The National Front in Bradford in the 70s - The 70s 80s 90s Blog
In 1976, the National Front held a major march through Bradford that ended in a battle with anti-fascists and proved to be their high water mark in the city
In the 1970s, the National Front saw Bradford as a fertile recruiting ground. In the video above is footage of an NF demonstration in Bradford in 1976 – a year that saw many violent racist attacks against Asian Britons. Bradford is a city I know well having been involved in some community-based projects there. Today it’s a mix of white working class, Asian heritage and eastern European communities. Back in the 1970s, the NF organised a ‘British Campaign to Stop Immigration‘ targeting the growth of the Asian British population. These were people who had come from Pakistan mainly, which had…
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