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White Riot
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Rubika Shah's energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by 'music's biggest colonialist' Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch PowelI. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and NationaI Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation's youth, RAR's multicuItural punk and reggae gigs provided ralIying points for resistance. As founder Red Saunders explains: 'We peeIed away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika'. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978's huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, SteeI PuIse and of course The CIash, whose rock star charisma and gaIe-force conviction took RAR's message to the masses. |
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