The unseen photographs from Rock Against Racism - the day Manchester s punks, reggae fans and skins stood together against the Far Right
Thomas Blower s images from the open air concert have been sitting in storage since he took them in 1978
Around 40,000 music fans and anti-racists attended the concert in Alexandra Park (Image: Thomas Blower)
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The movement against the far right in the 1970s was made at gigs and on the street. Jo Holland reviews White Riot and Paul Holborow, tells the story of building the Anti Nazi League.
Just over 11 percent of film directors in the UK are women. Statistics around ethnicity are unreliable, but assuming that the majority of this tiny group are white, it is fitting and gratifying that Rubika Shah, director of seminal music documentary White Riot, is an Asian woman.
The film takes us back to the time in the 1970s when racists were being emboldened by Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech, Eric Clapton was delivering his racist diatribe to a concert audience and the National Front were openly marching through the streets.