Rock Against Racism is reborn as gigs planned in riot towns across Britain

Rock Against Racism is reborn as gigs planned in riot towns across Britain

Just as RAR helped turn the tide on the National Front in 1970s, activists today are planning concerts in this summer’s trouble spots

Anti-racism campaigners are planning to organise unity gigs in the towns and cities blighted by anti-immigrant riots to combat the growing influence of the far right in some parts of Britain.

Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) – the successor organisation to the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement which helped turn the tide against the National Front in the 1970s – is planning to follow a concert in London in September, featuring singer-songwriter Paloma Faith, with a series of local gigs across the country over the next 12 months.

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