Photo © Phil Ramsell & Roseanne McNamee

Oldham Women's Liberation group on the march to Alex Park. Many different groups and communities came together in solidarity on that day.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

Great shot of the Star Quality Steel Band.

Photo © Phil Ramsell & Roseanne McNamee

During the march from Strangeways to Alexandra Park, local bands played on borrowed flatbed trucks to keep the thronging protesters entertained. Diesel generators were hired to put on the back, powering the amps. The bands included Mick Hucknall’s Frantic Elevators, various members of the Manchester Musicians’ Collective and a local steel pan band.

If you can name any of these musicians, please contact info@mdmarchive.co.uk.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

Lots of tight-knit friendship groups were in evidence on the rally and march.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

The front of the march near Blackfriars/ Victoria Station.

This is an interview with RAR promoter, DJ and activist Debbie Golt by project volunteer Toni-Dee Paul.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

A funfair-style 'penny a throw' van customised with caricatures of Oswald Mosley (British politician who rose to fame in the 1920s as an MP and later became leader of the British Union of Fascists). Martin Webster (National Front leader) and James Tyndall (chairperson of the National Front 1976-80).

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

These young marchers on Mosley Street are wearing Mod-style striped blazers in the style of The Jam, whose 1978 album, All Mod Cons, spawned three chart hits. Their badges read ‘Fight Racism’.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

Young activists chanting on the march.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

Members of North West Spanner theatre group on the march. Ernie Dalton (centre) compered the Carnival stage.

This image was featured in Manchester Digital Music Archive's 'We Are Dynamite! Northern Carnival Against the Nazis 40th Anniversary' exhibition, held at Niamos (old Nia Centre) in Hulme in September 2018.

Special thanks to our funders Heritage Lottery Fund and Futura.

Thanks also to all our wonderful volunteers.

Photo © Richard Bundy

Musicians on one of the flat bed trucks driving as part of the march to Alexandra Park.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

During the march from Strangeways to Alexandra Park, local bands played on borrowed flatbed trucks to keep the thronging protesters entertained. Diesel generators were hired to put on the back, powering the amps. The bands included Mick Hucknall’s Frantic Elevators, various members of the Manchester Musicians’ Collective and a local steel pan band.

If you can name any of these musicians, please contact info@mdmarchive.co.uk.

Photo © Phil Ramsell

Greater Manchester Communist Party.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

The marchers move past Percy Brothers Hotspur Press at the end of Whitworth Street. Great shot of this building, which is slated for demolition very soon.

Photo © Richard Bundy

N.U.S.S. float makes its way to Alex Park. The National Union of School Students was a short lived English organisation founded in 1972. It campaigned primarily against compulsory school uniform and the use of corporal punishment in schools.

Photo © Phil Ramsell & Roseanne McNamee

A great many homemade banners and placards could be seen on the march alongside the mass-produced Anti Nazi League, Rock Against Racism and Socialist Workers Party signs.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

The Star Quality Steel Band reach Mosley Street.

Photo © Phil Ramsell & Roseanne McNamee.

Big smiles on the march.

Photo © Phil Ramsell.

Marchers on Deansgate.

Photo © Phil Ramsell.

A great many homemade banners and placards could be seen on the march alongside the mass-produced Anti Nazi League, Rock Against Racism and Socialist Workers Party signs.

Project volunteer Drew Ellery talks to journalist and Carnival attendee Stephen Kingston (Salford Star) about the Carnival.

Photo © Phil Ramsell & Roseanne McNamee

During the march from Strangeways to Alexandra Park, local bands played on borrowed flatbed trucks to keep the thronging protesters entertained. Diesel generators were hired to put on the back, powering the amps. The bands included Mick Hucknall’s Frantic Elevators (although the organisers' memories are sketchy about this), various members of the Manchester Musicians’ Collective and Star Quality Steel Band.

Photo © John Sturrock, 1978

High spirits as the march reaches Piccadilly.

Photo © Phil Ramsell

Banner for Preston CHE (Campaign for Homosexual Equality).