Southwark against racism and apartheid – 1970s/80s

SCARF (Southwark Campaign Against Racialism and Fascism was set up in late 1970s to do what it said on the tin. At one time it was based at 136 Lordship Lane SE22As well as fighting against far right organisations in the UK such as the National Front, it was also linked to international anti-racist campaigns, ...

Nelson Mandela House and other London anti-apartheid traces

The movement against apartheid inspired and mobilised people throughout the world. The ending of that racist system was a great victory, even if today the poor in South Africa are still facing repression (such as the massacre at Markikana mine last year). At the peak of the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s, streets and buildings ...