The Greater London Council put on a ton of these cause-related music festivals, rallies-with-bands-playing, etc as a part of its big push to build a socialist culture in London.
Back then, wild horses couldn't have....
(despite my political sympathies... and liking some of the artists.... perhaps this is a great failing, this flinching from the public demonstration of solidarity? Well, I've made up for it in the MAGA era - no squeamishness at all now about chanting along to "this is what democracy looks like" or singalonging with ol' Neil as he (and Joan Baez!) rasped "take America back" at that Bernie-AOC thing the other week here in LA).
But back to the GLC rally of 1984.... I must say I am mighty mighty curious about this "anti-racist computer game" advertised on the flyer.
What on earth can it have been like?
What was the thinking? "We've got to reach the youth where they live..."
Apparently the GLC declared 1984 to be the Anti-Racist Year
The International Network for Hate Studies actually commemorated the 40th Anniversary of GLC's project only a month ago with some lectures
One of the peculiar things about the Tory party nowadays is that it has, I believe, more high-ranking Black Britons than Labour - including the Leader of the Party / Leader of the Opposition
However I think I am right in saying they are all of African ancestry as opposed to Caribbean...
Well, and then if you make that people-of-colour, the Tories have already had a non-white Prime Minister and a non-white Chancellor and a non-white Home Secretrary (two of them, in fact)
