Clash on Lewisham High Street, with police facing off against antifascist protesters. By Frank Duffin of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Borne 1944 Ballymena, N. Ireland. Deceased 2015 Marseillan, France. A freelance photographer in London & Dublin he spent his latter working years as a lecturer in photography and media at the Dublin Institute of Technology (a founding college of the Technological University of Dublin, established 2019). - These images were taken by Frank Duffin and formed part of the portfolio he used to help establish himself as a photographer in London in the 1970s. They were digitised by his brother John (Wiki user John Duffin 007) in December 2024., CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=158940191
Today in #LaborHistory 8/13/1977: 4,000 antifascists battled 500 #NationalFront #Nazis in southeast #London. Over 100 injured & >200 arrested. Lewisham Campaign Against #Racism & #Fascism, supported by local trade #unions, communists, socialists, and anti-racist and anti-fascist groups.