White Riot 2019 Expanding her White Riot London 2017 short documentary film, Rubika Shahs energizing film charts a vital London protest movement Rock Against Racism RAR was formed in 1976, prompted by musics biggest colonialist Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell White Riot 2019 blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti immigrant hysteria and National Front marches As neo Nazis recruited the nations youth, RARs multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance As founder Red Saunders explains We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale force conviction took RARs message to the masses