The issue of the New Musical Express published after the Victoria Park Carnival Against the Nazis (6th May 1978) carried a double page spread of photos of the day. The NME’s circulation at the time was 300,000. It was the start of a mass movement from Rock Against Racism to the Anti-Nazi League that isolated the National Front and encouraged and built a very different Britain, based on uniting and fighting racism. It needs to be done again. It can be done, with Love Music Hate Racism and Stand Up to Racism, again
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