Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...
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All Together Now – 1978 Deptford anti-racist festival

Jan

4

2026

All Together Now was an anti-racist festival held in Deptford in April 1978.  According to a contemporary report: ''All Together Now' was the name of ALCARAF's (All Lewisham  Campaign Against Racism and Fascism) multicultural festival which ran for three Saturdays before the local authority elections. A Community resource centre, the Albany, and a community theatre the Combination ...
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1978 · Albany (Deptford) · fascists and anti-fascists · Transpontine

National Front, anti-fascists and spycops in Bermondsey 2001

Nov

21

2025

The Undercover Policing Inquiry has been hearing recently of the activities of spycop HN81, cover name “David Steven Hagan”, codename ‘Windmill Tilter" who infiltrated anti-racist groups in London  at the turn of the century. He spied on the Stephen Lawrence family campaign and on radical anti-racist group Movement for Justice (MFJ) among others. One of ...
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2001 · Bermondsey · fascists and anti-fascists · spycops · Transpontine

National Front, anti-fascists and spycops in Bermondsey 2001

Nov

21

2025

The Undercover Policing Inquiry has been hearing recently of the activities of spycop HN81, cover name “David Steven Hagan”, codename ‘Windmill Tilter" who infiltrated anti-racist groups in London  at the turn of the century. He spied on the Stephen Lawrence family campaign and on radical anti-racist group Movement for Justice (MFJ) among others. One of ...
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2001 · Bermondsey · fascists and anti-fascists · spycops · Transpontine

Lewisham Stands Against Racism, again

Aug

8

2024

A great turn out at Lewisham clock tower last night for anti-racist rally, part of a big movement of similar actions across the country in response to threats of more far right attacks on mosques and asylum seeker accommodation. After a week of seeing racist mobs on the rampage, including fires starting at a couple ...
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fascists and anti-fascists · Lewisham · racism · Transpontine

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Aug

6

2024

 In July 1949, there was a racist riot in Deptford. A large crowd of white men attempted to storm Carrington House, a London County Council lodging house in Brookmill Road where a group of around 40 black men from Africa and the Caribbean were staying. What seems to have started out as a clash in ...
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1940s · Carrington House · Deptford · fascists and anti-fascists · racism · Transpontine

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Aug

6

2024

 In July 1949, there was a racist riot in Deptford. A large crowd of white men attempted to storm Carrington House, a London County Council lodging house in Brookmill Road where a group of around 40 black men from Africa and the Caribbean were staying. What seems to have started out as a clash in ...
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1940s · Carrington House · Deptford · fascists and anti-fascists · racism · Transpontine

Hate is a Drag! – Honor Oak protest exhibition in Catford

May

12

2024

Hate is a Drag! is an exhibition at Catford Constitutional Club's Gallery SE6 of art from and inspired by last year's Honor Oak anti-fascist counter protests. It includes placards and signs from the movement as well as other work by Kate Emblen who curated the exhibition and who was herself targeted online by the far ...
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Catford Constitutional Club · fascists and anti-fascists · Honor Oak · Transpontine

‘Jews in Lewisham Fight’: a 1936 punch up with Hitler fans

Jul

8

2023

A street fight in Avenue Road,  Lewisham in 1936 seems to have started out with a visit to the local Lyons coffee house where Jewish customers were subject to antisemitic abuse. Edward, Benjamin and Victor Ansell, brothers from Clapton, were out with Rene Low, a young woman from Rembrandt Road in Lee. They got into ...
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1930s · fascists and anti-fascists · Jewish · Lewisham · Transpontine

‘No Nazis in East Street’ (1979)

Jun

17

2023

A feature of London political life in the  last decades of the 20th century was the regular street presence of racist and neo-nazi groups like the National Font and British National Party - in particular through their paper sales at places like Chapel Market, Lewisham town centre, East Street market (off Walworth Road SE17) and ...
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East Street · fascists and anti-fascists · Transpontine

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

Feb

26

2023

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session.  An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...
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fascists and anti-fascists · Forest Hill · LGBTQ+ · Transpontine