The anti-racist politics of the 1970s gained a wider audience than a conventional political campaign, recalls Peter Hain. Were it not for the launch of the Anti-Nazi League in 1977, the disturbing rise in the National Front may well have continued. In the mid-1970s they had pushed the Liberals into fourth place in parliamentary by-elections and in the 1977 Greater London Council elections polled fully 10 per cent of the vote.
When the National Front met its match
When the National Front met its match
When the National Front met its match
The anti-racist politics of the 1970s gained a wider audience than a conventional political campaign, recalls Peter Hain. Were it not for the launch of the Anti-Nazi League in 1977, the disturbing rise in the National Front may well have continued. In the mid-1970s they had pushed the Liberals into fourth place in parliamentary by-elections and in the 1977 Greater London Council elections polled fully 10 per cent of the vote.