1979 Southall – a riot and its consequences
1979 saw tensions fuelled by extreme Right activity reach breaking point in Southall as a riot broke out. Tony McMahon looks back.
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4-Skins gig in Southall ends in 1981 riot
The 1981 Southall riot saw a clash between the Oi! skinhead subculture and local Asian youth in a district of London that was part of a summer of riots
Brixton Riots – Lord Scarman investigates
After the April 1981 riot in Brixton, Lord Scarman was sent to investigate the causes and found they were spontaneous and not planned
SUS law – a cause of the 1981 riots
The stop and search SUS laws were based on the Vagrancy Act of 1824 and caused massive resentment among black youth in the 1980s
Oi! skinhead bands do anti-racism
Oi! anti-racism may seem like a contradiction in terms but some Oi! bands wanted to burnish their anti-racism credentials in 1981
The Special Patrol Group and the 80s riots
The Special Patrol Group was a Metropolitan unit that became very unpopular in the 1970s and was blamed for the 1981 riots in Brixton