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White Riot
Expanding her (White Riot: London (2017)) short documentary film, Rubika Shah's energizing film charts a vital London 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 Powell. White Riot (2019) blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation's youth, RAR's multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As founder Red Saunders explains: 'We peeled 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, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR's message to the masses.
Dennis Bovell....Self
Mykaell Riley....Self
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Pervez Bilgrami....Self
Pauline Black....Self
Ruth Gregory....Self
Stuart Hall....Self - Sociologist (archive footage)
Topper Headon....Self
David Hinds....Self
Roger Huddle....Self
Mick Jones....Self
Misty In Roots....Themselves (archive footage)
Joe Pearce....Self - Young Member of the National Front (archive footage)
Enoch Powell....Self - Politician (archive footage)
Colin Prescod....Self (archive footage)
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