ABSTRACT
Anti-fascism in Liverpool meant protests, pickets outside National Front-identified pubs, writers’ workshops and Rock Against Racism gigs. The National Front established a whites-only football team, the Lilywhites and entered the team into the Hyde and District Sunday League. An emergency meeting of the Indian Workers’ Association’s local executive voted to petition the council to rescind its decision to allow the Front to use its hall. After the Southall Youth Movement’s abortive march, the cops took control of the crossroads and the whole area between it and eastwards beyond the police station. The police could see how that building was being used and determined to clear the anti-fascists out. Anti-fascists had collected the numbers of all the phone boxes in central Southall and had thought that they would be able to keep in contact. Kept from the inquest jury and from public view until 2010 were the findings of Commander Cass, the police officer who conducted the initial investigation.
