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Rock Against Racism is reborn as gigs planned in riot towns across Britain
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Just as RAR helped turn the tide on the National Front in 1970s, activists today are planning concerts in this summer’s trouble spots
Anti-racism campaigners are planning to organise unity gigs in the towns and cities blighted by anti-immigrant riots to combat the growing influence of the far right in some parts of Britain.
Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) – the successor organisation to the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement which helped turn the tide against the National Front in the 1970s – is planning to follow a concert in London in September, featuring singer-songwriter Paloma Faith, with a series of local gigs across the country over the next 12 months.
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