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Clapton said that England had "become overcrowded", and implored the crowd to vote for Enoch Powell to stop Britain becoming "a black colony". David Bowie caused controversy by stating "Britain is ready for a Fascist leader" in an interview with the Playboy magazine and an alleged Nazi salute at one of his performances. (Bowie later retracted the "fascist" comment, claiming that it had been made as a result of substance abuse. He also denied making a Nazi salute, arguing that a photographer caught him in mid-wave.) RAR's first activity was a concert at which Carol Grimes was the lead artist. RAR later launched its own fanzine, Temporary Hoarding. In spring and autumn 1978, RAR organised two major Carnivals music together with the Anti-Nazi League to fight the growing wave of Racist attacks in the UK . First 80,000 and then over 100,000 people marched six miles from Trafalgar Square to the East End of London (a National Front "hotspot") for an open-air gig featuring The Clash (as seen in the film Rude Boy ), The Buzzcocks , Steel Pulse , X-Ray Spex , The Ruts , Generation X and the Tom Robinson Band . It has recently been reborn as Love Music Hate Racism with a gig at The Astoria in London, featuring Mick Jones , The Buzzcocks , and The Libertines . Other current acts involved are Ms. Dynamite and The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster to combat the growing prescence of far right political parties such as the BNP . Recently it has held high profile concerts in Trafalgar Square . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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