Lewisham Riots 13-08-77

Silent footage of the Lewisham Riots of 1977. This was a clash between the Anti-Nazi League, the National Front and the Police. For those not aware: the National Front was a racist organisation that was a sort of precursor to the current bigots operating under the banner of the BNP.
The NF had decided to march through Lewisham (than as now an ethnically diverse area of London) in an attempt to highlight the plight of the white British (jobs, housing et al).
It is curious to note that Britain in 1977 was plagued by recession, unemployment and immigration scare stories - looking at today's papers it is easy to conlude that what goes round comes round. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/03/bnp-european-elections)

Category:

News & Politics

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• Lewisham
• Racism
• Riots
• National Front
• 1977
• News Clips
• Anti-Nazi League
• London

[puretroubleman]

wow i didn't know footage of this was about. ty for putting it up. I live in lewisham but was not alive to see this, I only heard about it from my mum

[godbluff68]

@puretroubleman I grew up in Lewisham myself, can't say it was a pleasant experience. Still one thing I did take from growing up there was an understanding that people's skin colour doesn't matter. The group (I prefer that to the term to gang) that I grew up and hung around with came from all manner of ethnicities. I am proud that so many people stood up the NF.

[hairywood]

the ANL are good

[september7891]

@godbluff68 you should be ashamed london is 30%english now schools are 77%nignogs white slag brought halfbreeds everywhere you go on holiday come back gypoes have moved in muslim child grooming gangs and your proud you fucking traitor.

[hilletehnoob]

@RockAndRollMassacre the pretext is always diffrent,it's not only the work shortage,in my country they say(lies) that they help with social security and natality when they suck welfare and when their natality is bad for us,the arguments are always diffrent,the problem was that they got controll of the Media and they started associating rightfull nationalist organizations that didn't want this multicultural madness with nazism and fascism,and people got scared,and now it's a disaster.

[RockAndRollMassacre]

if europeans hadnt slaughtered each other to the tune of 70m in two world wars there'd have been no pretext for mass immigration using the labour shortage excuse

[ParagramTree]

@Hirsute63 Fascists = anyone who does not tow the looney lefty line! If you disagree with mass immigration or don't like the muslim religion you are automatically labelled a fascist. The national front were merely calling for an end to mass immigration and pointing out the fact that multi-racialism was not working. If it was how come every area where black people have settled has become a crime ridden ghetto.

[aeronuk1]

Fast forward 30 years and London is in chaos because of third world immigration, the National Front were right and justified.

[daintyapple]

WHITE PEOPLE SMELL OF BIRDSHIT!! MMMMM STINK

[yourcomputeronline]

@GaryHall78 I hope you are ok. Maybe it's my age, but I cannot help feeling that the current rioting is motivated purely by avarice (IPad, Trainers etc) - as opposed to the riot in the video which whether you agreed with either side or not, was ideologically motivated.

[GaryHall78]

yup. i live at lewisham park just opposite the hospital :(