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Members of The Clash, Steel Pulse and The Rich Kids protest outside the National Front HQ in Teddington, March 1978

“Rock Against Racism was a reaction to the rise of the National Front. I decided to go and interview their leader, Martin Webster, who named all the musicians he thought should be deported. So I organised for all of us to come the next day with our placards

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