WORLD EVENTS
JANUARY: Thatcher claims on Granada TV: people afraid ‘that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture’. This comment is usually remembered as ‘being swamped by an alien culture’.
APRIL: 10-year-old Kenneth Singh stabbed to death in East London. One Love Peace Concert in Kingston, Jamaica. Bob Marley brings leaders of rival political factions together onstage.
MAY: Altab Ali, 25 yr old machinist, killed in Whitechapel, East London. JULY: Acklam Hall (Notting Hill) and Albany Empire (Deptford) are fire-bombed.
SEPTEMBER: Lib Lab pact ends. Callaghan continues as PM leading a minority government. Followed by the ‘Winter of Discontent’ with widespread strikes by public sector unions.
DECEMBER: Murder of Michael Ferreira,18, Guyanese mechanic in Stoke Newington, London.
RAR CENTRAL
JANUARY: John Dennis and Wayne Minter join Kate as full time RAR workers.
FEBRUARY: Central London Poly RAR gig ‘Smash Race Hate in 78’ Central London Poly; Sham 69, Misty, Desperate bicycles. Gig attacked by NF and British Movement.
30 APRIL: RAR/ANL CARNIVAL 1 Trafalgar Sq to Victoria Park, London. Patrick Fitzgerald, X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse, Clash, Tom Robinson Band.
SEPTEMBER: RAR/ANL CARNIVAL 2, Brockwell Park, London: Stiff Little Fingers, Misty in Roots, John Cooper Clark, Aswad, Elvis Costello.
16-17 DECEMBER: RAR 2-day Conference Central London Poly.
RAR REGIONS & WORLD
FEBRUARY: News reached TH about RAR gigs and activities in Ealing, Harlow, Lancaster, Southall, Canterbury, Barking, Birmingham, Manchester, Oldham, Blackpool, Droysden, Blackburn, Salford.
SUMMER: News reached TH about RAR gigs and activities in Bristol, Southall, Newport, Leeds, Hereford, Cornwall, Brighton, Ipswich. Dutch Temporary Hoarding 1 – RARe Tijden.
JAN/FEB: News reached TH about RAR gigs and activities in Cambridge, Leeds, Birmingham, Leicester, Middlesborough, Canterbury, South Shields, Islington, Liverpool, Brent, Newport, Edinburgh, South East London. Also news of first RAR gig in Holland, plus contact from USA, Sweden, Belgium.
RAR EDINBURGH CARNIVAL, Craigmillar: Aswad, Deleted, Freeze, Scars, Monos, Valves, Fakes, Cryptic Clues. Edinburgh RAR produces RARE 1: Edinburgh RAR Fanzine.
JULY: RAR NORTHERN CARNIVAL Manchester. The Fall, Steel Pulse, Buzzcocks, Exodus, China Street, John Cooper Clarke, Graham Parker and The Rumour.
RARzine TEMPORARY HOARDING (TH)
FEBRUARY 78: TH 5:
Poster montage: Rock Against Racism – Black and White Unite and Fight;
Out on the streets in Birmingham;
An everyday nightmare in West Belfast;
Alternative Mark P;
School kids against the Nazis;
RAR Manchester news, interviews with Tony Wilson, John Cooper Clarke, The Fall;
Advert for Victoria Park carnival – stop press “Clash on phone now – they want to do Carnival!”;
Letters; news and views from RAR across the UK;
APRIL 78: Temporary Carnival Special TH edition.
Victoria Park 30 April 1978 – ‘Let’s stay together. Cos if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem;
Rankin Rarla Montage Carnival 1 bands poster;
How did race hate happen? Cartoon history;
Battle of Cable Street.
SUMMER 78: TH 6:
Manley/Seaga peace rally in Kingston Jamaica poster; Interviews with Peter Tosh, Patrick Fitzgerald, Jimmy Pursey, Adam and the Ants (Wouldn’t you like to rip him to shreds?);
Southern Africa;
Deptford Albany fire fund;
Skins;
Today Deptford – tomorrow the world poster; After the tears, the fury poster – resistance to attacks on Asians in East End of London;
Feminists challenge sexism of Fabulous Poodles at Brighton RAR gig;
Fierce demand for RAR to come to Belfast; Letters, news and views from RAR across the UK.
JULY 78: Northern Hoarding Special TH Northern Carnival edition:
Northern Carnival bands; Rankin Rarla Montage Carnival 1 bands poster;
Straight at the head of the NF;
How did race hate happen? Cartoon history;
SEPTEMBER 78: TH Special RAR/ANL Carnival 2 edition.
CULTURAL & TECH
JANUARY: Public Image Ltd. form. FEBRUARY: Tom Robinson Band Rising Free EP. MAY: Tom Robinson Band album Power in the Darkness released. SUMMER: Saatchi and Saatchi produce ‘Labour isn’t working’ poster for Tories. Reggae Rockers: David Rodigan and Tony Williams start on FM Radio London. JULY: Clash tour with Coventry Automatics (Specials). SEPTEMBER: Two Tone Records founded by Jerry Dammers of the Specials in Coventry. NOVEMBER: X-Ray Spex album: Germ Free Adolescents. DECEMBER: Eric Clapton in Melody Maker : “Enoch is a prophet. He’s not a racist”.
ROCK AGAINST RACISM ARCHIVE 