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This International Workers’ Day Liverpool will be rocking against fascism
LOUISE RAW spoke to Robin Banks and Richard David, founders of the Resistance Street cultural fightback group, about the event and the group’s aims
The May Day event will launch a year of regional anti-fascist and anti-racist live music events, acting as a blueprint for future events in Glasgow, Manchester, Brighton, the Midlands and London.

IN THE 1970s Rock against Racism’s gigs and carnivals confronted a home grown fascist menace that was largely on the streets.

Now that the far right is back with a firm grip on mainstream politics, two men who were central to the ’70s and ’80s scene are confronting it again.

Robin Banks and Richard David, founders of Resistance Street, not only have rock and roll anecdotes to die for, but are both bona fide working-class intellectuals, with a wealth of political knowledge.

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