The Battle of Wood Green

(with Keith Flett and Ian Birchall)

On 23 April 1977, a twelve-hundred strong National Front march through Wood Green was opposed by some 3000 anti-racists, including delegations from Haringey Labour Party, trade unionists, the Indian Workers' Association, local West Indians, members of Rock Against Racism and the Socialist Workers Party. While Communists and churchmen addressed a rally at one end of Duckett's Common, a contingent composed of more radical elements in the crowd broke away and subjected the NF column to a barrage of smoke bombs, eggs and rotten fruit. Eighty-one people were arrested, including seventy-four anti-fascists. Such are the bare bones of our history, but they explain little about what the National Front was, where it came from, and why so many people felt that it should be opposed.

This pamphlet was published in April 2002 by Haringey Trades Council and the London Socialist Historians' Group, London. ISBN 095311794X. £2.50.