
00:40:03,620 --> 00:40:07,140
# ..culture crossover... #
474
00:40:07,140 --> 00:40:11,300
We have to get our message
out there, somehow.
475
00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:13,980
Asian parents are concerned about
the detrimental effect
476
00:40:13,980 --> 00:40:16,380
they feel white culture will have on
their children.
477
00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:19,260
A lot of Asian youths go to discos
and play in bands,
478
00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:24,140
and erm...they're not actually
rejecting their Eastern culture,
479
00:40:24,140 --> 00:40:28,500
but their parents think they are
just because they are doing what
they are doing, you know?
480
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:30,700
# Asian youth, oh, where you been?
481
00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:33,380
# Asian youth, you wanna be seen
482
00:40:33,380 --> 00:40:35,740
# Asian youth, you dunno
who to turn to
483
00:40:35,740 --> 00:40:39,490
# Oh, Asian youth... #
484
00:40:39,660 --> 00:40:44,540
I'd grown up listening to
Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen,
485
00:40:44,540 --> 00:40:47,620
Neil Young, Bob Dylan.
You'd rather hear The Jam.
486
00:40:47,620 --> 00:40:51,980
You'd rather hear The Clash,
Tom Robinson Band, the Sex Pistols —
487
00:40:51,980 --> 00:40:55,420
because, in a sense,
they belonged to you.
488
00:40:55,420 --> 00:40:57,940
Tom Robinson really appealed,
you know?
489
00:40:57,940 --> 00:41:01,660
Songs like Winter Of '79 —
they were of the time.
490
00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:06,910
# TOM ROBINSON BAND: Winter Of '79
491
00:41:11,540 --> 00:41:15,220
KATE WEBB: I went to see
the Tom Robinson Band,
who were playing at the ICA.
492
00:41:15,220 --> 00:41:21,845
And I became, immediately,
a really big fan.
493
00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:46,660
# They done in Dave and Dagenham Ron
in the winter of '79
494
00:41:46,660 --> 00:41:50,020
# When all the gay geezers
was put inside...
495
00:41:50,020 --> 00:41:54,780
I think I wrote to Tom —
a fan letter — and he wrote back.
496
00:41:54,780 --> 00:41:59,300
He introduced me,
through his letters, to a load
of people, and I got to know them.
497
00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:03,020
There's a photograph here of Tom.
This is me.
498
00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:05,260
This is Karen, who was a secretary,
499
00:42:05,260 --> 00:42:07,540
and the two Jewish schoolgirls
from Camden
500
00:42:07,540 --> 00:42:10,700
who went by the name of 'Scruf'
with one F and 'Scruff' with two Fs.
501
00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:12,980
And we formed a kind of band,
502
00:42:12,980 --> 00:42:15,420
embarrassingly called
the Robinson's Rats,
503
00:42:15,420 --> 00:42:20,620
and we followed them up and down
the country.
504
00:42:20,620 --> 00:42:24,420
# When all the gay geezers
was put inside
505
00:42:24,420 --> 00:42:27,820
# And coloured kids
was getting crucified
506
00:42:27,820 --> 00:42:32,420
# A few fought back
and a few folks died... #
507
00:42:32,420 --> 00:42:36,580
At a gig, you'd be dealing
with antiracism.
Here, you're taking it further.
508
00:42:36,580 --> 00:42:38,860
Here we're looking at the war in
Northern Ireland.
509
00:42:38,860 --> 00:42:41,580
NEWSREADER: British troops,
once hailed as peacemakers,
510
00:42:41,580 --> 00:42:44,380
are now the object of hatred
of the Catholic minority —
511
00:42:44,380 --> 00:42:47,660
accused of allowing the Protestant
government to oppress at will.
512
00:42:47,660 --> 00:42:55,660
We were being held in the grip
of fear — fear, in our communities,
of the gunman.
513
00:42:59,140 --> 00:43:01,265
(GUNFIRE)
514
00:43:10,780 --> 00:43:14,980
This was about a rape by a soldier
515
00:43:14,980 --> 00:43:22,980
of a young woman, who told her story
in Temporary Hoardings.
516
00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:40,820
With Temporary Hoarding, we might
introduce the politics of the wider
movement continuously into it.
517
00:43:40,820 --> 00:43:48,070
So it was a...
It also had a purpose as educator.
518
00:44:02,180 --> 00:44:04,420
We were able to test out ideas.
519
00:44:04,420 --> 00:44:10,295
We were able to move
to broader areas.
520
00:44:21,980 --> 00:44:26,300
In those days,
there weren't that many people
who were making the connection
521
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:33,980
between oppression of lesbians
and gay men, and racism and fascism.
522
00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:37,180
The first article I wrote
for Temporary Hoarding
523
00:44:37,180 --> 00:44:41,740
was a piece called
'No more normals'.
524
00:44:41,740 --> 00:44:45,060
I wanted to point out
the way heterosexual people
525
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:49,100
and behaviour and relationships
were regarded as the norm,
526
00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:57,100
and lesbians and gay men were
totally invisible in the media.
527
00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:10,660
Obviously, an important part
of Temporary Hoarding
was interviewing bands.
528
00:45:10,660 --> 00:45:13,260
There's an interview here
with Adam And The Ants —
529
00:45:13,260 --> 00:45:15,580
'Wouldn't you like to rip him
to shreds?'
530
00:45:15,580 --> 00:45:21,420
which is done by Lucy Toothpaste,
and I did the design.
531
00:45:21,420 --> 00:45:25,940
He was determined to say
that he was anti—fascist,
532
00:45:25,940 --> 00:45:28,300
but he still insisted on his right
533
00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:34,925
to use imagery which
came from Nazi Germany.
534
00:45:41,700 --> 00:45:44,260
What we used to do in our interviews
535
00:45:44,260 --> 00:45:47,620
was really challenge
and continue the debate.
536
00:45:47,620 --> 00:45:50,500
It was a way to put both sides
of these arguments
537
00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:55,500
and hear what people had to say.
538
00:46:07,100 --> 00:46:10,420
Our world was a world without
any social media.
539
00:46:10,420 --> 00:46:12,780
Forget social media —
there was no mobile phones.
540
00:46:12,780 --> 00:46:16,460
You had to put four pennies in
a bloody box and press a button.
541
00:46:16,460 --> 00:46:20,540
Our world was the underground.
The underground press
was street posters —
542
00:46:20,540 --> 00:46:23,660
London was covered in them.
543
00:46:23,660 --> 00:46:25,620
The Clash were one of
the most amazing bands,
544
00:46:25,620 --> 00:46:27,780
so we've taken the lyrics...
545
00:46:27,780 --> 00:46:31,740
and printed the lyrics of White Riot
— 'I want a riot of my own.'
546
00:46:31,740 --> 00:46:35,500
This could get stuck up
as a complete individual poster,
547
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:43,500
and that really was the whole spirit
of Temporary Hoarding.
548
00:46:56,420 --> 00:46:59,380
TOPPER HEADON: The right wing
hijacked White Riot as a song
549
00:46:59,380 --> 00:47:01,860
because it was 'White' Riot.
550
00:47:01,860 --> 00:47:03,900
They didn't listen to the lyrics.
551
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:06,740
White Riot is about the fact that...
552
00:47:06,740 --> 00:47:09,460
wish the white people would riot
like the black people do
553
00:47:09,460 --> 00:47:14,420
because, you know,
we're not happy either.
554
00:47:14,420 --> 00:47:17,780
You can get all the Rolls Royces,
all love dough,
555
00:47:17,780 --> 00:47:21,780
all the country houses...
all the servants you want.
556
00:47:21,780 --> 00:47:24,820
And I just think there's nothing
at the end of that road —
557
00:47:24,820 --> 00:47:27,140
no human life or nothing.
558
00:47:27,140 --> 00:47:29,460
And that's why
I just don't wanna go that way.
559
00:47:29,460 --> 00:47:32,940
That's why I think that
it's all of us or none.
560
00:47:32,940 --> 00:47:35,420
MAN: (WITH MEGAPHONE) The National
Front is a Nazi Front.
561
00:47:35,420 --> 00:47:37,820
ALL: Smash the National Front!
562
00:47:37,820 --> 00:47:42,380
The National Front is a Nazi Front.
ALL: Smash the National Front!
563
00:47:42,380 --> 00:47:47,060
The National Front is a Nazi Front.
Smash the National Front!
564
00:47:47,060 --> 00:47:50,935
(CHANTING AND SHOUTING)
565
00:47:51,020 --> 00:47:55,220
RED SAUNDERS: If you met somebody
who was just a confused racist,
566
00:47:55,220 --> 00:48:02,970
not a full—on Nazi,
you could win 'em away sometimes.
567
00:48:03,460 --> 00:48:05,740
But full—core Nazis — no.
I never met any of the...
568
00:48:05,740 --> 00:48:09,780
I wouldn't have sat and debated.
There was none of that.
569
00:48:09,780 --> 00:48:12,300
JANET STREET PORTER: The National
Front celebrating
570
00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:19,800
its tenth anniversary
by launching a youth section.
571
00:48:25,380 --> 00:48:28,580
When we do start sending the blacks
back, it's not gonna hurt them,
572
00:48:28,580 --> 00:48:31,380
and they'll be given
financial aid and assistance.
573
00:48:31,380 --> 00:48:34,420
We think a lot of them
will go back willingly
574
00:48:34,420 --> 00:48:37,020
without starting kicking up a fuss,
and violence and that.
575
00:48:37,020 --> 00:48:42,020
You'll get the odd one, perhaps.
576
00:48:43,660 --> 00:48:48,900
There were attacks to RAR groups
in different areas of the country.
577
00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:52,220
People in Manchester describing
people climbing through the windows —
578
00:48:52,220 --> 00:48:54,260
trying to smash the gigs up.
579
00:48:54,260 --> 00:48:56,300
Shut up! Shut up.
580
00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:59,425
(SHOUTS AT CROWD)
581
00:49:00,460 --> 00:49:05,220
They had to instruct people,
when they left the gigs,
to take all their badges off
582
00:49:05,220 --> 00:49:09,820
because Nazis would float around
where they knew the gig was
and jump people.
583
00:49:09,820 --> 00:49:14,940
A lot of fans were
British Movement...National Front.
584
00:49:14,940 --> 00:49:19,140
They were real white—suburban
white flight —
585
00:49:19,140 --> 00:49:24,765
they were very hostile to black kids.
586
00:49:33,260 --> 00:49:37,580
You look at that up fucking Bristol
— 200 niggers. You should have
shoved 200 skinheads up there
587
00:49:37,580 --> 00:49:41,980
to kick the fuck out of 'em.
The Old Bill didn't, they
fucking ran away — bunch of cunts.
588
00:49:41,980 --> 00:49:44,620
BOY: They — the NF
and the British Movement —
589
00:49:44,620 --> 00:49:49,660
they go to the gigs
to cause trouble.
590
00:49:49,660 --> 00:49:54,140
In the front, there was a couple of
skinheads banging this guy's head
against the scaffolding.
591
00:49:54,140 --> 00:49:56,820
Every time he came up,
there was blood — more and more.
592
00:49:56,820 --> 00:49:59,700
It's just a bad image, really.
That's what gets the image.
593
00:49:59,700 --> 00:50:01,580
It's just the skinheads, innit?
594
00:50:01,580 --> 00:50:04,380
Everyone thought all skinheads
were Nazis,
595
00:50:04,380 --> 00:50:06,660
which, of course, was utter rubbish.
They weren't.
596
00:50:06,660 --> 00:50:08,940
But a lot of skinheads were.
597
00:50:08,940 --> 00:50:14,060
You didn't bother to stop
and debate the point.
598
00:50:14,060 --> 00:50:16,980
When we played London,
we knew what we were going to get.
599
00:50:16,980 --> 00:50:19,900
Wednesbury is an area
I'd never heard of.
600
00:50:19,900 --> 00:50:23,500
We went walking down, turned
the corner where the hall was,
601
00:50:23,500 --> 00:50:27,380
and there were 30 skinheads
standing outside there.
602
00:50:27,380 --> 00:50:32,780
We just looked at each other and
thought, 'Oh, God. Not again.‘
603
00:50:32,780 --> 00:50:38,020
Our job was to peel away
the Union Jack...
604
00:50:38,020 --> 00:50:41,895
to reveal the swastika.
605
00:50:48,540 --> 00:50:56,415
Sham 69 had a really confusing
relationship with fans.
606
00:50:56,500 --> 00:50:59,750
(DISTANT CHEERING)
607
00:51:00,780 --> 00:51:04,060
His fan group, quite a lot of who
were working—class kids
608
00:51:04,060 --> 00:51:09,540
involved in the National Front
or on the fringes of it...
609
00:51:09,540 --> 00:51:12,300
He had a strong respect
for who he thought these kids were
610
00:51:12,300 --> 00:51:14,820
and how they were left out of most
decisions in the world.
611
00:51:14,820 --> 00:51:22,820
He didn't want to be somebody who
said, 'You should think like this.'
612
00:51:23,140 --> 00:51:26,460
JIMMY PURSEY: They're all moving
down the same conveyor belt.
613
00:51:26,460 --> 00:51:30,180
They're all being subjected to,
'You do this, son.
614
00:51:30,180 --> 00:51:34,220
You come from there, son,
so you have to do that.'
615
00:51:34,220 --> 00:51:36,740
If you come from a tower block
in the East End,
616
00:51:36,740 --> 00:51:40,260
you are subject to either working at
the docks or so on, so on, so on.
617
00:51:40,260 --> 00:51:43,380
'No, you mustn't go out.
No, you mustn't leave London
618
00:51:43,380 --> 00:51:45,460
and be someone else
because that's wrong.
619
00:51:45,460 --> 00:51:49,960
You're not born to do that.'
620
00:51:55,620 --> 00:51:58,580
I went down to see Jimmy
and his mum and dad
621
00:51:58,580 --> 00:52:03,260
because I wanted to ask them
if they were prepared to support RAR.
622
00:52:03,260 --> 00:52:11,260
Why not do something really clear
and do a gig with a black band?
623
00:52:13,180 --> 00:52:20,680
We put on this gig with Sham 69
and Misty In Roots.
624
00:52:29,060 --> 00:52:34,900
Misty In Roots and Sham
were all backstage.
625
00:52:34,900 --> 00:52:40,580
I was doing a bit of compering and
backstaging, and a bit of everything.
626
00:52:40,580 --> 00:52:45,740
Misty started playing dominoes...
and the tension in the room
627
00:52:45,740 --> 00:52:49,780
as they started to whack down
the dominoes on the table —
628
00:52:49,780 --> 00:52:52,460
it was as if they were saying,
'Come on, then.'
629
00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:55,140
You know what I mean? 'We're here.
We're not going anywhere.‘
630
00:52:55,140 --> 00:52:59,015
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
631
00:53:04,580 --> 00:53:10,205
# There's gonna be a borstal breakout
632
00:53:15,300 --> 00:53:20,300
# I'm sitting in this cell, yeah,
for something I didn't do
633
00:53:20,300 --> 00:53:25,700
# And all I can think of, baby,
I think of you...
634
00:53:25,700 --> 00:53:29,820
The British Movement got in —
dozens of 'em.
635
00:53:29,820 --> 00:53:33,060
'What have we done?'
You know? I started to really doubt
the whole idea.
636
00:53:33,060 --> 00:53:36,900
I was a real nervous wreck
that night.
637
00:53:36,900 --> 00:53:39,260
People were freaking out,
'If they get on the stage,
638
00:53:39,260 --> 00:53:41,900
retreat — defend the PA system.
639
00:53:41,900 --> 00:53:46,220
If they get to the PA system,
turn it off.'
640
00:53:46,220 --> 00:53:51,100
# And now I'm getting out,
I'm coming back for you
641
00:53:51,100 --> 00:53:53,380
# There's gonna be a borstal breakout
642
00:53:53,380 --> 00:53:55,940
# There's gonna be a borstal breakout
643
00:53:55,940 --> 00:53:58,860
# There's gonna be a borstal breakout
644
00:53:58,860 --> 00:54:04,820
# There's gonna be
a borstal breakout #
645
00:54:04,820 --> 00:54:07,820
(YELLS INDISTINCTLY)
646
00:54:07,820 --> 00:54:12,820
(CHANTING) Skinheads! Skinheads!
647
00:54:14,380 --> 00:54:17,005
You see that?
648
00:54:20,700 --> 00:54:24,200
MAN: Get on with it!
649
00:54:25,580 --> 00:54:29,780
(SIGHS) Yeah. I dunno what
to do now. What can I do?
650
00:54:29,780 --> 00:54:34,660
(CHANTING) Skinheads! Skinheads!
Skinheads! Skinheads!
651
00:54:34,660 --> 00:54:38,260
I preach peace. I go on there,
and I do my best.
652
00:54:38,260 --> 00:54:44,260
And that's all I can do —
is do my best
653
00:54:48,180 --> 00:54:52,740
Across the country, there must
have been several thousand people
654
00:54:52,740 --> 00:54:56,020
from minority communities
who just got shit and piss
655
00:54:56,020 --> 00:54:59,500
through their letterboxes
with regularity.
656
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:03,340
People couldn't go one—to—one
to school. They had to go
in groups of ten.
657
00:55:03,340 --> 00:55:09,620
I mean, listen to the stories from
Bengali communities in East London.
658
00:55:09,620 --> 00:55:12,700
I would say they are shit—scared
to walk around the streets.
659
00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:19,580
It's not gonna stop them
from staying in this country.
660
00:55:19,580 --> 00:55:23,020
You'd been spat on,
people had thrown bottles at you,
661
00:55:23,020 --> 00:55:28,340
you'd regularly been called 'paki' —
so it was quite normal.
662
00:55:28,340 --> 00:55:32,820
REPORTER: This Asian shopkeeper,
who spent three years in
a Japanese prisoner—of—war camp
663
00:55:32,820 --> 00:55:36,260
after fighting for Britain in
the last war, describes the attack.
664
00:55:36,260 --> 00:55:40,500
All these skinheads...throw these
stones and break my whole windows.
665
00:55:40,500 --> 00:55:47,460
And, all of sudden, one is coming
here. I break my teeth in here.
666
00:55:47,460 --> 00:55:52,700
Do you mind if I ask you...
why is it that the police have,
apparently, not been successful
667
00:55:52,700 --> 00:55:56,260
in protecting some Asians and,
in fact, also some English people
668
00:55:56,260 --> 00:55:59,300
from what is, clearly,
racial violence?
669
00:55:59,300 --> 00:56:03,460
It's speculatory to suggest
that all attacks on Asians,
670
00:56:03,460 --> 00:56:08,060
or any other minority, are motivated
by racial motives. I'm not
suggesting that all of them are.
671
00:56:08,060 --> 00:56:11,220
I'm saying it looks as though we've
got a new phenomenon of people,
672
00:56:11,220 --> 00:56:13,260
and they may be organised
or they may not,
673
00:56:13,260 --> 00:56:16,900
but actually going out and hunting
for people of particular groups.
674
00:56:16,900 --> 00:56:23,900
We have no evidence...
that they are organised.
675
00:56:28,581 --> 00:56:31,501
ROGER HUDDLE: In 1977,
there were 7 —
676
00:56:31,501 --> 00:56:37,140
in and around
Brick Lane — racist murders.
677
00:56:37,140 --> 00:56:45,140
RUTH GREGORY: This is when Altab Ali
was murdered in the East End.
678
00:57:15,820 --> 00:57:21,180
We got firebombed at one point,
and we did...we moved offices.
679
00:57:21,180 --> 00:57:23,461
We had to get into all that stuff
680
00:57:23,461 --> 00:57:25,621
where you have to block up
your letterbox.
681
00:57:25,621 --> 00:57:33,621
Where you wipe your feet,
you put sand down in case petrol
comes through.
682
00:57:37,661 --> 00:57:40,301
I, quite often, was terrified.
683
00:57:40,301 --> 00:57:46,941
Just after our daughter was born,
we got a bullet in the post.
684
00:57:46,941 --> 00:57:49,380
I just hid it away, straightaway.
685
00:57:49,380 --> 00:57:53,260
People said, 'Oh, go to the police.'
'Are you fucking joking?‘ You know?
686
00:57:53,260 --> 00:57:57,101
(CHUCKLES) No, because we knew,
like Webster said,
687
00:57:57,101 --> 00:58:01,621
the police weren't gonna be helping
us. Every demonstration we went on,
they hindered us.
688
00:58:01,621 --> 00:58:08,420
It was our people got arrested
and kettled. It wasn't the Front.
689
00:58:08,420 --> 00:58:16,181
This was a gang of street thugs.
They were out to terrify you.
690
00:58:16,181 --> 00:58:19,981
(CHANTING) Black and white, unite
and fight! Smash the National Front!
691
00:58:19,981 --> 00:58:23,501
MAN: I wanna hear it louder! ALL:
Black and white, unite and fight!
692
00:58:23,501 --> 00:58:29,660
When RAR and the ANL came together,
that's how vital the campaign was —
693
00:58:29,660 --> 00:58:32,541
it was life and death
for many, many people.
694
00:58:32,541 --> 00:58:35,580
(CHANTING) ..unite and fight!
Smash the National Front!
695
00:58:35,580 --> 00:58:38,861
JANET STREET PORTER: I asked
Red Saunders, one of RAR's founders,
696
00:58:38,861 --> 00:58:44,061
what he saw as the difference
between RAR and the Anti—Nazi League
697
00:58:44,061 --> 00:58:46,181
(SIGHS)
It's a difficult question, Janet.
698
00:58:46,181 --> 00:58:50,061
Erm... I mean, RAR and the ANL are
completely separate organisations,
699
00:58:50,061 --> 00:58:52,261
but they work in unity together
700
00:58:52,261 --> 00:58:57,221
on the cultural fight
against racism and fascism.
701
00:58:57,221 --> 00:59:00,540
We were united in the fight with them
against the National Front.
702
00:59:00,540 --> 00:59:04,340
Whereas we were more
specifically cultural, and
into militant entertainment,
703
00:59:04,340 --> 00:59:07,260
they were into
the political election fight.
704
00:59:07,260 --> 00:59:10,135
(CALYPSO MUSIC)
705
00:59:11,380 --> 00:59:13,461
KATE WEBB: All of us
had gone regularly
706
00:59:13,461 --> 00:59:17,861
to the Notting Hill Carnival,
and we wanted to pay homage to that,
707
00:59:17,861 --> 00:59:24,221
and what a brilliant, vibrant
thing that was every year.
708
00:59:24,221 --> 00:59:28,181
I remember the Anti—Nazi League,
who said they would help us
with funding,
709
00:59:28,181 --> 00:59:30,181
wanted us to do it
off the back of a lorry.
710
00:59:30,181 --> 00:59:35,431
We had completely different ideas.
711
00:59:35,901 --> 00:59:39,940
We were gonna march from
Trafalgar Square to Vicky Park.
712
00:59:39,940 --> 00:59:44,620
The NF were getting the 23%
of the vote there, so we went,
713
00:59:44,620 --> 00:59:52,620
'Well, that's where we've gotta go —
the heart of their territory.‘
714
00:59:52,700 --> 00:59:55,420
ROGER HUDDLE: I think Red
wasn't completely sure
715
00:59:55,420 --> 00:59:59,740
that we could pull it off,
which was very unusual for Red.
716
00:59:59,740 --> 01:00:03,380
I remember when we first started
talking, I thought, 'Bloody hell.'
717
01:00:03,380 --> 01:00:06,901
You know? 'That's huge. I don't know
that we can be cut in with that.'
718
01:00:06,901 --> 01:00:14,026
And then once it went,
it just rolled, you know?
719
01:00:16,181 --> 01:00:18,780
Get permission from the council —
vital stuff.
720
01:00:18,780 --> 01:00:22,341
Get a stage — build it.
Then you get the backline.
721
01:00:22,341 --> 01:00:24,981
Then you get the generators.
And then, at the same time —
722
01:00:24,981 --> 01:00:28,661
get the bands.
Who's gonna be the bands?
723
01:00:28,661 --> 01:00:30,901
We've gotta have rebel reggae music.
724
01:00:30,901 --> 01:00:36,701
We finished up with Steel Pulse
cos Handsworth Revolution was out.
725
01:00:36,701 --> 01:00:40,260
At the same time,
myself and Roger were going,
726
01:00:40,260 --> 01:00:43,381
'It's gotta be Tom Robinson.‘
727
01:00:43,381 --> 01:00:45,741
Then the debate started
about The Clash,
728
01:00:45,741 --> 01:00:52,221
'Gotta have The Clash —
absolutely great energy, punk band.'
729
01:00:52,221 --> 01:00:54,700
We had a big row
over the running order.
730
01:00:54,700 --> 01:00:58,741
Roger and I argued that, actually,
we should have Tom on last.
731
01:00:58,741 --> 01:01:02,461
Not because we necessarily thought
he was a better musician
or more exciting,
732
01:01:02,461 --> 01:01:05,221
but because it was clear that
Tom was the kind of person who,
733
01:01:05,221 --> 01:01:09,661
at the end the gig,
would bring people together.
734
01:01:09,661 --> 01:01:12,500
So the decision was,
'OK, well, you go and tell them.
735
01:01:12,500 --> 01:01:20,500
You go and tell The Clash that
they're not gonna go on last
and get them to agree that.'
736
01:01:22,861 --> 01:01:25,061
All right?
737
01:01:25,061 --> 01:01:28,811
(THEY PLAY GARAGELAND)
738
01:01:37,820 --> 01:01:44,301
# Back in the garage
with my bullshit detector...
739
01:01:44,301 --> 01:01:48,701
Bernie Rhodes, their manager,
was going on and on and on about —
740
01:01:48,701 --> 01:01:51,180
it was all Woodstock,
and we was all hippies,
741
01:01:51,180 --> 01:01:56,180
and they were the real fighters.
742
01:01:56,940 --> 01:02:00,100
They played endless tricks on us
and turned the lights on and off
743
01:02:00,100 --> 01:02:04,541
and were trying to feel us out and
test us — who the hell we were.
744
01:02:04,541 --> 01:02:09,901
TOPPER HEADON: It was very much a
question of us swallowing humble pie
to support Tom Robinson,
745
01:02:09,901 --> 01:02:14,941
who had been involved
since the beginning so,
rightly, he was headlining.
746
01:02:14,941 --> 01:02:17,941
But it went against the grain
to support someone.
747
01:02:17,941 --> 01:02:22,901
Er... But the cause was more
important than our personal egos.
748
01:02:22,901 --> 01:02:29,060
# I don't wanna go to where...
where the rich are going
749
01:02:29,060 --> 01:02:35,501
# I don't wanna know about
what the rich are doing
750
01:02:35,501 --> 01:02:39,221
# They think they're so clever
751
01:02:39,221 --> 01:02:42,340
# They think they're so right
752
01:02:42,340 --> 01:02:46,461
# But the truth is only known by... #
753
01:02:46,461 --> 01:02:52,961
Once they'd come onboard,
it just exploded.
754
01:03:02,501 --> 01:03:04,540
There were threats.
755
01:03:04,540 --> 01:03:06,740
In the run—up to the carnival,
756
01:03:06,740 --> 01:03:13,820
The Clash went and demonstrated
outside the NF headquarters
with Steel Pulse.
757
01:03:13,820 --> 01:03:16,180
'They're much too cool
to hold placards,‘
758
01:03:16,180 --> 01:03:24,180
is what I think when I look at
these photos. (CHUCKLES)
759
01:03:26,021 --> 01:03:30,261
ROGER HUDDLE: We built the stage,
I think, on that week before,
on the Wednesday.
760
01:03:30,261 --> 01:03:33,780
I'd never been so nervous
in my life.
761
01:03:33,780 --> 01:03:37,340
We had a six—month—old baby at home.
I was climbing the wall.
762
01:03:37,340 --> 01:03:40,741
But then the Anti—Nazi League
slept on the stage,
763
01:03:40,741 --> 01:03:45,366
so it was protected 24 hours.
764
01:03:47,460 --> 01:03:51,021
It had rained almost
the whole of the week before.
765
01:03:51,021 --> 01:03:55,271
The park was like a swamp.
766
01:03:56,861 --> 01:03:59,980
We were very anxious.
We didn't have mobile phones.
767
01:03:59,980 --> 01:04:02,541
We had no connection
to Trafalgar Square.
768
01:04:02,541 --> 01:04:09,041
We had no idea how many people
were coming.
769
01:04:11,060 --> 01:04:12,981
I got there, like,
7 o'clock in the morning,
770
01:04:12,981 --> 01:04:15,021
'Oh, my God, nothing's happening.‘
771
01:04:15,021 --> 01:04:17,700
And the weather wasn't very good.
772
01:04:17,700 --> 01:04:19,660
The police were
ridiculing us, saying,
773
01:04:19,660 --> 01:04:21,860
'Nobody's gonna come to this.
774
01:04:21,860 --> 01:04:27,461
No—one's gonna march. They're only
going for the music.‘
775
01:04:27,461 --> 01:04:30,341
And I thought, 'I'll go up to Soho
and get myself a bacon butty
776
01:04:30,341 --> 01:04:33,591
and a cup of tea.'
777
01:04:34,260 --> 01:04:39,261
I came back, and just the first
big coaches were arriving.
778
01:04:39,261 --> 01:04:44,020
This coach pulled up and the doors
opened, and this haze of smoke
779
01:04:44,020 --> 01:04:47,221
and stuff came,
and all these punks tumbled out.
780
01:04:47,221 --> 01:04:49,100
I thought, 'Hello, hello.‘
781
01:04:49,100 --> 01:04:51,350
(CHEERING)
782
01:04:54,940 --> 01:04:58,440
(DRUMMING, CHEERING)
783
01:05:16,100 --> 01:05:19,581
I came down from Glasgow on a coach
— travelled overnight.
784
01:05:19,581 --> 01:05:21,741
I don't like the Nazis,
and we're here to show that.
785
01:05:21,741 --> 01:05:23,941
We're against them up there too.
786
01:05:23,941 --> 01:05:31,941
They want to bully people into their
point of view. I think people ought
to stand up for their opinions.
787
01:05:35,900 --> 01:05:40,460
The rise of the NF is probably the
worst thing that's happened in this
country for years, politically.
788
01:05:40,460 --> 01:05:43,741
We came up here from Hereford
simply to show
789
01:05:43,741 --> 01:05:51,741
that there are people from our place
who care to try and stop this.
790
01:05:54,260 --> 01:05:58,460
The message of this carnival,
not only to the loonies
of the National Front,
791
01:05:58,460 --> 01:06:00,501
but to all bigots everywhere,
792
01:06:00,501 --> 01:06:02,781
is 'Hands off our people!‘
793
01:06:02,781 --> 01:06:05,031
(CHEERING)
794
01:06:05,300 --> 01:06:10,340
Black, white, together —
tonight and forever.
795
01:06:10,340 --> 01:06:14,465
(CALYPSO MUSIC, CHEERING)
796
01:06:19,780 --> 01:06:22,501
I saw Tom, and he said,
'I've got the whistles.‘
797
01:06:22,501 --> 01:06:25,901
I said 'Great,' and we started
throwing out the whistles.
798
01:06:25,901 --> 01:06:28,101
And anyone who was at the carnival
will tell you
799
01:06:28,101 --> 01:06:34,226
the cacophony of noise
was unbelievable.
800
01:06:38,740 --> 01:06:42,540
The march headed off
with all these bands on platforms
801
01:06:42,540 --> 01:06:47,580
and those wonderful effigies
of Martin Webster, Tyndall
and Adolf Hitler
802
01:06:47,580 --> 01:06:51,980
that were made by
the Spitting Image team.
803
01:06:51,980 --> 01:06:57,105
(CALYPSO MUSIC, WHISTLES BLOWING)
804
01:07:03,940 --> 01:07:09,440
(CHANTING) Smash the National Front!
805
01:07:17,301 --> 01:07:19,940
When we came down Bethnal Green Road,
806
01:07:19,940 --> 01:07:22,660
and all the NF were outside
the Blade Bone pub,
807
01:07:22,660 --> 01:07:25,660
'Seig Heil! Seig Heil!‘
808
01:07:25,660 --> 01:07:33,660
And then down the road came thousands
and thousands of multiracial kids,
punks — everybody.
809
01:07:34,340 --> 01:07:37,580
An hour later, the march was still
coming, and they were kinda,
810
01:07:37,580 --> 01:07:40,500
'Erm... Seig... Ah, fuck.
Let's go and have a drink.'
811
01:07:40,500 --> 01:07:43,821
(LAUGHS) You know?
And they just fucking gave up.
812
01:07:43,821 --> 01:07:46,741
This is a multiracial borough,
and we want it to stay that way.
813
01:07:46,741 --> 01:07:50,660
Every human being has got the right
to live and to have employment,
814
01:07:50,660 --> 01:07:53,301
and shouldn't be treated
as less of a human being.
815
01:07:53,301 --> 01:07:58,100
Because I feel really strongly
about racial prejudice.
816
01:07:58,100 --> 01:08:05,600
I think it's a slur
and a disgrace to this country.
817
01:08:50,697 --> 01:08:53,937
ROGER HUDDLE: Twelve o'clock
we was gonna start.
818
01:08:53,937 --> 01:08:57,297
And I know it's a bit Biblical,
but the sun broke out.
819
01:08:57,297 --> 01:08:59,547
(BIRDSONG)
820
01:09:00,457 --> 01:09:04,497
I came onto the stage.
There was a bloke with a dog,
821
01:09:04,497 --> 01:09:07,457
there was two kids on bikes,
and that was it.
822
01:09:07,457 --> 01:09:13,897
And there was Victoria Park —
no—one in it at all.
823
01:09:13,897 --> 01:09:17,097
So, X—Ray Spex were gonna open.
824
01:09:17,097 --> 01:09:19,937
RUTH GREGORY: Coming into
Victoria Park, and hearing that —
825
01:09:19,937 --> 01:09:22,817
(SINGS) Some people say,
826
01:09:22,817 --> 01:09:27,097
'Little girls should be seen and not
heard,' but I think...
827
01:09:27,097 --> 01:09:31,217
POLY STYRENE: ..Oh, bondage,
up yours! One, two, three, four!
828
01:09:31,217 --> 01:09:36,467
# X—RAY SPEX: Oh Bondage Up Yours!
829
01:09:38,537 --> 01:09:41,457
# Bind me, tie me,
chain me to the wall
830
01:09:41,457 --> 01:09:44,257
# I wanna be a slave to you all
831
01:09:44,257 --> 01:09:47,097
# Oh, bondage, up yours
832
01:09:47,097 --> 01:09:50,017
# Oh, bondage, up yours
833
01:09:50,017 --> 01:09:53,137
# Oh, bondage, up yours...
834
01:09:53,137 --> 01:09:56,817
The security was
a complete shambles.
835
01:09:56,817 --> 01:09:59,337
They could defend
the stage against the NF,
836
01:09:59,337 --> 01:10:03,577
but how do you defend the stage
against 80,000 pogoing 18—year—olds?
837
01:10:03,577 --> 01:10:07,777
(LAUGHS) The defence went down,
people collapsed —
people were being brought out.
838
01:10:07,777 --> 01:10:09,817
# Oh, bondage, come on
839
01:10:09,817 --> 01:10:11,857
# Oh, bondage... #
840
01:10:11,857 --> 01:10:14,457
This guy said, 'Can I help?‘
I turned round — there's this
841
01:10:14,457 --> 01:10:19,697
70—year—old St John's Ambulance guy
with his cap and his uniform.
842
01:10:19,697 --> 01:10:24,697
A little unsung hero of the day.
843
01:10:25,897 --> 01:10:29,937
I told the council
that we expected 500 people
844
01:10:29,937 --> 01:10:33,497
cos we didn't wanna get involved in
bringing in Portaloos.
845
01:10:33,497 --> 01:10:35,657
The park keeper came,
846
01:10:35,657 --> 01:10:39,577
and we introduced him
to Steel Pulse's crew...
847
01:10:39,577 --> 01:10:43,137
..and the last time I saw
the park keeper, there was
a big cloud of ganja smoke.
848
01:10:43,137 --> 01:10:48,297
So that was the council dealt with.
849
01:10:48,297 --> 01:10:54,422
# TOM ROBINSON BAND:
Up Against The Wall
850
01:10:55,097 --> 01:10:57,857
# Consternation in Mayfair
851
01:10:57,857 --> 01:11:01,177
# Rioting in Notting Hill Gate
852
01:11:01,177 --> 01:11:04,257
# Fascists marching
on the high street
853
01:11:04,257 --> 01:11:06,697
# Carving up the welfare state...
854
01:11:06,697 --> 01:11:10,337
TOM ROBINSON: Being there,
and seeing the numbers
coming in through the gates,
855
01:11:10,337 --> 01:11:14,017
hour after hour after hour —
the numbers just kept coming.
856
01:11:14,017 --> 01:11:16,817
We had no idea how many people
were going to come.
857
01:11:16,817 --> 01:11:20,057
The PA was desperately unsuitable
for that gig.
858
01:11:20,057 --> 01:11:22,697
The sound was awful and yet,
the thing was —
859
01:11:22,697 --> 01:11:27,217
just being there
was the important thing about that.
860
01:11:27,217 --> 01:11:29,297
# Panic in the County Hall
861
01:11:29,297 --> 01:11:31,657
# Look out, listen, can you hear it?
862
01:11:31,657 --> 01:11:34,937
# Whitehall got us up against a wall
863
01:11:34,937 --> 01:11:38,812
# Up against the wall #
864
01:11:41,217 --> 01:11:45,092
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
865
01:11:46,537 --> 01:11:49,497
Everyone said to me, 'Oh, Red,
you should do the compering.‘
866
01:11:49,497 --> 01:11:52,817
I said, 'Oh, God.' You know?
I was really anxious about it.
867
01:11:52,817 --> 01:11:55,897
I used to play this character
called Mr Oligarchy
868
01:11:55,897 --> 01:12:00,817
in the theatre, who controlled
all the workers, you know?
869
01:12:00,817 --> 01:12:05,457
I wear my Mr Oligarchy's cape,
and I ran onstage.
870
01:12:05,457 --> 01:12:08,937
And I screamed out...
871
01:12:08,937 --> 01:12:11,377
..'This ain't no Woodstock —
872
01:12:11,377 --> 01:12:14,977
this is the carnival against
the fucking Nazis.‘
873
01:12:14,977 --> 01:12:18,097
And there was a massive roar
from the crowd.
874
01:12:18,097 --> 01:12:22,857
And it sustained me
throughout the day.
875
01:12:22,857 --> 01:12:24,897
# STEEL PULSE: Jah Pickney — RAR
876
01:12:24,897 --> 01:12:28,522
# Rock against racism
877
01:12:29,017 --> 01:12:31,977
# Rock against fascism
878
01:12:31,977 --> 01:12:34,857
# Rock against Nazism
879
01:12:34,857 --> 01:12:37,257
# It was a tough decision
880
01:12:37,257 --> 01:12:39,882
# Smash it...
881
01:12:41,297 --> 01:12:44,417
MYKAELL RILEY: We go out,
and there's 80,000 people.
882
01:12:44,417 --> 01:12:48,857
That audience knew who we were,
and we weren't being booed off,
883
01:12:48,857 --> 01:12:53,537
we were being accepted — in fact,
they were singing along.
884
01:12:53,537 --> 01:12:57,497
And we got applauded for wearing
Ku Klux Klan hoods
885
01:12:57,497 --> 01:13:00,017
to a white British audience,
886
01:13:00,017 --> 01:13:07,217
which was, simultaneously,
humbling and hilarious.
887
01:13:07,217 --> 01:13:09,577
To know that we made a big
difference, and to see that
888
01:13:09,577 --> 01:13:13,257
there was a lot of people that was
against the negativity of racism —
889
01:13:13,257 --> 01:13:17,857
you know, it was a milestone
in what we've achieved.
890
01:13:17,857 --> 01:13:21,377
# Rock against Nazism —
me say, 'Smash it.'
891
01:13:21,377 --> 01:13:24,577
# I've come to conclusion that
892
01:13:24,577 --> 01:13:28,537
# We're gonna hunt, yeah, yeah, yeah
893
01:13:28,537 --> 01:13:32,662
# The National Front... #
894
01:13:33,057 --> 01:13:37,457
We came away from that thinking,
'Of all the other horrible things
which are happening,
895
01:13:37,457 --> 01:13:45,457
this is a mass audience saying that,
"You're OK. We support you."'
896
01:13:45,497 --> 01:13:48,217
The best thing of all
was the jam at the end.
897
01:13:48,217 --> 01:13:50,817
I do remember the jam.
I do remember them all coming on
898
01:13:50,817 --> 01:13:53,817
and Jimmy Pursey coming on as well
and joining them.
899
01:13:53,817 --> 01:13:57,377
KATE WEBB: Jimmy Pursey could bring
a group of people into the carnival
900
01:13:57,377 --> 01:13:59,537
that we wanted to try and reach.
901
01:13:59,537 --> 01:14:01,817
There are all kinds of dangers
involved in that
902
01:14:01,817 --> 01:14:04,777
because you're bringing people who
may be involved in fascism,
903
01:14:04,777 --> 01:14:07,217
or maybe are threatening
to other people.
904
01:14:07,217 --> 01:14:09,657
TOPPER HEADON: We thought
it would be great
905
01:14:09,657 --> 01:14:11,897
if Jimmy could get onstage with us
906
01:14:11,897 --> 01:14:14,377
to nail his colours to the mast
as well.
907
01:14:14,377 --> 01:14:18,017
To say to the Sham 69 fans,
'I'm not a racist.'
908
01:14:18,017 --> 01:14:21,297
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
909
01:14:21,297 --> 01:14:25,137
We had no idea how many people
were out the front.
910
01:14:25,137 --> 01:14:29,377
And my vivid memory of that day
is walking up — cos it was
a very high stage —
911
01:14:29,377 --> 01:14:33,057
walked up the stage
and saw 100,000 people.
912
01:14:33,057 --> 01:14:35,577
And it was like... (INHALES)
913
01:14:35,577 --> 01:14:37,827
(CHEERING)
914
01:14:54,457 --> 01:14:56,957
(INDISTINCT)
915
01:14:58,017 --> 01:15:02,267
(WHISPERS) It's necessary.
916
01:15:02,297 --> 01:15:04,337
We're gonna play our opener.
917
01:15:04,337 --> 01:15:07,962
(SCREAMS) White riot!
918
01:15:16,177 --> 01:15:18,577
# White riot — I wanna riot
919
01:15:18,577 --> 01:15:20,657
# White riot — a riot of my own
920
01:15:20,657 --> 01:15:23,017
# White riot — I wanna riot
921
01:15:23,017 --> 01:15:25,217
# White riot — a riot of my own
922
01:15:25,217 --> 01:15:27,417
# White riot — I wanna riot
923
01:15:27,417 --> 01:15:29,577
# White riot — a riot of my own
924
01:15:29,577 --> 01:15:31,897
# White riot — I wanna riot
925
01:15:31,897 --> 01:15:33,937
# White riot — a riot of my own
926
01:15:33,937 --> 01:15:36,457
# Black men gotta lot of problems
927
01:15:36,457 --> 01:15:38,537
# But they don't mind
throwing a brick
928
01:15:38,537 --> 01:15:40,697
# White people go to school
929
01:15:40,697 --> 01:15:43,137
# Where they teach you
how to be thick
930
01:15:43,137 --> 01:15:45,297
# And everybody's doing
931
01:15:45,297 --> 01:15:47,617
# Just what they're told to
932
01:15:47,617 --> 01:15:52,457
# And nobody wants to go to jail
933
01:15:52,457 --> 01:15:54,657
# White riot — I wanna riot
934
01:15:54,657 --> 01:15:56,937
# White riot — a riot of my own
935
01:15:56,937 --> 01:15:59,257
# White riot — I wanna riot
936
01:15:59,257 --> 01:16:01,977
# White riot — a riot of my own
937
01:16:01,977 --> 01:16:06,257
# All the power's in the hands
of people rich enough to buy it
938
01:16:06,257 --> 01:16:10,497
# While we walk the street,
too chicken to even try it
939
01:16:10,497 --> 01:16:14,737
# Everybody's doing
just what they're told to
940
01:16:14,737 --> 01:16:19,017
# Nobody wants to go to jail
941
01:16:19,017 --> 01:16:22,767
(INSTRUMENTAL SECTION)
942
01:16:28,257 --> 01:16:30,977
# White riot — I wanna riot
943
01:16:30,977 --> 01:16:32,737
# White riot — a riot of my own
944
01:16:32,737 --> 01:16:34,857
# White riot — I wanna riot
945
01:16:34,857 --> 01:16:39,732
# White riot — a riot of my own
946
01:16:42,897 --> 01:16:47,497
# (SHOUTS) People just wanna...
sell records!
947
01:16:47,497 --> 01:16:50,417
# White riot — a riot of my own #
948
01:16:50,417 --> 01:16:52,042
Yeah!
949
01:16:52,457 --> 01:16:56,332
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
950
01:16:56,617 --> 01:16:58,617
MAN: Bring it up, please,
for The Clash!
951
01:16:58,617 --> 01:17:02,492
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
952
01:17:18,137 --> 01:17:22,637
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE FADE)
953
01:17:23,657 --> 01:17:26,937
'In this society, we're made to feel
powerless and useless,
954
01:17:26,937 --> 01:17:30,097
and that the great and the good
should do our thinking for us.
955
01:17:30,097 --> 01:17:32,857
And one of the wonderful things
that we did in RAR was to say,
956
01:17:32,857 --> 01:17:33,857
"No, just ordinary people — we can
do things. We can change the world."'
85493
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